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HARDY HERBACEOUS PLANTS. 
•HIBISCUS MOSCHEUTOS VAR. CRIMSON EYE. 3 to 5 feet. July to September. 
Like the preceding in form and habit in growth. The flowers, however, are much 
larger and better form. Of the purest white, excepting at the center, which is crimson. 
Both these Hibiscus do well in the garden, and also at the seashore, where they luxuri* 
ate even where the ground gets an occasional soaking of salt water. Blooming, as they 
do in Tuly, August and September, they are especially desirable for seashore gardening. 
HOLLYHOCKS, see Althaea 
HYACINTHS, see special list, ready August 15th. 
IBERIS SEMPERV1RENS (Candytuft). 6 to 12 inches. April and May. White; evergreen 
foliage. Makes a nice foreground border plant. 
IBERIS SEMPER VIRENS VAR. COMPACTA. Dwarf growing form, of preceding. 
•IRIS CRISTATA. An interesting very dwarf species, but 3 to 6 inches high, pale blue, 
about the earliest to flower. 
IRIS GERMANICA (Varieties of German Iris). 
NOTE—In describing these Iris U. S. stands for outer segments-, I S. stands for inner 
segments. 
AURIOLE. Late, medium dwarf, very similar to Sans Sous in form and color 
with the exception of the O. S., which are beautifully penciled with deep vel¬ 
vety royal purple. 
BLUE-BIRD. Medium to tall and quite early. I. S., very large, full and in¬ 
curved and of a clear deep blue color; O. S., large, closely reflex and of a 
deeper velvety blue suffused with enough of the royal purple to add to its 
richness of coloring. One of the best early sorts. 
BRIDESMAID. Medium to tall, mid-season; I. S., very full and incurved, light 
rosy blue, changing to deeper blue on the margins, which are exquisitely pen¬ 
ciled; O. S., almost white, distinctly penciled with deep blue in a most inter¬ 
esting way. 
CANDICANS. Mid-season and medium size of growth; I. S., very little incurved 
and of the clearest pale blue; deepest royal purple, freely veined with splashes 
of pure white. Very distinct. 
EDITH COOK. Medium to low grower, mid-season to late, of strong, vigorous 
Herman Iris hablt V L S P °, f the clearest deep yellow, slightly incurved; O. S., broad and 
‘Uloer Kino spreading, freely splashed and veined with the deep rosy purple on a white 
ouver rung. background and bordered with deep old gold. 
ERNEST BERNOT. Early to mid-season, medium to tall, very free bloomer; I. S., 
delicate orange exquisitely suffused rosy purple; O. S., creamy white, intricately 
and freely veined with the deepest royal purple. 
LA VALE TIE. Tall, late, good full form; I. S., very full and incurved; O. S., some- 
inn TT^r?S’ 6™ C ™1 color, a clear pale blue, slightly suffused with rosy tints. 
MAD. CHEREAU. Late and tall, of beautiful and unique form; I. S., pale blue and 
so penciled with darker blue on the margin as to suggest fine embroidery; O. S., 
similar but a little lighter. A most distinct sort. 
QUEEN OF GYPSIES. Tall and late; I. S., rich old gold, delicately suffused and 
penciled with rosy lilac; O. S., clear lilac overspread with beautiful pencilings of 
iac c interlaced with white and some chestnut markings. 
bANS SOUS. Medium to late season; I. S., clearest intense yellow, incurved; O. S., 
deepest yellow splashed with white at base, intermixed with russet veining, this 
veining quite covering idle segment towards the outer margins. Melium to low in 
°* growth and one of the best in its class. 
SILVER KING. Similar if not the same as Florentine. The earliest of the tall large 
type, of ideal full form, and when first unfolding is of the softest pale blue, becom- 
WAT n MrDr 0St white at maturity. Very fragrant. 
WALNERI. Mid-season and medium grower; I. S., incurving and of a clear light 
blue towards the tips; O. S., clear white at base, abruptly changing to clear blue 
sultused with royal purple, richly veined with deeper color, 
lie following varieties are among our best sorts, but as we are not sure of their 
names, we offer them under numbers only. 
°* y Mid-season and medium size; I. S., broad, incurved, clear brilliant yellow, 
s ig tly tinted palest blue; O. S., broad, richest yellow, changing towards margin 
at ° khje and then to creamy white and throughout veined with blue and russet. 
‘p‘. Very late and tall. Resembles the early Florentine in its fine full large form. 
ro^al^pu^ 0 / 1 ^ ^ Ue ’ O. S., being suffused with a slight suggestion of velvety 
No. 14 . Late, medium tall, splendid full form; I. S., blue at base, changing to rosy 
mai^oon War< ^ S ** pS * r * c ^ ros V purple, beautifully penciled and veined deep 
No 15 . Late and medium tall, very robust and free; I. S., incurved but somewhat 
pen, yellowish buff suffused with rose; O. S., whitish at base, richly veined and 
IRT^ T at?u C tpaJ. ’ maroon so free ly a s to quite cover the flower part of the segment. 
IRIS KAempfppt’ or Japan ’ see P age 2S - 
IRIS PfIMTT A See page 28 ‘ 
varuin rr • , -Dwarf and early, blooming in April. These we offer are mixed hybrids, 
*IRIS PSETm C A rn^ r ° m deep blue t0 yellow * 
In TjACORUS. Very robust, flowers of medium size, intense clear, deep yellow. 
*IRIS e c ar] V llne * 
a - ' RICA. Robust growers, foliage somewhat like the Japan Iris but more slender 
to 3 foot slender stems, well up above the foliage; color, clear rich 
owers are somewhat larger than our native field Iris. In bloom with the late 
flowers, borne on 2 
Flov 
blue 
German t • aumewnat larger tnan our native held iris. In bloom with tn 
IRIS SIBERTPA a t'tj * deS rT. ab .P and especially so for naturalizing along ponds, etc. 
IRIS SIBF’PTr'A Similar to preceding but white. 
IRIS S r r-A \ r. pp - Double form. Blooms late with the Japan Iris. 
blue of n a- ORIENTALIS. A beautiful Iris of the most vivid velvety deep 
JACOB’S i innon 1 Slze and blooming with great freedom about June 10 to 20. 
Japan irts D <V’ T s - ee T PoIemonium - 
JONOUTT S ’ • Laevigata, page 28. 
KNlPHnftT’A Se A Summer List, ready September 15th. 
URKspVid 1 ^ ALOIDES (Tritoma, Torch Plant). 
LATHviVmct 0 Delphinum. 
vine-like In hAv/'T 1 US (Perennial Pea )- 
LAWN GRASS sppn° f S rowlh " 
LEMON lily SEE t?’ ?ee page 38 - 
"LESPEDEZA "*-t c J nerocallis 
6 to G feet. June to October. Rosy pink, 
While ** ?ILBOLDI (Desmodium) Pea Shrub. September and October, 
has marie “ u a 1 trlle herbaceous plant the growth is so full and shrublike that by Fall it 
made a bushy plant from 3 to 5 feet high. ~ - ' 
Continued on page 31. 
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