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HARDY FERNS, FLOWERS, SHRUBS, ROSES, ETC. 
STREPTOPUS roseus (Twisted Stalk). 6 to 20 inches high. Flowers small, rose- 
purple. Grows in cool damp woods. 20 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
THALICTRUM (Meadow Rue)— 
T. anemonoides (Rue Anemone!. 
This plant grows about 9 inches 
high, from a cluster of thickened 
tuberous roots. Flowers in 
umbels, white. 15 cts. each, $1 
per doz. 
T. dioicum. 1 to 2 feet, with pur¬ 
ple or greenish flowers. 15 cts. 
each, $1.10 per doz. 
T. cornuti (Tall Meadow Rue) 
4 to 8 feet high, bearing a com¬ 
pound panicle of white flowers. 
Wet meadows. 15 cts. each, $ 1.25 
per doz. 
TIARELLA cordifolia (False Miter- 
wort). About 10 inches high, bear¬ 
ing a short raceme of pretty white 
flowers. 10 cts. each, $1 per doz. 
TRADESCANTIA Virgimca (Spider- 
wort). An old garden plant, well 
known for its long grass-like leaves 
and blue or violet flowers. 20 cts. 
each, $1.25 per doz. 
TRILLIUM (Three-leaved Nightshade). Tiarella cordifolia. 
A class of low perennials, having 
a stout and simple stem from a tuber-like root, naked, and bearing at the top three 
ample leaves in a whorl and a terminal flower. They belong to the lily family, bloom 
in early spring, and are easily grown. They like a moist, shady situation. 
T. cernuum. Is about a foot high, with nodding white flowers tinted with purple 
10 cts. each, $1 per doz. 
T. grandiflorum. Probably the prettiest of the genus, and most generally cultivated. 
It grows 8 1 to 15 inches high, bearing a large white flower, often 2 to 2% inches in 
length and 2 inches wide, turning to lilac color with age. 10 cts. each, $1 per doz. 
T. ercctum. Has broader, rhomboid leaves, with a dark purple flower. 10 cts. 
each, $1 per doz. 
T. erectum, var. album. A variety with white or greenish white flowers. 25 cts. 
each, $1.25 per doz. 
T. mvale (Dwarf White Trillium). Small, 2 to 4 inches high. Petals white. Very 
early. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
T. recurvatum. Leaves green with white patches, flowers brown-purple. A most 
beautiful and easily grown Trillium. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz., $6 per 100. 
T. sessile. 4 to 12 inches high. Flowers dark purple. 20 cts. each, $1.50 per doz. 
T. sessile, var. Californicum. From the Pacific coast. 25 cts. each, $2 per doz. 
Large roots. 
TROLLIUS laxus (Globe Flower). Flower similar in appearance to a buttercup, but 
larger. Plant in a moist, shady place. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
UVU LARI A grandiflora (Large Bellwort). Generally about 15 inches high, forking 
above, bearing numerous membranaceous leaves, and yellowish drooping flowers, 
frequently has more than one stalk from the same root. Blooms in early spring. 
10 cts. each, $1 per doz. 
U. perfoliata. Smaller than the last, with leaves more clasping on the stalk. 10 cts. 
each, Si per doz. 
U. sessilifolia. Similar to the above, only the leaves are sessile instead of clasping. 
All these Uvularias are easily cultivated, and are quite pretty. 10 cts. ea.,$i per doz. 
VANCOU VERIA hexandra. A fine leafy plant from Oregon, with rather large wheel¬ 
shaped white flowers. 10 cts. each, $1 per doz. 
VERNONIA Noveboracensis (Iron Weed). Vigorous growing perennials, with very 
showy purple flowers in small heads in autumn. Very effective as single specimens, 
or grown in clumps near water. 20 cts. 
