] \ Edward Gillett, SouthwicK, Massachusetts 
HARDY PERENNIALS 
HIBISCUS, Crimson Eye. Flowers large, pure white, with deep crimson eye. Very 
choice and new. Perfectly hardy either iit common garden soil or very wet places. 
15 cts. each, $1.50 per doz. 
HOLEYHOCKS {Althtpa rosea)^ Double. In separate colors, pink, canary-yellow, 
crimson, white, salmon and white with purple center. 15 cts. 
H.. Single. In mixed sorts. 15 cts. 
HOUSTONIA caerulea (Bluets). A little low biennial, 2 to 4 inches high, sparingly 
branchecl from the l)ase. Flowers small, delicate light blue, sometimes pale lilac or 
white, with a yellowish eye. Orows in tufts in open moist or grassy places. May. 
10 cts. each. $1 per doz. 
H. purpurea. 'Fwo to 6 inches high, with waxy w'hite Howers all summer. At home 
In the rock garden. 15 cts. each. per doz. 
HYDRASTIS Canadensis (Orange Root). Four to 10 inches high, sending up in early 
spring a stem, two-leaved at the top. terminated by a greenish white flower, follow'ed 
by red berries. Moist shades. Rare, to cts. each. $i per doz. 
HYPOXIS erecta(Star (jiass). A little w'ood plant, with grass-like leaves and rather 
large yellow flowers. 10 cts. each. per doz. 
IBERIS sempervirens (Candytuft). I'rom C'anada. Quantities of pure white flowers. 
One of the choicest for cutting. Hardy. 15 cts. each, $1.2$ per doz. 
IRIS (Flag). One of the most beautiful and finely tinted of all our garden flowers. Quite 
easy to grow, and for the most part likes a moist, deep rich soil in open sunlight. I'hey 
should be divided and replanted once in about three years, as they make such rapid 
root growth. 
I. cristata (Crested Iris). A little low species, no more than 2 or 3 inches high, found 
wild in the southern states. The flow-ers are light blue, marked with white. It is 
(juite pretty and forms nice clumps. Open border. Hardy. 10 cts. each, fi per doz. 
Iris Germanica (German Iris). This beautiful and varied Iris wdli thrive in almost any 
situation, yet it deliglits in a moist soil. Just above the water in a lake it sets off other 
plants to advantage. Colors ranging from yellow, white, red, blue, purple, etc. 
Mixed colors; dumps. 15 cts. each, ^1.50 per doz. 
Iris Kaempferi (Japan Iris). Double. 
Blue Jay. Fine large deep blue flowers, mottled and veined with white. 20 cts. 
Beth Hallock. Very large, delicate lavender, freely suffused with white. Dwarf habit; 
beautiful wavy petals; a very choice and desirable sort. 20 cts. 
Eclair. Pure white; very 
large and fine. 20 cts. 
each; large clumps, 
35 cts. 
Gold Bound. 'Fail and 
showy, with flowers very 
large; pure snow-white, 
with a large gold-banded 
center. 20 cts. 
Mahogany. VTry large 
flowers, deep mahogany 
red. 20 cts. 
Mr. Fell. White, with blue 
veins a n d center, and 
splashes of yellow. 20c. 
each ; large dumps, 
35 cts. 
Orion. Very tall ; pure 
white, each petal having 
a wide border of lilac- 
red. 20 cts. 
Romeo. Very large deep 
maroon flowers. 20 cts. 
each, large clumps, 
35 cts. 
