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Aquilegia or Columbine. 



AQUIEEGIAS or COLUMBINES. 



The Columbines are one of the most elegant and beautiful of 

 hardy plants, producing their graceful spurred flowers on stems 

 rising 2 feet or more above the beautifully divided foliage, and 

 are highly prized for cutting. 



They are not at all particular as to soil or location, although 

 they prefer a sandy loam and a moist but well drained, sunny 

 position, and usually make themselves at home in any hardy 

 border or rockery. Their period of flowering covers the late 

 spring and early summer months. Taken as a whole, they area 

 most important part of the hardy garden, and should be gTOwn 

 in quantity by every lover of old-fashioned garden flowers, 

 Californica Hybrida. Long spurred flowers in a variety of 



colorings, such as yellow, pink, flesh, red, etc. 

 Canadensis [Common American Columbine). The native 



bright red and yellow variety, and one of the brightest. 

 Caryophj Uoides FI. PI. Double, striped and mottled. 

 Chrysantha {Golden Columbine). Bright yellow long- 

 spurred flowers. 

 Ccemlea (Rocky Mountain Columbine). Bright blue and 



white long-spurred flowers. 

 Flabellata nana alba. Pure ■white, of dwarf growth 

 Helenas. A new hybrid with very large blue flowers and wide, 



expanded pure white corolla. 

 Nivea grandiflora. A fine pure white sort. 

 Skinneri. Yellow with long red spurs. 

 Truncata. Scarlet tipped yellow; very distinct. 

 Vulgaris {Common European Columbint . Violet-blue; 



a strong, vigorous grower. 

 Price, 15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz.; §10.00 per 100. 

 One each of the eleven sorts for $1.50. 



ARALIA. 



Cashmeriana. A stately ornamental plant with attractive 

 foliage and large panicles of small white flowers in early 

 summer; grows 5 to 8 feet high. 25 cts, each; §2.50 per doz. 



ARENARIA s.md-wort : 



Crtspitosa. Close-growing evergreen plant, forming a dense carpet 



of verdure, and especially desirable for rock work; flowers pure white; 



prettily studding the foliage during the spring months. 15 cts. each; 



$1.50 per doz. 

 flontana. A pretty creeping plant covered with large snow-white 



flowers in June. A gem for overhanging rocks or in the border. 25 



cts. each; §2.50 per doz. 



AR3II RI V (Thrift). 



Attractive dwarf plants that will succeed in any soil, forming evergreen 

 tufts of bright green foliage, from which innumerable flowers appear in 

 dense heads, on stiff, wiry stems about 9 inches high. They flower 

 more or less continuously from early spring until late in the fall. Very 

 effective in the rockery and indispensable in the border. 

 Maritima Splendens. Bright rosy-pink. 

 — alba. A pretty white. 



15 cts each; $1.50 per doz. ; $8.00 per 100. 



ARTEMISIA. 



A most useful class of plants, either for the border or for filling in 

 within the shrubbery. Though not remarkable for their flowers, the 

 foliage of the sorts offered is very ornamental. All of the varieties 

 offered stand cutting down to 5 or 6 inches when used in carpet or 

 ribbon bedding. 

 Abrotamnum (Old Man, or Sout?iern-wood). Dark green, finely 



cut foliage, with pleasant aromatic odor; 2 feet 

 Pedemontana. A handsome variety with finely cut silvery foliage. 

 Purshiana. A white foliaged sort, suitable for edging; 18 inches. 

 Stelleriana ( Old Woman). Deeply-cut silvery foliage; much used in 



carpet bedding; 18 inches; 



15 cts. each; §1.50 per doz.; $10.00 per 100. 



A i mi kia Maritima 



Our "Introduction" collection! of Hardy Perenniali contain only the belt torti. See page 19S. 



