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WILLIAM EWING & CO.'S SEED CATALOGUE 
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Pkt cts. No. 
ARABiS, Alpina Nana Compacta— 6 inches 10 738. 
Pure white flowers and compact habit of 
growth. Makes a hne edging, and is most suit- 739, 
able for rockeries. Mav-June 10 
ARISTOLOCHIA, Sipho— (Dutchman's Pipe) . . 10 
A hardy perennial climber, with beautiful 
large lieatt-shaped leaves. 
ARMERIA, Maritima Splendens — Dark rose 10 
ARIVIERIA, Formosa— The Armeria, Sea Pink, 
looks well in either beds or edgings, and it is a 
remarkably free flowerer. Julv-Septeniher. . . . 5 740, 
ASCLEPIAS, Incarnata—ilose purple, 3 ft 10 
ASCLEPIAS, Tiiberosa- r>right orange, IJ ft. 
August 10 741, 
Fine hardv border pereninals of great beauty. 
742. 
ASTER (or Michaelmas Daisy) 
743 
The Hardy Asters are of easy culture and are 
among the best of all perennials. 744 
Blooms are beautiful in color and form, and 
the plant itself most graceful in habit. September- 
October. 
Alpinus — 9 inches. Bright purple. September. . 10 
Alpinus — 9 inches. White. September 10 745 
Novae An§liae — 3 ft. Large flowers, m.ixed 
colors '0 
Mixed Varieties 10 
ASTJLBE DAVIDl — A new hardy perennial. 
It is of strong growth, with elegant foliage, and 
sends up gracefid spikes of deep rose-violet 
flowers on stems 6 ft. nigh, forming in the garden 
when established one of the most pronounced 
and eff'ective plants. Easily raised from seed, 
flowering in 18 months frons time of sowing. . 40 
■\UBRIETIA, Deltoidea — Trailing. Dark blue, 
4 inches. May- June 10 
AUBRIETIA, Oraeca— Purple, 6 inches. May- 
June 10 
Aubrietia is of great value for edgings, or carpet 
bedding, and is seen in its full beauty when in 
large breadths on rorkwork or sloping banks. 
AURICLLA, Choice Mixed Hybrids 25 
A very beautiful spring flowering plant, with 
rich-colored fragrant blooms; fi inches. May. 
BAPTISIA, Australis — Bears racemes of showy 
blue flowers; 4 ft. For shrubbery borders. 
June-August 5 
BOCCONIA, Japonica — 6 ft. Highly decorative 
foliage plant, with creamy flowers. .Sumnier. . 5 
BOLTONI A ASTEROIDES— Pure white, fine, r, to 
7 feet 15 
BOLTONIA LATISQUAMA— Pink, slightly shaded 
with lavender, 4 to 6 feet 15 
An ong the showiest of our native hardy peren- 
nial plants with large, single Aster-like flowers. 
CALl.lRHOE, Lineariloba — Trailing, white and 
lilac. June-September 10 
CAMPANULA 
Mirabilis — A new Canterbury Bell. Plants fo^m 
densely branched pyramidal bushes about 2 ft. 
high, each branch bearing a multitude of pale blue 
or lilac flowers, at least a hundred blossoms being 
open at one time. 2 ft 20 
Fragili.* — Prostrate, i ft., purple.... 15 
Carpatica or " Hair Bell " — Mixed. 6 inche.s. 5 
I'ersicifoiia— 2 ft. Blue. One of the best 10 
Persicifolia Alba— 2 ft. White ID 
Pyramidalis — The " Pyramidal Bell Flower." 
Blue and white. Pyramidal form and literally 
covered with elegant bell-shaped flowers, good for 
either outside or greenhouse, 4 ft 10 
Perennial — Varieties in mixture 5 
Campanulas flower from June to August. 
Canterbury Bells, Single Mixed — Rose, white or 
blue, h. b., 2 ft... 5 
Pkt. eta, 
Canterbury Bells, Double Mixed — Rose, white or 
blue, h. b', 2 ft 10 
Canterbury Bell, Calycanthema (Cup and Saucer) — 
11. h. b., 2 ft. Mixed and rose, blue or white, ... 10 
The Campanulas, including Canterbury Bells 
which are hardy biennals, are amongst the most 
showy and effpctive of all border plants. Being of 
n any different heights, and flowering at different 
times, are great points in their favor. June- 
.4ugust. 
CENTAUREA, Babylonica- -6 ft. A stately pic- 
turesque silvtrv foliage plant with golden yellow 
flowers. July-September 10 
CENTAUREA. Montana (Perennial Cornflower) — 
1 ft. Silvery foliage. Bright blue flowers 10 
CEPHALARIA, Tatarica— (i ft. Creamy white. 
July-.\\igust 5 
CERASTIUM, Biebersteini — Silvery-grey foliage 
smothered with snow-white flowers, h. p., 4 inches. 10 
CERASTIUM, Tomentosum — I'oliage is a beautiful 
silvery white, h. p., 4 inches 10 
Indispensible for edgings, mounds, panel-beds 
and rockwork. Should be sown early, in the 
house. 
CHEl ONE, B ARBATA (Pentstemon)— 2,^ ft. Deep 
red. Julv 5 
Campanula Persicifoliii. 
