THE BARNES BROS. NURSERY CO., YALESVILLE, CONN. 
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HERBACEOUS PERENNIAL PLANTS 
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. 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS. Hardy. These give an immense profusion of blooms late in the 
season when other flowers have been destroyed by frost. 
COLUMBINE. (Aquilegia Chrysantha). A fine garden plant. Bright golden yellow 
flowers with long thread-like spurs. Fragrant. 
FOXGLOVE. (Digitalis). 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. 
GOLDEN GLOW. (Rudbeckia). A large showy plant six to eight feet high bearing 
profusely large yellow flowers on long graceful stems. 
HELIANTHUS. Multiflorus. Hardy Sunflower. Large showy plants of easy culture 
with rich golden-yellow flowers of the size and form of Dahlias. 
HIBISCUS. Crimson Eye. A variety of Marsh Mallow producing flowers of great 
beauty often six inches across, pure milk-white with a large spot of rich velvety crimson 
in center. Blooms freely all summer. 
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. They bloom profusely in spring 
and early summer and do well in ordinary garden soil, thriving year after year even if 
neglected. 
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 
of 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. 
PEONIAS. 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 ofifer the best sorts varying from pure white, salmon 
and blush to lilac and deep rose. 
PERENNIAL PEA. (Lathyrus Latifolius). A beautiful climbing plant with pale green 
ioliage. Flowers, pea-like, deep rosy-red, produced in racemes in great abundance all 
summer. Superb for cutting. 
PHLOX. The most widely known and popular of all garden plants commending itself 
to every one by its variety and beauty. 
POPPY, ORIENTAL. These large flowered Poppies are among the most brilliant and 
showy of hardy plants. Flowers large, from four to six inches across, bright crimson with 
Ijlack 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. 
PYRETHUM ROSEUM. Fern-like foliage, flowers pink or red petals with \'ivid yellow 
•centers resembling asters. 
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. 
SPIREA JAPONICA. (Astilbe). Handsome dark green foliage and showy spikes of pure 
■white flowers. 
