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PENTSTEMON (Ueard Tongue). 



Most useful perennials, either for the border or rockery. 

 AcuminatUS, Forms a dense plant a foot high, flowers lilac changing to violet. 

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

 Diffusus. Violet-blue flowers; June and July ; 2 feet. 

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



June and July ; 2 to 3 feet. 

 Glaber. A trailing species, about a foot high, bearing in early summer showy 



flowers, varying from light to dark blue. 

 Grandiflorum. Large bright purplish-blue flowers in spring ; 2^ feel. 

 Heterophyilus. Lovely azure-blue flowers in summer ; 2 feet. 

 Ovatus. Bright blue shaded purple flowers; July to September; 2 feet. 

 Pubescens. Bright rosy-purple , July and August ; 1^ feet. 

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

 Spectabilis. A pretty rosy-purple ; very attractive ; June and July ; 2 to 3 feet. 



PETASITES. 



Fragrans ( ll^inler Heliotrope). Grows about 1 foot high, and produces, frequently 

 as early as the middle of March, numerous spikes of strongly lieliotrope-scented 

 flowers. An excellent plant for low, moist ground. 



PHYSOSTEGIA (FaUe Dagon-Head). 



One of the most beautiful of our mid-summer flowermg perennials, forming dense 

 bushes 3 to 4 feet high, bearing spikes of delicate tubular flowers. (See cut.) 

 Virgioica. Bright but soft pink. 



— alba. Pure wliite ; very fine. 



— Speciosa. Very delicate pink. 



HAROY GARDEN PINKS. 



Old favorites, bearing their sweet clover-scented flowers in 

 the greatest profusion during May and June ; 1 foot. 

 Delicata, Soft delicate rose ; very free. 

 Diamond. A fine extra early-flowering fringed white. 

 Elsie. Bright rose with maroon centre. 



Her Majesty, Flowers of large size and of the purest white. 

 Hqmer. Rich rosy-red with dark centre. 

 Juliette. White, laced crimson. 

 Laurer Wilmer. White, with purplish maroon centre. 

 Sir Charles. Large rosy-red. 

 Snow. A fine pure white. 

 Souv. de Salle. Soft rosy-red. 

 Stanislaus. Violet-rose, with deep crimson centre. 

 White Reserve. An everbloommg pure white. 



PLA^YCODON GrANDIFLORA. 



PHYSAL,IS (Chinese Lantern Plant). 



Francheti. An ornamental variety of the Winter Cherry, 

 forming dense bushes 2 feet high, producing bright orange, 

 scarlet lantern-like fruits; highly interesting. 



PI^UMBAGO (Lead-wort). 



Larpentae. Of dwarf S[)rea(ling habit, growing 4 to 6 inches 

 high; useful as an edgmg plant or for the rockery; covered 

 with beautiful deep blue flowers during the summer and fall 

 months. 



PODOPHYLI^UM. 



Peltatum [May Apple or Manilrnke). A well-known native 

 plant, which is worthy of a place in every shady border. 10 

 cts. each ; $1.00 per doz. 



Physostegia. 



PI.ATYCODON. 



(Balloon Flower, or Japanese Bell-flower.) 



The Platycodons are closely allied to the Campanulas, and form neat, 

 branched inishes of upright habit, which bear a continual succession of 

 flowers from June until October. 



Grandiflorum. Deep blue cupped, star-shaped flowers ; li ft. (See cut.) 

 — Album. A white-flowered form of the above. 

 Mariesi. Deep blue bell-shaped flowers; nearly 3 inches across on 1 



foot high plants. 



POI.YGONUM, 



Compactum. A variety which is deserving of great popularity ; it 

 grows about 15 inches high, and during August and September the 

 entire plant appears as a foamy mass of white flowers. 



Cuspldatum [Giatii Knot-weed). A tall-growing species, attaining a 

 height of 5 to 7 feet, and producing during August and September long,! 

 drooping clusters of white flowers at the axil of each leaf along the 

 upper half of llie stem; a striking plant for the shrubbery or as an 

 isolated specimen. 



POTENTILLrA (ClnquifoU). 



Charming plants for the border, with brilliant flowers that are produced 

 from June to August in profusion; they grow about 18 inches high, and 

 will succeed in any garden soil. 

 Formosa. Single, rosy-red. 

 Hamlet. Double dark rich crimson. 

 riacNabiana. Rich crimson, very doulile. 

 Perfecta. Double vermilion, lemon centre. 

 Phoenix. Double scarlet, marked yellow. 

 Sanguinea. Single, orange-red, marked yellow. 

 Striatissima. Double scarlet with yellow markings. 



All Hardy Perennial Plants (except where noted) at the uniform price of 15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz. 



