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Helenium (Sneeze Wort) 



All of these are desirable border plants, succeeding in any soil in a 

 sunny location, with broad-spreading heads of flowers, useful for 

 cutting, each species covering a long-blooming season. 

 Autumnale Rubrum. Robust growing; 3 to 4 feet high, with 



bright terra-cotta red flowers in August and September. 

 Autumnale Superbum. Golden-yellow flowers during the 

 •^ late summer and fall months; 5 to 6 feet. 



Hoopesi. Pure orange-yellow flowers, 2i inches across, and the earliest 

 to flower, coming in early in June and continuing throughout the summer; 

 2 feet. 



Riverton Beauty. Rich lemon-yeUow, with large purplish black cone; 



August and September; 4 feet. 

 Riverton Gem. Old gold, changing to wall-flower red; August and 



September; Sj feet. 

 Price. 30 cts. each; S3.00 per doz.; S20.00 per 100. One each of the 5 



varieties, $1.25. 



Helianthemum (Rock, or Sun Rose) 



Exceedingly pretty low growing evergreen plants, forming 

 broad clumps, and which during their flowering season, June to July, 

 are quite hidden by a mass of bloom; well adapted for the front 

 of the border, the rockery, or a dry sunny bank. 



Fireball. Fiery double red. 

 Mrs. Earle. Rich single red. 

 Macranthum. Single white. 

 Praecox. Single yellow, sUvery foliage. 



Rhodanthe Carneum. Pretty single pink, silvery foliage. 

 35 cts. each; S3. 50 per doz.; S20.00 per 100. 



Hepatica (Liver Leaf) 



Triloba. A pretty native spring-flowering plant, with light 

 blue flowers, useful as a rock plant or for a shady spot in the 

 border. 25 cts. each; S2.50 per doz. 



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Hardy Ornamental Grasses 



The ornamental grasses can be used with telling effect, either 

 as individual specimens in the border or on the lawn; large beds 

 or borders planted entirely to the different varieties are attractive; 

 they can also be used to advantage interspersed in the shrubbery 

 border or when planted in clumps on the margin of ponds or lakes. 



Arundo Donas Variegata {Great Reed). An exceptional 

 strong growing ornamental grass attaining a height of 10 to 12 

 feet with broad green foliage beautifully striped with white. 

 50 cts. each; $5.00 per doz. 



Elymus Glaucus {Blue Lyme Grass). A handsome Grass, with narrow glaucous 

 silvery foliage; well adapted for the border or the edge of beds containing taller 

 sorts; 2 feet. 35 cts. each; $3.50 per doz. 



Eulalia Gracillima Univittata {Japan Rush). Of graceful habit, with narrow 

 fohage; of a bright green color, with a silvery midrib; 6 to 7 feet. 35 cts. each; 

 S3. 50 per doz. 



EuIalia Japonica Variegata. Very ornamental; long, narrow leaves, striped 

 green, white and often pink or yeUow. 35 cts. each; $3.50 per doz. 



Eulalia Japonica Zebrina {Zebra Grass). The long blades of this variety are 

 marked with broad yellow bands across the leaf. It makes a very attractive 

 specimen plant for the lawn; 6 to 7 feet. 35 cts. each; S3.50perdoz. 



Festuca Glauca {Bhce Fescue). A pretty dwarf tufted grass with dis- 

 tinct blue-green foliage. 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz. 



Gynerium Argenteum {Pampas Grass). The most effective of all the 

 ornamental grasses. Its large silvery plumes are produced on stems 8 to 

 10 feet high during the late summer and fall. This plant is well known 

 to summer visitors to California where it is one of the features in many 

 gardens. It can be grown equally well here and established plants can 

 remain in the open ground if well protected. We offer extra strong 

 plants of flowering size in 7 inch tubs, S2.50 each. 



Pennisetum Japonicum {Hardy Fountain Grass). This variety grows about 

 4 feet high, foliage narrow, of a bright green, while the cylindrical flower heads are 

 tinged with bronze purple; one of the most valuable hardy grasses. 25 cts. each; 

 $2.50 per doz.; $15.00 per 100. 



Phalaris Arundinacea Variegata {Variegated Ribbon Grass or Gardener's 

 Garters). Large variegated foliage; an excellent grass for bordering large beds; 

 12 to 15 inches. 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $15.00 per 100. 



He.meroc.\llis (Day Lily) 



