MISS C. H. LIPPINCOTT 
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SEEDS OF BIENNIALS AND PERENNIALS 
Biennials and Perennials are plants wbleli live in the garden over winter, and 
bloom in the spring and summer of the following year. They embrace some of our 
most beautiful flowers, many of which continue year after year. 
ARGEMONE 
HYBRID A GRANDIFLORA- 
These ne w large-flowering 
“Prickly Poppies” form branch- 
ing plants about 3 feet high and 
18 inches across. The large, 
single, Poppy-like flowers are 
white, cream, primrose and yel- 
low. They are borne freely and 
continuously all summer long; 
the thistle-like foliage is of a 
grayish -green wdth silvery ribs. 
They grow quickly and easily 
from seed, will thrive in any 
sunny situation and are particu- 
larly effective in the mixed flower 
border. Pkt., 8 cts. 
ARABIS ALPINA 
The pure white flowers grow 
no uniformly and thickly that it 
gives the effect of a sheet of snow. 
P 1 a n t 8 perfectly hardy. The 
earliest, prettiest, spring flower. 
The spreading tufts are densely 
clothed with neat, lively green 
leaves and covered with pure 
white flowers; conspicuous at a 
great distance, especially in large 
masses on rockeries or broad 
edgings for park roads, having 
the advantage of braving the 
greatest drought during summer 
and always looking neat. Pkt., 
•100 seeds, 5 cts. 
ANCHUSA ITALICA GRAND- 
I FLORA (I)ropmore Variety) — 
Steins covered from May to Au- 
gust with numerous wide star 
flowers of intense blue, of great 
decorative effects in beds or bor- 
ders. Pkt., 50 seeds, 15 cts. 
ARABIS ALPINA 
AQUILEGIA, OR COLUMBINE 
Very handsome, ornamental, hardy perennial 
plants of easy cultivation and bearing In pro- 
fusion large flowers of novel shape and in a great 
variety of color. Double Mixed Pkt., 300 seeds, 
5 cts. 
ALYSSUM 
SAXATILE COMPACTUM- 
Showy golden flowers, hardy per- 
ennials, blooms the first season, 
excellent for roek work. Pkt., 
25 seeds, 5 cts. 
GRANDIFLORA ALBA (3 feet)— White spurred 
Columbine. Large flowering, pure white, long 
spurs. Pkt., 300 seeds, 5 cts. 
COERULEA (Rocky Mountain Columbine. 3 
feet) — One of the most beautiful of our native 
American flowers. Sepals, deep blue; petals, 
white. Pkt., 300 seeds, 5 cts. 
ACHILLEA 
THE PEARL— One of the best 
hardy white perennials in the 
list. Grows about two feet high, 
and from spring till frost is cov- 
ered with heads of pure white 
double flowers. A grand plant 
for cemetery decoration. Easily 
grown from seed, flowering the 
first season if sown early. Pkt., 
300 seeds, 5 cts. 
THE CORNFLOWER ASTER 
STOKESIA CYANEA— This is one of our most 
charming and beautiful native hardy plants. The 
plant grows from 18 to 24 inches high, bearing 
freely from early July until frost, its handsome 
lavendar-blue Centaurea-like blossoms each meas- 
uring from 4 to 5 inches across. It is of the 
easiest culture, succeeding iu any open, sunny 
position, and is not only desirable as a single 
plant in the mixed hardy border, but can be 
used with fine effect in masses or beds of any 
size. Pkt., 100 seeds, 8 cts. 
