. Hardy perennial plants . er hardy flowers havedisappeared, each bulb producing six ormore slender stems six to eight feet tallwhich are densely clothed for half theirlength with soft, feathery light purple or lilac flowers and present an effect that is almoststartling in beauty and blaze of 15c; doz. $ Picnostachya. Kansas Gay Feather.—Fourto five feet. Handsome and very showy. Palepurple flowers on tall, round, dense spikesin August and September. Prefers a drysoil. Very fine massed in shrubbery. Each 12c; doz. $ LYCHNIS. Campion. Chalcedonica. Maltese Cross.—London Pri
. Hardy perennial plants . er hardy flowers havedisappeared, each bulb producing six ormore slender stems six to eight feet tallwhich are densely clothed for half theirlength with soft, feathery light purple or lilac flowers and present an effect that is almoststartling in beauty and blaze of 15c; doz. $ Picnostachya. Kansas Gay Feather.—Fourto five feet. Handsome and very showy. Palepurple flowers on tall, round, dense spikesin August and September. Prefers a drysoil. Very fine massed in shrubbery. Each 12c; doz. $ LYCHNIS. Campion. Chalcedonica. Maltese Cross.—London Pride. Lamp Flower A fine old garden flower with close heads of brilliant scarlet flowers anddark green foliage. Showy and useful forcutting. Grows two to three feet high andblooms all summer. Each 12c; doz. $ Semperflorens plenissima. —Produces dainty,lace-like, delicate rose colored flowers inprofusion the entire summer, in loose clus-ters on stems a foot long. Succeeds best inpartial shade. Each 15c; doz. $ Lychnis viscana splendens ft. pi. Viscaria splendens fl. pi. Double GermanCatchfly.—Sometimes erroneously termedRagged Robin. A magnificent variety withthickly tufted evergreen foilage which turnslater to brilliant autumn colors. The flowers,which are produced in June, are in tallspikes; double, and of a pure, rosy-red color,pleasantly fragrant. It remains in bloom forsix weeks and its flowers are of great sub-stance. One of the most brilliant and valu-able hardy plants in cultivation. (See cut).Prom 2% in. pots, each, 10c; doz. $;100, $ Field plants, each, 15c; doz. $1,50; 100,$ HARDY PERENNIAL LYTHRUMROSEUMSUPERBUM. Rose Loosestrife. An improvedvariety of thePurple Loose-strife, L. Salica-ria. It forms asemi-s hrubbyplant three tofour feet highand is literallycovered from Ju-ly until late Sep-tember withlarge spikes ofrosy-purple flow-ers. It is a stronggrowing plant,thrives in allsorts of positions,and is mostshowy and effec-tive when pla
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