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MISS C. H. LIPPINCOTT 



SEEDS OF BIENNIALS AND PERENNIALS 



Biennials and Perennials are plants which live in tho garden over winter, and 

 bloom in the spring and summer of the following year. They embrace some of our 

 most beautiful flowers, many of which continue year after year. 



ARGEMONE 



HYBRIDA GKANDIFLORA— 



These new large-flowering 

 "Prickly Poppies" form branch- 

 ing plants about 3 feet high and 

 IS inches across. The large, 

 single. Poppy-like flowers are 

 white, cream, primrose and yel- 

 low. They are borne freely and 

 continuously all summer long; 

 rhe thistle-like foliage is of a 

 grayish-green with silvery ribs. 

 They grow quickly and easily 

 frorn seed, will thrive in any 

 sunny situation and are particu- 

 larly effective in the mixed flower 

 border. Pkt., 8 cts. 



ARABIS ALPINA 



The pure white flowers grow 

 so uniformly and thickly that it 

 gives the cflfeet of a sheet of snow. 

 Plants perfectly hardy. The 



earliest, prettiest, spring flower. 

 The spreading tufts are densely 

 clothed with neat, lively green 

 leaves and covered with pure 

 white flowers; conspicuous at a 

 great distance, especially in large 

 masses on rockeries or broad 

 edgings for park roads, having 

 the advantage of braving the 

 greatest drought during summer 

 and always looking neat. Pkt., 

 400 seeds, 5 cts. 



AXCHUSA ITAI.ICA GKAND- 

 IFLORA (Dropmore Variety) — 

 Stems covered from May to Au- 

 gust with numerous wide star 

 flowers of intense blue, of great 

 decorative effects in beds or bor- 

 ders. Pkt., 50 seeds, 15 cts. 



ALYSSUM 



SAXATILE COMPACTUM— 



Showy golden flowers, hardy per- 

 ennials, blooms the first season, 

 excellent for roek work. Pkt., 

 25 seeds, 5 cts. 



ACHILLEA 



THE PEARL— One of the best 

 hardy white perennials in the 

 list. Grows about two feet high, 

 and from spring till frost is cov- 

 ered with heads of pure white 

 <louble flowers. A grand plant 

 for cemetery decoration. Easily 

 grown from seed, flowering the 

 first season H" ^own early. Pkt., 

 :i(IO seeds, 5 cts. 



ARABIS ALPINA 



AQUILEGIA, OR COLUMBINE 



Very handsome, ornamental, hardy perennial 

 plants of easy cultivation and bearing in pro- 

 fusion large flowers of novel shape and in a great 

 variety of color. Double Mixed Pkt., 300 seeds, 

 5 cts. 



GRANDIFLORA ALBA (3 feet)— White spurred 

 Columbine. Large flowering, pure white, long 

 spurs. Pkt., 300 seeds, 5 cts. 



COERULEA (Rocky Mountain Columbine. 3 



feet) — One of the most beautiful of our native 

 American flowers. Sepals, deep blue; petals, 

 white. Pkt., 300 seeds, 5 cts. 



THE CORNFLOWER ASTER 



STOKESIA CYANEA— This is one of our most 

 charming and beautiful native hardy plants. The 

 plant grows from IS to 24 inches high, bearing 

 freely from early July until frost, its handsome 

 lavendar-blue Centaurea-like blossoms each meas- 

 uring from 4 to ■) inches across. It is of the 

 easiest culture, succeeding in any open, sunny 

 position, and is not only desirable as a single 

 plant in the mixed hardy border, but can be 

 used with fine effect in masses or beds of any 

 size. Pkt., 100 seeds, 8 cts. 



