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best. 
grow luxuriantly. 
planted in front of shrubbery or on either side of walks they are very 
effective. 
Canari—White tinted cream, free bloomer. 
Duchess de Nemours—Pure white, extra large, one of the best. 
Duchess of Orleans—Deep rose color, large and compact. 
Bure of Wellington—W hite, flushed with light primrose: very beautiful, 
ate. 
Dr. Nester Pelassy—Beautiful blush pink; very double and fragrant. 
Edulis Superba—Very deep pink, fragrant, in bloom June Ist. 
Elegans—Outside petals dark pink, 
sweet. 
Felix Crousse—Large, globular, brilliant red; strong grower. 
per doz. $8.50. 
Festiva Maxima—Creamy white with small center of carmine; early 
One of the very finest. 
Francis Ortegat 
Henry Demay—Violet purple, large, double and fragrant. 
Hercules—Bright rose with yellow center; 
Modeste Guerin—Cherry red, changing to light rose; 
Ne Plus Ultra—Beautiful, clear shell pink, retaining from first to last 
its exquisite delicate color without fading in the least; very fragrant. 
Officinalis Rubra Plena—Deep crimson, very early; 
Officinalis Rosea—Bright salmon pink, very early. 
Rubra Triumphans—Intense crimson; 
PAEONIES 
CHOICE HERBACEOUS VARIETIES. 
No class of plants is more easily grown than Paeonies and few so 
generously repay the care given them. 
thrive in ne any soil, but any extra attention given them will be 
repaid; 
They are perfectly hardy and 
deeply cultivated 
and well enriched loam suits them 
shady places, 
where few plants will succeed, Paeonies will 
They thrive equally well in sunny situations, and 
Early. 
large salmon center; loose, fine 
Each 85c; 
Fine, large, dark crimson; fragrant. 
immense size. 
good keeper. 
one of the best, 
very fragrant. 
Small plants of above, except where noted, each 50¢c; medium 75c; 
Paeony, Dr. Nester Pelassy, 
PHLOXES 
Tall Choice Perennial Varieties. See illustration, page 67. 
Hardy Phloxes have long been so popular that it is rare to 
find a garden without a collection of at least a few of the 
many beautiful varieties now in cultivation. No plant is more 
attractive or more useful, either for the adornment of the 
garden or for supplying cut flowers. 
We offer below sixteen of the choicest varieties, which will 
give a succession of bloom from June to August. 
Consul H. Trost—Pure red, bright purple eye. 
Coquelicot—F ine scarlet, crimson eye. 
Eclaireur—EBrilliant rosy-crimson, with lighter eye. 
Elizabeth Campbell—Bright salmon-pink, with lighter shadings 
and pink eye; a new shade entirely in Phloxes. 
Frau Anton Buchner—Unquestionably the finest white; trusses 
and individual flowers immense; dwarf in habit. 
George A. Strohlein—Bright scarlet, crimson red eye. 
Le Mahdi—Deep reddish violet, with darker eye. q 
Mme, Paul Dutrie—Delicate lilac rose. Flowers very large, in 
immense panicles. 
Miss Lingard—Most satisfactory of all. 
a foot long, borne freely from May to October. 
Pantheon—BPright salmon rose; very fine. 
Rosenberg—Bright violet, with deep red eye; individual flow- 
ers as large as a dollar. 
R. P. Struthers—Rosy carmine; claret-red eye. 
Selma—Pale rose mauve, claret-red eye. 
Siebold—Bright vermilion, overlaid with orange scarlet; 
Von Hochberg—A very rich crimson; very desirable. 
Von Lassburg—Pure white; flowers very large; 
Any of the above, each 30c; per doz. $3.00. 
RUDBECKIA—Cone Flower. 
Flower trusses often 
Pure white. 
This class of plants is considered quite indispensable in the herbaceous or 
shrubbery border. 
“Golden Glow’’—6 feet. Bears long, strong-stemmed, 
mid-summer. Each 25c; per doz. $2.50. 
Newmanni (Black-Eyed Susan)—3 feet. 
center. Each 25c; per doz. $2.50. 
Purpurea—4 feet, August. 
Each 25c; per doz. $2.50. 
SEDUM—Stone Crop. 
succulent 
would succumb to. 
August and September. 
A very useful family of 
drought that most plants 
rockery. 
Spectabile (Syn. Fabaria)—1%™% feet, September. 
plant. Each 25c; per doz. 5 
Spectabile “Brilliant’—Same 
Each 30c; per doz. $3.00. 
TRITOMA—Red-Hot Poker, 
Rosy pink. 
50. 
as foregoing, 
but rich, bright 
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Pfitzerii—3 to 4 feet. 
frown. The flowers are very freely and continuously 
August to November, in great spikes or heads, over 12 inches long. 
a rich orange searlet. Each 40c; per doz, $4.00. 
VINCA—Periwinkle, or Grave Myrtle. 
Minor—A well-known evergreen trailing plant, extensively used in the cem- 
It is also very valuable for carpeting 
etery for covering grave mounds. 
under trees and in shady places. Each 40c; per doz. $4.00. 
crimson eye. 
an excellent variety. 
very large and very 
double golden-yellow flowers in great profusion through several weeks of 
Orange-yellow flowers with black 
A remarkably showy, strong-growing plant, pro- 
ducing abundantly its large reddish-purple flowers during the months of 
plants which withstand a 
Admirably adapted for the 
A very desirable 
amaranth-red. 
A magnificent plant, the very best of all the varieties 
i produced from 
large $1.50 to $2.00. 
PHYSOSTEGIA—False Dragon Head. 
Virginica—3 to 4 feet. A beautiful free-blooming perennial. 
If kept cut will flower from midsummer until fall. Color 
a shell pink. Each 25c; per doz. $2.50. 
POPPY, 
Orientale (Oriental Poppy)—3 feet, June. A magnificent 
Poppy, bearing flowers often measuring 6 inches across; 
color most brilliant scarlet, with black blotches. Each 30c; 
per doz. $3.00. 
PYRETHRUM., 
Roseum Hybridum—2 feet. Daisy like flowers of almost every 
shade, produced all summer. 
Uliginosum (Giant Ox-Eye Daisy)—4 to 5 feet, September and 
October. This is one of the very finest for the herbaceous 
border for supplying cut flowers in the autumn. Large, 
pure white flowers. 
Each 25¢c; per doz, $2.50. 
degree of 
Color 
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