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Aquilegia. 



ASPHODELUS LUTEUS. 



Balearica. 

 Grandiflora 



ARMERIA (Thrift). 



Attractive dwarf plants that will succeed in 

 any soil, forming evergreen tufts of bright 

 green foliage, from which innumerable flowers 

 appear in dense heads, on stiff, wiry stems 

 about 9 inches high. They flower more or 

 less continuously from early spring until late 

 in the fall. Verv effective in the rockery and 

 indispensable in >.he border. 

 Maritima. Bright rosy pink flowers. 

 Formosa Alba. Pure while. 



15 cts. each ; $150 per doz. 



ARTEMESIA. 



A most useful class of plants, either for the border or for 

 filling in within the shrubbery. Though not remarkable for 

 their flowers, the foliage of the sorts offered is very ornamental. 

 All of the varieties offered grow from 18 to 24 inches high, but stand cutting 

 back without injury, and can be kept down to 5 or 6 inches if so desired 

 •when used in carpet or ribbon bedding. 



Abrotamnum {Old Man, or Southernwood}. Darkgreen, finely cut foli- 

 age, with pleasant aromatic odor. 

 Purshiana. A strong-growing white-foliaged sort, suitable for edging. 

 Stellariana {Old Woman). Deeply cut silvery foliage ; much used in 

 carpet bedding. 



15 Cts. each ; $1.50 per doz ; $8.00 per 100. 

 ASCXEPIAS (Butterfly Weed). 

 Tuberosa. One of the showiest of our native perennials, about 2 feet high, 

 and producing from July to September close, compact umbels of brilliant 

 orange-colored flowers. 15 cts. each ; $1.50 per doz. 



ASPHODELUS (Asphodel). 



Luteus. An effective plant for the border, with sword-like foliage and 3 

 feet high spikes of fragrant yellow, lily-like flowers during July and 

 August. (See cut.) 



Albus. Similar to the above, with silvery white flowers. 

 20 cts. each ; $2.00 per doz. 



ASTRAGALUS (Miik vetch). 



Alopecuroides. Forms a 3 to 4 feet high bushy plant, with showy spikes 

 of yellow flowers during June. 25 cts. each ; $2.50 per doz. 



AUBRETIA (False Wall Cress). 

 Pretty, dwarf-growing rock plants, forming broad masses of silvery-green 

 foliage and sheets of bloom in spring. 

 Hendersonl. Rich purplish- violet. 

 Leichtlini. Bright carmine-rose. 



15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz. 



AQUILEGIA (Columbine). 



The Columbines are old favorite late spring and early summer blooming 



plants, growing about 2 feet high, that succeed in any ordinary garden soil. 



The varieties offered are a selection of the best kinds. (See cut.) 



Blanda. A beautiful very large pure white. 



California Hybrida. One of the finest mixtures ever brought together. 



Canadensis. Our native Columbine, bright red and yellow. 



Caryophylloides. A pretty strain with striped flowers. 



Chrysantha. The beautiful golden-spurred " Columbine." Flowers golden- 

 yellow. 



— Alba. A pretty white-flowered form of the above. 



Gcerulea. This is the true blue form of Rocky Mountain Columbine; one of 



the handsomest of the family. 

 Olandulosa. Lovely shade of blue and white. 



Hay lodgensis. Hybrids of the Rocky Mountain Columbine in various colors. 

 Skinnei'i. Scarlet, with greenish tips; very distinct. 

 Vulgaris. The European violet-blue sort. 



— Alba plena. A double white form of above. 



15 cts. eachj $1.50 per doz. Set of 12 varieties, $1.50. 



ARABIS (Rock Cress). 



Alpina. One of the most desirable of the 

 very early spring-flowering plants that is 

 especially adapted for the rock garden, but 

 which succeeds equally well in the border, 

 where it forms a dense carpet, which is com- 

 pletely covered early in the season with 

 pure white flowers. (See cut.) 



— Flore=plena. A distinct and pretty 

 double-flowered form of the above. 

 15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz. 



ARENARIA (Sand-wort). 



Close-growing evergreen plants, forming 

 dense carpets of verdure, and especially desir- 

 able for rock-work ; flowers pure white, pret- 

 tily studding the foliage during the spring 

 months. 



Dense moss-like foliage; white flowers. 



, Large white flowers, produced very freely. 

 15 cts. each ; $1.50 per doz. 



The Cornflower Aster (Stokesia cyanea) shown in colors on the front cover of this Catalogue is one of the prettiest hardy blue flowers. 



See page 183. 



