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Lilium tigrinum. Tiger Lily. This is one of the 

 most vigorous of the family and well able to 

 maintain itself in the garden or along roadsides. 

 It grows 3 or 4 feet high and is propagated from 

 the little black bulblets at the base of the leaves. 

 The color is an orange-yellow, spotted with black. 



LYCHNIS viscaria fl. pi. Ragged Robin. Double 

 red. Makes the most brilliant bed in the garden 

 in its season. The flowers are so dense as to make 

 a solid mass for several weeks in June. The plant 

 and flower resembles the June Pink in form. It 

 has long, dense-flowered spikes of rich, deep rose- 

 red, very double flowers of pleasant fragrance. 



L. Chalcedonica. Lamp Flower; London Pride 

 Orange-scarlet of great brilliance. No other 

 hardy plant of our acquaintance approaches it 

 in the fiery brilliance of this color. It is about 2 

 feet high and blooms all summer. 



L. Haageana. The colors range from that of the 

 last to crimson. The flowers are larger and lower. 



LUPINUS macrocephala. A showy perennial 

 with an upright spike of blue pea-shaped flowers 

 like the Wistaria. It is about i>^ feet high, with 

 leaflets radiating like a wheel and will thrive in 

 dry soil. 



LAVANDTJLA vera. Lavender. The fragrance of 

 the gray-lavender foliage brings pleasant asso- 

 ciations to the mind. It will thrive if protected 

 with mulch in the winter. 



MENTHA piperita. Common Peppermint. If in 

 the garden it is ready for mint sauce. 



Poet's Narcissus in the grass. This is possible on almost 

 any lawn. The yellow Daffodils will come two weeks 

 earlier in April. 



Lychnis viscaria florc plena, showing its even and solid 

 display of color 



MONARDA didyma. Oswego Tea; Bee Balm. 

 The flowers are bright scarlet and so abundant 

 as to make the most brilliant corner of the garden. 

 The humming-birds fly back and forth in ecstacy 

 over it. The flowers appear in June and continue 

 all summer. The foliage has a pleasant, mint-like 

 fragrance. We recommend it highly for garden 

 and shrub border. 



MONTBRETIA Crocosmiseflora. A summer- 

 flowering bulb, with a slender spike of golden 

 orange flowers in midsummer. It should be 

 scattered in groups between other flowers where 

 it takes up little room. 



MYOSOTIS palustris semperflorens. Forget- 

 me-not. Blooms freely in early spring and con- 

 tinues half the summer. 



NARCISSUS. The charm of many old gardens 

 and the touch, of beauty in many cottage door- 

 yards is given by the clumps of Daffodils and 

 Narcissus that bloom in early spring. Many hesi- 

 tate to plant these in quantity because of the 

 expense of planting large quantities of the im- 

 ported bulbs, and also because the admiration 

 for them is in spring, and the time to plant is in 

 autumn. We have collected a quantity of bulbs 

 from old farm-yards where they have been grow- 

 ing for many years and, therefore, there is no 

 question of their hardiness and ability to with- 

 stand all the different rodents and insects and 

 fungi that scare the timid planter. The main 

 thing is to get the bulbs in the ground and the 

 simplest way is to order a thousand, which may 

 be delivered from August till midwinter, and 

 plant them in groups of twenty or more, 6 inches 

 apart in the flower-garden or in belts of a thou- 

 sand at the border of a shrubbery or in the grass 

 where the lawn mower will not cut them until 

 after their growth in May. There are many 

 points where the grass need not be cut in May, 

 as along the house foundations, or at the border 



