'Rdlvard Gillett, Southlvick, Massachusetts 
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HARDY PERENNIALS 
VIOLA. The Violets are for the most part among our first spring flowers. They 
furnish an abundance of bloom, a variety of colors, and are so easily grown as to 
be worthy of a place in every wild garden. 
V. Californica (California Violet). A large, single blue-flowered Violet, forming large 
clumps, very fragrant; needs a little protection in winter. It also makes a fine 
plant for window culture. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
V. Canadensis. Is 1 to 2 feet high, with heart-shaped leaves and whitish flowers 
tinged with purple. A moist shady situation is desirable for its cultivation. 
May to August. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
V. blanda (Sweet White Violet). Flowers slightly fragrant. Damp open places in 
spring. 10 cts. each, $1 per doz. 
V canina, var. sylvestris (Dog Violet). A pretty many-flowered Violet, 6 inches 
high, blue in color, branching and forming little clumps. Moist shady places. 
10 cts. each, $1 per doz. 
V. cucullata (Common Blue Violet). A strong-growing plant from a thickened or 
tuberous root; stemless, each leaf and flower-stalk growing on a long stem from 
the root. Flowers deep or pale violet-blue or purple ; single. Like nearly all our 
native Violets, it grows in damp places, mostly in shade. 10c. each, $1 per doz. 
V. cornuta (Horned Pansy). An old garden plant of much merit, with sweet-scented 
bright flowers in spring; quite hardy in wet or quite moist, open places. White 
and lavender. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
V. odorata Czar (Sweet Violet). This is a variety of the English Violet which is scat¬ 
tered over Europe and Russian-Asia, and gr^wn near the European cities in 
great quantities for the city markets. This variety Czar is a good bedding plant 
here ; its flowers are double, violet in color and very fragrant in spring. It likes 
a moist and rather heavy soil in the open border, or where it can get the noonday 
sun. Hardy, yet it is greatly benefited by a covering of boughs or leaves through 
the winter. 25 cts. each, $2 per doz., $10 per 100. 
V. odorata. The common sweet English Violet. Single, but very fragrant. 15 cts. 
each, 11.50 per doz. 
V. pubescens. Six to 12 inches high. Flowers yellow, veined with purple. This 
little Violet is found throughout New England in rather dry soils in shade ; in 
early summer. 10 cts. each, $1 per doz. 
V. rotundifolia. Low ; 2 to 3 inches high. A yellow Violet with large round leaves 
flat on the ground ; growing on moist, mossy banks near mountain brooks. 
Early spring. 10 cts. each, $1 per doz. 
V. pedata (Bird’s-Eoot Violet). Leaves all divided. Large, handsome, pale or deep 
purple or blue flowers in summer. Delights in a 
dry, sandy soil in open sun. Spring and early 
summer. One of the very best of our wild Violets 
and satisfactory to grow by reason of its great 
flower-bearing quality. Eine large clumps, 20 cts. 
each, $1.50 per doz. 
V. pedata, var. bicolor. A beautiful variety of the 
above, with two leaves of the flower violet-colored. 
Does nicely in a sandy loam soil in partial shade. 
Spring. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
VINCA minor (Common Periwinkle). A most beau¬ 
tiful evergreen trailing plant, with blue flowers. 
Also known by the name of Blue Myrtle. This 
plant is quite hardy, and very desirable to plant 
in dry shade, where it will cover barren places. 
15 cts. each, $r 25 per doz., $6 per 100. 
V. minor alba. A fine variety with pure white flowers, 
borne in profusion. 15 cts. each, #1.25 per doz. Viola cucullata 
YUCCA filamentosa (Adam’s Needle). The dark green leaves, 1 to 2 feet long, are 
clustered at the base, about an inch wide in the center, running to a sharp point, 
the edges splitting off into little hairs 1 to 4 inches long. The flowers are large, 
creamy white, borne along the stalk near the top ; 3 to 6 feet high. Very orna¬ 
mental on the lawn, producing a unique effect not equaled by any other plant. It 
is an evergreen, and looks well through the winter. Too heavy for the mail. 
Not prepaid, 25 cts. 
