DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



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Job's I cars 



Flowers are light blue, pure white, and the most intense 

 ▼iolet-purple of any annual in cultivation — the richest 

 color imaginable. A good plant for mixed beds and 

 borders. Hardy annual ; six inches high. 



Kaulfussia, amelloides, bright blue 5 



" amelloides, alba, new ; pure white 5 



*' " atroviolacea, the richest violet 



color of any annual :'n cultivation 5 



*' fine mixed 5 



LAGURTJS— (Ornamental G-rass). 



Useful for forming bouquets for winter decoration. 

 The heads bear a resemblance to a hare's tail, and it is 

 sometimes called Hare's Tail Grass. It is a perfectly 

 hardy annual, and will grow in any common soil. 

 Lagurus, ovatus, curious and ornamental : one foot 5 



LANTANA. 



These plants are rapid growers, forming small, hardy 

 shrubs, and producing their pink, yellow, orange, white, 

 constantly changing heads of flowers in great abund- 

 ance, which have an agreeable, aromatic perfume. Any 

 loamy soil suits ihem, and they are readily increased by 

 cuttings, in sand, in heat. 

 Lantana, finest French hybrids mixed, all colors.. 10 



" alba magna, pure white ; one foot 15 



•• Imperatrice Eugenie, rosy lilac ; two feet 10 



LARKSPUR— (Delphinium). 



The I^arkspur ;= one of the handsomest and most use- 

 ful of plants, ^nd for large gardens is invaluable. The 

 leaves are much (!' --^"d. and the flowers in terminal 

 spikes. The bnlliar. v * s^me of the colors is unsur- 

 passed. Easily propagate J ~y sf •^d, or by dividing the 

 roots ; delights in a deep, ricn scil^ and should be sown 

 in August or September. 



Delphinium, ajacis (Double l"*vs-arf Rocket 

 Larkspur), hardy annual ; ten inches ; t-welve 



kinds inijced 5 



" cardiopetalum, deep blue; heart shrined. 

 Hardy ai.nual; from the Pyrrenees ; one and 



a half feet high s 



" elatum, (Bee Larkspur), has hairy petals in 

 the center, and a fancied resemblance to a bee. 



I lardy perennial ; five feet high 5 



" grandiflorum album, large, double white flow- 

 ers. Hardy perennial ; four feet high to 



*' formosum, rich blue and white. Hardy per- 

 ennial ; three feet high 5 



" consolida candelabrum fi. pi., a new type of 

 annual larkspur, growing in the form of a 

 branched candlestick ; flowers double, and of 



various colors, very shoivy 10 



*' Hendersoni, remarkably fine, large, richly col- 

 colored blossoms; hardy annual 10 



" nudicaule, a splendid novelty, eighteen inches 

 high, with scarlet flowers ; fine for rockeries, 

 flower borders or pot culture ; hardy biennial. 10 

 '* mathiolaeflorum nanum (Dwarf Stock- 

 flowered, itu brightest colors viixed. Long 

 spikes^of perfectly double blossoms in all colors. 

 Hardy annual ; one foot hi -rh 5 





Larkspur, double. 



Leptosiphon. 



