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CURRIE BROTHERS' HORTICULTURAL GUIDE. 





HARDY HERBACEOUS FEANTS. 



Perennial border plants are again commanding the attention they so richly deserve, and are advancing rapidly in popularity. 

 The demand has increased to that extent that we have resolved to go extensively into their cultivation. This season we have in 

 stock a splendid assortment, and have selected the following kinds, which we offer with the full assurance that all are excellent, 

 each variety being the best of its kind yet introduced. The collection embraces varieties of various heights, and which bloom at 

 different seasons, producing flowers of all styles and colors. The whole, or a carefully selected number of them, will make a 

 most effective bed or border, affording, by its variety and succession of bloom, a vast amount of pleasure throughout the entire 

 season. In the description of each we give the height, color of flowers and the season it usually begins to bloom. 



ACHILLEA-Milfoil or Yarrow. 



These plants are remarkable for their ornamental foliage as well as hand- 

 some flowers; should be in every collection. 



A. Millefolium Roseum— 1 foot, August. Finely cut foliage; flowers bright 

 pink. Each, 15 cts.; per doz., $1.50. 



A. Tomenlosa — 6 inches, June. A choice and very neat creeping variety ; 

 flowers golden yellow. Each, 15 cts.; per doz., $1.50. 



A. " The Pearl " — 2 feet, July. This handsome perennial cannot be rec- 

 ommended too highly. It is considered indispensable for supplying cut flow- 

 ers. The blossoms are pure white, double and button-like, and are produced 

 in amazing profusion nearly all summer in loose clusters on stiff, erect stems. 

 Each, 15 cts.; per doz., $1.50. 



ACORUS— Sweet Flag. 



A. Calamus Varieg'ata — 2 feet. A handsome green and whitish-yellow 

 striped plant, very effective. Each, 25 cts.; per doz., $2.50. 



ADONIS. 



A beautiful little spring-flowering plant, very effective in rock work. 

 A. Vernalis — 1 foot, May. Foliage finely cut; flowers bright yellow. Each, 

 15 cts.; per doz., $1.50. 





ADONIS VEENALIS. 



AHEMOKK 



Anemones or Windflowers are amongst the 

 most showy of our hardy autumn blooming 

 plants. Their beautiful pure white and rose- 

 colored flowers are borne on long stems and in 

 great profusion. They are indispensable for cut 

 flowers. Should be represented in all gardens. 



A. Whirlwind — 3 feet. A very hardy and 

 strong-growing variety, very similar to Japonica, 

 but the flowers are semi-double, are produced in 

 great profusion and last a long time ; color pure 

 white. Each, 15 cts. ; per doz., $1.50. 



AJUGA— Reptans. 



Four inches, May. Blue. Valuable for rock-work. Each, 15 cts.; per 

 doz., $1.50. 



AQUILEGIA-Columbins. 



Perfectly hardy. Last for years. Produce a wealth of brilliant colored 

 flowers from May to September. Should be represented in all gardens. See 

 illustration on catalogue cover. 



A very popular, almost indispensable border plant, possessing great 

 beauty of form and coloring of flowers. Easy of cultivation in any good 

 garden soil. 



A. Coerulea— 1 foot, April to July. Flowers large, sepals violet blue, 

 petals pure white. 



A. Chrysantha— 3 feet, May. A beautiful variety, having golden yellow 

 flowers which are very fragrant. 



A. Grlandulosa— 1 foot, April and May. A conspicuously handsome 

 plant, flowers large, sepals deep blue, petals white. 



A. Skinneri— 3 feet, June. A unique and very pretty variety, sepals 

 crimson, petals light green. Each, 15 cts. ; per doz., $1.50. 

 Collection of 4 by mail, 50 cts. 



ARABIS— Rock Cress. 

 ■A. Alpina— A dwarf growing plant very suitable for rock-work, flowers 

 white, very early. Each, 15 cts.; per doz., $1.50. 



ASCLEPIA. 



Very showy late summer and fall blooming plants. 



A. Incarnata— 3 feet, July. Rosy flesh. Each, 15 cts. ; per doz., $1.50. 



ASTER. 



Very free flowering, highly ornamental plants and quite indispensable 

 in the herbaceous border. 



A. Lady Trevellyn — 4 feet, September. Pure white. 



A. Longifolia Formoissima— 3 feet, September. Purple. 



A. Novae Angliae — (3 feet, September. Blue. 



A. Novae Anglise Rosea— 6 feet, September. Rosy purple. 

 Each, 20 cts.; per doz., $2.00. 



ASTILBE— Spiraea. 



A. Japonica — 1^ feet, June. White. Very useful alike for outdoor and 

 pot culture. Each, 20 cts. ; per doz., $2.00. 



ANEMONE WHIKLWINVn 



