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ARMERI A (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 ea.ly spring until late in fall. Very useful 

 in the rockery as well as in the border. ^ 



Formosa Rosea. Soft light rose color. 

 Laucheana Rosea. Bright rose. 

 — Alba. White. 



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



ARTEMISIA LACTIFLORA 



(Hawthorn-scented MugwortJ 



Unlike the other varieties offered, which are grown for iheir foliage, this 



comparatively new introduction from China is a most effective flowering 



plant, with erect stems 3^ to 4i feet high, clothed with elegantly 



^cut dark-green foliage and terminated by panicles of Hawthorn- 

 ! scented creamy white Spiraea-like light and graceful flowers. It 



is at its best from the latter part of August to the end of Sep- 

 tember, and is particularly valuable on this account, being un- 

 like any other plant in bloom at that time. (See cut.) 30 cts. 

 each; $2.50 per doz.; $18.00 per 100. 



ARTEMISIA 



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

 for filling in within the shrubbery. With the exception of 

 the new variety Lactiflora they are not remarkable for their 

 flowers; the foliage of the sorts offered is very ornamental. 

 All the varieties offered stand cutting down to 5 or 6 inches 

 when used in carpet or ribbon bedding. 

 Abrotanum {Old Man, or Southerri-wood). Dark green, finely cut 



foliage, with pleasant aromatic odor; 2 feet. 

 Pedemontana. A handsome variety with finely cut silvery foliage. 

 Stelleriana ( O'.d Woman). Deeply-cut silvery foliage; much used 

 in carpet bedding, 18 inches. 



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



Dreer's Long-spurred Aquilegia (Columbine) 



AQUILEGIAS, OR COLUMBINES 



The Columbines are one of the most elegant and beautiful of hardy plants, pro- 

 ducing their graceful spurred flowers on stems rising 2 feet or more above ihe 

 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 effectively 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 selectionof the greatly admired 



pink shades of this most popular type. 35 cts. each; $3.50 per doz.; $25.00 



per 100. 

 Canadensis (Cominon American Columbine). The native bright red and yellow 



variety, and one of the brightest. 

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

 Coerulea [Itocky Mountain Columbine). Bright blue and white long-spurred 



flowers. 

 Flabellata Nana Alba. A dwarf growing, pure white. 

 lielen^e. Large blue flowers and wide expanded white corolla. 

 NIvea Grandiflora. A splendid robust growing large pure white. 

 Vulgaris (Common European ColumMne). Violet-blue. 

 Price. Any of the above, except where noted, 30 cts. each; $2.50 rer doz.; 



$18.00 per 100. One each of the 9 sorts for $2.00. 



Artemisia Lactiflora 



NOTE. — All Bulbs, Roots and Plants are forwarded by Express, purchaser paying charges. If wanted by Parcel Post, add 10 per cent, 

 to value of order to points east of the Mississippi River, and 20 per cent, to points west of the Mississippi River 



