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NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PLANTS 
sprays of tiny bells in various colors. 
Thrive best in half shade in a moist mellow 
loam with good drainage. 
H. brizoides. $ Blooms freely and the 18- 
inch pink sprays are good for cutting. 40c; 
3 , $ 1 . 00 . 
'H. Hermes. Flowers pink. 50c each. 
H Ondine. Similar, flowers white. 40 
cents. 
H. Puie de Fue. Clear deep red. 50c each. 
H. Rosmundi. Slender stems, pink. 50c 
each. 
H. Titania. Pale pink. 50c each. 
H. sanguinea. Deep red. 40c; 3, $1.00. 
H. sanguinea alba. White. 40c; 3, $1.00. 
Hosta Fortunei Gigantea. $ A very scarce 
Plantain Lily with exceptionally large blue- 
green or glaucus foliage; the flowers white, 
tinged blue. Does best with shade and mois¬ 
ture. Splendid crowns, 75 cents. 
Incarvillea Delavayi. $ Garden Trumpet. 
One foot, pinnate foliage, bearing several 
large rosy-purple trumpets 3 inches in 
length. 50 cents. 
Iiiatris ligrulistylis 
IRIS. All the species and varieties of Iris 
are included in a separate section. 
LEUCOCRINUM montanum. *f Sand Lily. 
Ordinary soil, full sun. Fragrant flowers of 
crystal white in early spring from a low tuft 
of grass-like foliage- The crocus-like blos¬ 
soms continue for several weeks from estab¬ 
lished clumps. Flowering clumps of 6-10 
crowns, 40c; 3, $1.00; per 100, not prepaid, 
$ 20 . 00 . 
LEW I SI A. Portulacaceae. Bitter-root. 
Loose gritty soil, with humus. 
Lewisia rediviva. *t Bitter Root. Dry po¬ 
sition, full sun. Marvelous rose-pink blos¬ 
soms like miniature waterlilies from a tiny 
rosette of small succulent leaves which dis¬ 
appear after flowering. 25c; 3, 70c; dozen, 
$2.50. 
L. pygmaea. *$ Least Bitter-root. Alpine, 
requiring moisture benefited by light shade; 
flowers of white or deep rose in a tiny ro¬ 
sette of narrow foliage. 3, 50c; dozen, $1.75. 
LIATRIS. (Lacinaria.) Compositae. Full 
sun, ordinary soil. 
L. ligulistylis. Blazing Star. *t To 15 
inches; very large heads, 50-70 florets, in a 
low corymb-like raceme; for moderately 
moist position. Flowers purple, bracts, rose- 
tipped; distinct and valuable. 30c; dozen, 
$2.50. 
L. punctata. Gay Feather. *$ 12 inches; 
several stemmed with small feathery heads 
in dense spikes; for the dry sunny rockery. 
30c; dozen, $2.00. 
LITHOSPERMUM. Boraginaceae. Colo¬ 
rado species have yellow bell-shaped flowers 
and are best in a rather dry, sunny rock- 
garden. 
L. multiflorum. Puccoon. *t 15 inches; 
several-stemmed, bearing showers of deep 
Iieucocrinum montanum 
yellow mertensia-like flowers in May and 
June. Easily grown. Strong flowering roots. 
30c; dozen, $2.50. 
Malvastrum coccineum. *$ Scarlet Mal¬ 
low. Slowly creeping, sending up low half- 
woody six-inch stems with palmate silvery 
foliage and light scarlet or brick-red blos¬ 
soms in terminal clusters. Valuable for nat¬ 
uralizing on dry banks in full sun, and 
thrives in any soil. 30c; dozen, $2.00; 100, 
$ 10 . 00 . 
M ELAM PODIU M cinereum. White Zin¬ 
nia. A small dry-land perennial daisy, allied 
to Zinnia, and as easily grown in a sunny 
position and sandy soil, high in the rockery. 
It branches profusely and spreads its man- 
