Bulbs and Perennial Herbaceous Plants. 
QERENNIAL herbaceous ])lants and bulbs, whic 
* stHi't up again from the roots in the spring. 
ANEMONE, Windflower. Japonica 
(Japanese). From .Japan. Grows 2 feet high. 
Free, vigorous habit of growth, and in autumn 
produces a continuous abundance of bright red 
flowers until cut down by frost. 
ANEMONE, Windflower. Alba. (Hon- 
orine Jobert). Pure white flowers. Choice for 
cutting purposes. 
CANNAS, Beaute de Poitevine. (I'^rench). 
An ideal dwarf variety. Foliage brilliant, shin- 
ing green. Flowers good .size, growing in large 
trusses of splendid crimson-scarlet. 
Rudbeckia, Golden Glow. 
CANNAS, RoseUnique. (French). A charm- 
ing variety of the everblooming French Cannas. 
Plants vigorous in growth, with lanceolate green 
leaves and beautiful, rose-colored flowers. 
CANNAS, Italian Orchid-flowered. A dis- 
tinct race of Cannas. The flowers are very 
large, often 6 to 8 inches across, and gorgeous 
in color ; are appropriately called Orchid-flow- 
ered. They have less substance and are thin- 
ner-petaled than the French varieties, and are 
exceedingly free bloomers. 
h die down to or near the ground every fall. 
CANNAS, Austria. Immense, canary-yel- 
low flowers, with pale, brownish red spots. 
Giant in growth ; foliage large and heavy. 
Young plants set out in June form dense clumps 
of 20 to 25 stems 6 feet high, each surmounted 
with a spike of gorgeous golden flowers ; lasts 
till frost. 
CANNAS. Italia. These flowers, on mas- 
sive stems about 16 inches long, are gorgeous 
in color, being a rich, golden yellow, with 
patches of brilliant red spots on the upper 
petals. The leaves are a rich, deep green, bor- 
dered white. 
GLADIOLUS, The Gladiolus is one of the 
very liandsomest of all the outdoor flowering 
bulbous plants. The i)lants give wonderful re- 
turns for but little outlay in time and care, and 
are very satisfactory for cut-flowers for the 
house, as all the small undeveloped buds will 
develop to the tip of the spike in water. They 
present the greatest variety of shades and col- 
oring, from pure white w'ith the slightest touch 
of ]iink through all the shades of yellow and 
])ink to the deepest scarlet. They require 
nothing more than ordinary garden soil to do 
their best. The bulbs must be dug up in the 
fall, and may be planted from the time the 
ground is in shape to be worked in the spring,, 
till July, and will begin to blossom in about six 
weeks. 
GLADIOLUS, Lemoine Hybrids. Rather 
early, very gracefnl and beautiful ; inclined to 
the more delicate shadings, with beautiful soft 
contrasts. 
GLADIOLUS, Crawford's Mixtures. Con- 
tain all kinds and all shades, from pure white 
to the deepest scarlet. 
HOLLYHOCKS. The.se handsome, showy 
plants are at present great favorites. They 
are old inhabitants of our gardens, but are now 
so improved in doubleness and enlarged in size, 
as to be revelations of gorgeous beauty to- 
those who have not seen these improved sorts. 
.\s a back ground there is nothing better, or 
for groups on the lawn or among shrabbery, 
they are invaluable. Flowers large and double, 
as handsome in form as a camellia, and of 
beautiful shades of color. 
IRIS, Gerntan. Under this head are in- 
cluded the varieties of several species of IrLs, 
but all are distinguished by their broad leaves, 
and resemble each other in the shape of their 
flowers, and for this reason are known under 
one head. All of easiest culture in ordinary 
garden soils, i)referring a rich loam. We sell 
them in assorted colors. 
