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Flowers of the Althea or Rose of Sharon. Reading from left to right the varieties illustrated are ( 1 )»Glenwood's 

 'avorite; (2) Lady Stanley; (3j Comte de Haimont; (4) Van Houttei; (5) Paeoniflora; (6) Totus alba simplex. 



Hibiscus Syriacus. Althea, or Rose of Sharon 



FAMILIAR shrubs, deserving more popularity than they receive. Altheas will grow in any fertile 

 soil; are hardy nearly everywhere in the United States, and their abundance of bloom comes at a 

 comparatively flowerless time, from July to September. There is a wide diversity of color in the flow- 

 !rs of different varieties, though all of the plants are of the same upright character, and usually grow from 

 {to 12 feet in height. They should be used in every shrubbery border, are valuable as specimens and 

 nake beautiful screens and hedges. Altheas are really one of the best deciduous, flowering hedge plants, 

 orming a thick, stout bush when properly trained; such a hedge may be kept at any desired height. See 

 jelow names and descriptions of the best varieties. 



\dmiral Dewey. Double, |)urc white flowers, 

 suggesting a gardenia in form. 



Each Per 10 Per 100 



> to .Ht SO .^5 $2 50 



\ to 4 ft 50 50 $25 00 



Alba Plena. Small and very double white flowers, 

 jplashed with carmine on outer petals. 



Each Per 10 Per 100 



Uo 4 ft $0 50 $3 50 $25 00 



Amplissima. Large, double flowers of a deep 

 ilac-pink with a carmine center. (R) "Pale Rosolanc 

 ?*urple." 



Each Per 10 Per 100 



J to 3 ft $0 35 $2 50 $18 50 



5 to 4 ft 50 3 50 25 00 



Ardens. Double, medium size. (R) "Lilac" with 

 I carmine center fading to blue. 



Each Per 10 Per 100 



J to 3 ft $0 35 $2 50 $18 50 



Ho 4 ft 50 3 50 25 00 



Boule de Feu. Double. Very deep violet-pink. 

 Deeper than (R) "Spinel Pink." 



Each Per 10 Per 100 



J to 3 ft $0 35 S2 50 $18 50 



Uo 4 ft 50 3 50 25 00 



f in doubt about what to plant, write u^. 



Coelestis, Double, medium size. A violet-blue. 

 (R) "Ontario Violet." 



Each Per 10 



2 to 3 ft $0 50 $3 50 



Comte de Haimont. Very large, semi-double. 

 A clear, pale pink, outer petals splashed with car- 

 mine. Lighter than (R) "Cameo Pink." 



Each 



2 to 3 ft $0 35 



3 to 4 ft 50 



4 to 5 ft 75 



Double Rouge. 



(R) "Spinel Pink." 



Per 10 Per 100 



$2 50 $18 50 

 3 50 25 00 

 5 00 



Very double. Dark bluish-pink. 



2 to 3 ft. 



3 to 4 ft. 



4 to 5 ft. 



Each 



.$0 35 

 50 

 75 



Per 10 Per 100 



$2 50 $18 50 

 3 50 25 00 

 5 00 



Due de Bretagne. Large, very double, of palest 

 pink, and marked with carmine on outer petals. 



Each Per 10 Per 100 



2 to 3 ft $0 35 $2 50 $18 50 



3 to 4 ft 50 3 50 25 00 



Duchess de Brabant. Similar to, but darker 

 than "Amplissima." 



Each Per 10 Per 100 



3 to 4 ft $0 50 $3 50 $25 00 



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