SELECT BULBS FOR FALL PLANTING 
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DELPHINIUMS 
The Perennial Larkspurs are an especially fine group of plants, very easily grown 
and most effective. Look at the fine picture and see what a show a mass of a dozen will 
make. They grow from 4 to 10 feet high. 
Finest mixed in blues and purples. Good small plants, 10 cts. each, $1 per doz.; 
strong plants of finest first quality, 25 cts. each. Fine, strong, one-year-old plants of 
the following splendid English sorts named, but I sell to color. 
In sky-blue, very light blue, rich corn-flower blue, and deep gentian blue at 25 cts. 
each. White with yellow eye, and white with black eye, at 35 cts. 
Belladonna is a fine Larkspur, much like the preceding, but 2 to 3 feet high. Sky-blue, 
very free-flowering and good for cutting. Strong plants, 25 cts. each. 
Culture. — For the best results prepare the soil by giving a good coat of manure 
and working thoroughly. Plant a foot apart each way and keep the soil mellow, or 
mulch well. Water moderately and give a sunny or, at most, only lightly shaded posi- 
tion. Do not divide for three years. 
FOXGLOVES. What is there finer to plant in a bold mass, either in the sun or light 
shades? They need manure and water, but little other care, and a mass of a hun- 
dred — or better, hundreds — is hard to beat. I have either the Monstrosa type 
with a very large, open flower above the long raceme of glove-shaped flowers in 
mixed colors, or I can supply all pure white, all rose-pink, all light yellow, at $5 
per 100. 
GAILLARDIA picta Lorenziana. 
My seeds are of a very fine 
strain from Europe, and I 
have never seen their equal. 
In many shades. If planted 
in a warm place where the 
rain falls good in the autumn, 
they flower early and very 
freely. They prefer a loose, 
or even gritty, soil. $5 per 
100. 
HELLEBORE, or Christmas 
Roses. These rare plants 
are related to peonies and 
flower as early as December 
with open flowers of good 
sizes, in odd shades and very 
attractive. They stay in 
good shape for months dur- 
ing the winter. The leaves 
are rather pretty and they 
thrive in a shady place with 
good soil, preferring that 
rather heavy. I have had 
clumps as long as fifteen 
years without moving. 
They arc well worth grow- 
ing and will be noticed by 
every one who enters the 
garden. Named sorts, 25c. 
INCARVILLEA Delavayi. This 
very line plant has flowers 
shaped like a gloxinia, and 
of a violet-crimson color, 
with a yellow throat. It 
is a first-class novelty. 
Strong roots, in December, 
at 25 cts. each, $2 per doz. Oriental Poppies (.see page 20) 
LYCHNIS Haageana. A low-growing plant, splendid for warm beds or on rockwork. 
The stems arc about 6 inches high, and the very brilliant flowers in scarlet and 
reds are shaped like large, single pinks. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz.. $7 per 100. 
