SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1898. 
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4^ardy Perennial "Plants. 
The earth wears a crown of Floral localities, and among the brightest, richest and sweetest are the 
Hardy Perennials, They fill a place in our gardens, and in our hearts, which nothing else can supply. 
Tike Flowering Shrubs, wlieu once planted they are good for a life-time, /Jiid w*e come to regard them as 
apart not only of our home, but our very existence. What would induce us to part with the grand old 
clumps of Pueonies, Filies, Iris, etc., which have stood along the path in our front yard so long, and 
greeted us year after year with such cheery brightness and beauty r ? 7 hey have cheered us through many 
vicissitudes and dark hours of life. They were loved by dear ones whose voices we hear no more; their 
blooming calls to our minds dear associations, happy day's and happy faces which Time, the great 
Destroyer, has stolen from us. Yes, let us enrich our little yard, our little lawn, our borders and wall 
with these dear flowers which will be our friends and companions for evermore. 
The list of Hardy Perennials here presented we have collected together with great care, having in 
view one special object, viz.: to supply the best varieties and best plants at a smaller cost than they can be 
had elsewhere in the world. We feel sure that we have succeeded, and that our customers will not let this 
season pass without adding many of these treasures to their homes. They are all perfectly r hardy anywhere, 
and thrive and bloom .year after year with little or no care after once well planted. 
Pereqqial poppy. - ( Fire Bra nd.) 
If there is a more gorgeous flower anywhere than the 
Perennial Poppy we fail to know it. The most indifferent 
observer stands spell-bound in the presence of its magnificent 
fire-like scarlet flowers with their silken texture and foil-like 
heart or innumerable purple-black stamens. Each bloom is 
as large as a saucer, and sits perched like a bird on the end 
of a swaying, hairy, slender stem, high above the deeply- 
incised and handsome foliage. Manv consider it the most 
showy flower that blooms. 20c. each; 3 for 50c. 
H ardy Pyre thru xp—( Snoiu Ball?) 
One will go along way before he will see so desirable a 
hardy perennial plant as this. It is perfectly hardy, living, 
flourishing and blooming year after year. Its foliage is 
fern-1 ike, lying in a beautiful tuft upon the ground. The 
flower stems are long, wiry and graceful, springing from the 
crown of the plant in great numbers, and each having an 
enormous flower as white as snow and double and perfect to 
the center. Flowers often 3 or 4 inches across, and beautiful 
beyond expression. It blooms most profusely in .Tune, when 
rare and beautiful gemsaro scarce. 30c. each; 4 for $1.00. 
Peeoities, 
. The favorite of to-day, as it was fifty years ago. Lux¬ 
urious foliaged plants with magnificent doxible, incurved 
flowers of enormous size and rich colorings. Nothing can 
surpass the intensity of the dark varieties, that fairly glow 
with a radiant fire of richness, while the white and pale 
varieties are very soft and delicate in their coloring, and all 
deliciously fragrant. 
Fragrans— Fine rich pink with an exquisite perfume. 
Large and double. 2V-. each. 
Double Blush—Beautiful light blush white. Exquisite 
fragrance and great beauty. 25o. 
Double Scarlet—Large doix- 
blo scarlet Pceony. A grand! 
flower. 30c. 
Tenu ifol I um— Fine-cut, ferix— 
like foliage of exquisit® 
beauty, and blooms in Mayi. 
Rich, fiery scarlet. 20c. 
Tenulfolium Double — Lift® 
the above, with large doubT® 
blossoms. 35c. 
Humulls Single —Laige pur¬ 
ple rose, blossoms very early 
in spring. Extra. 20c. 
Mixed Pceonles— Ten sorts. 
$1.25 per dozen. 
.Japanese Tree Paeoples. 
Tho most magnificent flower 
one can have in May. The new 
sorts which we imported a few 
years ago bear flowers more 
than a foot across, very double 
and of tho brightest color, 
from white to intense scarlet, 
pink, mottled, variegated. etc. 
Wo Have over 30 named kinds. 
$1.00 each; $10.00 per dozen, by 
express. They are too large to 
mail, and will bloom next 
spring. 
