. Fall planting. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Pittsburgh Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. SPECIAL PRICES FOR FALL OF 1900. 9. TALL ENGLISH DELPHINSUMS.—From Photograph. TALL ENGLISH DELPHINIUMS. I am tempted to say that the Improved English Delphiniums are the most beautiful hardy plants in cultivation, but I am also tempted to say this of a score of other things, and, of course, it is impossible to say which is the most beautiful of hardy plants, for they have such an immense variety of beauty that the wonder grows that peo
. Fall planting. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Pittsburgh Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Shrubs Catalogs. SPECIAL PRICES FOR FALL OF 1900. 9. TALL ENGLISH DELPHINSUMS.—From Photograph. TALL ENGLISH DELPHINIUMS. I am tempted to say that the Improved English Delphiniums are the most beautiful hardy plants in cultivation, but I am also tempted to say this of a score of other things, and, of course, it is impossible to say which is the most beautiful of hardy plants, for they have such an immense variety of beauty that the wonder grows that people continue to plant bedding plants by the million which have little or no beauty, are an annual expense, and cost quite as much as hardy plants whose first cost is their only cost and which increase in size, in beauty and often in quantity year after year. These Delphiniums may not be the most beautiful hardy plants, but they are among the most beautiful, and nothing can be more distinct and satisfactory. They are stately and picturesque, some varieties growing eight feet high in rich soil, they have immense spikes of most beau- tiful flowers of every imaginable shade of blue and their season is a long one ; in fact, they will bloom from Spring till Fall if properly treated. Hitherto it has been impossible to get satisfactory varieties and plants of English Delphiniums ; in fact, no nursery in this country has had a satisfactory general stock of hardy plants, and I have had the greatest difKculty in getting the plants specified for my landscape gardening work, as this class of plants is extremely difficult to import. The difficulty became so great and my work was so hampered by the lack of plants to carry it out that I persuaded one of my most capable horticulturists in this country to start a hardy plant nursery and guaranteed the financial results. It is the intention to make this nursery a model of its kind and grow everything in hardy plants worthy of culture and to sen
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