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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



February, 1912 



Rosa Spinosissima 



E HAVE again succeeded in getting a 

 stock of this rare and exquisitely lovely 

 hardy single white Rose. With the exception 

 of the marvelous Cherokee Rose of the South, it is 

 the most beautiful single Rose in the world. The 

 plant is compact and bushy, growing four to five feet 

 high, and in June it is covered with large yellowish- 

 white flowers of indescribable beauty. It should be 

 planted in groups, and like the Rosa Rugosa, it can 

 be used in the shrubbery. Coming from Siberia, 

 it is absolutely hardy. Limited stock. 



75c Each, $8.00 Per Dozen 

 We have the largest, finest and most comprehensive 

 stock of Hardy Plants in America, including three hundred 

 varieties of the choicest Peonies, and also the largest col- 

 lection of Japanese Iris in the world, and an unsurpassed 

 collection of named Phloxes. Our illustrated catalogue, 

 describing these and hundreds of other Hardy Plants, Trees, 

 Rhododendrons, Azaleas and Shrubs will be sent on request. 



"A PLEA FOR HARDY PLANTS," by J. Wilkinson Elliott, contains 

 much information about Hardy Gardens, with plans for their arrangement. 

 We have made arrangements with the publishers of this book to 

 furnish it to customers at a very low price. Particulars on request. 



ELLIOTT NURSERY 



ROSA SPINOSISSIMA 



336 Fourth Avenue 



Pittsburgh, Pa. 



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Has given them an enduring place in the hearts of every lover of the beautiful in nature that no other form of planting can claim. While natural and 

 restful in general effect, the beauty of the hardy garden is ever new and ever appealing, for flowers may be found in it through the season — something 

 of interest every day. Inspiration for the best outdoor decoration of recent years has come from gardens planted long ago. They have grown into 

 richer, fuller, and mellower beauty — instead of fading with time — sometimes outliving, on the same spot, three generations of owners. 



Old-Time Garden Models 



Plants of Double Value 



The renewed popularity of hardy, herbaceous perennials 

 rejoices the heart of the landscape gardener, for it means his 

 emancipation from petty and futile efforts with tender for- 

 eign materials and his return to broader, freer, more perma- 

 nent effects, with less expensive materials. With perhaps 

 only a strip of dooryard at his command, the true amateur 

 gardener finds the hardy plants his source of greatest pleasure. 

 The showy annuals yield a temporary beauty and fragrance at 

 comparatively small cost, it is true ; but in a very few years 

 the hardy flowers will prove themselves far less expensive, as 

 they are none the less beautiful. 



We are learning to take the fin«r. more enduring old 

 gardens for our models, welcoming back to our borders the 

 drifts of Snow-ninks the gay Peonies and Hollyhocks, the 

 sweet-breathed Day Lilies, the brilliant Poppies, the Lark- 

 spurs, the Phloxes the Irises, and all the year's train of old- 

 time hardy flowers. Yearly we find new uses for them, entirely 

 within the bounds of real landscape art — * for instance, the 

 employment of pretty creeping plants to cover bare spots, 

 rejected of the gra°ses, and the planting of tall perennials 

 among trees and shrubs for life and color during the hot, dull 

 days of midsummer. 



Every garden owner may have a copy of "Hardy Garden Flowers," free, 



"Hardy Garden Flowers" 



— thenew Biltmore Nursery book — givesthe fullest collection 

 of facts yet available as to the habits and characteristics of 

 the hardy perennials of proved merit for general plant ing. The 

 descriptions are pleasingly written and free from confusing 

 technical terms, while numerous illustrations give photo- 

 graphic reproductions of fine specimens and typical gardens. 

 In the latter class of pictures will be found many planting 

 suggestions of interest and value — some of elaborate formal 

 gardens, and many of simple and easily obtained effects. 

 "Hardy Garden Flowers" is a fine specimen of the printer*! 

 art and maintains the standard set by our earlier publications. 

 on triplication 



BILTMORE NURSERY BOX 1222 BILTMORE, N. C. 



