. Stokusia Cyanea (Cornflower Aster). STACHVS (Woundwort). Betonica Rosea (Be/ony). Grows in spreading clumps about 10 inches high, and produces interesting 2 to 3 inch long spikes of rosy-pink flowers during June and July. Grandiflora Superba. Grows 12 to 15 inches high, with purplish-violet colored spikes of flowers. Lanata. Forms a densely-leaved mass of bright silvery-white woolly foliage and inconspicuous clusters of light purple flowers ; as a plant for edging or for clumps in the border or wherever intense color is desired for contrast with other foliage, it will be found most useful. 1
. Stokusia Cyanea (Cornflower Aster). STACHVS (Woundwort). Betonica Rosea (Be/ony). Grows in spreading clumps about 10 inches high, and produces interesting 2 to 3 inch long spikes of rosy-pink flowers during June and July. Grandiflora Superba. Grows 12 to 15 inches high, with purplish-violet colored spikes of flowers. Lanata. Forms a densely-leaved mass of bright silvery-white woolly foliage and inconspicuous clusters of light purple flowers ; as a plant for edging or for clumps in the border or wherever intense color is desired for contrast with other foliage, it will be found most useful. 15 cts. each; $ per doz.; $8-00 per 100. STATICE. (Sea Lavender.) Most valuable plants either for the border or rockery, with tufts of leathery foliage and immense candelabra-like panicles of minute flowers, producing a remark- able effect; grows from 15 to 18 inches high, and blooms from June until September. Eximea. Bears immense heads of lovely lilac flowers. Gmelini. Immense panicles of violet-blue flowers. Incana. Bright red flowers in large panicles. Latifola (Great Sea Lavender). Immense heads, 2 to 3 feet across, of deep blue flowers, which last for months if cut and dried. (See cut.) Tartarica. Bright ruby-red flowers in graceful panicles. 15 cts. each ; $ per doz. Set of 5 varieties for 65 cts. STOKESIA CYANEA. (The Cornflower, or Stokes' Aster.) The colored illustration on the front cover of this catalogue does scant justice to this most charming and beautiful native hardy plant, and which for the past two seasons has been the most admired flower on our grounds. The plant grows from 18 to 24 inches high, bearing freely from early in July until late in October its handsome lavender-blue centaurea-like blossoms, which measure from 4 to 5 inches across (the flowers shown on the cover are two-thirds natural size). It is; of the easiest culture, succeeding in any open, sunny position, and not only is it desir- able as a single plant in the hardy border, but it can
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