CATALOGUE OF PLANTS. 
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EVERBLOOMING TEA ROSES. 
I he I eas are lender, and require careful protection. They should not be planted out in spring until all danger 
of frost is passed. For parlor or conservatory culture they are unequalled. 
Bon Silene. Rosy-Carmine, shaded, free flowering, 
fragrant. 
Catherine Mermet. Bright silvery pink, fragrant. 
Cornelia Cook. Pale yellowish-white, large and full. 
Madam de Waterville. Salmon-white petals edged 
with bright rose. Very free flowering. 
Madam Hardy. Pine white, fine substance, full. 
Small plants 15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz. j 
Madam Hoste. Yellowish-white, centre deeper yellow; 
good form, very free blooming. 
Marie Van Houtte. White, tinged with yellow; large. 
Niphetos. Pale yellowish white, large buds. 
Perle des Jardins. Straw color, large and full. 
Safrano. Saffron and apricot, very beautiful. 
Waban. A sport of Catherine Mermet, which it r© 
sembles in every way except color; rich, clear pink 
Large Plants 30 cts. each, $3.00 per doz. 
HARDY ASTERS. 
We have in this class some of the most showy, as well as 
really beautiful and interesting flowering plants in cultivation. 
All are quite hardy, graceful in habit, and bear such profusion 
of flowers that they are invaluable in the garden, especially as 
they blossom when the scarcity of hardy flowers is most marked. 
The color of the flowers has the widest range. Will thrive in 
the grass or any rough spot and bloom freely the first season. 
A. Alpinus. 9 in. July. Bright purple. 
A. Amellus Bessarabicus. 2 ft. Rich purplish-blue flower*. 
with orange centre; one of the finest. 25 cts. 
A. Chapmanni. Numerous heads of small flowers of a light 
clear blue. 15 cts.; $1.50 doz. 
A. Horizontalis. Numerous branching stems smothered with 
red and white flowers; pretty, neat habit. 15 cts. 
A. Hybridus Nanus. 18 in. Smothered with bright pink and white flowers 
15 cts. 
A. Longifolius Formosus. 3 ft. October. A dwarf-growing variety, which is a 
cloud of very large, bright, rose-colored blossoms; a superb aster. 25 ct&. 
A. Novae Angilae. 4 ft. Our grandest American species, with thousands of big. 
violet-purple blossoms; a grand aster. 15 cts. 
A. Nova-Belgica, var. Lady Trevellyn. 4 ft! Sept., Oct. Large heads of pure 
white flowers, with yellow centres. 25 cts. each; $2 75 per doz. 
A. N. Roseus. 4 ft. A most charming variety of the above, with all shades 01 
rose and crimson. The most magnificent of all hardy asters. 25 cts. 
A. Ptermacoides. ii ft. August, September. Flat, open heads of pure whit© 
flowers; fine for cutting. 25 cts. each; $2.75 per doz. 
A. Sibericus. 9 in. Aug., Sept. The plant forms a perfect hemisphere, and it 
completely covered with clear pink flowers in autumn. 35 cts. each ; $3.75 doe. 
HELIANTHUS. — Perennial Sunflowers. 
These form a very important group of bold, showy autumn-flowering plants, 
H. Decapetalus. 5 ft. September to frost. Fine free-flowering form, with clear 
yellow flowers, immense panicles. 20 cts. each; $2.00 per doz. 
H. Lastiflorus. A grand perennial sunflower; flowers large and of a rich dark 
yellow color, the disc also being yellow. Extra strong clumps. 25 cts. 
H. Japonicus. This resembles in many respects H. rigidus , but is far the best of 
the two. The flowers are deeper in color, of a better formation, and about 
three weeks earlier in bloom. 20 cts. each; $1.50 per doz. 
H. Maximus. The Great Perennial Sunflower. An enormous growing variety, 
6 to 7 feet, producing immense golden flowers, almost as large as the annual 
species. This should be grown in every garden where sufficient space could be 
found for it. The Garden says : “ It is, in our opinion, the most beautiful of 
all sunflowers.” 25 cts. 
H. Plenus. This is the Double Perennial Sunflower, one of the most useful per¬ 
ennials we have. ?o cts. each; $2.00 per doz. 
H. Orgyalis. A remarkable species, 10 feet high, with foliage as long and narrow 
as willow leaves, and blooming latest of all, in October, at the tips, high up in 
the air. Exceedingly graceful and beautiful. 25 cts. 
H. Multiflorus Grandiplenus The true variety; a very superior form with flowers 
much brighter and better shape than Multijlorus Plenus . 25 cts. 
HOLLYHOCKS. — Breck’s Silver Medal Strain. 
This strain has been awarded a silver medal by the Massachusetts Horti¬ 
cultural Society, and always obtained the first prize wherever exhibited. No other 
collection can approach this in variety of shades of color, length of 6pikes, profusion and texture of flower* 
and foliage. 
We offer a fine lot of strong, healthy plants, in all shades of white, carmine, dark maroon, salmon, apple* 
blossom, light and dark crimson, rose, yellow, purple and variegated. 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.: $18.00 
per loo. 
See Special Offer on third page of cover. 
