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HARDY PERENNIAL 

 SEDUM— Continued. 



8. Acre— A little creeping plant, covered in spring 

 with deep yellow flowers. Fine for covering rocks. 

 10 ctf. each, $1 per doz 



8. Spectabile— Japan. Effective, broad, oval, light 

 green foliage, and immense, showy, flat heads of 

 haadsome, rose colored flowers. A fine border 

 plant, forming a broad bush, and one of the best 

 plants for foliage or flower efiect in our collection. 

 Quite indispensable as a late blooming plant. Fine 

 for massing. 20 cts. 



8. Sppctabile Alba — A white variety of above. 15 cts. 



S. Fabaria — Pinkish white. 15 cts. 



S. Jap. Marginata Alba— A prettily variegated variety. 

 20 cts. 



SILPHIUM. Compass Plant. 



Broad, handsome folifiged plants, thriving in or- 

 dinary garden foils; best adapted to place in the 

 wild garden ; often used at the rear of large borders 

 8. Perfoliatum — Square stems, piercing the broad* 



showy foliage. Handsome yellow flowers. 20 cts' 



SOLIDAQO. Golden Rod. 



Of easiest culture in ordinary garden soils. Most 

 of the sorts are altogether too weedy for admittance 

 to the garden. We conflne ourselves to the follow- 

 ing sorts, which can be recommended. 

 8. Canadensis— This is the earliest of the Goldenrods 



blooming here in July. The panicles of flowers 



have the true Goldenrod shape. 10 cts. each, 90 



cts per doz. 



8. Odora — A little later than the last. Flowers deep, 

 rich yellow, in good-shaped panicles; foliage has 

 the fragrance of anise. 10 cts. each, 75 cts. per doz. 

 8. Sempervirens — Probably the most showy of the 

 genus The flowers are of immense size borne in 

 very large panicles; foliage rich, dark green. 15 

 ets. each, $1 per doz. 



51LENE. Catch-Fly. 

 Very brilliant-flowered, low growing plants, thriv- 

 ing in all ordinary well-drained soils, and well 

 adapted for growing at the front of the border or for 

 use in the rock-work. 



S. Pennsylvanica — Forms tufts of foliage 6 to 8 inches 



in diameter, covered in May with lovely large pink 



flowers. 15 cts. each, $1 per doz. 

 8. Stellata — 2 to 3 feet high, with large fringed white 



flowers. 15 cts. eac h, $1 per doz. 



SALVIA— Sage. 



From this genus we obtain some of the richest- 

 eolored flowers to be found among hardy plants. All 

 are of eapiest culture in rich loam. 

 Salvia lyrata — A pretty little plant, with spikes of 



pale blue flowers. Showy in masses. 10 cts, each, 



|1 per doz. 



SMILACINA. 

 S. Racemosa — A fine plant, growing 2 feet high, with 

 dense terminal spikes of pure white flowers fol- 

 lowed by red berries. 15 cts. each, $1.00 per doz. 

 S. Bifolia— A fine cover plant; 4 inches high, with 

 two large leaves and a small spike of pure white 

 flowers. Comes up thickly all over the ground. 

 10 cts. each, $1 per doz. 



SPIR/CA— Qoat'5 Beard. 

 A most valuable class of easy culture in any soih 

 thriving best in rich loam. All are excellent 

 border plants, while the taller-growing species can 

 be used to effect in connection with shrubberies. 

 S. Japonica — Handsome dark green foliage and 

 ehowy spikes of pure white flowers. Much used 

 for winter forcing. 20 cents. 



PLANTS— Continued. 



STATICE— Sea Lavender. 



Handsome border yjlants, with dense tufts of 

 leathery, deep-green foliage and immense candel- 

 abra-like, finely branched panicles of multitudes of 

 minute flowers, giving a remarkable eflect. For 

 ornamenting the front of the border, or for use in the 

 rock-work, nothing can give a more ornamental ap- 

 pearance at its season of bloom. Choice for cutting 

 purposes. 



S. Latifolia — Siberia. Bright blue flowers. 20 cts. 

 STOCKESIA— Stoke's Aster. 



One of the handsomest of late blooming perennials, 

 forming a dense bush and producing quantities of 

 very showy, deep blue flowers, each from three to 

 four inches in diameter, and borne from early 

 autumn until hard frost. Plant in a well-drained 

 situation, in sandy loam. Not hardy in heavy, cold 

 soils. One of the choicest of cut flowers. 

 8. Cyanea — Large, showy, aster like; deep blue 



floweis in clustered heads. 25 cts. 

 Tiiymus vulgaris — Garden Thyme. Pink. June to 



August. 9 inches. 15 cts. 



TRADESCANTIA— Splderwort. 



Handsome border plants, producing a constant 

 succession of showy flowers from early summer until 

 hard frost. Thriving in all soils from" wet to dry. 

 T. Virginica plena — Flowers violet-blue, full, double. 



15 cts. each, |1 per doz. 



TRILLIUM— Wood Lily. 



There are many varieties of this species, of which 

 Roseum is by far the finest. 



T. Roseum — New. Flowers very larsre, varying from 

 pink to deep red. The finest Trillium. 15 cts. 

 each, 11 per doz. 



TUNICA. 



A neat, tufted plant with narrow, dark-green 

 foliage handsomely studded with pretty, light-pink 

 flowers in constant succession from midsummer until 

 hard frost. Fine for the front of the border or in the- 

 rock -work. 



T. Saxifragica — Pretty pink flowers. 20 cts. 

 VIOLA— Violet. 



Desirable low-growing perennials of great value for 



border or rockeries, all thriving in any good loam ; 



free flowering and with a neat halit of growth. 



V. Pedata— One of the finest of the violets; foliage 

 finely cut ; flowers sky-blue and very laige. 10 eta. 

 each, 70 cis. per doz. 



V. Cucullata — Leaves large and round ; flowers deep- 

 bhie. 10 cts. each, 75 cts. per doz. 



V. Palmata— Foliage cut and divided ; flowers deep- 

 blue. 15 cts. each, $1 per doz. 



V. PrimulsBfolia— Flowers pure white. 15 cts. each, 

 $1 per doz. 



VERONICA— Speedwell, 



Among the best of hardy plants, combining perfect 

 hardiness with neat growth and freedom of bloom 

 and adaptability to all soils. The low-growing sort& 

 are choice for the flower border, for carpeting pur- 

 poses, or for use in the rock-woik, while the tall 

 sorts make admirable border plants. 

 V. Cercaeoldes — Covers the ground with foliage and 



in spring is a mass of deep blue floweis. 10 cts, 



each, $1 per doz. 

 V. Virginica — Immense spikes of pure white flowers^ 



Spikes often 18 inches long, and branched. Very 



efi'ective for the back of the border, or for planting 



among shrubs. 20 cents. 

 V. Novaboracensis- A tall, rank-growing plant, with 



large panicles of purple flowers. Showy. 15 cts. 



each, $1 per doz. 



