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LAMIU™M (Dead Nettle). 
Purpureum yariegatum. A desirable variegated-leaved creeping plant for the rock- 
ery, preducing small pink flowers through the summer months. 15 cts. each; $1.50 
per doz. 
LAWA NDULA (Lavender). 
Vera. This is the true Sweet Lavender; grows about 18 inches high; delightfully fra- 
grant blue flowers in July and August. 15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz.; $1 .00 per 100. 
LEON TOPODIUM (Edelweiss, or Alpine Snowflower'. 
Alpinum. This Alpine beauty is well known to tourists who have travelled in Switzer- 
land. Itis a hardy plant, and well worth a trial. It should be grown either on the 
rockery or in well-drained, sandy soil. 25 cts. each. 
LIATRIS (Blazing Star, or Gay Feather). 
Most showy and attractive native plants, succeeding anywhere and producing their large 
spikes of flowers from July to September. (See cut.) 
Pycnostachya, Spikes of light, rosy purple flowers; 5 feet. 
Scariosa. Deep purple fiowers in spikes 3 to 4 feet high. 
— Preecox. Purple flowers in immense spikes 23 feet high. 
Spicata. Deep purple flowers in spikes 2 to 3 feet high. 
15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz.; 10.00 per 100. Set of 4 sorts, 50 cts, 
LILIUM iy). 
All herbaceous borders should have a few Lilies scattered through them. The sorts 
offered below can be planted with excellent results during the spring months. It is in the 
hardy border that Lilies do best, as they get the benefit of the shade of the surrounding 
plants, which is so necessary for their welfare; other varieties should be planted in the 
autumn, and are offered in our autumn catalogue. 
Auratum ((Gold-banded Lily). Large, graceful flowers, composed of six petals of a 
delicate ivory-white, thickly studded with chocolate-crimson spots, and striped through 
the centre a golden-yellow. 20 cts. 
each; $1.75 per doz.; $12.00 per 
100. 
Speciosum Album. Large white 
flowers of great substance, with a 
greenish band running through the 
centre of each petal. 20 cts. each; 
$1.75 per doz.; $12.00 per 100. 
Speciosum Rubrum, or Roseum, 
White, heavily spotted with rich, 
tosy crimson spots. (See cut.) 18 
ets. each; $1.50 per doz.; $10.00 per 
100. 
Speciosum Magnificum. Rich deep 
red. 20 cts. each; $1.75 per doz.; 
$12.00 per 100. 
Tigrinum Splendens (Tiger Lily). 
Yery large flowers; orange, spotted 
black. 10 cts. each; $1.00 per doz. ; 
$6.00 per 100. 
LiaTrIs, 
LINARIA  (Toad-Flax). 
Hepaticefolia, A very pretty florifer- 
ous perennial of creeping habit, forming 
a dense carpet of dark green foliage 
and small lilac-colored flowers, useful 
on the rockery. 25 cts, each; $2.50 
per doz, 
LINDELOFIA. 
Longifolia, Grows about 2 feet high, and produces blue Forget-Me-Not-like 
flowers during May. 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz. 
LINUM (Fax). 
Flayum. Bright yellow flowers from June to September; 1 foot. 
Perenne. A desirable plant either for the border or rockery, grewing 
about 18 inches high, with light, graceful foliage and large flowers, which 
are produced through the entire summer. We can furnish both the blue 
and the white varieties. 
15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz.; $10.00 per 100. 
LOTUS (Bird’s Foot Trefoil). 
Corniculatus fl. pl. A pretty procumbent plant for the rockery, with attractive 
foliage and double yellow flowers in summer. 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz. 
LITHOSPERMU™. (Gromwell. 
Prostratum. An elegant creeping plant for the rockery, bearing lovely smal! 
TRNDAT EERE blue flowers from April to September. 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz 
Litium 
SPECIOSUM 
RUBRUM. 
Paeonies and Phloxes are two of our leading specialties. See pages 203, 204, 206 and 207. 
