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THE PALISADES NURSERIES CATALOGUE 
Coreopsis —Tickseed 
Lanceolata grandi flora. Flowers a rich golden yellow, 
of graceful form and invaluable for cutting. 1 to 3 
feet. 6-9. 
-fl. pi. I ^arge double form. Very pretty and more 
lasting as a cut flower. 3 feet. 6-9. 25c each; $2.50 
per dozen. 
Pubescens. (Yellow Lady’s Slipper.) Each, 40c; 
$3.50 per dozen. 
Hirsutum. (Large Yellow Lady Slipper.) Large, 
bright yellow flowers, having sometimes three to live 
blooms on a stem. Foliage a pretty light green. 1 
foot. 6. 40c each; $3.50 per dozen. 
Delphinium —Larkspur 
Cypripedium —Lady’s Slipper 
Venus' Slipper 
From Greek, Kypris—Venus and podion—a slipper; 
in allusion to the elegant slipper-like form of the 
labellum. 
All amateur plant growers who are about to com¬ 
mence orchid growing should begin with a few of the 
common species of Lady’s Slipper, because they are not 
expensive, or difficult to cultivate, and they flower 
very freely, continuing in perfection a long time. 
Acaule. (Stemless Lady’s Slipper.) Flowers solitary, 
large sepals and petals greenish, shorter than the 
drooping lip, which is of a beautiful warm rose, 
blotched with purple; a pair of large downy leaves. 
3 inches. 5-6. Price, strong plants, 40c each; 
$3.50 per dozen. 
Spectabile. (Showy Lady’s Slipper.) Most beautiful 
of the hardy Cypripediums; the flowers are large 
and rounded, of a pure white, with a much inflated 
pouch of a beautiful soft rich rose color; beautiful 
if grown in the shady part of a Rhododendron bed. 
18 inches to 3 feet. 6. Price, strong plants, 50c 
each; $5.00 per dozen. 
Digitalis (See Page 9) 
English of Gold Medal Hybrids. Extra choice seed¬ 
lings. The seed from which we grow our stock of 
these is procured from the best European specialists 
and produces the finest spikes of bloom, over 6 feet 
high with double and single flowers in all shades 
from the deepest indigo to the palest silvery blue. 
Wrexham Strain. (“The Hollyhock Delphinium.”) 
New. Without exception these are the most beautiful 
new Delphiniums to be had today. Their tall hand¬ 
some flower spikes of unusual size resemble from a 
distance Hollyhocks, hence the name “Hollyhock 
Delphinium.” 5 to 6 feet. 6-9. 
Belladonna. (Everblooming Hardy Larkspur.) The 
most beautiful sky-blue Larkspur of dwarf habit. 
Makes a grand border plant, producing numerous 
spikes of large single flowers. Flowers all summer 
until cut down by frost. 
Chinense. (Grandiflorum or Chinese Larkspur.) 
Fine feathery foliage and deep gentian blue flowers. 
2 feet. 7. 
-—album. A white flowered form. 2 feet. 7. 
Formosum. Deep gentian blue with white bee; 
long spikes. 18 inches to 2 feet. 6-8. 
*Dianthus— Hardy Pink 
From Greek, dios—divine, the name given by 
Theophrastus, and anthos—a flower; in allusion to 
the exquisite fragrance of the blossoms of most of the 
species, as well as from their unrivaled neatness and 
brilliancy. 
*Heddewigi Double Scarlet. (Japan Pinks.) Flowers 
very large and of the most brilliant scarlet. Excellent 
for rockery or front of hardy border. 6 to 9 inches. 
—Double White. White form of the above. 
*Dianthus Plumarius. (Hardy Garden or Pheasant 
Eye Pinks.) Old favorites, bearing their sweet- 
scented flowers in great masses during the entire 
summer; they are absolutely perfect for the front 
of the hardy border, and as cut flowers about the 
house they are inimitable. Grow to 1 foot in height. 
—Cyclops. Dark rose with crimson ring; very fine 
single flower. 
—delicata. Delicate soft rose; constant bloomer. 
—Her Majesty. Exceptional sized flowers of purest 
white. 
—Perpetual Snow. Everblooming large white flowers. 
—Scoticus. (Scotch Pink.) Double white, blotched 
with red. 
Dianthus Barbatus. (Sweet William.) Old garden 
favorites; no old-fashioned border is complete with¬ 
out their cheerful sweet-smelling and showy flowers. 
—Newport Pink. Watermelon-pink or salmon-rose. 
18 inches. 6-7. 
—Pink Beauty. Improved fine deep salmon pink 
color. 
—Scarlet Beauty. Rich deep scarlet, bright green 
foliage; very fine. 
—Double Crimson. Extra choice strain. 
PRICE FOR STRONG PLANTS OF ALL VARIETIES NAMED ON THIS PAGE, except where otherwise 
noted, 20 cents each; $2.00 per dozen; $15.00 per 100. No less than three plants of one variety furnished at dozen 
rates, or twenty at hundred rates. 
