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Hardy Garden FloWers 



CASSIA Marylandica. Wild Senna. 

 A showy plant, with panicles of 

 curious yellow and black-spotted 

 flowers, from July to September. 

 Useful for planting on dry, 

 gravelly banks. 3 feet. 



CENTAURFA macrocephala. A 



vigorous plant, with broad leaves 

 surmounted with globular yel- 

 low, thistle-like flowers. 2 feet. 

 June and July. 



CERASTIUM tomentosum. Mouse- 

 eared Chickweed. A creeping 

 plant, with silvery gray leaves 

 and numerous white bells in May 

 and June. Suitable for edging 

 garden beds, for the rockery, or 

 to cover steep banks. 6 inches. 



CHAMOMILE. See Anthemis. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM. The hardy 

 Chrysanthemum belongs to the 

 pompon class. They are old- 

 fashioned garden favorites, giv- 

 ing abundant flowers when the 

 other flowers are gone. 2 to 3 

 feet. October. 



We offer a list of the best se- 

 lected varieties of white, pink, red and yellow. 



Prince of Wales. Best white. 



Anna Mary. Cream-white. 



Eagle d'Or. Yellow. 



Princess Louise. Bronze. 



Julia Lagravere. Dark bronze. 



Rhoda. Delicate pink. 



St. Illoria. Silver-pink. 



Little Pet. Rose. 



C. inodorum. A tuft of fern-like foliage a few 

 inches high, with small, pure white, double 

 flowers in July. 



C. uliginosum. Giant Daisy. A vigorous plant, 

 covered with white daisy-like flowers, 3 inches 

 in diameter. July to September. 



CLEMATIS Davidiana. A shrub-like plant about 

 4 feet high, bearing fragrant blue flowers re- 

 sembling Hyacinths, in clusters. August and 

 September. 



Boltonia asteroides. (See preceding page.) 



Clematis recta, 

 white flowers, 

 to August. 



CONE-FLOWER. 



A similar plant, with exquisite 

 Very fragrant. 2 to 3 feet. June 



See Rudbeckia. 



CONVALLARIA. Lily-of-the- Valley. Spikes of 

 fragrant white bells among luxuriant green leaves. 

 It has a partiality for shaded situations, which 

 explains its frequency on the north side of a 

 house, as well as the persistency with which it 

 covers the ground under old trees around old- 

 fashioned gardens. 6 inches. May. 



COREOPSIS. Among the numerous yellow Daisies 

 this remains longest in bloom, affording a bril- 

 liant mass of color in the garden, and long- 

 stemmed graceful flowers for cutting, from June 

 till September. 2 to 3 feet. 



C. lanceolata. i to 2 feet. The best sort for cut- 

 flowers. 



C. verticillata. 



I to 3 feet. 



COWSLIP. 



See Primula. 



Mass planting of hardy Chrysanthemums. 



CYPRIPEDIUM acaule. 

 Ladies' Slipper ; Moc- 

 casin Flower. A beau- 

 tiful hardy native Or- 

 chid. Pouch - shaped 

 flowers 2 inches long, of 

 rose color, veined with 

 deeper rose, are borne 

 on slender stems above 

 two leaves. Plant in the 

 fern bed or dry oak 

 woods. 6 to 8 inches. 

 May. Of easy culture, 

 this should be more 

 often planted. 



DAFFODILS. See Nar- 

 cissus. 



DAISY. See Bellis. 



DAY LILY. See Funkia 

 and Hemerocallis. 



