;KEL5EY*5 HARDY AMERICAN PLANTS 
^^rroJvn in the Carolina J^fountains at 3800 fiet elel'ation 
2 to 8 ft. Yellowisli green plant with very large showy leaves appearing 
Very small growth 
4 to 8 in. Finely 
5 to 12 in. 
HARDY NATIVE HERBACEOUS PERENNIALS, continued 
VAGNERIA racemosa. Wild Simkknahd. 1 to :! ft. Horrios pale reil, speckli'd purple. White flowers, 
showy racemes. 
VERATRUM viride. Indian Poke. 
in early spring. Damp ground. 
VERNONIA novaboracensis. Ikox Weed. S to fi ft. From July to Septeniher Ihis fine composite gives a 
show of deep purple flowers in large coryinhs. Fine for inassini; wliere a tall late hloomer is desired. 
VIOLA blanda. A small low species, with orhic- 
nlar leaves, the white flowers sweet-scented 
j»nd tinged with purple, 
canadensis. Cvxada Violet. 'i to 14 in. 
I'lowers white and purplish. May to August, 
cucullata. Blue Violet. 6 to 12 in. Blue, 
sometimes variegated with white. A sturdy 
sort, hliioming all summer, 
cucullata nana. :< to (i in. 
and sitiall leaves, 
cucullata laciniata. 
cut narrow leaves, 
hastata. Yellow Violet. 
Siriall. rare, hloonis early, 
lanceolata. .'J to (► in. Small beardless 
white flowers with lance or linear leaves, 
palmata. Early Bu'e Violet. G to 
\'l in. I'urple or blue, 
pedata. Bikd's-Foot Violet. 3 to 0 in. 
Showy, ligtit blue flowers, 
pedata, var. bicolor. to G in. Very band- 
some vari«-ty. Two upper petals deep violet, 
velvety. ]?are. 
rotundifolia. Roi-nd-Leaved Violet. 2 to 4 in. 
Flowers yellow striped with i)urple. Very large 
prostrate leaves in earliest spring, 
sheltonii. A pretty western species; flowers 
spurrc'i. 
YUCCA glanca. Beak-Orass. 2 to 4 ft. Very 
narrow slifl' leaves. May and June. White, 
filamentosa. Adam's Needle. 2 to 10 ft. Showy 
plant for massing. White. Flowers in July. 
\'ery large panicles, 
flaccida. 2 to G ft. Makes large chimps and 
produces abundant tall panicles of showy white 
flowers in July and August. 
XEROPHYLLUM asphodeloides. Turkey 
Long grass-like leaves from which rises a tall spike of white flowers. 
2 to 4 ft. White head of flowers in June and July. Very sliowy. 
Shortia galacitolia 
From a pliotograpli taken in early April 
Beard. 2H to .5 ft. 
ZIGADENUS letmanthoides 
(Sec page 36) 
WORTH READING 
Nomenclature and Descriptions of Plants in this Catalogue 
There is mueh contusion in the botanical names of plants at the present time, ami common names 
are never reliable. Wo have, therefore, adopted the system used by Britton and Brown in their "Illus- 
trated Flora" as being the most logical and universally accepted at the present time. Infallibility is 
not claimed, and it is to be hoped that a universal system will soon be adopted by all botanists so that 
a botanical term will stand and alvvtiys stand for a specific plant. Until then it is only possible to logi- 
cally follow some well-known system to seenre reasonable accuracy. 
The better-known technical synonyms have been given, and the most widely used common names, and 
we hope our systematic eflorfs to connect the plants with the correct scientific and popular names will be 
of assistance to every one interested into whose hands this Catalogue may fortunately find its way. 
The heights of all trees and plants are carefully given immediately after the names— the first figures 
indicating the height the species usually attains in cultivation, the second indicating its extreme growth 
in a wild state. Under favorable cultivation the height may often exceed the first figures considerably, 
80 the information mtist be considered appro.ximate. We have endeavored to avoid long descriptions 
and to give information of value, such as time of flowering, color of flowers and foliage, fall and winter 
effects of leafage, fruit and bark, and kind of soil in which difficult species may be expected to thrive. 
"// i& a fact that no part of thf n-ortd ha.s farttishcd the ijarilenx of Karope and America with no many orna- 
mental plants of this kind [nhrulix and lawn trees] as this same Alletihani/ reijion. Along the course of every 
rocky stream are masses of the great lihododendron and Kalmia, while on the borders are smaller broad-leaved 
under-shruhs of rarest beauty. lint, beyond question, the most beautiful flowering shrubs are the Azaleas, which 
are here massed together in the greatest profusion and luxuriance. There are a dozen other genera, that could be 
named, each with a special charm of its own. To these add the species that are small lawn trees in the North, but 
attain the stature of timber trees here, and we have a group that, for neatness of habit and beauty of foliage, 
flowers and fruit, and brilliancy of autumn coloring, has no rival."— W. A. Stiles. 
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