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[Hardy Bog and Aquatic Plants—Concluded.] 
plants, similar to the preceding, except in being more dwarf and 
beautifully variegated. Succeeds in wet or dry soil. 75 cents 
each. 
♦Caltha Palustrir. (Marsh Marigold.) Flowers rich golden 
yellow in early spring. 20 cents each ; $2 per dozen. 
♦Cypripedium Spectabile. Of all the known terrestrial 
Orchids there is none to equal this glorious plant. The flowers 
are produced on leafy stems from one and one-half to two and one- 
half feet in height; the labellum is much inflated, and is of a deli¬ 
cate rose color, while the sepals and petals are white ; blooms 
during June and July. 30 cents each; 50 cents each for extra 
strong plants. 
♦Cypripedium Acaule. (Stemless Lady Slipper.) A handsome 
Orchid, producing flowers two inches in length, of a beautiful rose 
color, varying in shade to almost white; the flower stems, six to 
eight inches in height, issue from a pair of large ovate hairy 
leaves. 35 cents each. 
♦Cypripedium Pubescens. This plant is one of the easiest to 
cultivate, and can be grown in any ordinary shady border ; flowers 
yellow. 25 cents each. 
♦Gunnera Scabra. Immense foliage; needs protection in win¬ 
ter; an imposing subject for the margin of streams. $1.50 each. 
♦Iris Ksempferi. (Japan Iris.) Form grand subjects on margin 
of water. Mixed sorts, 20 cents each ; $2 per dozen. 
Myosotis Palustris Semperflorens. (Water Forget-me-not.) 
A very hardy, rapidly-spreading plant, producing its beautiful blue 
flowers all summer. A bog plant of the highest merit. 20 cents 
each ; $2 per dozen. 
Nelumbium Speciosum. (Egyptian Lotus.) This was culti¬ 
vated in Egypt in most ancient times, where its seed was known 
as the 14 Sacred Bean.” It is the sacred Lotus of India and China, 
and is also cultivated in Japan. This wonderful plant, though 
coming from such tropical and semi-tropical regions, has proved 
to be entirely hardy in this country. No aquatic plants have a 
more tropical aspect than the Nelumbium. It will flower the first 
season it is planted, and is constantly in bloom from July until late 
in October. It produces some leaves thirty inches across, on foot- 
stocks five and six feet in height, and flower stalks of a total length 
of five to seven feet. On their first appearance the flowers look 
like gigantic Tea Rose buds, of a bright rose color, next in form 
like a tulip, the base of the petals being creamy white, most beauti¬ 
fully and delicately shaded off toward the end of the petals into 
bright pink, and when fully expanded they measure from ten to 
thirteen inches. The plant is of a rambling nature, and when 
placed in the water spreads rapidly. It should not he planted until 
the weather becomes quite warm. Strong tubers, $2.50, and second 
size, $t.50 each. 
Nymphaea Flava. Leaves variegated with brown; flowers 
bright golden yellow and delightfully scented. 50 cents and $1 each. 
Nymphaea Odorata. The praises of our fragrant native Water 
Lily can never be too highly sung. Its lovely white flowers are 
worthy’ of a place beside the most costly exotics. Should be planted 
in rich mud, and the best way to plant it is by tying a small stone 
to it and simply throwing it in the water. 40 cents each for very 
strong plants; $4.00 per dozen. Medium-sized plants, 25 cents 
each ; $2.50 per dozen. 
♦Osmunda Claytoniana. (Flowering Fern.l A beautiful native 
Fern, distinct and effective. 25 cents each ; $2.50 per dozen. 
* Osmunda Regalis. (Royal Fern.) Forms gigantic specimens 
five feet high ; very effective on the margin of water or in wet soils. 
25 cents each ; $2.50 per dozen. 
Pontederia Cordata. A charming free-flowering plant, grow¬ 
ing from two to five feet high, producing spikes of closely-set blue 
flowers; blooming all summer in shallow water. 25 cents each. 
Pontederia Crassipes. A very interesting tropical aquatic. 
The leaf-stalk is very much swollen, or inflated, enabling the plant 
to float on the surface of the water. The flowers are large, of a 
purplish-lilac shade, and borne on spikes six to eight inches high. 
It flowers freely, and is a rapid, spreading grower. It is very orna¬ 
mental grown in a tub of water on the lawn. It is a native of Gui¬ 
ana, and not hardy, but it can be easily kept in the house in winter, 
in a jar of water, or grown in a pot, the same as a geranium, if the 
soil is kept very wet. 50 cents each. 
Saggitaria Saggitifolia. Arrow-shaped leaves, tall spikes of 
handsome white flowers. A beautiful native aquatic. 25 cents 
each ; $2 per dozen. 
* Saracenia Purpurea. (Native Pitcher Plant.) This pretty, 
curious little plant flourishes in the margin of shallow water. It 
is a prostrate species, having broad, winged pitchers veined and 
striped with crimson. 25 cents each ; $2 per dozen. 
* Spiraea Aruncus. A beautiful plant, producing long feathery 
panicles of innumerable small white flowers, forming a gigantic 
plume ; very graceful. 25 cents each ; $2.50 per dozen. 
* Spiraea Palmata. The crimson Japanese meadow plant. Very 
handsome. 25 cents each ; $2.50 per dozen. 
Typha Latifolia. (Cat Tail.) The well-known aquatic, com¬ 
mon to all marshy places ; increases rapidly. 20 cents each ; $2 per 
dozen. 
Clematis for Climbing or Bedding Purposes. 
Clematises are the most magnificent of all hardy climbers, and the uses to which they may be applied are exceedingly 
various. They may be trained up snaggy poles, either singly or several together, to form pillar plants, or they may be 
allowed to scramble over masses of rock work or root work. They may be festooned, or they may be trained over veran¬ 
das, or fastened to walls or trellis work, or led over ornamental iron supports as single standard specimens for lawns. In 
either way and in every way they are found to be thoroughly effective as flowering plants, many of them, indeed, and 
especially those of the true Jackmani type, being capable of producing a startling impression in consequence of the gor¬ 
geous masses in which their rich Tyrian hues are displayed. One of the most useful purposes to which these varieties of 
Clematis could be put would be to drape an unsightly bank or slope. They will grow in almost any situation if the soil is 
not absolutely deficient of food, or if the roots of other plants do not rob them of a fair supply of nutriment ; and in such 
situation nothing would be required but to throw down a few tree roots or rough branches for them to scramble over. 
Thus planted, a layer of manure worked in annually with the fork, and a supply of water in very dry weather would secure a 
good result. Again, they rank among the noblest of ornaments for low walls, trellises, etc., to which they must necessarily 
in the first instance be nailed or tied, but, once firmly fixed, they should be allowed to fall down in rich, picturesque masses. 
We will furnish the very best varieties of large-flowered Clematis—our selection of varieties—for $5.00, $6.00 and 
$7.50 per dozen, according to the varieties and size of plants. The prices given below are for strong two-year-old grafted 
plants. 
New Varieties. 
Beauty of Worcester. We saw this splendid Clematis growing securing a large stock. It possesses the singular merit of produc- 
in the grounds of the originator in England, and were so much ing both single and double flowers on the same plant. It is a large 
impressed with its great value that we made arrangements for and handsome six to eight pelaled flower of a lovely bluish-violet 
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