A Few Specials in Hardy Perennials. 



For Complete List see our General Wholesale Catalogue. 



AN'HUH ITALICA, DROPMORE VARIETY 



The New Anchusas. 

 The Improved Varieties of Italian Alkenet or Bugloss. 



The colored plate in our Garden Book conveys a good idea of the 

 beautiful colors of these wonderfully improved Anchusas, which 

 have proven most valuable additions to our limited list of blue 

 flowering hardy perennials, and particularly so as they flower from 

 May to July, a time when this color is only sparingly represented 

 in the hardy border. 



The habit of the plants while strong and vigorous is not at all 

 coarse, they form many branched specimens from 3 to 5 feet high, 

 each branch of which is terminated by a large, graceful, pyramidal 

 spike of blue flowers. 



Dropmore Variety. Rich gentian-blue) 



Opal. A splendid lustrous light blue $1.50per doz.; $10.00 per 100 



Perry's Variety. Rich deep blue I 



Anemone Japonica (Japanese Windflower). 



Every florist growing flowers for his own retail sales should 

 grow a block of these beautiful late summer and fall flowering 

 Anemones, which, besides making an attractive display, furnish 

 an abundance of useful cut flowers which are admired by every- 

 one. The plants we offer are in a growing condition in 3-inch 

 pots, and not being checked in transplanting will give quick 

 results. 



Por 

 Per doz. Per 100. 1000 

 Japonica Rubra. Beautiful rosy-red . $1 00 $7 00 $S0 00 



Alba. A fine large snowy-white 1 00 7 00 60 00 



Queen Charlotte. Very large, silvery-pink 1 00 7 00 60 00 

 Whirlwind. Large semi-double, pure 



white flowers 1 00 7 00 60 00 



Kriemhllde (new). Semi-double, rose pink 1 50 12 00 

 Loreley (new). A semi-double, bright, sil- 

 very pink 1 50 12 00 



Alice (new). Silvery-rose suffused carmine 150 12 00 

 Prince Henry. Large, very double, deep 

 rich pink 1 00 7 00 60 00 



JAPANESE ANEMONE 



ARTEMISIA LACTIFLORA 



Artemisia Lactiflora. 



A Beautiful Flowering Artemisia. 



This comparatively new introduction from China is a most ef- 

 fective flowering plant, with erect stems 3>i to 4!- feet high, 

 clothed with elegant-cut dark green foliage and terminated by 

 panicles of Hawthorn-scented, creamy-white Spira?a-like light and 

 uraceful flowers. It is at its best from the latter part of August to 

 the end of September, and is particularly valuable on this account, 

 being unlike any other plant in bloom at that time. $1.50 per doz.; 

 $10.00 per 100. 



Aster Grandiflorus. 



Not a new variety but one of the finest of all and distinct in 

 character and flower from all others. The flowers, of a lovely 

 dark bluish-violet, frequently measure 2 inches in diameter. It is 

 the latest flowering variety — October and November — and by lift- 

 ing the plants can be flowered in connection with Chrysanthe- 

 mums, where its effect is very beautiful. 25 cts. each; $2.50 per 

 doz.; $20.00 per 100. 



Astilbe Arendsi. 



This new type is the result of crossing A. Davklii with A. 

 Japonica compacta. astiboides and Thunbergi. The plants are of 

 very vigorous growth, 2}' 2 to 4 feet high, producing many-branched, 

 feathered heads of flowers. They prefer a half-shady, moist posi- 

 tion in any ordinary garden soil. 



Ceres. Delicate, light rose with silvery sheen. 



Juno. Strong upright plumes of deep violet rose. 



Salmon Queen. Beautiful salmon pink. 



Venus. Deep violet rose. 



Vesta. Light lilac rose. 



White Pearl. Dense pyramidal plumes of silvery white. 



30 cts. each; $3.00 per doz. 

 Choicest Mixed Varieties of above, $2.00 per doz.; $15.00 per 100. 



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