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THE STORES & HARRISON CO., PAINESVTLLE, OHIO. 



£ Stokesia Cyanea. (Stoke's Aster.) One of the most charming 

 hardy plants, freely blooming from July to October. Flowers 

 of Centaurea shape, often measure 4 to 5 inches across. iK to 



2 feet. Blue or White. 20 cts.; $2.00 per dozen. 



Spirea Aruneus. (Goats' Beard.) Throws up numerous spikes 



3 to S feet high, in bloom during midsummer with immense, 

 feathery panicles of pure white flowers. 25 cts. ; $2.50 per dozen. 



— Palmata Elegans. (Meadow Sweet.) Bushy, 3 foot growth; 

 exceedingly ornamental foliage with reddish stems and veins; 

 a mass of fleecy, panicled bloom during June and July; color 

 white, with protruding anthers. 25 cts.; $2.50 per dozen. 



Thalictrum Dipterocarpum. (Meadow Rue.) A graceful 

 border plant growing about 4 feet high, with pretty, fine-cut 

 foliage and a profusion of flower sprays during August and Sep- 

 tember. Color lilac-mauve, brightened by a bunch of lemon 

 yellow stamens and anthers. 50 cts. ; $5.00 per dozen. 



Tradescantia Virginica Alba. (Spiderwort.) Plants about 

 2 feet tall, with richly green foliage and clustered white blossoms 

 an inch wide; in bloom all summer. 15 cts.; $1.50 per dozen. 



Sedum Spectabilis 



Rudbeetia "Golden Glow." Grows 5 to 7 feet and blooms 

 from early summer until frost. Flowers resemble golden-yellow 

 Cactus Dahlias. 15 cts.; $1.50 per dozen, 

 — Newmani, Grows iK to 2 feet; plentifully supplied with 

 broad single flowers of orange-yellow, with a prominent brown 

 cone. 15 cts.; 1 1.50 per dozen. 

 — Purpurea. (Purple Cone-flower.) Large drooping petals 

 colored reddish-purple, with a remarkably large cone-shaped 

 center of brown, thickly set with golden tips in spiral lines. 

 2 to 3 feet. 25 cts.; $2. 50 per dozen. 

 Holt's Mammoth Sage. Attractive gra}^-green wrinkled 

 foliage and spikes of pale blue flowers, but mainly cultivated 

 . for the culinary flavor and medicinal virtues of its leaves. 

 15 cts.; $1.50 per dozen. 

 Sedum. (Stone Crop.) An easily grown and useful class of 

 hardy plants which can be used to advantage in poor, sandy or 

 rocky soil, which would be otherwise barren. The Sedums are 

 all very pretty and should be given room in every garden. 

 — Sieboldi. Dwarf and spreading, much prized as a carpet 

 bedding and around rock work. The foliage is round, saucer 

 shaped, glaucous green, edged from purple to pink, and sur- 

 mounted during August and September with numerous bright 

 pink corymbs. 20 cts. each; $2,00 per dozen. 

 — SpectabUis. Of upright growth, 15 to 18 inches high. Foliage 



rounded, thick 

 and rubbery, 

 crowned with 

 massive flat 

 cymes of light 

 rose-colored 

 flowers. 20 cts; 

 #2.00 per doz. 



Brilliant. 



A new form of 

 above, with 

 dark crimson 

 flowers, very 

 showy, 20 cts.; 

 $2.00 per doz. 



Yucca Filamentosa 



Valeriana Ccccinea. Showy heads of reddish flowers, June to Octo- 

 ber. 2 feet. 20 cts.; $2.00 per dozen. 



—Alba. White flowers. 20 cts.; $2.00 per dozen. 



Veronica. (Speedwell.) An admirable border plant with attractive 

 foliage of distinct character, a roughened bronze- green. Flowers are 

 borne abundantly during July and August, in long, compact spikes. 



— Longifolia Subsessilis, Deep blue. 3 feet. 25 cts, ; $2.50 per dozen. 



Yucca Filamentosa. (Adams Needle or Spanish Bayonet.) A stately 

 foliage and flowering plant equally imposing in solitary or group plantings, 

 always conspicuous. The broad sword-like foliage is evergreen; while 

 midsummer shows great erect branching stems bearing a showy display 

 of pendant, creamy-white bells. 20 cts.; $2.00. per dozen. 3-year, by 

 express, 25 cts.; $2.50 per dozen. 



