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Campanula Van Houtteii can never be omitted from a list of 

 really good things. Its flowering effect is simply marvellous in 

 well established clumps. 



Centaurea montana and its different varieties, particularly the 

 pure white form, are choice for cutting and are continuous bloomers. 



Delphinium Chinensis. — These are too little known and should 

 be extolled to the utmost, producing as they do an almost constant 

 succession of loose open panicles of beautiful flowers in the most 

 exquisite shades of blue, lavender, and white, in many cases 

 oddly spotted with deeper shades. For cutting purposes these 

 should never be omitted from the flower garden. 



Desmodium penduliflorum^ classed either as herbaceous or a 

 shrub, is especially desirable for its wealth of bloom just in 

 advance of frosty weather. 



Doronicum playitagineum var. excelsum is among the finest of 

 spring flowers, with a wealth of rich golden yellow aster-like 

 flowers. 



" Elymus glaucits is a particularly showy grass, with rich silvery 

 foliage, and soon forms a fine clump. 



The Epimediums are among my choicest favorites, with their 

 elegant showy foliage, so odd in shape and so handsomely colored 

 in its young growth, and the showy panicles of flowers are note- 

 worthy among spring-blooming perennials ; E. alpinum, with red 

 and white starry flowers ; E. sulphureum, pure yellow ; E. niveum, 

 pure white ; and E. macranthum, with pale mauve purple Orchid- 

 like flowers, are among the choicest of this genus. 



Eulalia gracillima is a particularly showy grass with long, 

 slender, white-ribbed leaves, the whole plant producing a vase like 

 effect. 



Glaucium Fischer i has particularly showy silvery foliage and a 

 good supply of orange colored flowers. 



Giobularia tricosantha, with its tufted habit and dense heads of 

 blue, is desirable for any well drained spot. 



Gypsophila repens forms a densely branched carpet of foliage, 

 handsomely set with clusters of small white flowers tinged with 

 pink. 



G. Steveni is an improvement over the old Chalk Plant in its 

 dwarfev habit and more continuous blooming, and is earlier as 

 well. 



