. 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. Descriptive Otalogae. ACANTHUS - Bear's Breach. (Acttnt/tacef â ) AVALUABLE class from the Mediterranean region, all with unusually handsome broad foliage and of stately effect. Adapted for single specimen lawn planting, for sub-tropical effect, or for grouping with other plants. Flowers white or pink in towering spikes. The class p
. 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. Descriptive Otalogae. ACANTHUS - Bear's Breach. (Acttnt/tacef â ) AVALUABLE class from the Mediterranean region, all with unusually handsome broad foliage and of stately effect. Adapted for single specimen lawn planting, for sub-tropical effect, or for grouping with other plants. Flowers white or pink in towering spikes. The class prefers a rich, though light and well-drained soil, and should be covered deeply with a mulch tin" first two w inters. The leaf of the Acanthus was copied by ancient Grecians in ornamenting the capitals of their architectural columns. A. latifolius (mollis vcur. latifolius). 4 ft., 7-i>. Italy. Handsomest of the class, with elegant foliage and towering spikes of purple flowers. 35 cents. A. mollis. :t ft., 7-i). Greece. Deeply cut, shining foliage. 85 cents. A. spinosus. 3 ft., 7-!). Italy. Spiny foliage. :!."> cents. ACHILLEA â Milfoil or Yarrow. (Compoaita.) All of easiest culture in any garden soil; the dwarf forms make good carpets in dry, sunny sit- uations, or can be used together with the medium-sized varieties in the rockery ; the other sorts are admirable in the flower border. Coarse sorts are used to good effect in the wild garden. A. tomen- tosa forms a neat mat of verdure on the dryest banks, where its showy foliage and clouds of bril- liant flowers are very attractive. A. .SJgyptiaca. [Egyptian V.] IN 6â10. Levant. Showy silvery, fern-like foliage, and broad, flat umbels of pale- yellow flowers. 25 cents. A. argentea. [Silvery Y.] 6 in., 5-6. Switz. Bright sil- very foliage and pure white Mowers. Choice for the rockery. 25 cents. A. Eupatorium (Filipendulina). [Noble Y.] 4 ft., 6-10. Caspian Sea The most showy of the class, of strict bushy ha
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