Title: Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1903
Identifier: annualreportoffr1903frui (find matches)
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario
Subjects: Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario; Fruit-culture; Fruit-culture
Publisher: Ontario Dept. of Agriculture, (Warcick Bros.
Contributing Library: Brock University
Digitizing Sponsor: Brock University - University of Toronto Libraries

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1903 FRULT GROWERS' ASSOCIATION. 167 amber color about like currants in size ; flowers small and yellowish, not showy. Plants can be kept down by trimming to 7 or 8 feet in height. 13. Euonymus Europoeus (European strawberry tree). This shrub will grow to about 10 feet in height ; should be kept as a single specimen plant, which makes it more attractive when bare of leaves in the fall; about the first frosts the seed podsbegin to open, exhibiting their strawberry-colored seeds which remain on the plants all winter, making them pretty objects standing among the snow ; flowers small, chocolate color. 14. Exochorda grandiflora. From China, hardy here, a most beautiful shrub, bearing white flowers in clusters, very showy, about 6 feet high—one of the best. 15. Forsythia Forbunei, var. suspensa, and var viridissima (Golden Bells). From China ; the three varieties are hardy here, in bloom end of April or first of May ; a grand shrub covered with bright golden bells before leafing out ; blooms here the second time in the fall. 16. Balesia diptera, and H. tetraptera (Silver Bells). This plant becomes a mass of white bell-like flowers, will grow to small-sized trees, 10 or 12 feet high ; there is no plant prettier when in bloom about the middle of May; blooms ; before the leaves expand; belongs to Southern States. 17. Hibiscus syriacus—Althcea (Rose of Sharon), j It'will grow to lO^feet high ; extremely useful on account of their late flowering : they bloom\ profusely at'a season of the year when but few shrubs are in bloom, 1st Aug- ust. There are double and single flowering varieties. The following will be found as good as any .—H. var. Carnation, double white striped red ; H. var. Coerula, double blue; H. var. Lady Stanley, double white,
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Mock Orange. tinged pink ; H. var. Variegatus, leaves beautifully variegated. 18. Hydrangea paniculata grandi- flora, grows from 5 to 6 feet, but should be kept cut back to within 4 or 6 inches of the old stem or trunk each spring, and only leave four or five of these short stems to have large panicles of bloom ; a long- lived healthy plant, blooming in August and September ; from Japan. 19. Hypericum Moserianum (St. John's Wort). Grows to about 3 feet in height, a very desirable hardy shrub, producing yellow flowers 2 inches across from July to fall ; native of America. 20. Ilex. Vert'cillatus (Deciduous Holly). 5 to 6 feet high. I met with a plot of these shrubs lately in our own woods, and I thought them one of the most beautiful sights I had seen for a long time, the plants were literally covered with bright

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