. Catalogue of hardy ornamental trees, shrubs, and vines, hardy flowers and large and small fruits. Nursery stock Massachusetts Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Massachusetts Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Ornamental shrubs Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. Liatris spicata. LIATRIS — Blazing-Star, (Composites.) Exceedingly pretty border plants, thriving in any moderately good, light soil. All with narrow, linear, grass-like foliage and showy spikes of bright-colored flowers. Useful for growing in the poorest of soils
. Catalogue of hardy ornamental trees, shrubs, and vines, hardy flowers and large and small fruits. Nursery stock Massachusetts Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Massachusetts Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs; Ornamental shrubs Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. Liatris spicata. LIATRIS — Blazing-Star, (Composites.) Exceedingly pretty border plants, thriving in any moderately good, light soil. All with narrow, linear, grass-like foliage and showy spikes of bright-colored flowers. Useful for growing in the poorest of soils. L. elegans. 2 ft., 7-9. Va. Deep-purple flowers in spikes often a foot long. 25 cents. L. graminaefolia. 2 ft., 9-10. Va. Long slender spikes of rich purple flowers. 20 cents. L. pyenostachya. [Kansas Gay Feather.] 5 ft., 7-9. Kansas. Light rose-purple flowers in spikes often three feet long, and sometimes most curiously bent and twisted. 15 cents, L. spicata. 2 ft., 6-8. N. Eng. Deep-purple flowers. One of the earliest. 15 cents. L. squarrosa. 2 ft., 7-9. Minn. Rich rose-purple flowers in dense long spikes. 15 cents. flower covering: LIN ARIA — Toad-Flax. (Scrophulariacece.) Of easiest culture in good, well-drained soil. L. alpina is choice for the front of the border, or can be used in the rockery to good advantage. L. cm, rocks and banks in moist situations. L. alpina. 6 in., 6-9. Switz. Flowers bright bluish-purple with rich golden centre. Ex- ceedingly pretty, forming dense compact tufts. 25 cents. L. Cymbalaria. [Mother of Thousands.] 4 in., 5-11. Eng. A charming, pretty-foliaged creeper with minute pale-blue flowers borne in constant succession all summer. 15 cents ; $ per dozen; $10 per hundred. LINUM-Flax. (Linacece.) Plants thriving in light soils, elegant in habit and very pro- lific bloomers, charming for the flower border, and particularly showy in the rock-work. The flowers are not of long duration, but are exceedingly pretty, and borne in such profusio
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