HICKS NURSERIES, WESTBURY, L. I. 



HARDY GARDEN FLOWERS 



Pseonia Moutan. Tree Peony. A dwarf shrub, bearing 

 immense flowers. It usually grows to be 3 or 4 feet high, 

 and blooms about three weeks earHer than the Chinese 

 Peony. While hardy, the buds are liable to be injured 

 by late spring frosts, and the plant, therefore, requires 

 protection. 



PAPAVER orientale. Oriental Poppy. For gorgeous 

 display of intense vermilion or scarlet nothing rivals 

 the great Poppies, frequently 8 inches across and borne 

 on stems 3 feet high. 



P. nudicaule. Iceland Poppy. A dainty little plant with 

 white, orange and orange-scarlet flowers in early spring 

 and continuously through the summer. 



PENTSTEMON barbatus, var. Torreyi. Rising from a 

 tuft of almost evergreen foliage the slender, nodding 

 stems, 4 feet high, bear many small, bright scarlet trum- 

 pets. A showy plant from June to August. 



PHLOX PANICULATA 



The new Phloxes are so beautiful, and so varied in 

 exquisitely delicate shadings, that there seems no excuse 

 for the grower who continues to offer a long list plentifully 

 sprinkled with rose-magenta, rose-mauve, rosy lilac, and 

 many less explicit descriptions, much to the mystification 

 of the amateur who is trying to select a few harmonious 

 colors. There are many violent, freaky, or washy shades, 

 even in the best lists we have studied, which should not be 

 offered. The varieties offered below are distinct and each 

 the best of its color we have seen. 



White 



Independence. Tall. This is one of the best large- 

 flowering, early whites. A strong grower with excellent 

 foliage. 



Queen. Tall. White; large clusters. Fine for planting in 

 the back row of the border. 



WHITE PHLOX, continued 

 Von Lassburg. Medium. Purest white; the individual 



flowers are very large. 

 Hermione. Dwarf. A very floriferous variety growing 

 only 10 inches high; excellent for bordering beds or 

 carpeting under low-growing Lilies. 



White with Red Eye 



Bridesmaid. Tall. Pure white with large crimson-car- 

 mine eye. 



Aglae Adanson. Medium. Immense pure white, satiny 

 flowers with soft red eye. 



Pink 



Sonnenkind. Medium. A rose-pink, shading lighter 



toward the center. 

 Beranger. Dwarf, White ground suffused or overlaid 



with rose-pink, with amaranth-red eye. 



Salmon-Pink 



Lumineaux. Tall. A splendid, late-flowering, salmon- 

 pink shading lighter toward the center, with darker eye. 

 A charming color. The individual flowers are very large. 



Elizabeth Campbell. New. This delicately beautiful 

 flower is a soft salmon shading to white in the center 

 with a touch of red at the eye. An unusual and much- 

 desired shade. 



Wolfgang von Goethe. Medium. Deep salmon-rose with 



large white center. 

 L'Evenement. Dwarf. An even, bright salmon of 



satiny text lire, with a showy blue-purple eye. 



The above four varieties are all distinctly different, 

 and together are charming. They harmonize perfectly, 

 and may be safely planted with the white, scarlet, orange 

 and red varieties of our list. 



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Phlox subulata covering the terrace. The ground was poor and sandy and was not enriched as would be necessary to 

 grow a good stand of grass. This Phlox was planted about a foot apart and covered the bank the first year. It grows so densely 

 as to crowd out the weeds and is much cheaper to maintain than grass. In May it flowers so profusely that it can be seen 

 for several miles. 



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