Armstrong Nurseries (1945) (19713263614)

Title: Armstrong Nurseries
Identifier: armstrongnurseri1945arms (find matches)
Year: 1945 (1940s)
Authors: Armstrong Nurseries (Ontario, Calif. ); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) California Catalogs; Nursery stock California Catalogs; Fruit trees California Catalogs; Ornamental trees California Catalogs; Shrubs California Catalogs; Flowers California Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental California Catalogs
Publisher: Ontario, Calif. : Armstrong Nurseries
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library



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Armstrong Evergreen Shrubs The gorgeous flower of Trinidad Flame Bush. Trinidad Flame Bush Calliandra guildingi. S23. "Trinidad Flame Bush." 8 ft. 15°. The large heads of vivid scarlet stamens, 3 inches long, each head shaped like a pompon, which cover the plant like a sheet of fire in the spring and summer, make this a sparklingly vivid and colorful plant. Its feathery, fern-like foliage is handsome the year around and makes a beautiful background for the brilliant flowers. Comes from Trinidad. Full sun. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $3.00. Firefall Bush Callistemon Red Chico. S2G. "Firefall Bush." 6-8 ft. 15°. With this showy plant in your garden you'll have one of the most dazzling color displays that you can imagine. A real Fourth of July display with 4-inch flowers in a brilliant, vivid shade of red, hanging down from the arching branches like parti- cles of glowing red fire. Keeps it up too, from April through June. A new hybrid from the U. S. Depart- ment of Agriculture, introduced by us last year for the first time. Really a hot number! Full sun. Gal. tins, $1.25; 5-gal. tins, $3.50. Cascades of Crimson Callistemon viminalis. S27. "Scarlet Bottle Brush." 15 ft. 15°. No plant will provide a magnificent show of brilliant scarlet color more easily than this tall, slender, semi-weeping, rapid growing shrub which covers itself in the spring with great masses of cascading scarlet blooms, 4 inches long. Grows easily anywhere, and you'll get plenty of spectac- ular color for your money. Full sun. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.75. True Tea Plant Camellia sinensis. (Thea.) S27A. "Tea Plant." 4-6 ft. 12°. This is the true Tea Plant, grown in Ceylon and China. You can use those "tender young leaves of the Tea Plant" to make your own tea if you wish. Those same leaves become 5 inches long when mature and are very beautiful. Entirely aside from the novelty of having a real tea plant in your garden, the plant is a beautiful ornamental, be- cause it is a real camellia, with large, fragrant, 11/2-inch, single, white flowers produced in great profusion, and it has beautiful foliage all year around. Grows easily in California. Part shade. Plenty of water. Gal. tins, $2.25; 5-gal. tins, $7.50. Carissa grandiflora. FS1. "Natal Plum." Beautiful ornamental fruiting shrub. See page 7. Gal. tins, 85c; 5-gal. tins, $2.75. Fragrant Carpenteria Carpenteria calif ornica. S29. "Fragrant Carpenteria." 6 ft. 15°. A handsome California native flowering plant, with large, long leaves and single, white, ex- ceedingly fragrant, 5-petalled flowers, 2- 21/2 inches across, which look like single roses or single camellias. Exceedingly lovely in form and texture and borne in such profusion as to make the plant look like a mound of snow. Best in part shade under filtered sunlight, with good drain- age. See illustration on previous page. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $3.00. Golden Wonder Cassia splendida. S31. "Golden Wonder." 20°. We are very enthusiastic over this large shrub, which is spreading, much branched, and becomes 6 to 8 feet in height and as much across. Beginning in November and continuing through Decem- ber and January, it bears spectacular quantities of big golden yellow flowers at a time when it is difficult to get bright color in the garden. Its low, compact shape fits into almost any sunny spot. Thrives in the face of severe ocean winds. Full sun. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.75. Cassia artemesoides. S30. "Feathery Cas- sia." 8 ft. 15°. Finely cut silvery-gray foliage and clear yellow, sweet scented flowers which look like big yellow bum- blebees perched all over the plant. Needs little water, likes plenty of sunshine, thriving in Arizona and other desert sec- tions, as well as near the coast. Full sun. