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ILLUSTRATED DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE 
Dahlias. 
The Dahlia is the grandest Autumn flower we have. Nothing is its equal in any respect in Septem¬ 
ber and October. It is in its glory when everything else is faded or fading, and surrenders only 
to the Frost King. Put Dahlia tubers in the ground when the season becomes warm, covering 
the neck some three inches. If many shoots start, thin them out. After flowering, and before 
hard frosts, take up the plants, remove the tops, dry the bulbs a little, and put in the cellar unti* 
Spring, when they can be divided and replanted. Look at them occasionally to see that they 
are not shriveling from too dry an atmosphere, nor starting the eye early in consequence of too 
much moisture and warmth. The Dahlia is divided into three pretty distinct classes—the ordi¬ 
nary Snow Dahlia ; the Dwarf or Bedding Dahlia , making a thick, compact bush only eighteen 
inches in height, but with flowers of full size ; and the Pompon or Bouquet, with small, very per¬ 
fect flowers, only from one to two inches in diameter, while the plant is of nearly the common 
size. As the Dahlia is a Fall flower, there is no need of planting before the middle of May, or 
even later. 
Dicentra Spectabilis, or Dielytra (Bleeding Heart). 
A beautiful hardy border plant, with brilliant, rosy, heart-shaped flowers, hanging in great profu¬ 
sion from a gracefully curved stem. Mav and June. 
Feverfew (Pyrethrum). 
Fine, double Aster-like flowers in profusion. Very desirable; white, blush, rose, scarlet and crimson. 
Forget-me-not (Myosotis). 
Beautiful and popular small plants ; white, blue and yellow. May to August. 
Fox Glove (Digitalis). 
Long bell-shaped flowers, on stems three to four feet high ; white and red ; very showy. July to 
September. 
Fraxinella (Dictamnus). 
A strongly perfumed plant, with pretty spikes of white and reddish purple flowers in June. 
Hollyhock. 
There are very few plants in the world so grand, and yet so perfect and delicate as the Hollyhock. 
Its flowers are quite as double, and almost as pure and perfect as those of the Camellia, and 
when we remember that they mass around a column from three to five feet in height, we get 
some idea of th<^r beauty. Seeds sown in the Spring produce plants that will bloom the second 
Summer. Plants set out in the Spring will flower about mid-Summer, and for several years if 
not allowed to bloom too freely the first year. We have excellent, healthy young plants grown 
from seed, that if planted in the Spring will flower the first Summer, and usually for two or 
three Summers after. The colors are nicely assorted, so that almost every color, from white to 
purple, may be expected. 
Milfoil (Achillea). 
Low growing plants, with abundant, showy flowers ; white and red. June to August. 
Perennial Larkspur. 
The Perennial Larkspur, like their relatives, the Annuals, commonly called Larkspurs, are valuable 
plants, and in no other way can we get such a grand and constant display of blue flowers. For- 
mosum is a most brilliant dark blue, by all odds the finest blue flower known among our hardy 
plants. The Chinese are generally of lighter shades, from lavender to deep blue. 
Perennial Phlox. 
The flowers of the Perennial Phlox are immense masses of bloom from the purest white to crimsoa 
They grow to a height of two feet or more and are perfectly hardy. 
SUMMER AND AUTUMN FLOWERING BULBS, 
THAT REQUIRE TAKING Ul' IN THE FALL, AND TO BE KEPT FROM FRREZING. 
Amaryllis. 
FORMOSISSIMA (Jacobean Lily)—Flowers large, deep red. 
JOHNSONIA—Dull brick red, with a white star center. 
Boussingaultia. 
BASSILOIDES (Madeira Vine)—An old, well-known climber; a rapid grower, with thick, fleshy 
leaves and white flowers, grand for trailing in a porch, over a window, or in any place where 
you desire a beautiful green. 
■Gladiolus. 
These are among the most showy and brilliant of all bulbous plants. Nature is nowhere more lavish 
of her paint than upon the flowers of the Gladiolus. They should be planted out of doors in the 
Spring—never in the Fall, as the bulbs will not stand freezing. They are, however, excellent 
for window culture, planted in vases, either singly or in groups. 
Tigridias. 
SHELL FLOWER—One of our favorite Summer-flowering bulbs, of the easiest culture, displaying 
their gorgeous, tulip-like flowers of orange and scarlet, daily from July to October. 
CONCHI FLORA—Yellow. PAVONIA—Rf-d. 
