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Spireay Anthony Waterer. 
One of the most beautiful hardy 
plants in cultivation and one 
which has aroused the greatest 
enthusiasm among horticultur- 
ists everywhere. This new 
Spirea grows in the form of a 
low compact shrub, with numer- 
ous branchlels, each bearing 
clusters of charmingly pretty, 
rose-colored rtowers. The plants 
sent out are strong, well-rooted, 
and with ordinary care, will 
flower freely during summer. 
It will do well in any good gar- 
den soil. (See cut.) 
Price 25 dls. 
Doronicum Hxcel- 
suni. One of the most effec- 
tive of the early spring flower- 
ing perennials, beginning to 
bloom in April and continuing 
at intervals throughout the sea- 
son, or by planting in pots in 
the fall it can be readily forced 
into bloom during the winter 
months in the conservatory or 
window garden. Its golden- 
yellow daisy-likejflowers are of large size, being about four inches in diameter. Price 20 dts. 
Helenium Antumnale. Loose rounded heads, nearly two feet through, bright yellow flowers. 
Strong stems four to five feet high ; blooms in August and September. Price 20 tfts. ; extra strong, 40 6 ls. 
Spirea, Nana Compacta. A 
new large flowering Spirea from 
Japan. This is a first-class novelty, 
and we thoroughly recommend it. 
In garden culture, it flowers freely 
during the summer, and is perfectly 
hardy. Its merit consists in com- 
pact growth, ample foliage of bril- 
liant green and its wonderfully free 
production of feathery white flowers 
borne in plume-like panicles of mag- 
nificent porporlions; will entirely 
sni>er.^ede the old variety, as the 
individual flowers and spikes are 
twice the size, and much freer 
blooming. Fine for winter window 
garden, if potted in fall and treated 
same as Hyacinths. (Sec cut.) 
Price, clumps, 40 < 5 ts.; small roots, 
prepaid, by mail, 20 < 5 ls. 
Atjuile^ia, Nana Alba (or 
Decoration Day flower). This 
dwarf while Aquilegia or Colum- 
bine, is one of the most valuable 
of recent introduction. Our na- 
tional holiday in remembrance of 
deceased soldiers has become a day 
of floral memory', and the great de- 
mand for flowers on May 30 is best 
known to the florist, and has caused 
much study to find the best for this 
season. Price 20<5ls.; seed, 10 <fls. 
