. Descriptive catalogue and price-list of native plants of the southern Alleghany Mountains including deciduous and evergreen trees, flowering shrubs, hardy herbaceous perennials, vines, orchids, ferns, aquatics and bog plants. Nurseries (Horticulture) North Carolina Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. i6 CATALOGUE OF THE HIGHLANDS NURSERY,. 75 75 I 00 8o I GO XILIUM, continued. Each. Doz. L. superbum (Turk's Cap Lily). A very showy and handsome lily, often attain- ing the height of 8 feet or more, and bearing large showy flowers in a pyramidal raceme. We have seen it in its wild state with
. Descriptive catalogue and price-list of native plants of the southern Alleghany Mountains including deciduous and evergreen trees, flowering shrubs, hardy herbaceous perennials, vines, orchids, ferns, aquatics and bog plants. Nurseries (Horticulture) North Carolina Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. i6 CATALOGUE OF THE HIGHLANDS NURSERY,. 75 75 I 00 8o I GO XILIUM, continued. Each. Doz. L. superbum (Turk's Cap Lily). A very showy and handsome lily, often attain- ing the height of 8 feet or more, and bearing large showy flowers in a pyramidal raceme. We have seen it in its wild state with 36 flowers on a single stem $0 15 $1 10 L. Philadelphicum. A low species, the reddish flow- ers borne singly and erect LIATRIS graminifolia (Blazing Star). i to 2 feet high, the spiked flowers appearing late in the summer LOBELIA Cardinalis (Cardinal Flower). (See cut.) Showy close racemes of scarlet flowers from July to September L. syphilitica (Great Blue Lobelia). Strong growing species with large blue flowers. Give a moist situa- tion LYSIMACHIA quadrifolia (Loosestrife). Leaves and LOBELIA CARDINALIS. yellow whorled flowers on stem 12 to 18 inches .... L. stricta. Similar to the preceding, but with flowers in a terminal panicle . . MONARDA didyma (Oswego Tea). An erect plant, 2 to 3 feet high ; large bright red flowers in heads M. fistula (Wild Bergamot). Smaller than the last, with almost white flowers ; fine for massing *MITCHELLA repens (Partridge-berry). A small trailing evergreen, with white or purplish very fragrant flowers ; berries bright red, remaining over winter. MIMULUS ringens (Monkey Flower). Very good bog plant, 2 to 3 feet high ; showy purple flowers 15 i 00 MEDEOLA Virginica. The stem very slender, bearing a whorl of leaves in the middle and one at the summit. The upper whorl colors very beautifully in autumn 15 i 20 MELANTHIUM Virginicum. Very fine panicles of white flowers on stem, i to 3 feet high 20 i 50 OXALIS acetosella (Wood Sorrel). Small, 2 to 3
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