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eee ARABIS (Rock Cress) 
Alpina. One of the most desirable of the very early spring-flowering 
plants that is especially adapted for edging and for the rock garden, but 
does equally well in the border, forming a dense carpet, completely cov- 
ered with pure white flowers. It is nice for cutting, and lasts fora leng 
time in bloom. 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $15.00 per 100. 
ARTEMISIA LACTIFLORA 
(Hawthorn-scented Mugwort) 
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Unlike the other varieties offered, which are grown for their foliage, this 
comparatively new introduction from China is a most effective flowering 
plant, with erect stems 3} to 4} feet high, clothed with elegantly cut dark 
green foliage and terminated by panicles of Hawthorn-scented creamy white 
Spirzea-like light and graceful flowers. It is at its best from the latter pat 
cf August to the end of September, and is particularly valuable on this 
account, being unlike any other plant in bloom at that time. (See cut.) 
35 cts. each; $3.50 per doz.; $18.00 per 100. 
ARTEMISIA 
A most useful class of plants, either for the border or for filling in within 
the shrubbery. With the exception of the new variety Lactiflora they are 
not remarkable for their flowers; the foliuge of the sorts cffered is very 
ornamental. All the varieties offered stand cutting down to 5 or 6 inches 
when used in carpet or ribbon bedding. 
Abrotanum (Old Mun, or Southern-wood.) Dark green, finely cut 
foliage, with pleasant aromatic odor; 2 feet. 
Pedemontana. A handsome variety with finely cut silvery foliage. 
: _ Stelleriana ( Old Woman) 
RES _ Deeply-cut silvery foliage; 
: much used in carpet bed- 
ding; 18 inches. 
"| 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; 
$15.00 per 100. 
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ASCLEPIAS 
(Butterfly Weed) 
i) Fuberosa. Very showy 
native plants, about 2% feet 
high, producing their flow- 
ers of brilliant vrange-scar- 
let during July and August. 
25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz. 
$15.00 per 100. 
ARTEMISIA LACTIFLORA 
ARABIS ALPINA 
ARMERIA (Sea Pink or Thrift) 
Attractive dwarf plants that will succeed in any soil, forming evergreen 
tufts of bright green foliage, from which innumerable flowers appear in 
dense heads, on stiff wiry stems, from 9 to 12 inches high. They flower 
more or less continuously from early spring until late in the fall. Very 
useful in the rockery as well asin the border. (See cut.) 
Cephalotes Rubra. A strong growing variety with evergreen foliage 
and large heads of crimson-red flowers. ; 
Laucheana Rosea. Bright rose, 
— Alba. White. 
25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $15.00 per 100. 
DWARF ALPINE ASTERS 
Alpinus. Indispensable for the rockery or edge of hardy borders; 
grows 6 to 10 inches high and bears large showy bluish-purple flow- 
ers in May and June, 
— Albus. Identical to the above, but with pure white flowers. 
Sub-coeruleus. Forms a dense tuft of leaves, from which issue many 
leafless stems 12 inches high, bearing in June and July massive bluish- 
violet flowers 3 inches in diameter. 
Price. 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz. Set of 8 sorts, 65 cts. ARMERIA 
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