Choice Hardy Perennials - For Outdoor Planting 



Below we give a partial list of the showy wildflowers we are offering for 

 fall and spring planting. They have been selected with regard to their decorative 

 iiualities and will be found among the best for planting in borders and herbaceous 

 grounds. All are first-class, full size, strong, healthy plants with their tissues 

 stored with reserve plant food. If planted now they are sure to bloom next season. 



Lepachys pinnata, Drooping Cone-flower. A tall plant with numerous large erect 

 yellow flower-heads, the rays long and pendant. One of the earliest of the sun- 

 flower type to bloom. Fine for the border. 



Liatris scariosa. Blazing Star; Gay Feather; Button Snakeroot. • Handsome 

 plants with wand-like stems strung with globular flower-heads. Plant often five 

 feet high with showy purplish flowers. Very attractive to butterflies. Will 

 thrive in poor soil and bloom from August until frost. 



Helianthus occidentalis. Western Sunflower. One of the finest and earliest, 

 blooming from July until September. Leaves nearly all radical. Flower heads 

 borne on tall wand-like stems that make them seem to float in the air. Flowers 

 medium size, golden yellow. 



Helianthus grosse-serratus. Tall sunflower. Absolutely our finest native sun- 

 flower. Flower-heads often four inches across, the disk small and the rays long 

 and showy. Reaches a height of ten feet in good soil, forming a perfect pyramid 

 of bloom. Stems smooth, purplish, with narrow leaves which show off the flowers 

 to advantage. Blooms in September and October. 



Helianthus laetiflorus. A tall slender species with few branches, bearing at top a 



cluster of very large flowers. Leaves ovate-lanceolate and flowers very showy. 

 Fine for the border. 



Solidago rigida. Stiff Goldenrod. A large smooth-leaved species resembling the 

 sea-side goldenrod (S. sempervirens). Flowers is erect panicles, large for the 

 genus and the whole plant quite unlike the typical goldenrod in appearance. 



Heliopsis laevis. Ox-eye. A leafy-stemmed plant like a sunflower in appearance 

 with medium sized copper-yellow flowers. Excellent for the border. 



Silene Virginica. Fire Pink. One of the handsomest of the genus with flowers 

 of vivid scarlet. Grows in sun or shade and not particular as to soils. Perfectly 

 hardy. Blooms in June and July. 



Pentstemon pubescens. Beard Tongue. A hardy plant of sterile soils with 

 racemes of purplish blossoms like the snapdragon and interesting for the hairy 

 tongue-like fifth stamen. Fine for sloping banks and the rockery. 



Digitalis purpurea. Foxglove. This is an improved variety of the common wild 

 foxglove of the Old World. Has long spikes of large bell-shaped purple and 

 white spotted flowers. The clumps we offer are six months old and well estab- 

 lished. 



Var. Maculata superba. A fine spotted form. 



Var. Monstrosa. Large thrifty plant of excellent form. 



PRICES. 



Single plants, 20c each, prepaid. Any six plants, 10c each, prepaid. 



Any two plants, 15c each, prepaid. 25 plants, $2.25. 



Any four plants, 12^2C each, prepaid. Special prices on larger lots. 



Extra large plants will be sent by express for the same price if purchaser 

 cares to pay for transportation. 



SPECIAL FREE OFFER. 



With every new subsciption to The American Botanist at the regular price 

 of $1.00 we will send prepaid j'our choice of any two plants in the above list. 

 For every dollar's worth of back numbers ordered you may also select two plants. 

 Be sure to name second choice in case we happen to have sold out the others. 

 Plants ordered too late for fall planting will be sent early in spring. 



Address all orders to 



WILLARD N. CLUTE & CO., Joliet, 111. 



