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PENTSTEMOlN (Beard Tongue-. 



Most useful Perennials, either for the border or rockery. 

 Barbatus Torrey ii. Spikes of brilliant scarlet flowers, height 3 to 4 feet. 

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



during June and July; 2 to 3 feet. 

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

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

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

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



15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz. ; $10.00 per 100; set of ti sorts, 75 cts. 



PHYSOSTEGIA (False Dragon Head . 



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

 dense bushes 3 to 4 ft. high, bearing spikes of delicate tubular flowers. See cut. 

 Virginica. Bright, but soft pink. 



— Alba. Pure white; very tine. 



— Speciosa. Very delicate pink. 



15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz.; $10.00 per 100. 



HARDY GARDEN PINKS. 



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

 profusion during May and June. 



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 tine pure white. 



White Reserve. An ever-blooming pure white. 

 William Hooper. White flowers with crimson purple lacing. 

 Mixed Varieties. All colors. 



15 cts. each; {1.50 per doz. 



PLATYCODON 



Balloon Flower, or Japanese 

 Bell-flower . 



The Platycodons form neat branched bushes of upright habit, 

 which bear a continual succession of flowers from June to< ictober. 

 Grandiflorum. l)eep blue-cupped, star-shaped flowers; 1J 



feet. 

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

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



15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz.; $10.00 per 100, 



Phvsostegia. 



Pyre-thrum Hybridum. 



PLUMBAGO 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. 15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz.; $10.00 per 100. 



POLYGONUM. 



Compactum. A variety which is deserving of great popu- 

 larity; it grows about 15 inches high, and during August and 

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

 15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz. 

 Cuspidatum [Qiaili Kno tweed). A tall-growing species, attaining a 

 height of 5 to 7 feet, and producing during Au.ust 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. 15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz.; $10.00 per 100. 



PRIMULAS Primrose. 



Veris [English Cowslip). Plants grown fmm a select strain of seed and 

 embrace a fine range of colors. 10 cts. each; $1.00 pei doz.; S8.00 per 

 100. 



Veris Superba. A giant-flowered form of the English Cowslip, produ- 

 cing individual flowers from 1 to 2 inches across in heavy truces, which 

 measure from 10 to 15 iiuhes in circumference; in color they are a bright 

 canary-yellow with a golden c< nter; perfectly hardy, and when in fl"»n 

 present a complete sheet of bloom. 20 cts. each; $2.00 per do/.. ; $15.00 

 per Kin. 



Vulgaris [English T*rimT08t )■ An old favorite, and should be found in 

 every garden, one of the earlie-t spiing flowers; of bright canary-yellow; 

 very fragrant. 15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz. 



PYRETHRUM. 



Hybridum Fl. PI. Too much cannot be said in favor of this grand 

 hardy perennial, which will thrive in any good garden soil where there is 

 good drainage and full exposure to the sun. Splendid for cutting, lasting 

 a week in good condition. 



We can supply choice named sorts in 



Double Crimson, Pink and White. 

 35 cts. each; $3.50 per doz.; $25.00 per 100; one of each color for $1.00. 



Hybridum Single. In choicest mixture. 15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz. 



Uliglnosum [Giant Daisy). Grows 4 to 5 feet high, and is covered 

 with large white daisy-like flowers 3 inches in diameter from July to 

 September. 15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz. 



We offer seeds of the leading Hardy Perennials. See pages 64 to 70. 



