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GENERAI, LIST OF ROSES Continued. 
Queen Mab. The color is a soft, rosy apricot, the centre 
of the flower shaded with orange, and the outside tinted 
with rose and violet ; it blooms with extraordinary free- 
dom, and is most excellent for garden decoration and for 
cutting. 35 cts. 
Rosa Multiflora Japonica. This beautiful Japanese 
rose, while not new, is so rare as to be practically a 
novelty. The plant is a strong, vigorous grower. It 
flowers profusely in large clusters, with twenty flowers in 
each, covering the plant with dense masses of snowy 
white blossoms with bright golden stamens. Wonder- 
fully fragrant. 
Souv. de Wootton (II. T.) Color crimson-red, chang- 
ing to rosy crimson. Very sweet scented. 
Blanche Moreau (Moss). Flowers are produced in 
clusters, and are large, full and sweet, the color is pure 
white. 35 cts. 
Rosa Rugosa. The flowers are large and single, and 
the perfection of form and color, and are produced con- 
tinuously throughout the season and until late in the 
autumn, and as they mature are replaced by small, 
glossy, golden and red apples. 
Alba. White flowers. 25 cts. each. 
Rubra. Crimson flowers. 25 cts. each. 
HARDY PERENNIAL PLANTS. 
For Permanent Planting in Borders or Beds. 
The collection offered herein, by no means covers our entire collection. New varieties are constantly being added. 
It is well to seek from us anything in the line of hardy herbaceous perennials that may be needed, though we may not 
quote them, as, if we do not happen to have them in stock, we are probably in the best position of anyone in America to 
obtain the needed item at shortest reasonable time and at current rates. 
SPECIAL TERMS. 
We 
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ANEMONE japonica. Adistinctand beautiful species, 
flowers 2}^ inches in diameter, bright, purplish rose 
with golden-yellow centres, borne in great profusion 
from September to November. Height, 2 feet G inches. 
15 cts. 
A. alba. A distinct and beautiful variety of the preced- 
ing. Flowers 2)4 inches in diameter, pure white, centre 
golden-yellow, borne in great profusion from September 
to November. 15 cts. 
BAPTISIA tinctoria. A robust grower, of spreading 
habit, elegant in foliage, and covered in June with at- 
tractive yellow flowers. 15 cts. each; $1 per doz. 
CAMPANULA carpathica. Nine inches. Flowers 
deep blue, on good stems for cutting, and borne in con- 
tinuous succession throughout midsummer. Used for 
edgings, for summer bedding, or in the rockery. 20 cts. 
COREOPSIS g;randiflora. Large, deep yellow, cup- 
shaped flowers, often three inches across, and each on a 
long, clean stem, especially fitting it for cutting purposes. 
Seldom out of flower from earlv summer until hard frost. 
25 cts. 
DIANTHUS, Pink. One of the most important classes 
of hardy plants, all of easiest culture in ordinary garden 
soil and giving unexcelled flower, results. For'bcdding 
purposes, for edgings, for flowering in the rockery or 
border, these are all equally well adapted. We have 
several varieties. 10 cts. each. 
GAILLARDIA. No class of plants give more gorgeous 
effects than these. A well-made bed of these is never 
cut of bloom from early summer until late autumn. 20 
cts. each. 
GYPSOPHILA paniculata. Much used in all 
flower work. Minute white flowers in immense open 
panicles with very stiff wiry stems. 20 cts. 
HEMEROCALLIS fDay Lily) Fulva. Clusters of 
deep tawny-yellow flowers. 15 cts. 
H. Middendorfiana. Japan. Deep golden-yellow 
flowers in dense heads. 25 cts. 
H. Minor. Very narrow foliage. Clear yellow flowers. 
25 cts. 
HIBISCUS Roseus (Rose Mallow). Clear pink- 
flowers. Very effective. 25 cts. 
H Crimson Eye. A beautiful variety of H. Moscheu- 
tos. The flowers are from 6 to 8 inches across, pure 
white, with a large, crimson spot at the base of each 
petal. 15 cts. each. 
HOLLYHOCKS. As a background in large borders 
or beds of the lower growing herbaceous plants there is 
nothing better. The flowers, which are as elegant in 
shape as a Camellia, form perfect rosettes of the most 
lovely shades of crimson, yellow, pink, orange, white, 
etc. We offer a fine assortment in separate colors. 
12 cts. each, $1 per 10; $8 per 100. 
IBERIS, Candytuft. Desirable evergreen foliage quit t 
hidden by the clouds of dense heads of flowers in tarly 
spring. Admirable for the front of the border or shrub- 
bery, or used as an edging plant or in the rcckery. 
These are among the choicest plants in our collection. 
20 cts. 
IRIS K-rEMPFERI. The Garden Orchid. The 
newer varieties of Iris recently introduced from Japan 
are marvels of beauty, a plant sending up a dozen 
flower spikes 3 feet, each spike bearing two to three 
enormous blossoms, 7 to 0 inches across, and of the 
most delicate and beautiful colors, lavender, mauve, 
sky-blue, royal purple, blush, \ellow. etc. Such are 
these new Iris K;empferi, the king of hardy perennial 
plants. When planted in your garden they are for a 
lifetime without further care, blooming profusely in 
June and July. We have 80 named varieties of these 
beautiful plants, descriptions of which we give in our 
H page catalogue. 25 cts. each. The collection of 
50, Nos. 1 to 50 for $10; the collection of 30, Nos. 
51 to SO for $9. 
LILY OF THE VALLEY. Spikes of purest white 
flowers, of a charming fragrance. Small plants, 5 cts. 
each, $4 per 100; large plants, 10 cts. each, $8 per 
100. 
LOBELIA cardinalis. 3 feet. August and Septem- 
ber. One of the finest scarlet hardy plants we have. 
Few plants are more effective at their season of 
bloom than these. 20 cts. each, $1.50 per doz. 
