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The El m City Nursery Co., New Haven, Connecticut. 
HARDY HERBACEOUS PLANTS. 
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‘COREOPSIS ROSEA. S to 12 inches. July to Sep¬ 
tember. Rosy-pink, yellow center. Dark green cut 
leaf foliage, interesting foreground plant. 
•CORONILLA VARIA (Crown Vetch). June to Aug¬ 
ust. 
A rampant creeper, with handsome globular heads 
of showy bright pink and white sweet pea-shaped 
flowers; a useful plant for covering tough banks for 
the rockery. 
CROWN VETCH, see Coroniila. 
DAPHNE, see Evergreen Shrubs. 
DAISY, see Beilis and Chrysanthemum. 
DAISY SHASTA, see Chrysanthemum. 
DAY-LILY, see Funkia. 
DELPHINIUM ELATUM (Bee Larkspur). 3 to 6 
feet. Tune to August. Deepest blue. 
DELPHINIUM FORMOSUM. 3 to 6 feet. June to 
August. This type of Larkspur is superb. Color, 
soft porcelain blue; produced on tall spikes. 
DELPITINUM GRANDIFLORA (Chinese Larkspurs). 
2 to 3 feet. June to September. 
A form of Larkspur with delicate cut foliage and 
producing a profusion of flowers of deepest blue, 
light blue or white, on loosely arranged spikes. 
DESMODIUM PEN DU LI FOLIUM. Sept, and Oct. 
While it is a true herbaceous plant the growth 
is so full and shrublike that by Fall it has made a 
bushy plant from 3 to 5 feet high. Covered with 
wine red, pea-shaped bloom, which makes it very 
attractive. It is effective planted in masses where it has room to develop, grouped with 
shrubs or in the herbaceous border. A few large clumps at 50c. and 75c. each, smaller 
sizes same prices as other plants. 
DIANTHUS BARBATUS (Sweet William). 1 to 2 feet. July to September. 
Dear to the heart of many a flower lover, the literature of the old-time garden teems 
with pleasant references to this splendid plant. Perfectly hardy and easily grown, its 
brilliant flowers lasting for many weeks. 
ALL COLORS MIXED. No end of combinations of color. 
EMPEROR WILLIAM. The most intense velvety crimson red imaginable.. 
PEACH BLOW. A most delicate clear pink suggesting a shading of sulphur. 
DIANTHUS DELTOIDES (Maiden Pink). 6 to 10 inches. May to July. 
Small fragrant pink flowers. Evergreen bluish green foliage. 
DIANTHUS PLUMARIUS (Scotch Pink). 9 to 12 inches. May and June. Pink, fragrant. 
DIANTHUS PLUMARIUS VAR. HER MAJESTY. 9 to 12 inches. May and June. 
Double white; fragrant. As large and finely formed as a carnation pink. 
DIANTHUS PLUMARIUS VAR. PERPETUAL SNOW. 9 to 12 inches. May to October 
A revelation in Hardy Pinks. Beautifully fringed, pure white, clove-scented. 
DIANTHUS PLUMARIUS HYB. NAPOLEON III. 9 to 12 inches. May to September. 
Clear crimson red. _ , 
DIANTHUS PLUMARIUS VAR. WHITE RESERVE. 9 to 12 inches. May to July. 
Beautiful double white and very fragrant. 
’DICENTRA EXIMIA. 1 to 2 feet. May to September. Pink. 
A beautiful Bleeding Iieart of dwarf habit, producing graceful spikes of pendant blooms. 
DICENTRA SPECTABILIS (Bleeding Heart). 2 to 3 feet. May and June. Rose and white. 
An old favorite. Keeps well as a cut flower. , ,, , 
DICTAMNUS ALBUS FRAXINELLA (Gas-plant). 2 to 3 feet. June and July. Very tra- 
grant, white. T , 
•DICTAMNUS ALBUS VAR. RUBRA. 2 to 3 feet. June and July. Rose color. 
DIGITALIS PURPUREA (Fox Glove). 3 to 5 feet. July and August. Old-fashioned gaai- 
den favorite of easiest culture. 
DORONICUM PLANTAGINEUM VAR. EXCELSUM 
(Harpur Crewe). 2 to 3 feet. May and June. Large 
showy yellow flowers. 
•ECHINACEA PURPUREA (Purple Cone-flower). 3 
to 5 feet. Tuly to September. 
EPIMEDIUM ALPINUM VAR. RUBRUM. 12 to 15 
inches. Tune to Tilly. Crimson. 
EPIMEDUM PINNATUM VAR. COLCITICUM, 10 
to 12 inches. Brilliant golden yellow. May to June. 
EPIMEDIUM DIPHYLLUM ROSEUM. 10 to 15 inch¬ 
es. April to May. Rose. 
EPIMEDIUM LILACINUM. 1 to 2 feet. May to June. 
Beautiful lilac flowers. 
EPIMEDIUM MUSSCITIANUM. 10 to Id inches. 
May to Tune. Pale yellow flowers. 
EPIMEDIUM MACRANTPIUM NIVEUM. 10 to 12 
inches. May to June. White. 
•ERIANTITUS RAVENNAE (Ravenna Grass). 6 to 10 
feet. October. One of the tallest grasses. 25c. to 
$1.00 each, according to size of clump. , 
ERYNGIUM AMETHYSTINUM (Sea Holly). 3 to J 
feet July to August. Finely cut shiny foliage with 
thistle-like flowers of amethystine blue. 
EULALIA, see Miscanthus. , . . , , 
EUPHORBIA COROLLATA (Spurge). 1 to 2 feet. 
July to Oct. White. Splendid border plant. 
FALSE INDIGO, see Baptisia. c:,„„ rv 
FESTUCA GLAUCA. 1 to l J / 2 feet. June. Silveiy 
blue foliage grass. 
FLAGS, see iris. 
Fox-glove, see Digitalis, 
this page. 
The above Hardy Herbaceous Plants are offered 111' ' l, " c " i * cl ’ c “* 
follows, unless otherwise noted. The very lienv . 
only he supplied in the sorts marked with a to 
Each Per 10 
Very strong Field Clumps (Express or Freight ) •••••• . 5^2" ^ ll» 
Strong Field Grown, usual size (Express recommended ). 
Smaller size (mostly field grown) . 
Per 100 
$35.00 
15.00 
10.00 
FOR SPECIAL DISCOUNTS SEE PAGE TWO. 
