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HARDY PERENNIALS 
CARD AMINE pratensis (Cuckoo Flower). Plants quite slender, yet with pretty heads 
of small white or rose-colored flowers. It does quite well in wet places, or even 
in the border or rock-garden. :o cts. each, $i per doz. 
CATNIP (Nepeta Cataria). An aromatic herb found near dwellings. Cats are fond 
of it. io cts. 
CAULOPHYLLUM thalictroides ( Blue Cohosh). A thrifty plant of our rich shady New 
England hillsides. Flowers greenish, followed by the large blue berries. 20 cts. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM, Pompon Varieties. A class of small-flowered Chrysanthemums 
that is quite hardy in the open border ; giving a variety and abundance of flowers 
in late autumn when most flowers have been killed by the early frosts. 15 cts. 
each, $ 1.50 per doz. ; by express, 10 cts. each, $1 per doz. 
Clifton. Old gold, shaded salmon-pink. Julia Lagravere. Deep red; large aster 
Daybreak. Rosy shell-pink, large- variety. 
flowered. Maid of Honor. Deep rose; large-flowered. 
Drin Drin. Smallest bright orange. Snowflake. Pure white; small button 
Druid Hill. Light mahogany crimson ; variety, 
small flowers. Soeur Melanie. Dwarf; pure white. 
Ivanhoe. Beautiful light pink ; small St. Illoria. Fine silver-pink; large flowers, 
button variety. Mixed Seedlings in many colors. 
CIMICIFUGA racemosa (Black Snakeroot). Tall, 4 to 6 feet, with white flowers in 
elongated racemes. Desirable for a moist, shady corner. 15c. each, $1.50 per doz. 
CLAYTONIA Virginica (Spring Beauty). Large rose-colored flowers in early spring. 
Shady place. 10 cts. each, $ 1 per doz. 
CLEMATIS Fremonti. A hardy herbaceous Clematis from the Rocky Mountains, 
grows a foot high ; forms fine clumps ; open sun. Flowers medium size-blue. 25c. 
CONVALLARIA majalis (Common Lily-of-the-Valley of the garden). Well known in 
cultivation. Flowers small, white, bell-shaped, very fragrant. 20 cts. in clumps, 
11.25 per doz. 
<J.. var. “ Miellez’s Revelation ” in Lily-of-the-Valley. It is of extraordinary size and 
vigor, of the most exquisite fragrance and does well under all conditions and all 
sorts of soils, growing 
just as well in full 
sun as partial shade. 
Extremely hardy and, 
while not increasing 
quite so fast as the 
common kinds, is 
still of good increase. 
It is well to cover it 
in December with a 
good coat of barnyard 
manure ; green is just 
as good as old. 
Leave it in the spring 
to serve as mulch. 
The Massachusetts 
Horticultural Society 
awarded it a “ First- 
Class Certificate of 
Merit,” May 22, 1897. 
20 cts. each, $1.50 
per doz. 
COPTIS trifolia (Gold¬ 
thread). A little, low 
evergreen, with bright 
shiny leaves and 
white flowers. Plant 
in a moist, shady 
place, ioc. each, £1 
per doz. Delphinium formosum at Gillett’s Nursery (Seepage 14) 
