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to brilliant tints of crimson and yellow. The conspicuous crimson berries remain on through- 
out the winter, giving a very pleasing effect. 
JAPAN QUINCE, SPIREAS, LILACS, and other shrubs are used effectively as hedges. 
HERBACEOUS PERENNIAL PLANTS 
Peony Oriciitril Poppy 
Below we mention a few of the best and most popular varieties of these useful plants 
■which are exceedingly valuable on account of their hardiness, easy culture and showy ap- 
pearance. These will live all winter in the open ground and bloom freely every year. 
BLANKET FLOWER, (Gaillardia). A fine border plant with purple and yellow flowers 
two inches across. 
BLEEDING HEART, (Dicentra). Brilliant rosy heart-shaped flowers hanging from a 
gracefully curved stem. Fine for borders. 
BELLFLOWER or Balloon Flower. (Platycodon) . Large bell shaped blue flowers 
which are borne profusely all summer on neat branched upright stalks. 
CANDYTUFT. (Iberis Sempervirens) . A desirable dwarf plant with evergreen foliage 
producing innumerable flat heads of pure white flowers during April and May. 
COLUMBINE. (Aquilegia Chrysantha). A fine garden plant. Bright golden yellow 
flowers with long thread-like spurs. Fragrant. 
FOXGLOVE. (Digitahs). Handsome and showy with large tubular flowers thickly 
clustered on tall spikes. They succeed everywhere and give a wealth of flowers during 
June and July. 
IRIS GERMAN. The flowers resemble mammoth orchids in their peculiar shape and 
delicate colors, shading, delicacy of structure, etc. In richness and purity of colors few 
flowers surpass them and they are more or less fragrant. 
IRIS JAPAN. (Kaempferi). There are no flowers, not even the finest orchids, that 
exceed in beautiful and fantastic forms or in rich, pure and beautiful colors, the Japan Iris, 
flowers are of immense size, often ten inches or more across, and are produced in a veritable 
cloud of bloom. The colors range from pure white through violet, lilac, rose, purple and 
blue and combinations of colors and markings almost impossible to describe. The season 
o£ blooming is June and July. 
JAPAN PLUME GRASS. (Eulalia) . Stalks four to six feet high with long, narrow, striped 
leaves and showy plumes which remain on all winter. 
LARKSPUR, HARDY. (Delphinium). These produce long spikes of blue flowers from 
June until late in the fall. 
PEARL. (Achille Ptarmica). Beautiful double clusters of pure white flowers bloom- 
ing freely all summer. Excellent for cut flowers and cemetery planting. 
PEON IAS. Beautiful, showy and easily cultivated. The newer varieties produce very 
large, handsome, regularly formed blooms resembling and rivalling the roses in brilliancy 
of color and perfection of bloom. We offer the best sorts varying from pilre white, salmon 
and blush, to lilac and deep rose. 
PHLOX. The inost widely known and popular of all garden plants commending itself 
to every one by its variety and beauty. 
POPPY, ORIENTAL. The.se large flowered poppies are among the most brilliant and 
showy of hardy plants. Flowers large, from four to six inches across, bright crimson with 
black center. May and June. 
PLUME POPPY. (Bocconia Cordata). A tall stately plant with large terminal plumes 
of white flowers on stems six to eight feet high. July and August. 
SPEEDWELL. (Veronica Longiflora). Flowers exquisitely beautiful of a rich deep 
blue color borne in dense, erect spikes a foot long, completely covering the plant. August 
and September. / 
