PENTSTEMON. 
An excellent herbaceous border 
plant, growing from eighteen inches 
to two feet high, and continuing in 
bloom nearly all summer. The flow¬ 
ers are an inch across, Gloxinia¬ 
shaped, and of various colors, with 
an open tube or throat two inches long. 
The throat is nearly always lighter in 
color tha.i the rest of the flower, 
which makes them very showy and 
attractive ; nearly hardy here. The 
roots should be taken up and put in 
earth in the cellar in winter, or pro¬ 
tected with a cold frame. Further 
south they can be left out with safety. 
The following are mostly English hy¬ 
brids, and arc selected from a long list of varieties for 
their beautiful coloring and fine, shapely flowers. 
Pentstemon. Sets of ir sorts for £2.00; each 25 cents. 
Decasaine, sulphur, pink-tinted. 
Euclid, crimson, feathered purple. 
Livingston, carmine, white throat. 
Md. Christine, purple, with striped throat. 
Robert Heggett, carmine, white throat. 
Donald Beaton, crimson, white throat. 
Mons. Parette, purplish black, blush tube. 
Rubra Magnifica, red and white. 
St. Paul, magenta crimson. 
Tom Pouce, blush, shaded crimson. 
Miss Sterry, bright pink, white throat. 
PRIMROSE. 
ROSES. 
TEA HOSE. 
No garden, however small, is complete without Roses. 
The Rose stands, as it has stood for years, Queen 
of the Flowers. With a proper selection of kinds, we 
can have our Roses from June till heavy frosts come 
with withering touch. First of all we give the ever- 
blooming class, comprising Teas, Noisettes, Chinas and 
Bourbons. Even so far north as this they give us better 
satisfaction than any other class of Roses, — first, on 
account of their free blooming qualities ; then their ex¬ 
quisite fragrance and delicate colors. Some are almost 
hardy here, and do well if slightly protected with lcavfcs 
or straw, while a little further south they stand the win¬ 
ters with no protection whatever. If the plants arc 
taken up in the fall and trimmed back, and put in earth 
in a box, in a cool cellar, with just water enough to keep 
them from shriveling, they will come out fresh in the 
spring, and start into bloom in a very short time. As 
pot plants in winter, those should be selected that are 
adapted to the purpose. These should be kept in pots 
through the summer, in a partly shaded situation, care 
being taken that they do not root through the bottom of 
the pot. Keep the buds picked off through the summer. 
All Roses delight in a rich, generous soil. 
The Hybrid Perpetual Class are entirely hardy, and 
through their blooming season, in June, give us a show 
of brilliant colors unequaled by any class of plants. In 
the spring cut them back pretty close, and they will 
send up new shoots from th^ roots, which will make a 
ver'y strong growth and give abundance of bloom. 
Moss Roses , like the above, arc hardy and bloom ir. 
June, and occasionally through the summer. 
Climbing Roses arc perfectly hardy, blooming early 
in the summer, and when in a rich soil soon covering 
any arbor or porch. It is a very pretty plan to bud 
some of the Hybrid Perpetual class upon the branches of 
the climbers, and thus secure flowers a long time. 
All Roses should be showered frequently with whale 
oil soap spds, to keep them free from insects, otherwise 
the plants will look as if scorched by fire or seered by 
frost. 
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