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A class of the most importance for gardening, combining great range of habit 
and season of bloom, together with variety in color and form of flowers, which in con- 
nection with their absolute hardihood, requiring but one purchase to have them 
always in the garden makes them indispensable. While our collection includes 
many kinds not found below, yet we note the following as a selection of the very 
best, and feel confident that they will give great satisfaction. While hardy peren- 
nials will thrive in a great range of soils, yet it is true that they give the best results 
when given the same careful care that one would give to other flowers. Rich soils 
and careful culture are well repaid by the resulting increase in the size of the plants 
and abundance of bloom. Hardy perennials can be used to the very best advantage 
in a border which has been deeply trenched and well fertilized. Here they should 
be grown in rtiasses rather than dotted promiscuously, whereby less artistic effects 
"^/lu a ® produced. It is desirable to use such perennials for the main ground-work 
of the flower effect in the flower border, and if spaces are left in which annuals can 
be planted yearly, they will serve to give additional color effect, and will admit of 
a change from year to year, which would not be the case were the border to be filled 
with perennials alone, while the greatest flower effect can be produced in the above- 
mentioned manner. Hardy perennials are equally desirable for massing on the out- 
^.'n/ ° xi^"^/' ^""^ ','1^°^^ '^^g^'' for planting as individual lawn groups and speci- 
mens. The perennial border should have a liberal mulching each autumn and the 
plants can often be divided to advantage after they have been planted a few seasons 
^''^hf^f* J'"' Sneezewort). 2 feet. Of dense, spreading 
habit, with an abundance of double, pure white flowers iu dense heads, with 
good stems for cutting in midsummer. 20 cts. 
ANTHEMIS tinctoria ( Hardy Golden Marguerite)'. 2 feet. Of dense, globular habit. 
flowers^^^S rtt^" ^""^^ ^ profusion of showy, bright yellow, aster-like 
BOLTONIA latisqtiama (False Chamomile). 6 feet. Of upright, loose habit with 
long narrow, grayish green foliage, and double, lavender-pink, aster-like flow 
ers, borne in immense broad heads in late summer. Very choice. 
CENTATIBEA montana alba (White Mountain Centaury) 
18 inches. A broad, low bush, with long, soft velvety 
glossy green foliage, bearing very large and showy 
pure white flowers in almost constant suc- 
cession. 25 cts. 
COREOPSIS lanceolata (Golden Tick Seed) 
2 feet. Of dense habit, with shining ^stf 
green foliage and a constant 
succession of long-stemmed, 
large, showy, golden yellow 
flowers. 25 cts. 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS, Hardy ^ J^'{'». 
Fompon Varieties. A very 
satisfactory and desirable 
collection of those beautiful, 
hardy, smalt-flowered Chry- 
santhemums, which 
bloom in the most 
profuse abundance 
and give very hand- 
some and popular 
flowers. Colors range 
from yellow to the 
deepest orange and 
the most brilliant red. 
^5 cts. Hardy Chrysanthemums. 
