. ARMERIA (Sea Pink or Thrift) Attractive dwarf plants that will succeed in any soil, forming evergreen tufts of bright green foliage, from which innumerable flowers appear in dense heads, on stiff wiry stems, from 9 to 12 inches high. They flower more or less continuously from spring until late in fall. Very useful in the rockery as well as in the border. ^ Formosa Rosea. Soft light rose color. Laucheana Rosea. Bright rose. — Alba. White. 30 cts. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100. ARTEMISIA LACTIFLORA (Hawthorn-scented MugwortJ Unlike the other varieties offered, which are grown for
. ARMERIA (Sea Pink or Thrift) Attractive dwarf plants that will succeed in any soil, forming evergreen tufts of bright green foliage, from which innumerable flowers appear in dense heads, on stiff wiry stems, from 9 to 12 inches high. They flower more or less continuously from spring until late in fall. Very useful in the rockery as well as in the border. ^ Formosa Rosea. Soft light rose color. Laucheana Rosea. Bright rose. — Alba. White. 30 cts. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100. ARTEMISIA LACTIFLORA (Hawthorn-scented MugwortJ Unlike the other varieties offered, which are grown for iheir foliage, this comparatively new introduction from China is a most effective flowering plant, with erect stems 3^ to 4i feet high, clothed with elegantly ^cut dark-green foliage and terminated by panicles of Hawthorn- ! scented creamy white Spiraea-like light and graceful flowers. It is at its best from the latter part of August to the end of Sep- tember, and is particularly valuable on this account, being un- like any other plant in bloom at that time. (See cut.) 30 cts. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100. ARTEMISIA A most useful class of plants, either for the border or for filling in within the shrubbery. With the exception of the new variety Lactiflora they are not remarkable for their flowers; the foliage of the sorts offered is very ornamental. All the varieties offered stand cutting down to 5 or 6 inches when used in carpet or ribbon bedding. Abrotanum {Old Man, or Southerri-wood). Dark green, finely cut foliage, with pleasant aromatic odor; 2 feet. Pedemontana. A handsome variety with finely cut silvery foliage. Stelleriana (O'.d Woman). Deeply-cut silvery foliage; much used in carpet bedding, 18 inches. 25 cts. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100. Dreer's Long-spurred Aquilegia (Columbine) AQUILEGIAS, OR COLUMBINES The Columbines are one of the most elegant and beautiful of hardy plants, pro- ducing their graceful spurred flowers on stems rising 2 feet or mor
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