PURPLE TO LILAC 
JULY 
Color 
“Light 
purple” 
44 
“Pur- 
plish” 
39 
“Purple” 
37 or 41 
“Violet” 
47 tinged 
with 46 
“Purple” 
47 deep 
“Lilac” 
43 
“Pale 
lilac” 
43 
“Violet?’ 
44 pinker 
“Light 
purple” 
47 
English 
Name 
REQUIEN’S 
PENNY- 
ROYAL 
SPEARMINT 
WILD 
BERGAMOT 
MUSSIN’S 
CATMINT 
SCOTCH 
THISTLE 
SNAKE’S- 
BEARD 
GIANT 
BELL- 
FLOWER 
SHARP- 
LEAVED 
BEARD- 
TONGUE 
DIFFUSE 
PENTSTE- 
MON OR 
BEARD- 
TONGUE 
Botanical 
Name and 
Synonyms 
Méntha 
Requieni 
Méntha 
spicata 
M. viridis 
*Monarda 
fistuldsa 
Népeta 
Mussini 
N. longifolia 
Onopérdon 
Acdnthium 
|Ophiopdgon 
Jabiran 
*Ostrowskia 
magnifica 
*Pentstémon 
acuminatus 
**Pentstémon 
diffisus 
Description 
Tiny creeping plant. Flowers in 
scanty whorls. Small leaves. Rock- 
garden or carpeting for rose-beds. 
Protect slightly in winter. Prop. by 
running root-stock. Prefers moist 
soil. Corsica. 
Flowers in slender spikes. Foliage 
with attractive taste and fragrance. 
Used for flavoring. Any ordinary 
soil. Naturalized from Europe; Asia. 
Striking plant of somewhat rough 
habit. Large showy open flowers 
purple in the type with vars. ranging 
from white to purple. Effective in 
masses and for naturalization. Prop. 
by division. Any soil. N. Amer. 
Var. media, (AM. media, M. pur- 
purea), (color no. 42 lighter or 55). 
Good var. Flowers deep purple. Hort. 
Branching plant with rather weak 
stems, but its many flowers make a 
pretty color effect in a roomy border. 
Prop. by seed or division. 
garden soil. Caucasus; Persia. 
Vigorous biennial plant of bold 
habit. Showy flowers about 2 in. 
wide. Foliage large, silvery and 
prickly. Effective against dark 
shrubs. Seeds itself freely. Prop. by 
seed. Europe. 
Similar in habit to O. Japonicus but 
more vigorous. Flowers varying to 
white in dense racemes. Leathery 
grass-like leaves. Protect in winter. 
Sheltered position. Prop. in spring 
by division. Sandy soil. Japan. 
Var. variegatus, variegated foliage. 
Japan. 
Very large bell-shaped flowers, 3-6 
in a cluster, borne on stems which 
branch only above, thus forming with 
the whorls of foliage very handsome 
clumps. Mulch in winter. Prop. by 
seed or by cuttings of the root or 
young growths in spring. Well- 
worked and drained sandy soil. 
Turkestan. 
See page 245. 
See page 245. 
Any light 
Height 
an * 
Situation 
2-3 in. 
Sun 
aft: 
Sun 
5-9 ft. 
Sun 
6-24 in, 
Sun or 
balf 
shade 
4-5 ft. 
Sun 
Time of 
Bloom 
July, 
Aug. 
“ 
.[July 
“ 
June, 
early 
July 
Early 
June to 
early 
July 
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