DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 
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Lantana, 
Flowers are light blue, pure white, and the most intense 
violet-purple of any annual in cultivation—the richest 
color imaginable. A good plant for mixed beds and 
borders. Hardy annual ; six inches high. 
Kaulfussia, amelloides, bright blue . 5 
“ amelloides, alba, new; pure white .1... 5 
“ “ atroviolacea, the richest violet 
color of any annual in cultivation . 5 
44 fine mixed. • • ■ . 5 
LAGURUS-(Ornamental Grass). 
Useful for forming bouquets for winter decoration. 
The heads bear a resemblance to a hare’s tail, and it is 
sometimes called Hare’s Tail Grass. It is a perfectly 
hardy annual, and will grow in any common soil. 
Lagurus, ovatus, curious and ornamental; one foot 5 
LANTANA. 
These plants are rapid growers, forming small, hardy 
shrubs, and producing their pink, yellow, orange, white, 
constantly changing heads of flowers in great abund¬ 
ance, which have an agreeable, aromatic perfume. Any 
loamy soil suits them, and they are readily increased by 
-cuttings, in sand, in heat. 
Lantana, finest French hybrids mixed, all colors..10 
“ alba magna, pure white ; one foot. --..is 
“ imperatrice Eugenie, rosy lilac; two feet... .xo 
Larkspur, double. 
LARKSPUR—(.Delphinium). 
The Larkspur is one of the handsomest and most use¬ 
ful of plants, and for large gardens is invaluable. The 
leaves are much div't^d. and the flowers in terminal 
j spikes. The bnllian: v oi some of the colors is unsur¬ 
passed. Easily propagated by seed, or by dividing the 
roots; delights in a deep, ricn soil, and should be sown 
in August or September. 
Delphinium, ajacis (Double Dwarf Rocket 
Larkspur), hardy annual ; ten inches ; twelve 
kinds mixed . 5 
44 cardiopetalum, deep blue; heart shaped. 
Hardy ai.nual; from the Pyrrcnees; one and 
a half feet high. 5 
44 elatum, (Bee Larkspur), has hairy petals in 
the center, and a fancied resemblance to a bee. 
Hardy perennial; five feet high. . 5 
44 grandiflorum album, large, double white flow¬ 
ers. Hardy perennial; four feet high.10 
44 formosum, rich blue and white. Hardy per¬ 
ennial ; three feet high. 5 
44 consolida candelabrum fl. pi., a new type of 
annual larkspur, growing in the form of a 
branched candlestick ; flowers double, and of 
various colors, very showy . 10 
* 4 Hendersoni, remarkably fine, large, richly col- 
colored blossoms ; hardy annual . 10 
44 nudicaule, a splendid novelty, eighteen inches 
high, with scarlet flowers ; fine for rockeries, 
flower borders or pot culture ; hardy biennial. 10 
44 mathiolaeflorum nanum (Dwarf Stock- 
flowered, ten brightest colors mixed . Long 
spikes of perfectly double blossoms in all colors. 
Hardy annual ; one foot high . 5 
Leptosiphon. 
