THE. GARDEN-MAGAZINE 



March, 1906 







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i Hardy Garden Flowers Number 2 



THE Larkspur is the loveliest of all the tall blue-flowered hardy perennials. It blooms 

 abundantly in mid-summer and can be had later on by cutting off the first spikes. 

 Thus it is possible to have flowers right through until frost. 



The blue in Larkspur flowers runs through the whole gamut from the palest sky tints 

 to the deepest and most exquisite hues of amethyst and purple, glistening with a wondrous 

 metallic sheen peculiar to this lovely flower. The stately spikes of flowers waving in the 

 breeze transform the garden into a swelling sea of glory. Blue has the extraordinary 

 quality of lending distance and depth to the garden, and will increase its apparent area. 

 We have a magnificent stock in the following varieties and prices: 



NAME 



COLOR 



HEIGHT 



PRICE 



D. Belladonna 



Turquoise blue 



3 to 4 ft. 



18 in. to 2 ft. 



25c. each; $2.50 per doz. 

 15c. each; $1.50 per doz. 

 20c. each; $2.00 per doz. 

 20c. each; $2.00 per doz. 

 20c. each; $2.00 per doz. 

 25c. each; $2.50 per doz. 

 20c. each; $2.00 per doz. 



$20.00 per 100 



D. Chinese 



Dark and light blue 



$12.00 per 100 



D. Formosum 



Dark blue 



2 to 3 ft. 



3 to 4 ft. 



4 to 5 ft. 



$15.00 per 100 



D. Hybridum 



Light, medium and dark 



blue 



$15.00 per 100 



D. Mesopotanicum 



Large dark blue with wh 



ite eye 



$15.00 per 100 



D. Sulphureum 



Sulphur yellow 



3 to 4 ft. 



$20.00 per 100 



D. Choice Mixed 



Varieties 



3 to 5 ft. 



$20.00 per 100 



The Larkspur is but a single example of the beauty and distinction of the Hardy 

 Garden. Plant such a garden this year and you will have new flowers in gorgeous masses 

 of color every month from April to November, and year after year this will go on,i 

 the garden increasing in charm and loveliness. 



Send for our iqob illustrated T T> T£"pT T T*T? ^OIV^ 1023 South Avenue 



catalogue of Hardy Perennials <J» •D* I».CLJ_.CI\ JUl'J Rochester, If . T. 



The Investigators' Club 



THE "Investigators' Club "is an organ- 

 ization without constitution, officers, 

 meetings, annual reports or dues, which 

 nevertheless manages to get a good deal of 

 "fun" out of life. The object is to make con- 

 tributions to our knowledge of horticulture. 

 It is composed exclusively of amateurs — no 

 experiment station workers, professional 

 gardeners or tradesmen. 



The method of co-operation is simple: 

 Each man does what he wants to and reports 

 the results to The Garden Magazine. We 

 are glad to pay rather more for such articles 

 than for common ones, but no one should 

 undertake these investigations who wants to 

 get a cent out of them. They are purely for 

 the love of the thing. 



The editorial and art staff of The Garden 

 Magazine can be of assistance in these 

 ways: 



i. We can suggest subjects. We have a 

 long list of cultural problems like that of the 

 fringed gentian which need solution, and 

 of monographic and plant-breeding work 

 which promises definite returns in three years 

 or less. 



2. We can find out for you what is known 

 and what is unknown about your subject, 

 thus simplifying the investigation. Since 

 we are nearer the great herbaria and the 

 great collections of books than most of you, 

 we will gladly do our best to find out what 

 others have done before you begin. 



3. We can usually send a staff photo- 

 grapher, or otherwise solve the problem of 

 getting the best possible pictures. In mono- 

 graphic work we can, if desired, supply the 

 botanical element, especially the " key" 

 which is necessary in the series of articles 

 entitled "Little Monographs." 



4. We can help in miscellaneous ways, e. g., 

 by suggesting where to get rare plants, etc. 



Incidentally we distribute every spring and 

 fall to members of the club new, rare and in- 

 teresting seeds, plants and bulbs to those who 

 have the proper conditions for growing them 

 and who agree to take good care of them and 

 report the results. 



There are also other advantages which can 

 hardly be mentioned publicly. 



We shall be glad to correspond with any 

 one who is willing to spend twenty-five dollars 

 for humanity's sake in the hope of adding 

 something worth while to the art or science 

 of horticulture. 



Thirty-five problems that need solving 

 have already been published (November, 

 1905, page 180; and January, 1906, page 1 

 282), but we are reserving a choice set for 



