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KDWARI) GILLETTS CATALOGUE 
tenax (Tough Leaved Iris) — Flowers purple with white blotches. Leaves nar¬ 
row. 15 cents each. 
Siberica — A tall species, with small blue or white flowers. Fine. 10 cents each, 
$1 per dozen. 
KAEMPFERI-Japan Ii ♦iS—This large and beautiful Iris is perfectly hardy, 
a great bloomer, and is becoming very popular for planting in moist situations, 
yet it will flower in almost any place. The flowers are from 6 to 8 inches 
across, and nearly all the rainbow colors are here represented in gorgeous color¬ 
ing and soft-tinted shading, coming to perfection in June and July. Pure white 
shading to pink, purple and blue, deep indigo and yellow, with markings and 
splashes indescribable. Below are given some line named sorts in nice clumps. 
KAEHPPERI, vars.— 
Arthur Silbard—Single, white veined lilac. Late. 
(iloriosa — Double, deep blue. 
Tokio — Semi-double, blue, veined with white. 
J. C. Vaughan—-White. 
Romeo — Deep maroon. Fine. 
Gold Bound — Pure white. 
Robert Craig—Very large, white veined velvet, deep velvet center. 
Dictator—Single, deep purple. 
25 cents each, $2 per dozen, for any of the above. 
LIATIilS (Blazing Star)—Very pretty border plants, thriving in light, 
well-drained soil, with long grass-like foliage, and showy purple flowers in 
heads or spikes, sometimes 3 feet long. 
graminifolia—A very beautiful plant, about 1 foot high, with a delicate spike of 
small purple flowers. 15 cents each, $1.25 per dozen. 
pycnostachya (Kansas Gay Feather) — A beautiful species from the western 
prairies. Spike of flowers often 3 feet long. Desirable for the open border. 
10 cents each, $1 per dozen. 
scariosa (Button Snake-root)—2 to 5 feet high, with large heads of rose purple 
flowers in late summer. Rich soil. 10 cents each, $1 per dozen. 
spicata (Spiked Blazing Star) — Flowers rose purple in a long spike. Flowers 
with the last. 10 cents each, $1 per dozen. 
LINAR I A Cymbalaria (Kenil- 
worth Ivy) — A pretty little 
trailer, desirable for hanging 
baskets. 8 cents each, 75 cents 
per dozen. 
LINUM Lewisli— 2 feet. Flow- 
ers large, lilac and white. 20 
cents each. 
LOBELIA cardinalis (Cardinal 
Flower) — One of the showiest 
of our wild flowers, 2 to 4 feet 
high, with large deep red blos¬ 
soms along the upper part of 
the stalk ; will thrive in any gar¬ 
den soil or along the border of 
lily pond in water 2 or 3 inches 
deep. 10 cents each, $1 per 
dozen. $5 per hundred, 
syphilitica (Great Blue Lobelia)— 
Similar in growth to the last, 
but the flowers are blue, streaked 
with white. Plant in a moist 
place. Desirable for border of 
brook or lake. 10 cents each, 
$1 per dozen. 
LYCHNIS viscaria var. 11. pi. 
LOBklia cardinalis. (Ragged Robin) — A fine plant, 
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