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RARE HARDY PERENNIAL PLANTS 
Achillea Crandlflora— A most useful and beautiful hardy 
perennial plant which furnishes a profusion of the choic- 
esfc double, white flowers all summer. It commences to 
bloom by the first of July and is a perfect mass of bloom 
until frost, as many as ;>,000 flowers having been counted 
upon the plant at one time. Flowers pure white, per¬ 
fectly double, and are produced in large sprays, and are 
unsurpassed for all sortsof cut-flower work,bouquets,etc. 
It is perfect! / hardy anywhere, and so vigorous that it 
will take care of itself among weeds. For cemetery 
planting there is nothing finer, for it is sure to live, thrive 
and bloom profusely year after year. The plants we 
send out will bloom profusely this summer. 
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 ea? of summer and during fall, when pure 
white flowers are scarce, makes it very valuable—in fact 
one of the finest novelies of the year. 
Mosquito Catcher Plant— This pretty plant, Vincetoxicum, 
comes from Japan. It grows one to two feet high and 
all summer bears 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 
the poor mosquito ! No struggling on his part can ever 
free him after he has once dipped his beak in the for¬ 
bidden sweets, though he may tug and pLunge and buzz 
for a day or two after. A single spray of bloom will 
capture a dozen mosquitos. 
Calystegla Pubescens— A fine double perennial Morning 
Glory. Variously called Rose Vine, Double Morning 
dlory, California Roses, etc. A hardy perennial vine, 
coming from the roots each spring, and bearing quanti¬ 
ties of pale satiny-pink flowers, as full and double as 
roses. Just the vine for rockeries, hanks, poor, hard soil, 
where nothing else will grow, or a hundred other places.^ 
where a really handsome trailing or climbing vine i§ 
n ®®ued that is able to take care of itself. The vines will 
will bloom the first season and wreathed in a profusion 
of large, double Rose-like blossoms are very attractive. 
Perennial Poppy —If there is a more gorgeous flower any ¬ 
where 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 sway. 
m & sl en der stem, high aliove the deeply-incised 
and handsome foliage. One of the most showy flowers 
Candytuft, Hardy —A plant of exquisite beauty, being of 
low, com nact. spreading growth and producing its pro¬ 
fusion of bloom in May or June 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. 
Lychnis Chat. fl. pi. —This is one of the most showy of 
hardy plants. It bears large heads of brilliant scarlet 
blossoms which are as double as roses. It is a^very rare 
plant, and few of our customers have ever seen it, but 
all would surely want it if they know its great beauty. 
Price, of these fine Hardy Perennial plants , soc. each; a/ny & 
for 50c , or the 7 for $l,oo. Any sort at $1.50 per dozen. 
12 HARDY PERENNIALS FOR $1.00. 
We have a very large collection of the choicest Hardy Peren 
nials and will send 12 different sorts for only $ 1 . 00 . 
