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VIOLA cornuta ^Horned Violet;. 
V. rostrata (Long-beaked Violet). 
Veronica spicata. 
ground; flowers greenish outside, 
$1.50 per doz. e. 
10 cts. each, $1 per doz. b. 
Pale blue and violet flowers. 12 cts. each. b. 
V. blanda. Is the small, nearly white, sweet- 
scented Violet of our moist meadows. 12 cts. 
each. b. 
V. can in a , var. Muhlenbergii. Is a blue-flow¬ 
ered species about 5 inches high. 10 cts. each. b. 
VERONICA paniculata. Amethyst-blue flowers 
in loose, many-flowered racemes. 3 feet high. 
South Europe. 12 cts. each, 2 for 20 cts. c. 
V. incana. Has racemes of light blue flowers. A 
low species as compared with some. Russian. 
15 cts. each, 2 for 25 cts. c. Seeds, 5 cts. per pkt. 
V. spicata. Bright blue flowers, in a dense spike. 
Europe. 12 cts. each, -Si per doz. c. 
V. gentianoides. Has pretty racemes of pale blue 
flowers. 10 cts. each, Si per doz. d. 
V. longifolia. 2 feet high ; flowers lilac. Central 
Europe. 10 cts. each, Si per doz. d. 
V. longifolia subsessile. 20 cts. each. d. 
YUCCA fllamentosa (Adam’s Needle, or Bear 
Grass). 4 to 8 feet high when in flower. Leaves 
form a rosette at the base 1 to 2 feet long ; flowers 
in long, branching panicles, creamy white; often 
200 per plant. Is well suited to city dooryards or 
for the lawn. 15 cts. each. e. 
Y. angustifolia. A handsome and hardy species, 
having shorter and narrower leaves. These num¬ 
ber 100 or more in a dense, rigid rosette near the 
2 to 2K inches long ; 30 to 40 in a terminal raceme. 15 cts. each, 
Hardy Terrestrial Orchids. 
This charming group contains some of the most showy hardy plants in cultivation. The Cypri- 
pediums, for example, are some of them—very easy to manage, and exceedingly attractive when in 
flower. No class of plants has more admirers, and all who have had the pleasure of seeing them 
growing well have been struck with the lovely and varied coloring of some of this family. To see them 
growing in their habitat, where nature has placed them, is a treat which comparatively few can enjoy, 
but with a little trouble we may have the pleasure of their flowers at home in our gardens—a treat well 
worth its cost. The Cypripediums and some others are suited to pot-culture, and, with now and then an 
exception, force well, 
Treatn)ei}t. 
( 7 f.) Plenty of moisture, In peat and loam and in the shade; answer very well for bog-plants. 
(.r.) Always moist loam, peat and leaf-mold ; well-drained, shadv situations. 
(~.) Good yellow, sandy loam, leaf-mold, partly shaded and moderately moist. 
APIjEOTRUM; liyomulo (Adam and Eve, or Putty Root). Or.) One of our native Orchids, which is 
not as showy as some, but quite interesting on account of its manner of growth. The root is com¬ 
posed of two or more connected bulbs, from which comes, late in autumn, a single dark green leaf. 
Pills lasts until the next spring, and dies down about the time of flowering, or soon after; very 
hardy. The flowers are borne on stems about a foot high ; greenish brown, flecked with white and 
purple ; more curious than showy. 15 cts. each, $1 per doz. b. 
