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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 quantuy 

 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 yel- 

 low variety, and one of the brightest. 



Chrysantha {Golden Columbine). Bright 

 yellow long-spurred flowers. 



Coerulea (Rocky Mountain Columbine) . Bright 

 blue and white long-spurred flowers. 



Nivea Grandiflora. A splendid robust grow- 

 ing large pure white. 



Skinneri. Petals yellow with long red spurs. 



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

 100. One each of the 7 sorts for $1.75. 



Artemisia LAcrrFLORA 



Aquilegia (Columbine) 



ARMERIA 



(Sea Pink or Thrift ) 



Attractive dwarf plants that will 

 succeed in any soil, forming ever- 

 green 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 contin- 

 uously from early spring until late 

 in fall. Very useful in the rockery 

 as well as in the border. 

 Cephalotes Rubra. A strong 



growing \'ariety with large heads 



of crimson-red flowers. 

 Laucheana Rosea. Bright rose. 



25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; 



$15.00 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 variety Lacti- 

 flora 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. 

 or Southern-wood). Dark green, finely cut 



Armeria 



Abrotanum (Old Man 



fohagc, with pleasant aromatic odor; 2 feet. 



Lactiflora (Hawthorn-scented Mugwort). A most eftective flowering plant, 

 rwith erect stems Z\ to 4-|- feet high, clothed with elegantly cut dark- 

 geen foliage and terminated by panicles of Hawthorn-scented creamy 

 white Spirea-like light and graceful flowers. It is at its best from the 

 latter part of August to the end of September, and is particularly 

 valuable on this account, being unlike any other plant in bloom at that 

 time. (See cut.) 



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

 carpet bedding, 18 inches. 



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



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. 



