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PENTSTEMON (Beard Tongue). 



Most useful perennials, either for the border or rockery. 



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



DlffllSUS. 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. 

 Qlaber. 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} feet. 

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

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

 Pubescens. Bright rosy-purple, July and August; 11 feet. 

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



PETASITES. 



Fragrans ( Winter Heliotrope}. Grows about 1 foot high, and produces, fre- 

 quently as early as the middle of March, numerous spikes of strongly heliotrope- 

 scented flowers. An excellent plant for low, moist ground. 



PHYSOSTEGIA (False Dragon Head). 



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

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

 Virginica. Bright but soft pink. 



— alba. Pure white; very fine. 



— Speciosa. Very delicate pink. 



Platycodcn Grandiflora. 



HARDY GARDEN PINKS. 



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

 greatest profusion during May and June. 

 Comet. Large rosy-red. 

 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. 

 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. 



Physostegia. 



PHYSALIS (Chinese Lantern Plants. 

 Francheti. An ornamental variety of the Winter Cherry, 

 forming dense bushes 2 feet high, producing bright orange- 

 scarlet lantern-like fruits; highly interesting. 



PLUMBAGO (Lead-wort).-; 



Larpentai. 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. 



PODOPHYLLUM. 



Peltatum {May Apple or Mandrake'). A well-known 

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

 10 cts. each; $1.00 per doz. 



PLATYCODON. 



(Balloon Flower, or Japanese Bell-flower.) 



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

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

 flowers from June until October: 



Grandiflorum. Deep blue-cupped, star-shaped flowers: 1^ ft. (Seecut.) 

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



rlariesi. Deep blue bell-shaped flowers, nearly 3 inches across, on one 

 foot high plants. 



POLYGONUM. 



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. 



Cuspidatum {Giant Knotweed). 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 the stem; a striking plant for the shrubbery or as an isolated 

 specimen. 



POTENTILLA (Cinquifoii,. 



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. 

 HacNabiana. Rich crimson, very double. 

 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) 15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz. 



