Highly 
PENTSTEMON SENSATION. 
POLYANTHUS. 
(Primula Elatior.) 
Showy, early spring, free-flow- 
ering plants, fine for either pot or 
outdoor culture; hardy peren- 
nials ; 9 inches. 
PER PKT. 
3680 English. The best 
single; all colors 
mixed. 4} 0z., 50 cts. 5 
3676 Gold=-laced. Very 
showy and attractive. 15 
POLYGONUM. 
(Knotweed. ) 
3681 Compactum. A fine hardy perennial, of 
dwarf habit, growing about 15 inches high, 
and completely covered with a mass of foamy 
white flowers the entire autumn; splendid for 
the rockery or hardy border........... 
PORTU LACA Sun Plant. 
One of our finest hardy annual plants, of easy culture, 
thriving best in a rather rich, light loam or sandy soil, 
and luxuriating in an exposed, sunny situation; the 
flowers are of the richest colors, and produced through- 
out the summer in great profusion; fine for massing in 
beds, edgings or rock-work; 6 inches. 
3770 Single Mixed Colors. Per oz., 40 cts... 5 
3760 Double Mixed. Flowers perfectly double, 
of the most brilliant scarlet, crimson, white, 
yellow, ‘eter sore vorctss oy tuesy 10 
3769 Imported Collection of 8 single varieties. 25 
3799 Imported Collection of 8 double varieties. 450 
Special cultural notes have b 
3540 Mixed. 
3551 Nankinensis. 
een written for many articles. 
PENTSTEMON (Beard Tongue). 
(See cut.) 
useful and attractive hardy perennials, and much used in the hardy border. 
PER PKT. 
3532 Sensation. As a bedding plant this takes rank with the Petuna, Phlox, etc., 
etc. It grows about 2 feet high, every branch being a spike of large, Gloxinia- 
like flowers in a very wide range of bright colors, including rose, red, carmine, 
cherry, pink, lilac, purple, etc. Not quite hardy and best treated like Petunias, 
Verbenas, Salvia, etc. 
3533 Barbatus Torreyii. 
August ; 3 to 4 feet 
3536 Digitalis (Foxglove Pentstemon). 
throat, during July and August 
3535 Pubescens. Spikes of bright rosy-purple flowers in July and August; 13 ft. 10 
3538 Pulchellus Hybridus. Forms pyramidal bushes 2 to 3 feet high, with erect 
brancnes thickly set with flowers, 1} inches long, varying in all shades from 
rosy white and chamois to purple, with veined throats...........-....... 15 
A great variety of kinds and colors ..........-2..---...- Sey 
J ieee 15 
2 pkts., 25 cts. 
Spikes of brilliant coral-red; very effective; June to 
PERILLA. 
3663 
3664 
3662 
3661 
bery ; 
Foliage dark purple, producing a charming contrast with 
silvery-leaved plants; grows freely in any soil; annual; 2 feet. Oz., 25 cts... 5 
PHYSOSTEGIA (False Dragon Head). 
3651 Virginica. One of the prettiest hardy perennials, forming dense bushes, 3 to 
4 feet high, and bearing freely during the summer months spikes of delicate 
tubular flowers not unlike a gigantic heather 10 
PLATYCODON. 
(Chinese Bell Flower.) 
One of the best hardy perennials, producing 
very showy flowers during the whole season. 
They form large clumps, and are excellent for 
planting in permanent borders or among shrub- 
easily raised from seed, which begins 
blooming in August if sown outdoors in April. 
Grandiflorum. Large steel-blue 
flowers. §402:;, 2o CiSos see 5 
—Album. Pure white variety. 
} 02.,°°25 Ct8.2) ee eee eens 5 
Mariesi. Large, open, bell-shaped 
flowers of a rich violet-blue; plant 
dwarf and compact. } oz. 25 cts..... 5 
Japonicus Fl. Pl. (Dowdle Japan- 
ese Bell Flower). Large, glossy 
deep blue flowers. The inner petals 
alternate with the outer ones, giving 
the flower the appearance of a ten- 
pointed blue star. (See cut.).......-. 15 
Stncte PorTuLacas. 
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