'Edlpard Gillett, Southlvick, TIass.Sog Garden 
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SARRACENIA purpurea (Pitcher Plant). This plant usually 
sends up a single flower-stalk 6 to i8 inches high, bearing a 
single, deep purple flower an inch or more broad. Leaves 
pitcher-shaped, curved, ascending, 2 to 6 inches in length, 
greenish with purple veins, or reddish purple. Plant in a wet 
place, keeping moss around the plant. 'Phe Sarracenias are 
all fine bog-plants. 15 cis. each, $1.25 per doz. 
S. flava (Trumpet-Leaf). Flowers and leaves yellow, the former 4 
to 5 inciies wide, leaves 2 feet long. This is one of the best 
fly-catchers; often hundreds of insects are found in a single 
pitcher. This is an easy one to grow in the bog. 15 cts. each, 
S1.50 per doz. 
S. Drummondii. Leaves 2 feet long, beautifully variegated; flow¬ 
ers 3 inches wide. Give this .some protection through the 
winter. 25 cts. each, $2.50 per doz. 
S. psittacina (Parrot-beaked Pitcher Plant). Quite small and rare. 
25 cts. each, $2.50 per doz. 
S. rubra (Red-flowered Trumpet - Leaf). Pitchers red-veined; 
flowers reddish purple. 20 cts. each, $2 per doz. 
S. variolaris. smaller species from Georgia, with taller and 
more slender leaves. 20 cts. each, $2 per doz. 
SCIRPUS atrovirens (Marsh Sedge), i to 3 feet high. Fine for 
moist or wet places. 15 cts. each, $i per doz. 
SYMPLOCARPUS foetidus. This is one of the earliest of the 
spring flowers. The covering for the yellow flowers is 
dull purple, showing above ground before the frost is 
gone. The large green leaves appear later and attain a height of i to 3 feet. 20 cts. 
each, $1.50 per doz. 
TYPHA latifolia (Cat-Tail). .\ plant found in wet places, growing 2 to 4 feet high. lA'aves 
long, grass-like. Flowers grow in a spike. Good for wet. marshv places or quite moist 
soil. For ma.ssing, plant 2 feet apart. 20 cts. each, $1.50 per doz. See illustration on 
fourth page of cover. 
VERATRUM viride (American White Hellebore). Thrifty plants with large, broad green 
leaves, nearly a foot long. It grows 2 to 4 feet high, bearing many small, yellow or 
greenish flowers at the top. At home in a moist or wet, black peaty soil. 20 cts.; seeds, 
5 cts. 
Shrubs Desirable for a Wet Place 
These can be planted where it is quite wet, or they will grow in any moist garden soil. 
Most of them are desirable for growing in masses. The following arc usually found growing 
this way: Andromeda polijoU<ty Cassandra calyculala, and Ledum latijolium. 
Andromeda polifolia, i ft. 
Azalea viscosa, 4 to 10 ft. 
Cassandra calyculata, 
I ft. 
Cephalanthus occident- 
alis, 4 ft. 
Gaylussacia resinosa, 2 
ft. 
Ilex verticillata, 5 ft. 
Kalmia angustifolia, i ft. 
Kalmia glauca, 2 ft. 
Ledum latifolium, i ft. 
Nemopanthes Canaden¬ 
sis, 4 ft. 
P5TUS arbutifolius, 5 ft. 
Rhodora Canadensis, 2 ft. 
Vaccinium stramineum, 
3 ft. 
Vaccinium corymbosum, 
5 to 10 ft. 
Sarracenia rubra 
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