“TER HARDY DERENNIAL PLANTS- | {E] 175 
EUPATORIUM 
Ageratoides (7horough wort). <A useful border plant of strong, free 
growth, 3 to 34 feet high, with minute white flowers in dense heads; 
splendid for cutting; August and September. 
Coeelestinum. A pretty hardy plant, with light blue flowers similar to 
the Ageratum, in flower from August until frost. 18 to 24 inches. 
Fraseri. Very large corymbs of pure white flowers late in September 
and October. 3 feet. 
Purpureum [Maculatum (Joe Pye Weed). A deeply colored form of 
the purple Joe Pye Weed, a common native plant; useful in low ground. 
25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $15.00 per 100. 
EUPHORBIA Mik Wort) 
Corollata (Plowering Spurge). A most showy and useful native plant, 
growing about 18 inches high and bearing from June to August umbels 
of pure white flowers, with a small green eye; desirable for cutting. 
Cyparissias. Grows from 10 to 12 inches high, and forms neat clumps 
with Cypress-like foliage, and during the month of May showy trusses 
of bright yellow flower-like bracts; very effective even when out of 
bloom. 
25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $15.00 per 100. 
FERULA Giant Fennel) 
Communis. A noble, hardy 
herbaceous plant, growing 8 
to 10 feet high, with fine 
feathery foliage. Valuable 
for its tropical effect when 
planted as an individual speci- 
men. 90 cts. each; $5.00 
per doz. 
Eupatorium AGERATOIDES AND C@LESTINUM 
ECHINOPS 
(Globe Thistle) 
Sphzrocephalus. An interesting 
thistle-like plant with large globu- 
lar heads of bluish-white attractive 
flowers. 3 feet. 25 cts. each; 
$2.50 per doz. 
LITTLE GEM 
FEVERFEW 
(Matricaria) 
A most useful border plant 
and valuable summer cut flower, 
with large double-white flowers; 
June until October; 18 to 24 
inches high. 25 cts. each; $2.50 
per doz.; $15.00 per 100. 
EPIMEDIUM 
(Barren-wort, Bishop’s Hat) 
Dwarf-growing plants, 8 to 10 
inches high, with leathery foliage 
and panicles of interesting flowers; 
the foliage ofall the varieties offered 
below Assumes the most beautiful 
tints of: color in autumn, 
Mushianum Rubrum,-— Rosy 
red, 
Niveum., Dwarf, early, pure 
white. 
Sulphureum,. Sulphur yellow. 
ExyncGium AMETHYSTINUM 
Violacea. Rich violet. 
25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $15.00 per ae: Set of 4 sorts, 85 cts. 
ERYNGIUM (sea Holly) 
Handsome ornamental plants, growing from 2 to 3 feet high. Effective in flower 
and shrubbery border, woodlands, wild gardens, etc.; the flower heads, which are 
produced from July to PepieRD Es. are useful to cub for vases or to dry for winter 
houquets. 
Amethystinum. The finely-cv beviny foliage and the beautiful thistle-like heads 
are of glistening amethystine-blue: A most ornamental plant. (Seecut.) 35 cts. 
each; $3.50 per doz. ) 
DREER’S CANTERBURY BELLS 
We offer strong plants of these that will bloom this season. See pages 170 
and 171. ‘ ; FeverFew 