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.75. Please include on your order sheet both the name and code number of each variety ordered. This will help us to avoid errors in filling your order. California Lilacs In the springtime the California foothills are glorious to behold because the land- scape is massed with the delicate blue flowers of the California Lilac and the air is scented with their sweet perfume. They grow rapidly in the garden, and thrive anywhere in well-drained soil. Full sun. Ceanothus thyrisflorus griseus. S36. "Deep Blue Wild Lilac." 6 ft. 10°. We consider this to be one of the very finest varieties of the California Wild Lilac because of the magnificent deep blue color of the frag- rant flowers. It is an easy-to-grow va- riety and much longer lived than many of the richly colored California Lilac kinds. It will be a never-failing source of de- lightful spring color. Full sun. Dry soil. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $3.00. Ceanothus gloriosus. S33. "Point Reyes Ceanothus." A low, dense, spreading mat of glossy evergreen foliage, never becom- ing more than 6 or 8 inches high but covering the ground for as much as 6 or 8 feet. It covers itself in late spring with masses of rich, bright, blue-lavender (on red stems), fragrant and lovely in color- ing. In Southern California it does best in filtered shade with plenty of moisture. In the coastal areas north of Santa Barbara it will grow in full sun if Jcept well watered. Gal. tins, $1.25. Ceanothus puxpureus. S35. "Hollyleaf Ceanothus". 2-4 ft. 12°. An exceptionally beautiful and valuable form of the Cali- fornia Lilac because of its small size and the rich, vivid color of its masses of pur- ple-lavender flowers which cover the plant in March and April. The small, bright glossy green, holly-like foliage is handsome too, and the little reddish seed- pods in May are so attractive that they make lovely cut sprays. In Southern Cali- fornia it does best in filtered shade; light soil, with some water during the summer. Gal. tins, $2.00. A Spot of Blue Ceratostigma willmottianum. S38. "Chi- nese Plumbago." 3-4 ft. 10°. One of the finest blue flowering garden shrubs, of medium size. From June to December the handsome plant is covered with great masses of the deepest, richest, most bril- liant shade of blue imaginable. It grows with the greatest of ease anywhere in sun or shade and in any type of soil, never failing in its bounteous crop of flowers. In colder sections it drops its leaves, but it should be pruned back once a year any- way wherever planted. Gal. tins, 90c; 5-gal. tins, $3.00. Ceratostigma plumbaginoides. S37. "Dwarf Blue Plumbago." 15°. Dwarf, blue flower- ing perennial, only one foot high. See page 30. Gal. tins, 70c. Bauhinia galpini is covered with these red orchid flowers all summer. See description on preceding page.
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Night Blooming Jessamine Cestrum parqui. S40. "Night Blooming Jessamine." 5 ft. 21°. Just a good-looking, inconspicuous evergreen shrub in the daytime, but making itself known in the darkness by the ravishing fra- grance from its small greenish-white flowers—a fragrance of musk mingled with heliotrope. Flowering branches placed in a room will emit perfume during the entire night but no longer. The pearl-white berries make splendid indoor decorations. Full sun. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.75. Mexican Orange Choisya ternata. S46. "Mexican Orange." 5 ft. 15°. A dense, globular shrub, with bright, glossy green foliage profusely cov- ered in spring with showy-white, sweetly scented blooms resem- bling orange blossoms. Hardy anywhere in Southern California. Sun or part shade. Gal. tins, $1.00; 5-gal. tins, $3.00. Flame Pea Chorizema varium. S48. "Flame Pea." 2 ft. 20°. A low, dense mound of glossy, ho!!ow-like leaves on slender, drooping branches, covered with great quantities of brilliant, little, pea-like flowers, bright orange-red and reddish purple in color, borne throughout the winter and spring. For a spot of really brilliant color in your garden you will find nothing better than this easily grown shrub. Sun or semi-shade. Gal. tins, 80c; 5-gal. tins, $2.75.