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Hardy Garden FloWers 
CASSIA Marylandica. Wild Senna. 
A showy plant, with panicles of 
curious yellow and black-spotted 
flowers, from July to September. 
Useful for planting on dry 
gravelly banks. 3 feet. 
CENTAUREA macrocephala. A 
vigorous plant, with broad leaves 
surmounted with globular yel- 
low, thistle-like flowers. 2 feet. 
June and July. 
CERASTIUM tomentosum. Mouse- 
eared Chickweed. A creeping 
plant, with silvery gray leaves 
and numerous white bells in May 
and June. Suitable for edging 
garden beds, for the rockery, or 
to cover steep banks. 6 inches. 
CHAMOMILE. See Anthemis. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM. The hardy 
Chrysanthemum belongs to the 
pompon class. They are old- 
fashioned garden favorites, giv- 
ing abundant flowers when the 
other flowers are gone. 2 to 3 
feet. October. 
We offer a list of the best se- 
lected varieties of white, pink, red and yellow. 
Prince of Wales. Best white. 
Anna Mary. Cream-white. 
Eagle d'Or. Yellow. 
Princess Louise. Bronze. 
Julia Lagravere. Dark bronze. 
Rhoda. Delicate pink. 
St. Illoria. Silver-pink. 
Little Pet. Rose. 
C. inodorum. A tuft of fern-like foliage a few 
inches high, with small, pure white, double 
flowers in July. 
C. uliginosum. Giant Daisy. A vigorous plant, 
covered with white daisy-like flowers, 3 inches 
in diameter. July to September. 
CLEMATIS Davidiana. A shrub-like plant about 
4 feet high, bearing fragrant blue flowers re- 
sembling Hyacinths, in clusters. August and 
September. 
The delicate Aquilegia (Columbine) is at its best planted with German Iris 
A similar plant, with exquisite 
Very fragrant. 2 to 3 feet. June 
See Rudbeckia. 
Hollyhock. 
We grow the rare and desirable old-fashioned single sorts in quantity. 
This shows them planted with Rhododendrons. 
Clematis recta. 
white flowers, 
to August. 
CONE-FLOWER. 
CONVALLARIA. Lily- of-the- Valley. Spikes of 
fragrant white bells among luxuriant green leaves. 
It has a partiality for shaded situations, which 
explains its frequency on the north side of a 
house, as well as the persistency with which it 
covers the ground under old trees around old- 
fashioned gardens. 6 inches. May. 
COREOPSIS. Among the numerous yellow Daisies 
this remains longest in bloom, affording a bril- 
liant mass of color in the garden, and long- 
stemmed graceful flowers for cutting, from June 
till Septembe;-. 2 to 3 feet. , . - 
C. lanceolata. i to 2 feet. The best sort for cut- 
flowers. 
C, verticillata. i to 3 feet. 
COWSLIP. See Primula. 
CYPRIPEDIUM acaule. 
Ladies' Slipper ; Moc- 
casin Flower. A beau- 
tiful hardy native Or- 
chid. Pouch - shaped 
flowers 2 inches long, of 
rose color, veined with 
deeper rose, are borne 
on slender stems above 
two leaves. Plant in the 
fern bed or dry oak 
woods. 6 to 8 inches. 
May. Of easy culture, 
this should be more 
often planted. 
DAFFODILS. See Nar- 
cissus. 
DAISY. SeeBellis. 
DAY LILY. See Funkia 
and Hemerocallis. 
