CATALOGUE OF THE HIGHLANDS NURSERY, 
DROSERA rotundifolia (Round-leaved Sundew). 
Each 
SARRACENIA PURPUREA. 
Wet sand or sphagnum moss. 
Pretty white flowers unfolding 
in a spike from roundish leaves 
covered with red hairs, and 
bearing a drop of sticky sun- 
dew, which catches insects $o 15 
IMPATIENS fulva (Touch - Me- 
Not). Will grow either in wet 
bog or moist loam. Flowers 
showy ; ripe fruit pods throw- 
ing the seed in all directions 
when touched ; annual. Seed, 
per packet 15 
NYMPIL35A odorata (Water Lily). 
A beautiful aquatic, the round 
leaves floating on the surface of 
the water. Flowers pure white 
or tinged with pink 25 
N. odorata rosea (Pink Pond Lilv). 
A very beautiful variety of the odorata, with larger leaves and flowers the 
latter bright pink. Strong plants, each 
NUPHAR sagittifolia (Yellow Water Lily). Thin sagittate leaves, with yellow 
flowers on an erect stem. A beautiful rare aquatic 25 
ORONTIUM aquaticum (Golden Club). Large thick leaves 1 foot long, rising 
above the water, and a yellow erect spadix terminating the club-shaped scape. 
Very hardy 25 
PONTEDERIA cordata (Pickerel Weed). Blue spiked flowers and erect cordate 
leaves a 0 
LIGUSTICUM actasfolium. A large strong-growing umbelliferous plant, 3 to 8 
feet high ; the large divided leaves very showy 20 
SAGITTARIA variabilis ( Arrow-head). Very showy arrow-shaped leaves. Flow- 
ers white on a scape 1 to 3 feet high ig 
SARRACENIA flava (Trumpet-leaf). One of the best of the " Pitcher Plants "; 
yellowish leaves 2 to 3 feet long, and large yellow nodding flowers, 4 to 5 
inches wide 
S. purpurea (Pitcher Plant, Huntsman's Cup). (See cut.) One of the showiest 
species, with large purple flowers, nodding on a stalk a foot high. Its curious 
pitcher-shaped leaves are usually half filled with water and drowned insects 
S. variolaris (Spotted Trumpet-leaf) A small species with spotted leaves, 6 
to 12 inches long, and yellow flowers, 2 inches wide 
S. rubra (Red-flowered Trumpet-leaf). This species has reddish-purple flow- 
ers on a scape 12 to 20 inches high ; leaves reddish veined 25 
S. Drummondii. Leaves one to two feet long, erect and beautifully variegated. 
Flowers, 3 inches wide 25 
VACCINIUM macrocarpum 1 Cranberry). Cold bogs. Plant in growing sphag- 
num moss with a muddy or sandy bottom 10 
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FERNS. 
Ferns are among the most beautiful and indispensable plants used in gardening. Their 
many delicate and varied forms and attractive, distinct' shapes and growths, will be missed by 
no plant lover aware of their charms. In the following list are many fine species, and none are 
difficult to manage if given plenty of moist loam or leaf-mold, and, as a rule, partial shade. 
The larger number are excellent for rock-work, and the evergreens for the indoor fernery 
Evergreens are marked with an asterisk (*). 
ADIANTUM pedatum ( Maidenhair). One of the finest, growing 1 to 2 feet EaCh D ° Z 
high with delicate forked fronds fo 20 $1 00 
*ASPIDIUM acrostichoides (Shield Fern). (See cut, p. 21.) A fine evergreen, its 
dark fronds, 12 to 18 inches long, lying prostrate in the winter 20 1 
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