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47. STEAW FLOWER. < Heliehrysum.) Monstrosum Flora Pleno.— One of the best of "Everlasting 

 Flowers." Exceedingly effective double flowers, making a fine display in beds or borders; they succeed in 

 any rich garden soil; hard3 r annuals; iJ4 ft. Mixed. It is a most wonderful and interesting sight to watch, 

 these flowers develop and open, which they do in a very few moments. 



48. HIIEOTKOPE. (Flowering Finest Mixed. I— A half hardy perennial, flowering during the whole 

 season; its delightful perfume makes it a most desireable bouquet flower; a splendid beddingplant or can be 

 t rained as a greenhouse climber. Seed sown in the Spring will make fine plants for Summer blooming. 



49. SWEET SOCKET. Hesperis. (Matronalis Nana Candissima) The Sweet Rocket produces 



clusters of flowers which are very fragrant during the evening. The seed readily germinates in the open 

 ground with very little care. Hard3' perennial; ij^ feet high. 



50. HIBISCFS. ^Marslimellows.) Africanus and Coecineui Mixed. — Showy, ornamental plants, 

 for mixed bed or shrubbery borders, having large size, varied and beautifully colored flowers. 



51. HOLLTHOCK. Double Mixed. The Hollyhock in its present state of perfection isvery unlike its 

 parents of oldeu time; it now ranks with the Dahlia, Aster, Camilia, etc., being exceedingly rich and 

 varied in color, and as double as a Rose. For a background to a flower-garden, perhaps no plant is so use- 

 ful. Hardy; perennial 5 feet high. Seed sown during summer makes strong blooming plants for the 

 following year. A slight protection during Winter will be beneficial. 



* 52. KENILWORTH IVY, (Lianaria Cymbalaria.)— Lavender and purple. A charming, small, neat, 

 hardy perennial trailing plant, suitable for baskets, vases, pots and rock work. 



53. IMPERIAL JAPANESE MOKXTSG GLORY Where climbers can be grown, these should have 



a prominent place. They are beyond question the handsomest of a handsome family,, and well deserve their 

 title of "Imperial" or "Emperor" Morning Glories. Of the easiest culture, can be sown in the open ground 

 in a sunny situation when the weather has become warm and settled; they soon cover a large area, being of 

 astrong, rapid growth, and even before flowering, are decidedly novel and interesting on account of the varied 

 forms of the foliage and their markings. The flowers are of gigantic size, of good substance, remaining open 

 the greater part of the day. The colorings are beyond description; the self or solid colors range from snow- 

 white to black-purple, with all the possible intermediate shades, such as pink, rose, fiery red, coppered, car- 

 mine, crimson, pale blue, deep blue, royal purple, maroon, indigo, bronze slate, brown, cherry, ash, gray etc.; 

 others are edged with white, having throats of one of the above colors; while in others this is reversed, the 

 throats being white and the edging of color; there is also an endless number havnig flowers spotted, marbled, 

 striped, flaked, and splashed. 



54. NORTHERN LIGHT MOON-FLOWER. (Ipomea Setosa.)— This new plant has blooms some 

 2 inches in diameter, of pink lavendercolor, which comes earlier in the season than any of the Ipomeas, which 

 open in the evening. The foliage is large and handsome, and remarkable in its drought-resisting qualities, 

 the plant remaining green and fresh when others are 3-ellow and withered from lack of moisture. The plants 

 are the most rampant growers from time of germination, exceeding all others. The stems of the vines are 

 covered with thousands of hooked, greenish- white, projecting points, as thickly placed as the red hair3- spines 

 on Ipomea Setosa. As a screen, there is no plant that will cover more space in the same time, and it will 

 grow 50 feet or more. 



55. LARGE WHITE MOONFLOWER.— At night and during dull days, the plants are covered with 

 an abundance of large, pure white, fragrant flowers, 5 to 6 inches in diameter. It grows very rapidly and 

 will cover a large surface. Shell of all Ipomea seed should be cut a little at one point before planting," as it 

 assures quicker germination. 



PRIZT. HOLLYHOCK. 



56. LANTANA— HYBRID A — One of the most desirable half hardy perennial 

 wreenhouse or bedding plants, constant^- in bloom; verbena-like heads of orange 

 white, rose and other colored flowers; 2 to 5 feet. 



57. LARKSPUR. — (Emperor Imperial Branching and Tall Branching, or Stock- 

 flowered.) This is one of the best known of garden flowers. A vast improvement, 

 has been effected by careful selection and attentive cultivation in size and color of 

 the blossoms and the general habit of the plant. For large gardens, shrubberies, 

 etc., the branching varieties will be found peculiarly well fitted; hard3 r annuals. 

 (For Perennial Larkspur, see Delphinium, 



58. EVERLASTING, or HARDY SWEET PEA. (Lathyrus Latifulius).— 

 Showy, free-flowering, hardy perennial climbers ior covering old stumps, fences, 

 etc., continually in bloom, fine for cutting. 



59. LOBELIA. [Erinius. Finest Mixed.] — The following dwarf and trailing 

 varieties ot this popular and beautiful flowering plant will be found most desireable 

 for pot-culture, edgings, hanging baskets, ets., blooming profusely from June to 

 November. The hardy perennial in our mixture is among the most attractive of 

 our garden favorites, producing, beautiful spikes of handsome flowers. 



60. LUPINUS. 



Ornamental, free- 

 flowering, easily 

 grown garden 

 plants, with long, 

 graceful spikes of 

 rich and various 

 colored pea-shaped 

 flowers. 



61. MAITRAN- 

 DIA. VINE 



Beautiful, rapid, 

 slender growing 

 climbers, blooming 

 profuseh' until late 

 in Autumn, also 

 fine for the house, 

 take up before the 

 approach of frost. 

 A half hardy per- 

 ennial, flowering 

 for season if sown 

 early, grows iofeet. 



LARGE WHITE MOONFLOWER. 



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