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Aquilegias, 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 should be planted wherever their presence 

 will serve to lighten up a too stiff and formal planting, for no other plant has 

 so airy a grace as the Columbine, is more generous of its blooms, or more effec- 

 tively adapted for cut flowers. 



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 are 

 a most important part of the hardy garden, and should be grown in quantity 

 by every lover of old-fashioned garden flowers. 



Dreer's Long-spurred Mixed Hybrids. This is the most admired type 

 of Columbines. The plants are of strong, thrifty growth. The flowers of 

 largest size vary in color through charming tones of cream, pink, lavender, 

 blue, white, red, etc., hardly any two being exactly alike. 



Dreer's Long-spurred Pink Shades. A special selection of the greatly 

 admired pink shades of this most popular type. 



Canadensis. The native bright red and yellow variety, and one of the 

 brightest. 



Chrysantha (Golden Columbine) . Bright yellow long-spurred flowers. 

 Helenae. Large blue flowers and wide expanded white corolla. 

 Nivea Grandiflora. A splendid robust growing large pure white. 

 Skinneri. Petals yellow with long red spurs. 

 Price. 30 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $18.00 per 100. One 

 each of the 7 sorts for $1.50. 



Dreer's Long-spurred Aquilegia or Columbine 

 Anthericum (St. Bruno's Lily) 



Liliastrum Major. A charming border plant with rush-like 

 foliage and 18 to 24 inch high racemes of small white lily-like 

 flowers. 35 cts. each; $3.50 per doz. 



Artemisia Lactiflora 



Arabis (RocU Cress) 



Alpina. One of the most desirable of the very early spring-flowering plants that is 

 especially adapted for edging and for the rock garden, but does equally well in the 

 border, forming a dense carpet, completely covered with pure white flowers. It is 

 nice for cutting, and lasts for a long time in bloom. 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; 

 $15.00 per 100. 



— Flore-pleno. A very pretty double flowering form of the above. 35 cts. each; 

 $3.50 per doz.; $20.00 per 100. 



— Variegata. Same as above but with the foliage prettily variegated with creamy 

 white. 50 cts. each; $5.00 per doz. 



Armeria (Sea Pink or 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, from 9 to 12 inches high. They flower more or less continuously from early 

 spring until late in fall. Very useful in the rockery as well as in the border. 

 Cephalotes Rubra. A strong growing variety with large heads of crimson-red 



flowers. 



— Rosea. Large heads of rose-pink flowers. 

 Laucheana Rosea. Bright rose. 

 Maritima Alba. A pretty pure white. 



30 cts. each; $3.00 per doz.; $18.00 per 100. 



Artemisia 



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

 bery. With the exception of the variety Lactiflora they are not remarkable for their 

 flowers; The foliage of the sorts offered is very ornamental. All the varieties excepting 

 Lactiflora stand cutting down to 5 or 6 inches when used in carpet or ribbon bedding. 

 Abrotanum (OM Man, or Southern-wood). Dark green, finely cut foliage, with 



pleasant aromatic odor; 2 feet. 

 Lactiflora (Hawthorn Scented Mugwort). A most desirable and effective plant either 

 for the border or to plant among shrubbery; it is of strong free growth with erect 

 stems 3j to 4^ feet high terminated with great panicles of Astilbe-like, Hawthorn- 

 scented creamy white flowers produced from the latter part of August to the end of 

 September on account of which it is particularly valuable, being unlike any other 

 plant in bloom at that time. 

 Stelleriana (Old Woman). Deeply-cut foliage; much used in carpet bedding, 

 18 inches. 



25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $15.00 per 100. 



