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HARDY PERENNIAL PIANTS 



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PENTSTEMON (Beard Tongue) 



Most useful showy perennials, either for the border or rockery. With the 

 exception of "Sensation," which requires protection, they are perfectly hardy. 

 Gloxinioides "Sensation." A beautiful strain, bearing ^spikes of large 



Gloxinia-like flowers in a great variety of bright colors, including rose, 



cherry, crimson, purple, hlac, etc. The plants grow 2 feet high, and bloom 



from early summer till frost. 

 Barbatus Torreyi. Spikes of brilliant scarlet flowers; height, 3 to 4 feet; 



June to August. 

 Digitalis. Large spikes of long, purple-white flowers with purple throats 



during June and July; 2 to 3 feet. 

 Pubescens. Bright rosy-purple; July and August; I5 feet. 

 Smalli. Rosy-carmine flowers in early summer; 1 foot. 



Price. 30cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $18.00 per 100. One each of the 5 sorts 

 for $1.25. 



PHYSALIS (Chinese Lantern Plant) 



Francheti. An ornamental variety of the Winter Cherry, forming dense 

 bushes, about 2 feet high, producing freely its bright orange scarlet lantern- 

 like fruits; highly interesting. 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz. 



PHYSOSTEGI A (False Dragon-Head) 



Phlox Divaricata 



VARIOUS PHLOXES 



Amoena. A useful variety for carpeting the ground, the rockery, 

 or the border; it grows but 4 inches high, and in spring is a sheet 

 of rich bright pink flowers. 25 cts. each; §2.50 per doz.; 

 $15.00 per 100. 



Arendsi Amanda. A cross between Divaricata Canadensis and one of 

 the Decussata varieties of vigorous branching habit, growing about 12 

 inches high, producing delicate lilac flowers with deeper centre from May 

 to July. 35 cts. each; $3.50 per doz. 



Arendsi Louise. Grows 2 feet high and has attractive light lilac flowers 

 with carmine eye. 35 cts. each; $3.50 per doz. 



Divaricata Canadensis. One of our native species, which is worthy of 

 extensive planting, commencing to bloom early in April, and continmng 

 through May, with large, fragrant lavender flowers on stems 10 inches high. 

 (See cut.) 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $15.00 per 100. 



— Laphami Perry's Variety. In this we have a great improvement, the 

 plant being more robust, the flowers considerably larger and of a more in- 

 tense shade of lavender-blue. 30 cts. each; $3.00 per doz.; $18.00 per 100. 



— Alba Grandiflora. A grand white-flowering form, and should prove 

 equally valuable and as great a favorite as the blue-flowered form. 30 cts. 

 each; $3.00 per doz.; $18.00 per 100. 



Maculata Hybrida Alpha. A cross between our native species Maculata 

 and some of the showier varieties of Decussata, and though its color is not 

 rich, it being a soft amaranth-pink, it is so remarkably free flowering it 

 should find a place in every collection. It grows about 2 J feet high, each 

 branch terminated by a large panicle of flowers which are produced con- 

 tinuously from June until freezing weather. 25 cts. each; S2.50 per doz. 



Subulata. See offer on page 189. 



DREER'S SUPERB HARDY PHLOXES 



We offer a splendid collection of the Standard varieties on page 189. 



One of the most beautiful of our midsummer flowering perennials, forming 

 dense bushes 4 to 6 feet high, bearing spikes of delicate tubular 

 flowers not unlike a gigantic heather. (See cut.) 

 Virginica. Bright but soft pink. 

 — alba. Pure white; verj' fine. 



25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $15.00 per 100. 



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