. BOCCONIA CORDATA ASTIEBE. The varieties offered below are stately, hardy plants, and succeed best in rather heavy soil and where they will not suffer for lack of moisture. Davidi. An important hardy plant. Its 5 to 6 feet high stems, which rise from a tuft of pretty dark-green foliage, are crowned with feathery plumes of deep rose-violet flowers during June and July. Grandis. A grand species and a fine companion to A. Davidi, being of similar habit of growth, the panicles of white flowers frequently 2 to 2J feet long; the foliage is much divided and attractive. Either of the above, 25 cts. e
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. BOCCONIA CORDATA ASTIEBE. The varieties offered below are stately, hardy plants, and succeed best in rather heavy soil and where they will not suffer for lack of moisture. Davidi. An important hardy plant. Its 5 to 6 feet high stems, which rise from a tuft of pretty dark-green foliage, are crowned with feathery plumes of deep rose-violet flowers during June and July. Grandis. A grand species and a fine companion to A. Davidi, being of similar habit of growth, the panicles of white flowers frequently 2 to 2J feet long; the foliage is much divided and attractive. Either of the above, 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz. ASTRANTIA (Master-wort). Major. Grows about a foot high and bears during June and July pecu- liarly interesting blush flowers an inch across. A most interesting flower for a moist position. 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz. BAPTISIA (False Indigo). AustrallS. A strong-growing plant, about 2 feet high; suitable either for the border or wild garden, with dark green, deeply-cut foliage and spikes of dark-blue flowers in June. Tinctoria. Spikes of bright yellow flowers in June; 2 to 2J feet. 20 cts. each; $2.00 per doz. BELXJS PERENMS (English Daisy). Improved double-flowering, white and pink. 10 cts. each; $1.00 per doz.; $7.00 per 100. BOCCONIA (Plume Poppy, or Tree Celandine). Cordata. A noble, hardy perennial, beautiful in foliage and flower, admirably adapted for planting in the shrubbery borders, centre of beds and in bold groups in almost any position. It will grow in any soil or situation, attaining from 6 to 8 feet in height; flowers in terminal pani- cles, of a creamy-white color during July and August. (See cut.) 20 cts. each; $2.00 per doz.; $12.00 per 100. Read the article on the Making and Care of an old-fashioned Hardy Border, pages 195 and 196