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Newport Pink is soft salmon-rose or watermelon-pink. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
The THALICTRUMS, or Meadow Rues, are all handsome plants. The foliage is as 
pretty as the flowers and has a resemblance to the maidenhair fern. They are valuable 
for the shaded corner. T. dipterocarpum grows to 5 feet, with a most attractive mauve 
flower. A very lovely thing recently introduced. T. Delavayi is similar, but not so tall 
and with finer foliage. Garden-grown plants 25 cts. each. See last cover page. 
*THYME is both a pot-herb and an excellent garden plant. Sit., sun. Good moist 
soil. PL, October to March. Prop., divisions in winter. My Scarlet Thyme is very 
pretty in its season, with very fine cut foliage. 10 cts. each, $1 per doz. 
TRADESCANTIA virginica is an attractive and hardy plant with erect branched 
stems a foot or so high. Produces odd but pretty flowers, either white or of a peculiar 
blue-lavender. They will please. Sil., sun. Soil, good and moist. PL, October to 
March. Prop., divisions. Either the blue or white form at 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
VERBENA venosa is very different from garden Verbenas. It is hardy and resists 
cold and grows by underground runners. It is most drought-resistant and bright for 
a long period. The flowers are lilac and pretty. SiL, sun and heat. Soil, any; moderate 
moisture is best. PL, October to March. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
The creeping VERONICAS are utterly unlike the shrubby New Zealand sorts, as they 
are low, herbaceous plants, carpeting the ground and throwing up erect flower-stems. 
V. Binoides is low, with pale blue flowers. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
V. circaeoides is also of similar habit and good, at same price. 
*V. longifolia subsessilis is one of the best blue flowers that we have. Stout stems, 
2 to 3 feet high, bear most attractive blue flowers in summer and fall. 25 cts. each. 
V. rupestris grows to 8 inches or a foot, with many clear blue flowers. Same price. 
VIOLETS. I have the best garden varieties as follows: 
Prince of Wales. Large; single blue. 
Swanley White. Large; double white. 
Double. Soft blue. The old frag rant Violet. 
Marie Louise. Double purple. 10 cts. each, 75 cts. per doz. 
VINCA, or Periwinkle, is a most useful plant for covering ground under trees or for 
dry banks. After the first season it will do with little or no water, and if handled rightly 
is one of the very best plants for such purposes. Cult., set the rooted pieces a foot or 
less apart each way and the first year 
allow the tips to root so as to form a 
dense plantation. After the first year 
cut close to the ground in February 
or earlier. The result will be a dense 
lawn-like expanse of bright green 
studded later with flowers. 
Varieties: I have the common 
large blue, or Vinca major, and the 
dwarf white and a dwarf rose-colored 
sort, V. alpinum. The first at 10 cts. 
each, $1 per doz., $4 per 100. Quan- 
tities cheaper. The V. minor alba at 
same prices. V. alpinum at 15 cts. 
each, $1.25 per doz. 
WALLFLOWERS are always 
favorites. My nice plants, ready in 
fall, flower freely the next spring. 
Red, White, and Light Yellow. 
5 cts. each, 50 cts. per doz. 
*ZAUSCHNERIA californica, or 
Wild Fuchsia, is a most showy, late- 
flowering plant, forming large mats 
and Fuchsia-like flowers. Flowering 
after most things are done, it is a 
plant to have. Color scarlet. SiL, 
sun. Soil, mellow, rich; moisture in 
plenty but not wet. PL, October to 
March. Prop., underground stems. 
Shasta Daisies. Sec page ,30. 
