j. WILKINSON ELLIOTT, PITTSBURGH, PA. 
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HARDY PLANTS. 
(Herbaceous Perennials.) 
Until hardy plants come into general use we cannot hope for artistic, 
interesting and beautiful gardens in this country. People of taste and culture 
are realizing the ugliness of the stereotyped bedding with lines of color, and 
will no longer allow their lawns to be daubed with a flower garden like a 
colored lithograph, although many of our public parks are still guilty of this 
atrocious work. With the material offered in this list, the most beautiful and 
interesting gardens are to be made; gardens that increase in interest and 
beauty year after year; gardens that change their aspect with every change of 
season. To make a garden with hardy plants and shrubs requires far more taste 
and knowledge than it does to make one with the few varieties of bedding plants 
generally used, and the majority of gardeners do not have this knowledge and no 
idea, of proper arrangement. But the garden of hardy plants has this advantage, 
the individual beauty of the plants themselves is so great that a garden cannot fail 
to be interesting and lovely, no matter how badly arranged, if the cultural skill is 
sufficient to bring them to perfection. People desirous of having really fine gardens 
will find William Robinson’s book, the English Flower Garden, most helpful. It is 
the best and most comprehensive book ever written on gardening. Every plant 
and shrub worthy of consideration is described and cultural directions given; 
several chapters are devoted to the arrangement of gardens, and the book is 
profusely illustrated with pictures made in the best gardens m England. 11ns 
book is not generallv on sale, but can be ordered through any bookseller. 
Hitherto it has been impossible to get satisfactory varieties and plants of 
Perennials- in fact, no nursery in this country has had a satisfactory general stock 
of hardy plants, and I have had the greatest difficulty in getting the plants specified 
for my landscape gardening work, as this class of plants is extremely diflicult to 
import. The difficulty became so great and my work so hampered by the lack of 
plants to carry it out that I persuaded one of the most capable horticulturists m 
this country to start a hardy plant nursery and guaranteed the financial results. 
It is the intention to make this nursery a model of its kind and grow everything in 
hardy plants worthy of culture and to send out nothing but well-grown plants 
packed in the most careful manner. Most of the plants below are the offerings of 
this nursery. (The Springdale Nursery.) 
Polyanthus, or Cowslip. (See page 31.) 
SPECIAL OFFERS OF HARDY PLANTS IN VARIETY. 
The Springdale Nursery authorizes me to make the follow ing remarkably low prices for hardy plants. '11: 
best and most desirable varieties and the plants of the best quality, but in every instance the selection of vane 
by me, but if purchasers will state the things they have or don’t wish these will not be included in the selection. 
They w ill be of the 
ties is to be made 
-OFFER No. i OF HARDY PLANTS. Twenty-five first-class plants in variety for.$ 2 5 <> 
OFFER No. 2 OF HARDY PLANTS. Fifty first-class plants in variety for. 4 «» 
OFFER No. 3 OF HARDY PLANTS. One hundred first-class plants in varied assortment of 
best species and varieties for. 7 00 
OFFER No. 4. Five hundred Hardy Plants, same as above, but in larger variety, for. 30 00 
OFFER No. 5. One Thousand Hardy Plants, same ks above, but in much larger variety, for. 55 00 
DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF HARDY PLANTS. 
My general catalogue containing complete list of Hardy Plants with descriptions and prices will be sent free on request. 
