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CURRIE BROTHERS' HORTICULTURAL GUIDE. 



LARKSPUR-Annual Varieties. 



A beautiful genus, the prevailing color of the flowers blue; the perennial varieties make a splendid 

 appearance, and can be flowered the first season from seed. For planting in permanent places and massing 

 in clumps in mixed borders they are particularly desirable. 



Candelabrum — Double mixed, IJ^ foot 5 



Emperor — A profuse bloomer, very double, mixed colors, 1 foot 5 



Stock-flovfered— Tall, mixed, 2}4 feet 5 



Double Tall Rocket— Fine mixed 5 



Double DwarJ Rocket — Mixed colors , 5 



Perennial Varieties— Delphiniums. 



Orandiflorum, Finest nixed— Flowers produced on long spikes, very double, and of exceptionally rich 

 colors, ranging through all shades of blue and violet to pure white, many having etFective white eyes. 



Height 4 to 6 feet. (See cut.) 10 



Formosum— Large blue and white flowers, 3 feet - 5 



Nudicaule — Scarlet, fine 10 



Zaiil — Ahaiidsome yellow variety of branching habit 10 



Le riastodonte (Giant Bee Larkspur;— Large blue flowers 10 



LANTANA. 



Very desirable plants for home culture, the varieties of which are almost numberless. All the colors 



are very pretty. T. P. 

 Hybrida— Mixed 



.10 



LAVENDULA-Lavender, 



Prized for its fragrant violet flowers; succeeds 

 best in, dry, gravelly soil. H.P. 

 Spica— Lilac, 2 feet 5 



LEPTOSIPHON. 



" Pretty little hardy annuals, suitable for borders. 

 H.'A. 

 French Hybrids— Mixed colors .j 



LINARIA. 



Very pretty and effective plant.". L. Cymba- 

 laria Is the well-known Kenilworth Ivy. H. A. 

 Bypartlta— White, 1]4 foot 5 



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LEPTOSIPHON. 



Very desirable plants bearing 



nixed Annual Varieties 



nixed Perennial Varieties 



LINUM ORANDIFLORUM. 



LINUM. 



Free flowering plants with brilliant colored 

 flowers. 



Flavum— Yellow. 1 foot, hardy. H. P 10 



Orandiflorum Coccineum — Scarlet, 1 foot. 

 H. A 5 



LOPHOSPERMUM. 



Rapid-growing, ornamental climbing plants, 

 with large leaves and handsome flowers. 



Hendersonii — Rosy Carmine 10 



Scandens- Pure violet ...10 



LUPINUS. 



long spikes of brilliant colored flowers. 



DELPHINIUM GRANDIFLORUM. 



MALOPE. 



Very pretty'plants of a branching habit, producing large, showy 

 flowers iti great profusion, of the easiest culture. H. A. 



Qrandiflora Alba— Pure white 5 



Orandiflora— Purple flowers 5 



MARTYralA. 



Handsome, free-flowering plants, producing a fine effect when 

 planted In the open border; flowers large and handsome, succeeded by 

 curious double-horned fruit. H. H. A. 

 nixedColors— l^feet ^^ 



LYCHNIS. 



A genus of handsome and highly ornamental plants of easy culture, strikingly 

 effective in mixed flower and shrubbery borders. H. P. 



Chalcedonica— Scarlet, 2 feet ^ . 



Haageana— Bright scarlet, splendid 5 



LOBELIA. 



Dwarf-growing plant from 4 to 6 inches high, with blue, white, crimson and rose 

 flowers, adapted for ribbon borders. The trailing varieties are invaluable for hang- 

 ing baskets, vases, etc. Should be started In heat and afterwards transplanted. 



DWARF COMPACT VARIETIES. 



Carter's Cobalt Blue— Very tine, dwarf, blue 5 



Crystal Palace Compacta— A beautiful new variety, ^foot 5 



Qracilis Erecta— Blue, dwarf habit 5 



Pumlla nagnlfica— The finest of all dwarfs, very dark blue, M foot 10 



Speciosa White Qem-A new pure white variety, flue for bedding, 54 foot 10 



Erinus Compacta "Goldelse"— Yellow foliage, flowers blue 10 



TRAILING VARIETIES. 



Qracilis— Light blue 5 



Gracilis Rosea— Rose colored 5 



Paxtoni ana-White, edged blue 5 



Speciosa— Bright blue 5 



Duplex— A double-flowering, blue variety ...10 



HARDY LOBELIAS. 



Cardinalis, "Cardinal Flower " — Flower 

 spikes 8 Inches long, of Intense scarlet 10 



Littoralis Repens— A pretty trailing plant, 

 with an abundance of pure white flowers. 

 succeeded by large green seed pods, 

 which in turn change to bright scarlet. 

 The flowers, green and red fruits, are 



' produced at one time, making a very at- 

 tractive plant for hanging baskets, etc 15 



