. BOCCONIA CoRDATA ASTIEBES Davidi. An important hardy plant. Its 5 to 6 feet high stems, which . rise from a tuft of pretty dark green foliage, are crowned with feathery plumes of deep rose-violet flowers during June and July. 35 cts. each. Hybrida Gruno. A splendid salmon-pink sort growing 4 feet high and producing light, graceful, spreading spikes of flowers, the finest pink Astilbe yet introduced. 75 cts. each. Hybrida floerheimi. A cross between A. Davidi and an unknown variety, with the strong, robust growth of the former, attaining a height of 5 to 6 feet. The well branched, erect spike
. BOCCONIA CoRDATA ASTIEBES Davidi. An important hardy plant. Its 5 to 6 feet high stems, which . rise from a tuft of pretty dark green foliage, are crowned with feathery plumes of deep rose-violet flowers during June and July. 35 cts. each. Hybrida Gruno. A splendid salmon-pink sort growing 4 feet high and producing light, graceful, spreading spikes of flowers, the finest pink Astilbe yet introduced. 75 cts. each. Hybrida floerheimi. A cross between A. Davidi and an unknown variety, with the strong, robust growth of the former, attaining a height of 5 to 6 feet. The well branched, erect spikes of flowers have a length of over two feet and are of a beautiful creamy-white. The originator and introducer, a prominent Holland grower, was awarded a fiist-class certificate for this novelty by the Royal Horticultural Society of Hol- land and considers this plant the most important hardy perennial intro- duced in many years. Strong plants, 75 cts. each. Hybrida Salland. This is also a cross, with A. Davidi as one of its parents, which it resembles in habit of growth, only much more vigor- ous, growing over 6 feet high and with flowers of a distinct red color, different from all others. 75 cts. each. BAPTISIA (Fake Indigo) Australis. A strong-growing plant, about 2 feet high: suitable either for the border or wild garden, with dark green, deeply-cut foliage and spikes of dark-blue flowers in June. Tinctoria. Spikes of bright yellow flowers in June; 2 to 2J feet. 25 cts. each; $ per doz. OELLIS PERENNIS (E„ d«.t) Improved double-flowering, white and pink. 15 cts. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100. BOCCONIA (Plume Poppy, or Tree Celandine! Cordata. A noble, hardy perennial, beautiful in foliage and flower, ad- mirably adapted for planting in the shrubbery borders, centre of beds and in bold groups in almost any position. It will grow in any soil or situation, attaining from 6 to 8 feet in height; flowers in terminal pani- cles, of a creamy-white color during Jul
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