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W. F. ALLEN, Straivberry Specialist SALISBURY, MARYLAND 



common use is Wistaria Sinensis, or Chinese Wistaria. 

 This is a strong climbing plant that bears a profusion of 

 purplish blue flowers in long clusters before the leaves 

 come out in spring, and is one of the most showy of all 

 ornamental cHmbers. Young plants start rather slowly 

 and it takes several years to get a plant into fine blooming 

 state. But it is well worth waiting for. There is a variety 

 with white flowers, but not near so free blooming or 

 showy as the blue one. There are also some late-flowering 

 ones with purple flowers, but none so showy as Sinensis. 

 The plant can be trained to a strong stake in a single stem 

 form and made into a weeping tree on the lawn, but it is 

 commonly grown as a porch climber. It will, however, 

 climb into tall trees and drape them with flowers in the 

 spring. 



RAMBLER ROSES. These are of Japanese origin, 

 and many varieties have been produced. The most com- 

 mon one is the Crimson Rambler, a very hardy cHmbing 

 Rose that covers itself in early summer with a myriad of 

 large clusters of small red flowers. There are also white 

 and yellow varieties, but not so handsome as the red. 

 A number of varieties have been produced of late years, 

 the most handsome of these is probably Dorothy Perkins. 

 This has rosy pink flowers in as great profusion of clusters 

 as the Red or Crimson Rambler, and the individual 

 flowers are more double. Recently there has been pro- 

 duced the Baby Crimson Rambler, a dwarf form that 

 covers itself with crimson flowers from spring till frost. 

 There are also varieties of the Crimson Rambler more or 

 less distinct. 



HARDY HERBACEOUS PLANTS 



Perennial Phlox. There are few plants that are more 

 showy all through the summer months than the numerous 

 varieties of Phlox decussata. They have been greatly 

 improved of late years, and varieties have been produced 

 with immensely larger heads of flowers and of a more 

 dwarf character than the old tall purple and white sorts. 

 They will keep in bloom through the whole summer 

 and make very attractive clumps in the herbaceous border. 

 Not only have the flower-heads been made larger but the 

 individual flowers are larger, and no one who has not 

 seen the improved varieties can realize what this Phlox 



has been developed to. There is hardly a color or shade of 

 color that cannot be found among them. 



Meehan's Marvel Mallows. Nothing in the line of 

 hardy herbaceous perennials has attracted more attention 

 than these wonderful Mallows. They are the result of 

 crossing our common Marshmallow with the red one 

 from_ Florida. They are perfectly hardy, and have flowers 

 as big as a saucer and of all shades from pure white to 

 dark red. They bloom through the early summer months, 

 and a clump of the different colors makes a very attractive 

 thing on a lawn. 



