Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Plants, Etc. 
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Hollyhock. 
There are very few plants in the world so grand, and yet so perfect and delicate as 
the Hollyhock. Its flowers are quite as double, and almost as pure and perfect 
as those of the Camellia, and when we remember that they mass around a column 
from three to five feet in height, we get some idea of their beauty. Seed sown in 
the Spring produce plants that will bloom the second Summer. "Plants set oui> in 
the Spring will flower about midsummer, and for several years if not allowed to 
bloom too freely the first year. We have excellent, healthy young plants grown 
from seed, that if planted in the Spring will flower the first Summer, and usually 
for two or three Summers after. The colors are nicely assorted, so that almost 
every color, from white to purple, may be expected. 
Milfoil (Achillea). 
Low growing plants, with abundant, showy flowers; white and red. June, to Aug. 
Perennial Larkspur. 
The Perennial Larkspur, like their relatives, the Annuals, commonly called Lark- 
spurs, are valuable plants, and in no other way can we get such a grand and con 
stant display of blue flowers. Formosum is a most brilliant dark blue, by all 
odds the finest blue flower known among our hardy plants. The Chinese are gen- 
erally of lighter shades, from lavender to deep blue. 
Perennial Phlox. 
The flowers of the Perennial Phlox are immense masses of bloom from the purest 
white to crimson. They grow to a height of two feet or more and are perfectly 
hardy. 
SUMMER AND AUTUMN FLOWERING BULBS, 
THAT REQUIRE TAKING UP IN THE FALL, AND TO BE KEPT FROM FREEZING 
Amaryllis. 
FORMOSISSIMA (Jacobean Lily) — Flowers large, deep red. 
JOIINSONIA — Dull brick red, with a white star center. 
Boussingaultia. 
BASSILOIDES (Madeira Vine) — An old, well-known climber ; a rapid grower, with 
thick fleshy leaves and white flowers, grand for trailing over a porch, or a window, 
or in any place where you desire a beautiful green. 
Gladioius. 
These are among the most showy and brilliant of all bulbous plants. Nature is 
nowhere more lavish of her paint than upon the flowers of the Gladiolus. They 
should be planted out of doors in the Spring — never in the Fall, as the bulbs will 
not stand freezing. They are, however, excellent for window culture, planted in 
vases, either singly or in groups. 
Tigridius. 
SHELL FLOWER — One of our favorite Summer-flowering bulbs, of the easiest 
culture, displaying their gorgeous, tulip-like flowers of orange and scarlet, daily 
from July to October. 
CONCIIIFLORA— Yellow. 
PAVONIA— Red. 
Tuberose. 
DOUBLE WHITE AND SINGLE — Flowers very fragrant. Stems from three 
to four feet. Late Autumn. 
PEARL — Its value over the common variety consists in its flowers being nearly 
double in size ; imbricated like a rose, and its dwarf habit, growing only eighteen 
inches to two feet. The fragrance and color same as common sort. 
Vallotta. 
PURPUREA — A very beautiful and showy Fall flowering, bulbous rooted plant ; 
the flowers are borne on stems growing about twelve inches high, and consists of 
five or six Amaryllis-like flowers of a brilliant Roman purple color. 
