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COLE'S GARDEN AK^NUAL 



PERENNIAL FLOWERS 



The hardy Biennials and Perennials outlive the s?verest winters, giving iis each succeeding year a 

 finer display of their beautiful flowers. Some begin to bloom early in spring, others in summer, are all 

 of easy cultivation. Soon after the plants are through blooming, cut the old flower stems within a few 

 inches of the ground, which will present a more tidy appearance, and render the plant more vigorous. 

 Protect during the winter with a covering of straw, leaves or manure. 



ARABIS ALPINA 



Arabis Alpina. This plant is a hardy 

 perennial which will thrive in any soil and is 

 particularly adapted to rock work. It grows 

 about six inches high and is one of the earliest 

 flowers to bloom in the spring. The blossoms 

 are white, resembling Sweet Alyssum, deliciously 

 fragrant and so freely produced as to completely 

 cover the plant. It should be in every garden.. 5 



AQUILEQIA (Columbine) 



A free-flowering hardy plant. Flowers in the great- 

 est profusion, early in the spring, and growing with 

 such ease and freedom, they ought to be grown by 

 all. Hardy perennial. 



Finest Mixed. All colors; 2 ft 5 



CARNATION PINK 



Carnations are great favorites and very magnificent 

 large, beautiful and very fragrant flowers, as perfect 

 in form as the rose. Seds sown in open ground in 

 May or June will flower splendidly the next season. 

 The plants should be protected by a little straw or 

 a few boughs, iiardy perennial. 

 German Double Mixed. Fine double flow- 

 ers; best for border culture; 18 in 8 



Dwarf Marguerite. This variety blooms 

 in about four months from the time of sowing the 

 Sied, and continue to flower until frost. The 

 most beautiful, fragrant double Carnation can 

 now be had in full flower in the open garden 

 the first year by sowing seed early. Also for 

 flowering in the house this new strain is inval- 

 uable 8 



DELPHINIUn (Perennial Larkspur) 



Handsome and well known hardy perennials, with 

 splendid flowers and curiously cut leaves; for per- 

 manent beds and borders they are indispensable. Easy 

 of culture, succeeding in any deep, rich soil. 

 Finest Mixed. Various colors; 3 ft 4 



DIGITALIS (Foxglove) 



Ornamental plants; their flowers are produced in 

 long, dense spikes of finely spotted, bell-shaped flow- 

 ers, lasting a long time. Hardy perennials. 

 Finest Mixed. Various colors; 3 ft..,. 4 



FORQET=nE=NOT (Hyosotis) 



Charming little plants, very popular, producing 

 their beautiful star-like flowers in great profusion; 

 they grow freely in any soil, but a moist -situation 

 is best suited to thom. Will flower the first season 

 if sown early. August sown seed will mage strong 

 young plants for early spring blooming. Half-hardy 

 perennial. 



Alpestris. Mixed colors; 6 in 5 



IPOnOPSIS (Standing Cypress) 



This is a very beautiful plant, with long, elegant 

 spikes of flowers. The foliage is very fine, like that 

 of the Cypress vine, giving great beauty to the 

 plant, which grows three to four feet high, and 

 keeps in flower for a long time. Hardy biennial. 

 Fine Mixed; 3 ft 4 



Canterbury Bells 



CANTERBURY BELLS (Campanula) 



These have long been among our most ornamental 

 garden plants. Their large, bell-shaped flowers are 

 freely produced. Fine plants for pot culture. As 

 they' are biennials, it will be necessary to sow seed 

 every year. Hardy biennials. 



Double and Single Mixed; 2 ft 5 



HOLLYHOCK 



The Hollyhock, in its present state of perfection is 

 very unlike its parent of olden time; it now ranks 

 with the Dahlias. For a background to a flower 

 garden, perhaps no plant is so useful, the flowers are 

 as double as a rose, of many shades of color. Bloom- 

 ing plants can be raised the first year, by starting 

 the seeds in a box in the house in February or March. 

 Plant out about the first of May. they will bloom in 

 autumn and the second year will also blossom freely. 

 Our seed is saved from choice double flowers only 

 Double Mixed, Extra choice mixed; 5 ft. 5 



ALLEGHENY FRINGED 



This grand Hollyhock is an entire break from the 

 old style garden favorite, ranging from semi-double 

 to double, and the mammoth flowers arc wonder- 

 fully foiTiied and so finely fringed and curled that 

 they look like crushed silk. The color varies from 

 palest sholl pink to ruby red. The plants grow from 

 five to six fe.'t high, of strong constitution, free 

 from disease or rust. In free and persistent flower- 

 ing it difi"ers from the old style, coming into bloom 

 in .lune and lasting until frost. 

 Mixed Colors 5 



LYCHNIS 



This is an elegant perennial. It flowers the first 

 year from seed, producing large flowers varying In 

 color from the brightest scarlet to white; free flow- 

 ering, easy of culture. 



Haageana Mixed, all colors; 1 ft 5 



