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Very closely related to the Picotcc and Carnation, but 
smaller flowers and more hardy. Flowers very beauti¬ 
ful and fragrant. Seed may be sown under glass or in 
the garden. Nothing prettier for a button-hole flower. 
Plants are hardy until they become old. It is best to 
keep a few young plants coming on. Treatment same 
as Carnation. 
Pink, best double, mixed colors. 25 
flower a long time. The plant is a little difficult to keep 
over winter, but generally proves quite hardy m a dry 
place A wet situation is sure to destroy them in winter , 
causing decay at the surface of the ground. With this 
exception, there are few plants easier of culture. 
Ipomopsis, mixed varieties,. 5 
LINUM. 
Every one is acquainted with 
our common Flax, which is a 
Linurn. There arc several va¬ 
rieties of ornamental Flax well 
worthy of culture, however, 
which few people know. 1 he 
plants are very graceful, the 
foliage and stems delicate, and 
the flowers seem floating in 
the air. Seeds may be sown 
either under glass or in the 
garden. 
Linum perenne, blue, . . . 
perenne album, white, . . 
perenne roseum, beautiful rose-colored, ... 5 
luteum, yellow, . 10 
Narbonese, splendid, . IO 
Mixed varieties, . 5 
PINK. 
PENTSTEMON. 
The Pcntstcmon is one of the best of the perennial 
border plants. The very pretty long-tubed flowers grow 
in panicles, and are purple, blue, scarlet, rose and white. I 
Seeds may be sown in May, in a cool, shady place, or 
under glass. Flowers of different varieties present a 
great difference in appearance, some being very open 
and others tubular. 
Pentstemon, mixed varieties. 10 
PICOTEE. 
Very much like the Carnation, as tine and more deli¬ 
cate in its coloring. Seed sown in the open ground in 
May or June, will flower well the next season ; started 
under glass earlier, by fall will make strong plants. 
Treatment like the Carnation. Some of the plants grown 
from seed will prove single, and these can be pulled up 
and thrown away as soon as they show their flowers; 
but enough plants with good flowers will be usually pro¬ 
duced to give a very good collection from a paper or two 
of seed. Sow seed in spring or early summer, so as to 
have good strong plants by autumn. Throw a few 
boughs or straw on the plants to shelter them a little 
from winter storms. 
Picotee, German seed, from named flowers only, . 25 
Italian seed, saved from prize flowers only, . . 50 
PEAS, PERENNIAL. 
Perennial Peas are perfectly hardy in this climate, die 
down to the ground every winter and start again in the 
spring. Grow ten or more feet in height. 
Perennial Peas, all varieties mixed,. 10 
