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NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PLANTS 
E. polychroma. $ Perennial to 1 foot, forming attractive clumps. 
Floral leaves bract-like, yellow, followed by orange-brown fruits, 40c; 
3 for $1.00. 
GERANIUM. Geraniaceae. Ordinary soil. A distinction should be 
kept in mind between the rank species, and those of small habit in 
keeping with the rock garden. 
G. atropurpureum. * A large species, low-growing, with a spread of 
two or three feet. Easily grown, flowering all summer, color deep 
purple or crimson. Splendid and distinct. 40c; 3 for $1.00. 
G. Lancastriense. * A tiny jewel with rose-pink blossoms and 
delightfully cut foliage. Less than six inches high in my garden, and 
seldom without a few flowers. Best in part shade. Clumps, 40c; 3, $1. 
G. nervosum.. *$ 12 inches; a profusion of white blossoms with 
thread- veins of violet; spread of 18 inches. 40c; 3 for $1.00. 
G. sanguineum album. 10 inches, much less invading than the color¬ 
ed form, neat flowers and foliage; an acquisition. 40c; 3 for $1.00. 
GEUM. Rosaceae. Avens. (Also known as Sieversia). Easily 
grown alpines for the rock garden in humus soil and part shade. 
G. ciliatum. *% Nearly like G. triflorum, with rosy pink flowers and 
tinted seed plumes. 30c; dozen, $2.50. 
G. Rossii. *t (Syn. G. turbinatum). Glossy pinnate foliage, turn¬ 
ing red in autumn, with 6-inch stems of yellow flowers. 30c; doz. $2.50. 
GILIA pungens. *i Syn. Loptodactyllon. Phlox family. A little tufted 
evergreen rock plantfor dry position; straw-yellow blossoms. Establish¬ 
ed clumps, 50c each. 
GILLEN I A. Rosaceae. American perennials to three feet with the 
graceful habit of the herbaceous spiraeas. Easy culture, ordinary soil. 
Either kind. 40c; 3 for $1.00. 
G. stipulacea. Finely cut foliage, leafy stipules, flowers rose-white. 
G. trioliata. Trifoliate and with small stipues. 
GLOBULARIA Cordifolia. t Blue flower-heads on 8-inch stems from 
a dark green rosette. Neat rock plant. 35c. 
HARDY FERNS. For shade, where flowering plants do not thrive. 
Humus soil. 
Dryopteris Filix-Mas. Colorado Male Fern. Two feet; grows in 
shaded places in the mountains in a moist humus soil. The large 
fronds form a vase-like clump, are of durable texture, half-evergreen, 
and thrives with ordinary care; the universal favorite for Colorado 
gardens. 35c; dozen, $2.00. 
Onoclea struthiopteris. Ostrich Fern. Vase-like clump of finely cut 
fronds. 35c; dozen, $3.00. 
Polystichum achrosticoides. Evergreen, hardy and one of the most 
satisfactory; known as the Christmas Fern. 35c; dozen $3.00. 
HARDY GRASSES. Several well known varieties, and one native, 
the Colorado Bunch Grass, for which I predict a brilliant future in the 
rock garden. 
Erianthus Ravennae, the hardy Pampus. Clumps 50c. Festuca 
glauca, low, with blue foliage, for edgings and borders; 30c; doz., $2.50. 
Miscanthus sinensis. (Syn. Eulalia Japonica) Offered in the follow¬ 
ing varieties: Gracillimus, foliage narrow, dark green; Variegatus, 
striped with creamy-white; Zebrinus, cross-banded yellow. Either 
variety, 30c; dozen, $2.50; clumps, 50c. 
