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UMADRffR -PHILAKLPhlA Mm HARDY PEREdrilAL PbANTV llffl i^s 



PHYSOSTEGIA (FaUe Dragon Head). 



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

 dense bushes 3 to 4 feet higli, bearing spiices of delicate tubular flowers not 

 unlike a gigantic heather. (See cut.) 

 Virglnica. Bright but soft pink. 



— Alba. Pure wliite; very hne. 



— Speciosa. Very delicate pin!;. 



15 cts. each ; §1 50 per doz.; $10.00 per 100. 

 PHYSA.L,IS (Chinese Lantern Plant;. 

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

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

 like fruits; highly interesting. 15 cts. each ; $1.50 per doi'. 



HARDY GARDEN PINKS. 



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

 fusion during May and June ; 1 foot. 



SELECT STANDARD SORTS. 

 Diamond. A fine extra early-flowering, fringed white. 

 Distinction. Deep rose, shaded crimson. 



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

 Homer. Rich rosy-red, with dark centre. 

 Juliette. White, laced crimson. 

 Laura Wilmer. White, purplish-maroon centre. 

 Snow. A line pure white. 

 SOUV. de Salle. Soft rosv-pink. 



15 cts. each; $1.50 per d..z.; $10.00 per 100. Set of 8 for $100. 



NEW EVERBLOOMINQ | 

 HARDY PINKS. 



These varieties introduced by j 

 us are rem.irkable for their free 

 and continuous blooming, be- 

 ginning the latter part of May 

 and continuing until late in fall ; 

 sweet and spicy. (See cut.) 

 Comet. Bright rosy-crim.son. 

 Delicata. Soft delicate rose, 



finely fringed. 

 White Reserve. A nicely 



fringed pure white. 

 25 cts. each; $2.50 per do/. 



Set of 3 for 65 cts. 

 Napoleon III. The finest cf 



all pinks. (See under Nesv 



and Rare Plants, pages 103 



to 112.) 



PLATiCODON GkANDIPLOKUM- 



Physostegia. 



PI.ATYCODON. 



(Balloon Flower, or Japanese Bell-flower,) 



1 he I'latycodons are closely allied to the Campanulas 



iiM form neat, branched bushes of upriglit habit, which 



I. .11 a continual succession of flowers from June until 



( )Lt()ber. 



Grandiflorum. Deep blue cupped, star-shaped flow- 



ci> ; H feet. (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. 



15 cts, e.Tch ; $1.50 per doz,; $8 00 per 100. 

 PLIJ:»IBAG0 (tead-wort). 

 Larpentae. Of dwarf, spreading habit, growing 4 to 

 I.) inches high ; useful as an edging plant or for the 

 rockery; covered with beautiful deep blue flowers 

 during the summer and fall months, 15 cts. each; 

 $1.50 per doz.; $10 00 per 100. 



PODOPHYLLUM. 



Peltatum (3/ay ^pp!'', or Mandrake). A m ell-known native ]ilant which is 

 worthy of a place in every shady border. 10 cts. each; $1.00 per doz. 



POtrEMONIUM (Ja<ob's Ladder). 



Useful border plants, about 12 inches high. \\ ith deep green finely-cut foliage 

 and spikes of showy floweis. 



Coeruleum. Pretty tufted foliage and spikes of deep blue flowers. 

 Reptans. Of graceful growth; showy blue flowers in May and June. 

 Richardsonii. Sky-blue flowers, with golden anthers; June-July. 

 — alba. .\ white-flowered form of the above. 



15 CIS. each; $1.50 per do/.; $10.00 per 100. 



/ POLYGONATUM (Solomons Seal). 



'Qiganteum. E.^tra large creamy-white flow ers in May and June ; SJ feet. 

 vWajUS. Exceedingly ornamental both in foliage and flower; grows 3 feet high, 



and bears pendant, creamy-white flowers in May and June. 

 15 cts. each ; $1.50 per doz. 



POTENTILrLA (CinqulfoiH. 



Charming plants for the border, with biilliant flowers that are produced from 

 June to -August in profusion; they grow about 18 inches high, and will suc- 

 \|,ceed in anv garden soil ; double-flowering except where noted. 



Perfecta. Vermilion, lemon centre; 

 Phoenix. Scarlet, marked yellow. 



New Everblooming Hardy Pink. 



Formosa. Single, rosy-red 

 .. Hamlet. Dark rich crimson. 



VlacNabiana. Rich crimson. 

 ^53\Nigra, Purplish maroon. 



15 CIS. each ; $1.50 per doz. Set of 7 for 75 cts. 



Vulcan. Glistening red. 



For Common cr English names of Flowers see Index, pages 2 and 3. 



