Descriptive catalogue and price-list of native plants of the southern Alleghany Mountains including deciduous and evergreen trees, flowering shrubs, hardy herbaceous perennials, vines, orchids, ferns, (20688078060)

Title: Descriptive catalogue and price-list of native plants of the southern Alleghany Mountains including deciduous and evergreen trees, flowering shrubs, hardy herbaceous perennials, vines, orchids, ferns, aquatics and bog plants
Identifier: descriptivecatal1892kels (find matches)
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Kelsey, Harlan P; Harlan P. Kelsey (Firm); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) North Carolina Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs
Publisher: Linville, N. C. : Harlan P. Kelsey
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library



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(Copytigl't, Garden and Forest Pub. Co.) SHORTiA GALAciFOLiA. (See page l8.) Eacli. Doz. POLYGONATUM biflorum. A delicate little curving plant i foot high, bearing small green flowers which droop-gracefully by twos and threes $o 15 $1 00 P. giganteum (Solomon's Seal). Quite similar to the last species, only much larger in every way, being from 3 to 8 feet high, the peduncles three to five flowered 15 i 00 RUDBECKIA fulgida (Cone Flower). From 5 to 15 inches high ; large yellow flowers, with a black cone-like center 15 75 SANGUINARIA Canadensis (Blood Root). This beautiful little perennial, only 4 to 10 inches high, is worthy a place in every garden ; its large pure white flowers are produced in abundance, and a large strong clump makes a showy display 15 i 00 SAXIFRAGA leucanthemifolia. This is a beautiful plant, the irregular white flowers, spotted with yellow, being supplemented by the bright pink anthers of the protruding stamens 20 r 50 SCUTELLARIA. Two species. Pretty plants with blue or white flowers in long heads 15 i 00 SEDUM telephoides (Orpine). 6 to 10 inches. A fine plant, with thick fleshy leaves and clusters of flesh-colored flowers. A splendid plant for the rockery. 20 2 00 SILENE Virginica (Fire Pink). A diffuse showy plant, with the brightest crim- son flowers an inch in diameter, from June to September. 6 to 15 inches ... 15 1 00 SILPHIUM laciniatum. Stem 6 to 8 feet high, the lowest leaves i to 2 feet long, cut-serrated; heads 2 inches in diameter ; bright yellow 25 2 00