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THE CHASE NURSERIES. GENEVA, NEW YORK 
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HARDY HERBACEOUS PERENNIALS, continued 
When requested we will make selections for our customers, for with our experience and re- 
sources we can furnish collections that will give perfect satisfaction wherever planted. We solicit 
correspondence from persons laying out extensive places, and suggestions and estimates will be 
gladly furnished. 
Apache Plume • Geum 
A dwarf plant, with conspicuous bright red 
flowers, followed by silvery, pink seed-pods. 
Blooms in May and June. 9 inches. 
Beard Tongue • Pentstemon 
Plants of a very ornamental nature, pro- 
ducing long spikes of showy flowers in great 
abundance. Colors run from pure white 
through blue, purple and lilac to bright scarlet. 
June to September, i to 4 feet. 
Bellflower • Campanula 
Bearded Harebell (C. barbala). An Alpine 
sort, with a beard at the mouth of the pretty 
sky-blue flowers; nearly ij^ inches long. 
Bleeding Heart 
Dicentra, or Dielytra 
Alleghany {D. eximia). Very handsome; 
leaves finely divided; flowers deep rose, heart- 
shaped; blossoms at intervals from spring until 
autumn. 12 to 15 inches. 
California {D. formosa). Color of flowers 
pale rose; leaves gracefully clustered. 
Dicentra spectabilis. Flowers large and 
heart-shaped; deep red; well adapted for winter 
culture. Blooms in May and June, i to 2 feet. 
Blanket Flower • Gaillardia 
A constant bloomer from June until frost. 
Flowers yellow or purple; 2 inches across; 
single or naked stems; very showy, ornamental 
and hardy. 
Candytuft • Iberis 
Corraefolia. Compact heads of pure white 
flowers in early spring; foliage evergreen; per- 
sistent bloomer. 
Gibraltarica. Flowers large, white, tinted 
with red; very fine. 
Evergreen (/. sempervircns). Of spreading 
habit; flowers pure white, completely covering 
the plant; a fine border plant and valuable for 
forcing. 
Cardinal Flower • Lobelia 
A fine, scarlet, hardy plant, of easy cultiva- 
tion; well adapted to clay soils; flowers fiery 
cardinal; blooms in August and September. 
3 to 4 feet. 
Eulalia Japonica Zebrina 
An ornamental grass of great beauty; foliage 
marked crosswise with alternate bands of 
white and green. Large blooms develop in the 
autumn; hardy. A small root when delivered; 
from 4 to 5 feet high when fully grown. 
