HARDY PEREXXIAL PLAXTS. 



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DESMODIUM PENDULIFLORUM. Br3H trefoil. 



An exceeding- 

 ly attractive and 

 effective shrubby 

 plant, with fine- 

 ly divided foli- 

 age and large 

 long drooping 

 clusters of showy 

 reddish - purple 

 pea-like flowers 

 along the branch- 

 es in great mass- 

 es during late 

 summer and au- 

 tumn. The plant 

 grows 3 to 4 feet 

 high and is liter- t / 

 ally covered with 

 its pleasing colored flowers 



Mr. 



at a season when 

 the greatest value. 



theie is a 

 Especially 



Besides coming, as they do 

 dearth of color upon the lawn and in the bolder, it is of 



valuable for massing, as backgrounds for borders and planting with shrubbery. 

 Each 20c; doz. $2.00; 100, $15.00. 



Album. — A variety of the above, producing pure white flowers with the same profu 

 sion. Each 25c; doz. $2.50. 



DICENTRA 'Dielytra). 

 Spectabilis. Bleeding Heart, Seal Flower. 

 (18 in. to 2 ft). — A well known Hardy Per- 

 ennial, producing freely in spring and early 

 summer, beautiful heart-shaped flowers of 



ERYNGIUM AMETHYSTINUM. Sea IL - - 



Unique and effective plants, growing 2 to 5 

 feet high. The flower heads, which appear 

 in summer and autumn, resemble thistles 

 somewhat and are a peculiar metallic blue. 

 Foliage much dissected and each point is 

 terminated with a spine. It is in every way an 

 attractive and interesting plant. Excellent 



pale crimson and silvery white in graceful 

 drooping racemes, sometimes a foot long. It 

 has abundant, fern-like foliage, which is at- 

 tractive all summer. 



Each 12c; doz. $1.25; 100, $8.00. 



Examia. (12 in). — Has finely divided fern- 

 like foliage and rose colored flowers.. The 

 racemes and flowers are smaller than in E- 



Spectabilis Each 15c; doz. $1.50. 



Providence Co., R. I., May 18, 1906. 

 The nursery stock shipped me by you ar- 

 rived yesterday noon all in prime condition. 

 I know where to place my next season's order 

 for I have had an opportunity this year to 

 compare stock from several dealers, and the 

 Monmouth Nursery has sent me by far the 

 best of any so far received. Many thanks for 

 your prompt attention to my belated order. 



SAMUEL W. BRIDGHAM, 2d. 



for cutting and the flower may be gathered 

 and dried to form bouquets in winter. 

 Each 15c; doz. $1.50. 



