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Primula Veris (Elatior). Sweet William, Double 
PAPAVER ORIENTS 
The Improved Hybrids of Papaver Orieni 
garden perennials. The big long fringy leaves are not un 
ground on strong stems three feet high develop into enor 
waving in the breeze are amazingly beautiful and attract! 
these Poppies when you order your perennials. I offer o 
Bracteatum, 3 ft. glowing red, large and attractive. 
Brilliant, 3 ft, vivid fiery-red, one of the brightest. 
Colossal, 4ft, giant, enormous firs, dazzling scarlet. 
Apricot Queen, 3ft, salmon or apricot color, charming. 
Rembrandt, 3 ft, magnificent orange-scarlet, showy. 
Princess Victoria Louise, magnificent salmon pink. 
Mrs. Perry, 3ft, orange-apricot, rare and handsome. 
Queen Alexandra, 3 ft, rosy salmon, crimson spots. 
VLIS, Finest Hybrids 
;alis are of the largest and most attractive of 
like Fern leaves, and the showy buds that issue from the 
mous flowers, brilliant in color and graceful in form, and 
ve. Once started, a bed will last for years. Don’tforget 
nly the huge-flowd, in the richest, most charming colors: 
Royal Scarlet, 3 ft, gigantic scarlet flowers, attractive. 
Salmon Queen, new and beautiful shades of colors. 
Benary’s Finest Large-flowd German Hybrids Mx. 
Excelsior English Hybrids, from a choice collection. 
Perry’s New White-flowered, rare, fine. 
Feltham Hybrids, various colors without spots. 
Complete Special Mixture of Oriental Poppies. 
|3^~Per. Poppies are not always true grown from seeds. 
PAEOXY, Chinese, dble., Prize Mixed. 5 s. 
Officinalis, single, dark red, splendid. 8 s. 
PARDANTHUS Sinenses, 2 ft., Blackberry 
Lily; firs, red and yellow spotted. 10 s. 
PEXTSTEMOX. On Page 60 I offer Mette’s 
Giant Gloxiania-flowered Pentstemon. a 
grand perennial blooming the first season 
and a splendid bedding plant. 
Coboea, 18 in., white shaded purple, large, 
Gordonl splendens, 3 ft., blue firs., big spikes. 
Hybrlda Graclella, 2 ft., small firs, in pro¬ 
fusion ; fine colors; an elegant sort. Mixed. 
Pulchellns Hybrldus, 2 ft., bell-firs, in pink, 
purple, violet; graceful spikes. Mixed. 200. 
Isophyllns Hybrldus, 3 ft., free and long- 
flang. ; flowers on long stems, many colors . 
Southgate Gem, 2 ft., crimson-scarlet; an out¬ 
standing bedding plant; showy. 
Complete Special Mixture. 250 s. 
PHASEOLUS Caracala, vine, purple firs. 3 s. 
PHLOX Perennial, 2 ft., from the finest col¬ 
lections of new large-flwd. sorts. 50 s. 
PHYTOLACCA Decandra, 8 ft., big rich-red 
stems and bronzy leaves; white firs., In 
racemes followed by dark red berries relish¬ 
ed by birds. On my grounds the plants 
grow in odd nooks to provide food for birds. 
Kaempferi, 4 ft., Japan Pokeberry ; fine. 50 s. 
PINKS, HARDY GARDEN FINEST VARIETIES 
These Pinks have been greatly improved, being plain 
and fringed, single and double, rich-colored and varie¬ 
gated, summer blooming. We have the finest kinds; 
Plumarius Diadematus, single spotted, sweet-scented 
Diadematus double mixed. 
Pheasant Eye, fringed, richly scented. 
Double and semi-double, 1 ft, fine colors in mixture. 
Dwarf Erfurt Pheasant Eye, dwarf double, mixed. 
Perpetual Pheasant Eye, finest single mixed. 
Double White with distinct eye; a fine new variety. 
Double Perpetual Red in splendid glowing shades. 
Double French Perpetual Cyclops, large, beautiful. 
Scoticus fl. pi., splendid French double in fine mixture. 
Complete Special Mixture of all above Hardy Pinks. 
POLEMOXIUM, Jacob’s Ladder, 2 ft., lovely 
firs., in fine spikes. Blue, white, or mixed. 
PRIMULA, Beaut 
The Hardy Primroses are excellent garden f 
ed most of them will last for years and afford a showy 
appearing in many lovely colors and lasting for weeks, 
should not be disturbed until the seeds have had time t< 
Acaulis Grandiflora, 6in. Blue, White, or Mixed. 
Auricula, finest strain from prize flowers. 
Anisodora, IS in. Rich crimson flowers in whorls. 
Beesiana, 1 ft. Velvety purple, gold eye, free-blooming. 
Briscoei, 2 ft. Like Primula Japonica; brick-red firs. 
Bullesiana Hybrida, 18in. Red, Orange, Blue, mixed. 
Bulleyana, 2 ft. Bright chrome yellow, beautiful. 
Cashmeriana, 1ft. Lilac, compact umbels, earliest. 
Cockburniana, deep orange-scarlet, very handsome. 
Cortusoides, charming deep rose umbels, distinct. 
Denticulata Grandiflora, 1 ft. White, lilac, rose, 
red, in mixture; flowers in dense heads. 
Farinosa, 6in, Bird’s Eye Primrose, compact umbels 
light purple with a gold eye, avoid hot sun. 
Floridae, 4ft, new Chinese giant, golden firs, lovely. 
Frondosa, 6in, silver foliage, pretty rosy lilac flowers. 
Ipswich Hybrids, 2ft, new strain, many strange colors. 
Helodoxa, 3 ft, long spikes of golden firs in whorls, fine. 
:iful Hardy Kinds 
owers and should be better known. Once start- 
and beautiful display every spring, the clustered flowers 
The seeds are often tardy in starting, and the seed-bed 
i germinate. I offer the finest kinds for garden beds: 
Japonica, 2ft, splendid, white to crimson in spikes. 
Munstead Strain (Veris) big showy umbels in spring, 
flowers, largest in size, wonderful shades of colors. 
Officinalis Hybridus, 1 ft, sweet scented Cowslip. 
Pulverulenta, 2 ft, like Japonica, shining red flowers. 
Rosea Grandiflora, 6i n, bright rose, gold eye, large in 
big umbels, a fine species, beautiful flowers. 
Sieboldii, 1 ft, fine large-flowd hybrids, mixed colors. 
Sikkimensis, 1ft, yellow, f ragrant, drooping flowers. 
Veris (Elatior) 1 ft, various colors, fine umbels, spring. 
Grandiflora, huge flowers, big umbels, mixed colois. 
Gold-edged, brown edged gold, beautiful and showy. 
Aurea, golden yellow in fine big umbels, superior. 
Splendid Mixture of Veris Primroses. 
Veitchi, 18 in, umbels of deep rose flowers, distinct. 
Verticillata, 1 ft, golden yellow firs, silver foliage. _ 
Vulgaris, 6 in, true yellow Primrose, profuse in spring. 
Complete Mixture of Hardy Primroses, 5cts. 
