CURRIE BROTHERS' HORTICULTURAL GUIDE 



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PAPAVER-Poppy. 



Perennial Poppies stand almost unrivalled among hardy plants for 

 beauty, effectiveness and general usefulness, and well merit the great popu- 

 larity they have attained within the past few years. "Whether in masses on 

 the lawn, among shrubbery, in the herbaceous border, or in the rockery 

 they are exceedingly attractive, producing from June to October a wealth of 

 gorgeous blossoms truly surprising. 



P. Nudicaule (Iceland Poppy) — 1 foot. June. Pretty dwarf-growing 

 poppies, producing a great abundance of white, yellow and orange colored 

 flowers. Should be included in all permanent borders. 10 cts. each; 

 f 1.00 per doz. 



P. Oriental — 3 feet. A magnificent Poppy, bearing flowers often meas- 

 uring 6 inches across; color mostly brilliant scarlet, with black blotches. 

 10 cts. each; $1.00 per doz. 



PLATYCODON-Chinese Bell Flower. 



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DWARF SORTS. 



The dwarf varieties of 

 these very popular plants 

 are remarkable for their 

 fine, dense and procumbent 

 foliage, which clothes the 

 ground as with a carpet of 

 evergreen verdure, render- 

 ing the plant exceedingly 

 useful for covering dry and 

 exposed banks or for edg- 

 ing beds and borders. But 

 their most remarkable feat- 

 ure is the profusion of their 

 flowers, which in early sum- 

 mer create a blaze of color 

 difficult to describe. They 

 are very easily grown. 



P. Amcena — 6 inches, 

 May. A beautiful little 

 plant, which blooms in such 

 profusion as to fairly hide 

 its foliage with its pretty 

 bright pink star-like flow- 

 ers. Each, 10 cts.; per doz., 

 $1.00. 



PRIMULA-Primrose. 



A most interesting and 

 beautiful family of plants, 

 which are almost entirely 

 hardy in our climate, the 

 lightest covering of leaves 

 or loose litter being suffi- oriental poppy. 



cient to protect them. The 



little care necessary is amply repaid by tbe profusion of exquisite flowers which 

 the plants produce unfailingly every spring and summer. They succeed best in 



partially shady places. 



P. Officinalis (Polyanthus or Cow- 

 slip)— 9 inches. A beautiful little plant 

 bearing a great profusion of handsome 

 flowers, varying in color, in the numer- 

 ous varieties, from white through all 

 the shades of yellow to a deep rich 

 crimson, some are variegated, being 

 beautifully margined with white or 

 yellow. 



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



P. Cortusoides — A pretty species 

 with large rose or lavender colored 

 flowers, produced in dense heads, 10 

 inches high. 



d warp phlox, Each, 15 cts. ; per doz'., $1.50. 



An exceedingly handsome class of hardy 

 border plants, closely resembling the Cam- 

 panulas, with which they are often con- 

 founded. They are bushy and upright in 

 growth, foliage neat and attractive; flowers 

 large, very numerous and showy; succeed 

 well in any good soil. 



P. Qrandiflorum (Bell Flowers)— 3 feet. 

 A very handsome plant, one of the best in 

 cultivation; blooms continuously all summer. 

 Flowers blue, bell-shaped. Each, 15 cts.; 

 per doz., $1.50. 



PIMBAGO-Leadwort. 



For bedding purposes, or as a rock plant, 

 this is one of the neatest, prettiest and most 

 satisfactory hardy plants in cultivation. It is 

 low -growing and compact, and very free 

 flowering. 



P. Larpentae — 1 foot. September. Blue. 

 One of the best late flowering border plants. 

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



PLATYCODON. 



