LIST OP HARDY HKKJSAOEOUS PLANTS FOR 1909. 



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HARDY FLOWERING PLANTS. 



lor the Herbaceous* Border. 



Hardy Flowering- Plants, or Perennial Border Plants, have within recent years attained to a most important position in the 

 domain of horticulture. Their usefulness in securing certain landscape effects and in carrying- out color schemes in connec- 

 tion with shrubbery planting and their own individual beauty, not to mention their great usefulness in affording cut flowers 

 at a time when other flowers are unobtainable, are surely winning for them in this country that recognition of their worth 

 and value which they have for many years commanded in Europe, where they enjoy a popularity not exceeded by any other 

 class of plants. Our stock embraces a carefully selected assortment, each variety being the best of its kind yet introduced. 

 The whole, or a carefully selected number of them, will make a most effective bed or border, affording by its variety and 

 succession of bloom, a vast amount of pleasure throughout the entire season. In the description of each we give the height, 

 color of flowers and the season it usually begins to bloom. 



Cultivation — Hardy Perennials succeed well in almost any location, but in general prefer a full exposure to the sun. Any 

 good garden soil suits them, if well enriched with Bone Meal, or well-rotted barnyard manure. Frequent loosening of the 

 soil during summer, and watering freely in dry weather, are the essentials after planting. A light covering of manure in 

 fall is not a necessity, but is beneficial as a winter protection, and enricher of the soil. The manure, if rotted, is usually dug 

 into the ground in spring. 



The demand for LARGE PLANTS of Hardy Perennials has now become so general that we have this year concluded 

 <o prepare and olTer only this grade of stock; this insures a better and more immediate effect titan is possible with small 

 plants. In order to do this we have been obliged to slightly increase the minimum price, which is, however, more than 

 offset by the increased value of the plants. 



AQUILEGIA. 



ACHILLEA — Milfoil or Yarrow. 



A. Millefolium Roseum — 1 foot, August. Finely cut foliage; 

 flowers bright pink. Each 25c; per doz $2.50 



A. Tomentosa — 6 inches, June. A choice creeping variety; flow- 

 ers golden yellow. Each 25c; per doz $2.50 



A. Ptarmica fl. pi. — 2 feet, August. A most valuable variety for 

 supplying cut flowers. Pure white. Each 25c; doz $2.50 



A. "The Pearl." — 2 feet, July. This handsome perennial cannot 

 be recommended too highly. The blossoms are pure white, 

 and are produced in amazing profusion nearly all summer. 



Each 25c; per doz $2.50 



ACORUS — Sweet Flag. 



A. Calamus Variegata — 2 feet. A handsome green and whitish- 

 yellow striped plant, very effective. Each 25c; per doz $2.50 



AJUGA. 



A. Reptaus — 4 inches, May. Blue; valuable rock work. Each 

 25c; per doz $2.50 



ANEMONE. 



Anemones, or Windflowers, are amongst the most showy of our 

 hardy autumn-blooming plants. Their beautiful pure white and 

 rose- colored flowers are borne on long stems and in great profusion. 

 They are indispensable for cut flowers. Should be represented in 

 all gardens. 



A.. Whirlwind — 3 feet. A very hardy and strong-growing va- 

 riety, very simlar to Japonica, but the flowers are semi-double, 

 are produced in great profusion and last a long time; color, 

 pure white. Each 30c; per doz $3.00 



AQUILEGIA— Columbine. 



Perfectly hardy. Last for years. Produce a wealth of brilliant 

 colored flowers from May to September. Should be represented in 

 all gardens. 



A very popular, almost indispensable border plant, possessing 

 great beauty of form and coloring of flowers. Easy of cultivation 

 in any good garden soil. 

 A. Coerulea — 1 foot, April to July. Flowers large, sepals violet 



blue, petals pure white. 

 A. Chrysantha — 3 feet, May. A beautiful variety, having golden 



yellow flowers which are very fragrant. 

 A. Glandulosa — 1 foot, April and May. A conspicuously handsome 



plant; flowers large, sepals deep blue, petals white. 

 A. Skinneri — 3 feet, June. A unique and very pretty variety, sepals 



crimson, petals light green. 



Each 25c; per doz $2.50 



ARABIS — Rock Cress. 

 Alpina — Dwarf, suitable for rock work, flowers white. Each 



25c; per doz $2.50 



ASCLEPIAS. 

 A. Incarnata — 3 feet, July. Rosy flesh. Each 25c; per doz. $2.50 

 A. Tuberosa — 1 foot, July. Orange-yellow. Each 25c; per 

 doz $2.50 



ASTILBE — Spiraea. 

 A. Japonica — 1% feet, June. A very showy, dwarf hardy 

 plant, having handsome dark green foliage and upright 

 spikes of pure white flowers. Each 30c; per doz $3.00 



ASTER. 



The hardy Asters are now considered quite indispensable 

 in the herbaceous border. 



A. Lady Trevellyn — 4 feet, September. Pure white. 

 A. Longifolium Formosissima — >3 feet, September. Purple. 

 A. Novae Angliae — 6 feet, September. Blue. 

 A. Novae Angliae Rosea — 6 feet, September. Rosy purple. 

 Each 25c; per doz $2.50 



