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Early-flowering Hardy Phlox. 



(Phlox Suffruticosa. ) 

 Miss Lingard. A grand white variety, which begins flower- 

 ing after the middle of June and continues throughout the 

 season. Extensively used for cut flowers. 20 cts. each; 

 |2.00 per doz. ; $12.00 per 100. 



PHLOX STJBUEATA (Moss, or Mountain Pink). 



An early spring-flowering type, with pretty moss-like ever- 

 green foliage, which, during the flowering season, is hidden under 

 the masses of bloom. An excellent plant for the rockery, the 

 border, and invaluable for carpeting the ground or covering 

 graves. 



Alba. Pure white. | Rosea. Bright rose. 



10 cts. each; §1.00 per doz. ; $6.00 per 100. 



VARIOUS PHLOXES. 



Amcena. The best variety for carpeting the ground, the rock- 

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

 a sheet of rich, bright pink flowers. 10 cts, each;. §1.00 per 

 doz.; S6.00 per 100. 



Divaricata Canadensis. One of our native species, which 

 ig worthy of extensive planting, commencing to bloom early 

 in April, and continuing through May, with large, fragrant 

 lavender flowers on stems 10 inches high. 



HARDY GARDEN PIIVKS. 



Old favorites, bearing their sweet clove-scented flowers in the 

 greatest profusion during May and June. 

 Comet. Large rosy-red. 

 Delicata. boft delicate rose; very free. 

 Diamond. A fine extra early-flowering fringed white. 

 Elsie. Bright rose with maroon centre. 

 Excelsior. Light delicate rose. 



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

 Homer. Rich rosy-red with dark centre. 

 Juliette. White; laced crimson. 

 Snow. A fine pure white. 

 Souv. de Salle. Soft rosy-red. 

 Stanislaus. Violet-rose, with deep crimson centre. 

 White Reserve. An everblooming pure white. 



Papavbk NrntCArLP (Ireland Poppies'!. 



Phlox Divaricata Can/d-nsis. 



PETASIXES. 



Fragrans ( Winter Htliotmpe). Grows about 1 foot high, and 

 produces, frequently as early as the middle of March, numer- 

 ous spikes of strongly heliotrope-scented flowers. An excellent 

 plant for low, moist ground. 



PLATYCODON. 



(Balloon Flower, or Japanese Bell-flower.) 



The Platvcodons form neat branched bushes of upright habit, 

 which bear a continual succession of flowers from June until Oc- 

 tober. 



Qrandiflorum. Deep blue-rupped, star-shaped flowers. 1^ ft. 

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

 Mariesi. Deep blue bell-shaped flowers. 1 foot. 



PEUJIBAGO Lead-wort. 



Larpentae. Of dwarf spreading habit, growing 4 to 6 inches 

 high, useful as an edging plant or for the rockery; covered 

 with beautiful deep blue flowers during the summer and fall 



months. 



POLYGONIM. 



Compactum. A variety which is deserving of groat popularity; 

 it grows about 1") inches high, and during August and Septem- 

 ber the entire plant appears as a foamy mass of white flowers. 



Cuspidatum ( G iani Knotweed). A tall-growing species, at- 

 taining 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 the stem; a striking 

 plant for the shrubbery or as an isolated specimen, 



ICELAND POPPY (Papaver nudicaule . 



The plant is of neat habit, forming a tuft of bright screen fern- 

 like foliage, from which spring, throughout the entire season, a pro- 

 fusion of slender, leafless Stems one foot high, each graced with 

 charming cup-shaped (lowers. 'We offer them in white, yellow, 

 orange-scarlet or in mixture. 



ALL HARDY PERENNIAL PLANTS (except where noted) 15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz. 



