86 Isaac Hicks & Son, Westbury Station, N. Y. Hardy Garden Tlolvers 



ovata. This has a handsome mound of glossy 

 leaves with the tall flowers shown in the illustration, through 

 a long period of summer. 



Funkia ovata. This has spikes of blue bells about 



2 feet high. 

 F. lancifolia. Narrow green leaves and lavender 



flowers. 

 F. lancifolia, var. variegata. Flowers like the 



last, but foliage distinctly variegated with yellow 



and white. 



F. subcordata grandiflora. This is as beautiful 

 as the Madonna Lily, and much easier to grow. 

 Stock of it is rather low among nurseries and we 

 advise a good quantity of it to be put in gardens 

 while there is an opportunity. The flowers are 

 about 5 inches long, pure porcelain-white, 

 graceful in outline and delicate in perfume 



like the Lilium longiflorum, or Easter Lily. 

 It flowers in June and July. Useful plant 

 fora shady corner next the house or on the 

 lawn, wherever Rhododendrons thrive. 



GAILLARDIA grandiflora. Blanket Flower 

 Large, showy, daisy-like flowers, banded 

 with orange and rich red. In bloom all 

 summer and so useful for cut-flowers that 

 no garden can afford to be without it. 



GENTIAN A Andrews!!. Closed Gentian. 

 Celestial-blue flowers that are worthy the 

 highest admiration. Native along brooks 

 on Long Island, i foot high. September. 



GYPSOPHILA paniculata. Baby's 

 Breath. A fine white spray to give a halo 

 of white around a bouquet of other flowers. 

 It grows about 2 feet high and blooms in 

 August and September. 



G. repens. A low plant about 6 inches high, 

 with pretty little pink flowers, and suitable 

 for borders or dry places. 



HABENARIA ciliaris. A fringed orchid 

 that grows on the Hempstead Plains. It 

 has showy spikes of orange flowers in July. 



HELENIUM autumnale superbum. Sneeze- 

 weed. A tall yellow composite, blooming late in 

 the summer, decorative and neat. 



HELIANTHUS Maximiliana. Maximiliana's 

 Sunflower. The latest and showiest tall flower. 

 After several hard frosts have killed off nearly 

 everything but the Witch Hazel and Chrysan- 

 themum, this will hold aloft its golden banner as 

 high as a field of corn. With the name Sunflower, 

 we think of a clumsy, weedy plant. It is a grace- 

 ful flower of taper-pointed petals about 4 inches 

 wide, as beautiful when cut with short stems 

 as when its arching stems reach to the ceiling of 

 an entrance hall furnished in dark shades. As 

 it solves three problems: flowers for the garden, 

 shrubbery, and the house at the end of the season, 

 it should become widely planted. 



H. mollis. Hoary Sunflower. A sturdy, upright 

 plant about 4 feet high, with silvery white foliage 

 Flowers lemon-yellow in August and September. 



HELIOPSIS laevis, var. Pitcheriana. A com- 

 posite like the last, growing about 3 feet high, 

 with deep orange-yellow flowers about 3 inches 

 in diameter. It blooms earlier than most of its 

 class in June. 



HEMEROCALLIS. Yellow Day Lily. 



H. fulva. Tawny Day Lily. About abandoned 

 houses and about roadsides where garden rubbish 

 has been dumped years ago, is a tall, tawny 

 yellow Lily, which we have seen successfully used 

 to hold steep banks above sea walls. Its vigor 

 and persistence shows a commendable quality. 

 The following are improved forms of excellent 

 garden value and with long stems as cut-flowers. 



H. Florham. A new variety, originated from 

 hybrids made by Mr. Herrington, gardener to 

 Mr. H. McK. Twombly. They have very large, 

 golden yellow, sweet-scented flowers during June 

 and July. 



H. Dumortieri. A Japanese variety with deep 

 orange-yellow flowers, bronzed on the outside. 

 It grows about i l /4 feet high. 



H. flava. Yellow Day Lily. Clusters of deep yellow 

 flowers about 4 feet high. 



White 



Day Lily, Funkia subcordata grandiflora, as it grows in 

 the open garden. It is a chaste flower. 



