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FREDERICK W. KELSEY. 
GYNERIUM ARGENTEUM. 
Pampas Grass. The finest of the ornamental 
grasses, growing 6 to io feet high; large white 
plumes in autumn. A superb lawn plant; requires 
protection in this latitude. 
GYPSOPHILA. 
Chalk Plant. Small white flowers. Acuti- 
folia, Paniculata and Repens are the best va¬ 
rieties. j J 
HELENIUM. 
Sneeze wort. Large orange-colored flowers in 
August. 
HELIANTH US. 
Sunflower. Hardy and free blooming from 
July to October. Decapetalus, Maximiliani, 
Multiflorus Flore Plena, Orgyalis, Soeil d'or 
represent the best varieties. 
H ELIOPSIS. 
Ox-Eye. Somewhat like a sunflower. Orange- 
colored flowers. Laevis and Pitcheriana are 
the best varieties. 
HELLEBORUS. 
Christmas Rose. Very valuable, for cutting 
purposes. Requires a shady position and moist 
soil, and when covered with a frame in winter 
will flower at Christmas. 
HEMEROCALLIS. 
Day Lily. Lily-shaped flowers of coppery red 
and yellow. Flava, Fulva, Graminea and 
Kwanso Flore Plena and the choicest and best- 
known sorts. 
HESPERUS. 
Sweet Rocket. One of the finest hardy herba¬ 
ceous plants. Double white and purple fragrant 
flowers in June. 
HIBISCUS. 
Rose Mallow. Handsome foliage and beautiful 
showy flowers, both white and rose in color. The 
varieties are Coccineus, Grandiflorus, Albus, 
Roseus, Militaris, Moscheutos Crimson Eye. 
HOLLYHOCKS. 
Superb collections of the finest double varieties 
and most brilliant colors. Strong flowering two- 
year roots, $3 to $5 per dozen. Special low prices 
per ioo. Allegheny strain of varieties. Fine 
large-fringed flowers in various colors. 
HYPERICUM. 
See Deciduous Shrubs, page 45. 
IBERIS. 
Candytuft. Evergreen foliage, with numerous 
beautiful heads of white flofers. Two fine varie¬ 
ties, Gibraltarica and Sempervirens. 
IRIS GERMANICA. 
Showy broad-leaved Iris. Hardy and fine. 
Strong flowering roots, $2 per dozen; $5 to $10 
per 100. 
IRIS LAEVIGATA or K/EMPFERI. 
This beautiful Japanese species is the finest of 
all the hardy Iris. Perfectly hardy and easily 
grown everywhere. _ Flowers extra large, 6 to 8 
inches in diameter; in various tints of purple, lav¬ 
ender, blue, shaded with yellow straw color, and 
light shades, tinted, edged and penciled with 
dark rich colors, making very beautiful and ef¬ 
fective combinations. In borders they give a mass 
of bloom for several weeks during June and July, 
when few flowers are out. I offer a superb collec¬ 
tion of the choicest double and single varieties, in¬ 
cluding the newer named sorts, the best of’ my 
importations. The newest and best, strong flower¬ 
ing clumps, $5 per dozen. Selection of choice 
named kinds, $3 per dozen. Good strong roots, 
not named, but desirable colors, from $10 to $20 
per 100. 
IRIS PUMILA. 
See Hardy Alpine Plants, page 67. 
LATHYRUS. 
Perennial Pea. _ Very desirable climbing 
plants, fine for covering roots of trees; flowers in 
great profusion during the summer. 
LIATRIS. 
Blazing Star. Desirable border plants, with 
long, dense spikes of rose, blue and purple flow¬ 
ers. Best varieties. 
LI LI U M. 
Lilies. See Hardy and Forcing Bulbs, 
page 68. 
LOBELIA. 
Cardinal Flowers. Fine, long, brilliant scarlet 
flower spikes in August. One of the most valu¬ 
able herbaceous plants. Cardinalis and Fulgens. 
LOPANTHUS. 
Giant Hyssop. About 2 feet; flowers laven¬ 
der-blue in June. 
LOTUS. 
Bird’s Foot Trefoil. A very desirable trailing 
plant, with dark foliage. 
Lupine. 
flowers. 
LUPINUS. 
Handsome spikes of blue or purple 
LYCHNIS. 
Ragged Robin. Flowers in June, sending up 
spikes of handsome, fragrant red blossoms, re¬ 
maining for six weeks in bloom. Forms a thick 
tuft of evergreen foliage. Chalcedonica and 
Haageana. 
LYSIMACHIA. 
Creeping Moneywort. See Trailing Vines 
for Shaded Places, page 60. 
MALVA. 
Mallow. Large oak-like foliage, handsome 
plants with white and pink flowers in June and 
July. 
MITCHELLA. 
Of compact and creeping habit. See Trailing 
Vines for Shaded Places, page 60. 
MONARDA. 
Osewego Tea. Bright red flowers about mid¬ 
summer. Very showy and fine. Fragrant. 
MONTBRETIA. 
Reddish orange, flowers in August; form fine 
bushy clumps. The best varieties. 
MYOSOTIS. 
Forget-Me-Not. Beautiful, half hardy blue 
flowers in spring. 
PyCONIES. 
Th<se are among the finest of all the herbaceous 
plants. They are perfectly hardy, and being en¬ 
tirely free frorn disease or insects, require when 
once planted, little or no care; improving in 
