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The Elm City Nursery Co., New Haven, Conn. 
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HARDY HERBACEOUS PLANTS. 
SPIRAEA ARUNCUS, see Aruncus. 
SPIRAEA PI LI PEN DU LA, see Ulmaria. 
SPIRAEA GRAN DIP'LORA, see Astilbe. 
(PP1RAEA PALM AT A, see ulmaria Purpurea. 
SPURGE, see Euphorbia. 
•STACHYS LANATA (Wooly Woundworth). 1 to V/s feet July and August. 
Valuable for its very pearly, velvety foliage. 
•STATICE LATIP'OLIA (Sea Lavender). 1 to 2 feet. August and September. 
A beautiful plant producing a cluster of broad evergreen leaves from 4 to 8 inchc , i 
long. The flowers are produced on slender wiry stems which branch into a bushy head 
of branchlets bearing small blue flowers in greatest profusion. Thrives well at the 
seashore. 
STOKESIA CYANEA (Stoke’s Aster) (Corn Flower Aster). 1 to 2 feet. July to September. 
This recently introduced herbaceous plant has flowered at the nursery and is all that 
is claimed for it. Flowers, which are produced in very much the same manner as the 
annual garden aster, are very double, of a light pleasing blue, two to four inches in 
diameter, and produce a very effective appearance. 
SUNFLOWER, see Helianthus. 
SWEET WILLIAM, see Dianthus. 
THALICTRUM AQU1LEGIAl'OLIA (Feathered Columbine). 1 to 3 feet. May to July. 
White. 
THALICTRUM MINUS VAR. ADI ANTI FOLIUM. 1 to 2 feet. July and August. 
Foliage delicately arranged and graceful. 
•THALICTRUM POLYGINUM (Rue Anemone). 2 to S feet. July and August. White. 
A very graceful native plant which thrives well in the garden. 
THYMUS CITRIODORA AUREA (Golden Thyme). Very trailing. Golden variegated. 
THYMUS SERPHYLLUM (White Mt. Thyme). May. Forming dense mats of dark green. 
foliage with white flowers. 
TORCH LILY, see Kniphofia. 
•TRADESCANTIA VIRGINICA. 1 to 1 feet. June to Aug. Blue; grass-like foliage. 
TRADESCANTIA VIRGINICA ALBA. foot. June to August. White form. 
TRITOMA UVARIA, see Kniphofia. 
TROLLIUS ASIATICA. foot. May. Orange; a rare and beautiful garden plant. 
TROLLIUS GRANDIFLORA. Similar to preceding with clear yellow flowers. 
TULIPS, see special Summer List, ready August 15th. 
•ULMARIA FILIPENDULA (Spiraea Filipendula). 2 to 3 feet. May and June. 
Beautiful fern-like foliage which remains fresh and green throughout the Summer. 
Flowers are produced on spikes and are white and very graceful. 
•ULMARIA PENTAPETALA VAR. FL. PL. 2 to 3 feet. May and June. 
Formerly known as Spiraea Ulmaria. Old garden plant; pure white flowers on spikes. 
•ULMARIA PURPUREA VAR. ELEGANS (Spiraea Palmata). £ to 3 feet. May and 
June. Light pink. / 
•ULMARIA PURPUREA VAR. RUBRA. 2 to 6 feet. May and June. Deep rose red. 
UNIOLA LATIFOLIA (Spike Grass). 2 to 4 feet. Very ornamental. 
# VALERIANA OFFICINALIS (Garden Heliotrope). 4 to 0 fefct. September and October. 
White; fragrant. 
VERONICA SPURIA (Amethystina) (Speedwell). 1 to 2 feet. May and June. 
Blue; in spikes. 
•VERONICA LONGIFOLIA VAR. SUBSESSILIS. 2 to 3 feet. July to September. 
Spikes of showy flowers of the deepest clear blue make this plant very desirable. 
•VERONICA INCANA (Hoary Speedwell). 1 to 2 feet. July to September. Blue, delicate. 
VERONICA SPICATA. 2 to 4 feet. June to August. Deep blue in spikes. 
Note.— All the veronicas are very desirable garden plants and are especially valuable for cut flowers. 
•VINCA MINOR (Evergreen Myrtle) (Periwinkle). 
One of the best evergreen plants for covering the ground and is a success in quite 
shady places, provided the ground is fertile. Its glossy foliage and inverted blue-bell-like 
flowers in early spring are familiar to all. 
•VINCA MINOR VAR. ALBA. 
A pure white variety of preceding; not common in cultivation, but should be, as it U 
quite as easy to grow, and the white flowers are very beautiful. 
VINCA MINOR VAR. ROSEA. 
A variety of the Myrtle with rosy red flowers of a very pleasing hue. 
VINCA MINOR VAR. FL. PL. v 
Another variety of this Myrtle; with double blue flower# which so reaemble a double 
English violet in appearance as to easily deceive one. 
VIOLA CORNUTA (Crested Violet). 
Beautiful pansy-fike violets with blue flowers and gloasy foliage. The plants are in 
bloom all summer. A very desirable garden plant. 
VIOLA CORNUTA VAR. ALBA. 
Like the preceding; with pure white flowers. 
VIOLA CORNUTA HYBRIDA VAR. LUTEA SPLENDENS. 
This hybrid produces beautiful yellow flowers, and is a splendid new plant 
VIOLA ODORATA VAR. FL. PL. (Sweet English Violets). 
The true double, sweet-scented English hardy violet. Color is of the deepest blue, 
and produced in suph great profusion in the early spring as to quite cover the plant 
and fill the air with their delightful fragrance. 
VIOLA ODORATA VAR. ALBA. 
Like preceding other than the flowera, which ar« tingle white. 
VIOLA ODORATA VAR. ALBA FL. PL. 
Another beautiful form. Flowers double white, very large, tinted with palo blue. 
VIOLA TRICOLOR (Garden Pansy). V 
Our pansies are especially /me and stocky. Prices, each 0 cents', per 10. 40 cents: Per 
100, $3.00; per 1,000, $28.50. Ready March 1 6th. / 
WOODRUFF, see Asperula. 
WINDFLOWER, see Anemone. 
YARROW, see Achillea. 
•YUCCA FILAMENTOSA (Adam's Needle). 
One of the most valuable plants in cultivation for general garden and landscape plant¬ 
ing. Its dagger-like foliage, which is evergreen, forms an attractive clump of foliage from 
which shoots, in July and August, tall and stately spikes 3 to 6 feet high, bearing large 
panicles of white lilies which are most picturesque and decorative. 
The above Hardy Herbaceous Plants are offered In three sizes, am 
follows, unless otherwise noted. The very heavy Held clumps can 
only be supplied in the sorts marked with a • to the left. 
Each Per 10 Per 100 
Very strong Field Clumps (Express or Freight) . 50c. $4.00 $.*{5.00 
Strong Field Grown, usual size (Express recommended) . 25c. 2.00 15.00 
Smaller size (mostly field grown) . 15c. 1.25 10.00 
FOR SPECIAL DISCOUNTS SEE INSIDE FRONT COVER PACE. 
