Lemon Balm 
Tansy 
Sage 
Lavender 
Cotton 
Lavender 
. French 
Lavender 
Borage 
Melissa officinalis — a rampant spreading plant, rather in- 
clined to "flop," but of a most healthy and good green. If 
the tops are trimmed baek it will present the same fresh color 
until late fall. Has a delightful Lemon Verbena odor — a fine 
picker for Flower Missions, as foliage in bouquets, and an 
excellent ground cover. Insignificant whitish-yellow bloom. 
Perennial and hardy. 
Tanacetum vulgare — has firm high stalks over six feet 
in good locations, the stems being slightly reddish in tone. 
The dark green leaves are large but finely cut, growing thickly 
up the stems, which are topped by innumerable dense flat cymes 
of bright yellow buttons. Makes a flash of color, likes poor soil, 
covers spaces rapidly and is altogether desirable in the proper 
place. Perennial and very hardy. 
Salvia officinalis — another lovely thing with a domes- 
tic background. A. decorative loose mass of cool gray-green 
about two feet high, of pungent and pleasing odor. The leaf 
texture is very distinctive, of a dull woolly surface. "Bailey lists 
13 varieties of the tj^pe. Hardy perennial. 
Santolina incana — grows in a compact form about 18 inches 
high. It is a very pale grey, with some cool green tones, and 
has a most unique form of foliage, rather suggestive of coral 
branches. Unusual and valuable in every way, particularly on 
the edge of a bed. The flowers are pale yellow, small and 
globular. Hardy. 
Lavenclula officinalis, or L. vera — the well-known lavender 
of our linen closets and medicine shelves. A perennial 
that likes a poor sandy soil, it is often over-fed, and not pro- 
tected enough in winter. It will make a good-sized plant of 
irregular shape, as it grows older ; its foliage is a wonderful cool 
lavender-gray, and the many long flower stems carry heads of 
purple-blue bloom, that make a lovely veil of color over the gray 
leafage. Easily raised from cuttings or seed. 
Lavandula Stoechas, Stickadove or Cassodony — is tender, 
but grows freely from seed or cuttings. It can be lifted and 
potted for the house, and is useful all winter for finger bowls. 
It makes a compact bush of vivid green, the stalks being very 
erect and the narrow leaves closely pinnate. The blossoms are 
exactly like L. vera. Annual. 
Borago officinalis, Bugloss — a tall plant of coarse growth 
with heavy clusters of five-petalled flowers of a vivid, lovely blue. 
Very suggestive of Anchusa. Medium-sized leaf, dull green and 
of rough texture, the plant stems are gray with pink tones. A 
beautiful mass that looks well planted with Horehound, which 
seems to give it support. Annual, seeding itself rapidly. 
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