. Beckert's garden field & flower seeds. Commercial catalogs Seeds; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Garden tools Catalogs. WM. C. BBCKERT. ALLEGHENY. PA. PereT)T)l^A Pblox. (Plilox decussata.) Nothing in the long ranks of hardy- perennial plants can vie with the hardy Phloxes in brilliancy and profusion of bloom. Fine clumps of them form magnificent lawn and garden ornaments, and nearly all bright colors are represented in the large and handsome flower-heads, together with indescribable bJendings and markings in deep a
. Beckert's garden field & flower seeds. Commercial catalogs Seeds; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Garden tools Catalogs. WM. C. BBCKERT. ALLEGHENY. PA. PereT)T)l^A Pblox. (Plilox decussata.) Nothing in the long ranks of hardy- perennial plants can vie with the hardy Phloxes in brilliancy and profusion of bloom. Fine clumps of them form magnificent lawn and garden ornaments, and nearly all bright colors are represented in the large and handsome flower-heads, together with indescribable bJendings and markings in deep and delicate tints and shades. The pure white varieties are much prized for cemetery planting, and snialter side-clusters of flowers, produced beneath the large heads,are valuable for cutting. Plants usually grow about 3 feet high. Mixed seed from the choicest collections. 15 cents per pkt. For Drummond Phlox, see Annuals, PENTSTEMON. A genus of plants much too handsome to be much longer neg- lected. A few specialists have taken it up, and greatly improved the flowers, which are borne in graceful spikes, not so stiff as those rf the Foxglove, and quite as brilliant and abundant. The plants are herbaceous and quite hardy, and bloom from early summer until frost. The flowers are of many shades and colors—white, blue, scarlet, crimson, yellow, etc. Mixed seed, 10 cents pet pkt. PAPAVER ORIENTALE. Among mixed borders or masses of shrubbery the large, bril- liant flowers of the Oriental Poppy have a meteor-like effect, so rich and bright is their color. The loose, silken petals have each one a blotch of black at the base. The plants are about 2 feet high, and entirely 10 cents per pkt. ROMNEYA COULTERI. (Tie Great White California Poppy.) South of Washington this stately and handsome plant is entirely hardv, but further north it should be kept over winter in cellars or cold 'greenhouses. The little care which it requires it well requites with its glorious flowers, \Thich ar
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