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SPRING CATA LOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1899. 
^HARDY PERENNIALS.^ 
These are all hardy plants which live in the garden year after year blooming every spring or summer 
with little or no care. They are exceedingly beautiful, while many of them are among the brightest gemso’f 
the floral kingdom. A s a rule,, they bloom early in the spring, when the garden is almost destitute of Bowers 
What garden is complete without the Sweet William, Digitalis, Delphinium, Aquilegia, Hollyhock etc ” Do 
not fail to sow seed of a good collection of these beautiful hardy plants this season ; they will be a joy for the 
rest of your lifetime. Sow seed in the open ground any time from May ist to the end of July J * 
Gai>dytUffc.(/^«J.) 
One of the very best early perennials, extra fine for 
cemetery use, as the plants are a solid mass of white at just 
the time when flowers are most scarce, and as the plants are 
perfectly hardy they need no fussing with: Those who have 
never grown the Iberis have missed a floral treat. 
Prultl —Dwarf, extra early and fine.10 & 20 
Sempervlrens barge flowering, pure white.5 ft 10 
Hibiscus, Hardy Hybrids. 
A fast growing perennial that in one season attains the 
height and dimensions of a shrub. Exceedingly fine for 
clumps or an ornamental hedge or screen, as they last al¬ 
ways, never winter kill, and in midsummer, when shrubbery 
flowers are scarce, they bear for weeks enormous flowers as 
large as tea saucers, white, blugh, pale and deep pink, rose, 
etc.; the most of them with deeper-hued eye. Plants from 
spring-sown seed will bloom in September.10 & 20 
Aquilegia. 
One of the best of the early summer perennials. Curious 
flowers, extremely graceful and beautiful, and borne in 
great quantities high above the foliage, which itself is very 
beautiful and attractive. Extra fine for cutting. Per pkt. 
Prize Mixture— This strain embraces more than one 
hundred varieties, double and single, and of all 
shapes and colors.5 & 10 
Chrysantha— Large golden yellow.10 & 20 
Ganqpaqhla. 
Beautiful plants for house or border culture. Large 
bell-shaped flowers, very cheerful and attractive. Sow seed 
early in open ground, cover lightly and thin plants to stand 
twelve inches apart. 
Double, Mixed Colors A fine strain.5& 10 
Coreopsis pjapceolata. 
Graceful and nrofuse blooming plant with large, strik¬ 
ing flowers of a brilliant golden yellow, and remains in 
bloom all summer. Its long wiry stems fit it admirably for 
bouquet making, while its golden cloud of blooms far above 
the foliage makes it a capital bedder.5 & 10 
Digitalis. 
One of our special favorites. This, with the double Holly¬ 
hock and the Delphinium, form a stately trio of tall-grow¬ 
ing plants than which nothing finer can be chosen for back¬ 
grounds, center of wide borders, interspersing with shrub¬ 
bery, etc. If plants are not allowed to seed, they are 
crowned for months by long pyramidal spidesof lovely pend¬ 
ant thimble-shaped bells, snow white, rosy blush, or exquis¬ 
itely shaded or spotted. The blooms are nearly or quite two 
inches in length, and lap each other with the utmost regu¬ 
larity. For the center of large bouquets they are almost 
equal to spikes of Gladiolus. 
Cloxinoldes Grandiflora—A strain with large, beauti¬ 
ful Gloxinia-like blossoms. Extra.5& 10 
Delphinium. 
One of the choicest perennials known, and increases in 
beauty each* year. Tall, stately growing, with immense 
spikes of the most brilliant flowers in all shadesof lavender, 
mauve, pale, medium and deep, dark blues. Sow seeds in 
autumn or very early in spring, and plants will bloom the 
first summer. Very hardy: Give half shade. 
Mixed Colors—All sorts.5 & 10 
