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AQUILEGIA. 



Graceful perennial plants, hardy and very ornamental. 

 Columbine. 



A. caerulea James. Two feet high, with large show)'- blue 

 or white flowers. 



A. caerulea flore pleno. Double flowers. 



A. chrysantha. A fine species, with long yellow spurred 

 flowers. The most graceful and beautiful for cultivation. 



A. truncata F. & M. The form in cultivation is a hybrid, 

 with large yellow flowers, the sepals and spurs of a deep orange 

 red. 



arbutus. 



A. Menziesii Pursh. The Madrona is a handsome tree, some 

 times a hundred feet high, with reddish bark and lovely white 

 flowers. 



ARCTOSTAPHYLOS. 



The Manzanitas are handsome shrubs, with reddish exfoli- 

 ating bark, evergreen — usually light colored — foliage, and lovely 

 clusters of bell-shaped snow-white or rosy blossoms, which often 

 appear even before the snow is off the ground. If these could be 

 coaxed into the same graceful habits of growing under man's 

 care as obtain with them in their wild state, they would be among 

 the most popular of the ornamental shrubs of the Pacific Coast. 



A. bicolor Gray. A coast species, a few feet high. 



A. glauca Find I. A fine but variable mountain torm. 



A. Manzanita Parry. The Manzanita, one of the largest 

 and most beautiful species, peculiar to the Pacific Coast. 



A. oppositifolia Parry. A willow -leaved species from Lower 

 California. 



A. Pringlei Parry. A peculiar mountain form. Very 

 beautiful. 



A. Uva-ursi Spreng. Bear berry. 



argemone. 



A hispida Gray. Thistle Poppy A stout prickly annual 

 three to six feet high, producing numerous large, showy, white 

 flowers, four to five inches in diameter, almost rivaling the Rom- 

 neya in beauty, and conspicous by ni^ht or day. Foliage bright 

 green . A very decorative plant, recommended for large grounds. 



A. Mexicana F. Flowers yellow. Otherwise similar. 



ASTER. 



A beautiful perennial species, a foot high, with large conspicu- 

 ous flowers, two inches across, and of a delicate mauve or laven- 

 der, has lately been discovered on the Colorado Desert. It is 

 likely to prove an acquisition to horticulture. 



