VERONICA. Speedwell. Beautiful hardy plants for either the border or 
the rockery, thriving in any soil and giving a constant succession of flowers 
from spring until frost. The dwarfer sorts make excellent cover-plants. 
V. longifolia, var. subsessilis. 2 feet; August to October; deep bright 
blue. The best of the large-growing varieties. 
V. longifolia, var. rosea. feet; June to August; rose. 
V. rupestris. Rock Speedwell. 8 inches; May and June; bright blue. 
This variety forms a thick, dense bush, with deep green foliage, and when in 
bloom is literally covered with its bright flowers. 
V. spicata. i % feet; June to September; bright blue. Flowers are 
borne in long spikes and continue for several weeks. 
V. spicata, var. alba, i feet; June to September; pure white. 
V. Virginica. 4 feet; August and September; pure white. The flowers 
arc borne in long spikes, often 18 inches in length. 
VINCA. Periwinkle. For covering bare spaces under trees, and as a 
cover-plant in the rockery this is not surpassed by any perennial. It is a dense, 
close, but rapid grower, the long, trailing shoots rooting at intervals and form¬ 
ing a dense, dark green carpet, which is lighted up by the showy flowers borne 
in profusion in the spring and occasionally throughout the summer. 
V. minor. 6 inches; May; bright blue. 
V. minor, var. alba. 6 inches; May; pure white. 
F erns 
Every place has some nook or corner where these beautiful plants can be 
used to good advantage. They are most at home in moist, shady spots, but these 
conditions arc not absolutely necessary, and we give below varieties that will 
thrive in the open border. A prime necessity is rich, loose and fine soil, full 
of humus or leaf-mold, such as ferns thrive in when they grow naturally. 
Hard, clay ground is not fit for ferns. 
('*) For shady places, (f) For the open border. 
*Adiantum pedatum. Maidenhair 
Fern. 
*Aspidium acrostichoides. Wood 
Fern. 
*A. Goldianum. Shield Fern. 
1 ‘Asplenium Filix-foemina. Lady 
Fern. 
:{: Botrychium Virginianum. 
Moonwort. 
tDicksonia punctilobula. Gossa¬ 
mer Fern. 
tNephrodium Filix-mas. Male 
Fern. 
tOnoclea struthiopteris. Ostrich 
Fern. 
tOsmunda gracilis. Flowering 
Fern. 
tO. Claytoniana. Flowering Fern. 
tPolypodium falcatum. 
' 5 'Woodwardia angustifolia. Chain 
Fern. 
