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SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1898- 
Calyategla Pubescons- 
A fine double perennial 
Morning Glory. Vari¬ 
ously called Rose Vine, 
Double Morning Glory, 
California Rose, etc. A 
hardy perennial vine, 
coming from the roots 
each spring, and bearing 
quantities of pale satiny- 
pink flowers, as full and 
double as roses. Just 
the vine for rockeries, 
banks, poor, hard soil, 
where nothing else will 
grow, or a hundred other 
places, where a really 
handsome trailing or 
climbing vine is needed 
that is able to take care 
of itself. The vines we 
send out will bloom the 
first season and continue 
all summer. Its long 
vines wreathed in a pro¬ 
fusion of large, double 
Rose-like blossoms are 
very attractive. 
Statice, or Thrift— This 
is a dainty little plant, 
forming compact tufts 
of narrow green foliage, 
which makes it particul¬ 
arly valuable ror edg¬ 
ing. The flowers are a 
clear bright pink, and 
borne in clusters on tall 
stems. It blooms all summer long, and is a very 
pretty, desirable and useful flower, really the best of all 
hardy plants for edging walks, beds, etc. 
Eulalias—Elegant ornamental grasses, growing ten feet 
high, with beautiful foliage and large feathery plumes. 
We have three varieties—Zebrina, Japonica and Gracil- 
lima. Should be in every garden. 
Mountain Fleece— One of the latest bloomers we have, 
flowering with the Chrysanthemum. Its great sprays of 
feathery white bloom are not only pretty in the garden, 
but are in great demand for all sorts of floral work. 
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Wav Lily, Large Blue— Lovely blue flowers on tall spikes. 
Variegated Leaved —Leaves as handsome ns a flower. A 
rosette-cluster of almost white leaves light!v striped 
with green and yellow. Flowers pretty pale lilac-blue 
on tall spikes. Fine also for pots. Altogether this is 
one of the very finest (certainly one of the most attrac¬ 
tive and ornamental) of all hardy plants. 
Large White— Pure in color as the driven snow, as smooth 
in texture as though cut. from sheeted wax. 
Splrea FI 11 pend u la —Grows two feet high, with large feath¬ 
ery plumes of the most charming white blossoms. 
Spirea Etegans —Pure white, in large, compact spirals. 
Splrea Ulmaria- Fine foliage and elegant flowers. 
•Platycodon Crandiflora —A lovely free blooming plant. 
See page 69. 
Aweet Mary This plant was known in olden times only as 
Sweet Mary, producing an abundance of beautiful leaves 
all summer, which are indispensable for bouquets and 
cut flowers. This lovely old plant has almost gone out 
of cultivation, and we know that many of our customers 
will thank us for re-introducing it. 
Mosquito Catcher Plant— This pretty plant,Vincetoxicum, 
comes from Japan. It grows one to two feet high and 
all summer bearing a profusion of pretty, white, star-like 
blossoms that secrete a viscid fluid that attracts mos¬ 
quitoes and sometimes other insects as well. Alas for 
tlie poor mosquito 1 No struggling on his part can ever 
free him after he has once dipped his beax in the for¬ 
bidden sweets, though lie may tug and plunge and buzz 
for a day or two after. A single spray of bloom will 
capture a dozen mosquitos. 
Anemone, Whirlwind— A variety of the beautiful old A. 
Japonica, but with large, semi-double blossoms of a snow- 
white color. It possesses a beauty and airy grace which 
is seen in but few flowers, and its great profusion of 
bloom at the end or summer and during fall, when pure 
white flowers are scarce, makes it very valuable—in fact 
one of the finest novelies of the year. We regret we are 
unable to give it more space, as all should posses it. 
Candytuft, Hardy —A plant of exquisite beauty, being of 
low, compact, spreading growth and producing its pro* 
fusion of bloom in May or Juno when pure white flowers 
are particularly scarce. Its profusion of bloom is so 
great that a bed of it looks at a little distance like a mass 
of fleecy snow just fallen. Few hardy plants will give as 
much real satisfaction as will this beautiful gem. Lift¬ 
ed late in the fall, it will bloom well in the house during 
winter. Perfectly hardy and foliage ever green. 
Hardy Pinks Magnificent early-blooming garden flowers, 
which are always greatly admired, botli for their deli¬ 
cate beauty and perfume. 
Her Majesty— A compact and healthy grower with beauti¬ 
ful and distinct foliage. Flowers a lovely clear white in 
color, very double, and produced on long, stiff stems, 
exhaling an exquisite clove-scented fragrance; rivaling 
the finest Carnation in size and substance. 
Anne Boleyn Like the above, but a rich pink, with dark¬ 
er center, a most charming combination of color. 
Hardy Marguerites— A popular daisy-like flower, largely 
grown now for cutting and wearing. Graceful and mod¬ 
est, and very profuse, blooming a long time each season 
White (Pyrethum XJligenosum ). Large white flowers with 
a golden center. A fine late summer and fall flower. 
Colden Large golden yellow flowers in great profusion. 
A fine contrast to the white variety. 
• Yucca Fllamentosa — Tin: st at •! v dumps of si ifl 
like leaves, bristling out f 1 om the center in every direc¬ 
tion, are extremelv ornamental. Flower stalks are 
thrown up as high as a man’s head, and bear at their 
summit immense compound panicles of creamy bell- 
J shaped flowers, each flower two inches across. 
