. Catalogue of hardy ornamental trees, shrubs, and vines, hardy flowers and large and small fruits. Nurseries (Horticulture) Massachusetts Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Ornamental shrubs Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. 144 Catalogue of Reading Nursery, Mass. —J. W. Manning, Proprietor. STIPA - Feather-Grass. (Graminea.) A very ornamental grass, with very long and gracefully drooping, finely cut plumes, giving a particularly rich effect. Succeeds best in a light, well-drained soil. The showy plumes are much sought for winter decoration. S. pinnata.
. Catalogue of hardy ornamental trees, shrubs, and vines, hardy flowers and large and small fruits. Nurseries (Horticulture) Massachusetts Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Ornamental shrubs Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. 144 Catalogue of Reading Nursery, Mass. —J. W. Manning, Proprietor. STIPA - Feather-Grass. (Graminea.) A very ornamental grass, with very long and gracefully drooping, finely cut plumes, giving a particularly rich effect. Succeeds best in a light, well-drained soil. The showy plumes are much sought for winter decoration. S. pinnata. 18 in., 0-7. Italy. 25 cents. STOCKESIA - Stoke's Aster. (Compositce.) One of the handsomest of late-blooming perennials, forming a dense bush and producing quantities of very showy, deep-blue flow- ers, each from three to four inches in diameter, and borne from early autumn until hard frost. Plant in a well-drained situation, in sandy loam. Not hardy in heavy, cold soils. One of the choicest of cut flowers. Stockesia cyanea. s Cyanea. 2 ft., 8-11. Va. Large, showy, aster-like, deep-blue flowers in clustered heads. 25 cents. SYMPHITUM — Comfrey. (Boraginacece.) Beautiful variegated-foliaged border plant. In the spring the leaves form low rosettes, close to the ground, and later in the season the stems and leaves rise and form a larger plant, with numer- ous drooping bell-flowers over all. Ordinary loam. S. officinalis var. lutea marginatum. [Vgtd. C] 3 ft., 6-7. Eng. Broad, oval foliage, handsomely margined with yellow. 30 cents. TANACETUM - Tansy. (Compositce.) A spreading, vigorous-growing, aromatic plant, with exceedingly showy, deeply cut foliage. In the border must be carefully kept within bounds, or it becomes a bad weed; best grown to cover waste spots in the wild garden. T. vulgaris var. crispum. [Crisped-leaved T.] ft., 7-8. Eur. 20 cents. TEUCRIUM - Wild Germander. (Labiatce.) Showy, low-growing, dark-green, aromatic foliage, and spikes of bright, purplish-re
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