24 HENRY A. DREER, PHILADELPHIA—HARDY PERENNIAL PLANTS 
HARDY ORNAMENTAL 
GRASSES. 
Elymus Glaucus (Blue Lyme Grass). A handsome Grass, 
with narrow glaucous silvery foliage; well adapted for the 
border or edge of beds containing taller sorts; 2 ft. 25 cts. 
each; $2.50 a per doz. 
Festuca Glauca (Blue Fescue). A pretty dwarf tufted 
Grass, with glaucous foliage; 8 to 10 inches. 
$2.50 per doz.; $15.00 per 100. 
Gynerium Argenteum (Pampas Grass). 
most effective. Its silvery plumes are produced on stems 8 
to 10 feet high. Well established plants can remain in the 
open ground if protected. 50 cts. each. Specimen plants, 
$1.00 each. 
Pennisetum Japonicum (Hurdy Fountain Grass). 
This variety grows about 4 feet high; foliage narrow, of a 
bright green. while the cylindrical flower heads, carried well 
above the foliage, are tinged with bronze-purple, one of the 
most valuable hardy grasses. 15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz.; 
$10.00 per 100. 
Phalaris Arundinacea Variegata (Variegated Ribbon 
Grass, or Gardeners Garters). 
age; an excellent grass for bordering large beds; 12 to 15 
inches. 16 cts. each; $1.50 per doz.; $10.00 per 100. 
Uniola Latifolia (Spike Grass). One of the finest of our 
native Grasses, 3 to 4 feet high, with very ornamental flat 
heads in graceful drooping panicles. 15 cts. each; $1.50 per 
doz.; $10.00 per 100. 
GYPSOPHILA. 
Cerastioides. A fine variety for the rockery, growing but 3 
inches high and producing from June to August small white | 
flowers marked with pink. 
Repens. An elegant trailing plant for the rockery, with clouds 
of small white flowers in July and August. 
15 cts, each; $1.50 per doz. 
HELIANTHEMUM. 
(Rock or Sun Rose.) 
Exceedingly pretty, low-growing evergreen plants, forming 
broad clumps and which during their flowering season, July to 
September, are quite hidden bya mass of bloom well adapted 
for the front of the border, the rockery, or a dry, sunny bank. 
Choice mixed varieties, 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz. 
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Hetenium Riverton BEAUTY 
25 cts. each; | 
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Large variegated foli- § 
TDexnisetum Jarontcum (Hardy Fountain Grass) 
HELENIUM (Sneeze Wort), 
All of these are desirable border plants, succeeding in any soil 
in a sunny location, with broad-spreading heads of flowers, useful 
for cutting, each species covering a long blooming season. 
Autumnale Superbum. Golden yellow flowers during the 
late summer and fall months; 5 to 6 feet. 
—Rubrum. New bright terra cotta red variety; August and 
September; 4 feet. 
Hoopesi. Pure orange yellow flowers, 23 inches across, and 
the earliest to flower, coming in early in June and continuing 
throughout July; 2 feet. 
Riverton Beauty. Rich lemon yellow, with large purplish- 
black cone; August and September; 4 feet. 25 cts. each. 
Riverton Gem. Old-gold changing to wallflower red. 25 
cts. each. i 
Price, except where noted, 15 cts. each; $1.50 doz. 
HELIANTHUS (Hardy Sunflowers). 
The perennial Sunflowers are among the most effective hardy 
plants for large borders for planting among ‘shrubbery, or as 
clumps on the lawn. They are remarkably free-flowering, will 
succeed inany soil, and are invaluable for decorative purposes, 
or as cut flowers during the summer and autumn. 
Giganteus. A native variety with medium-sized bright canary- 
yellow flowers in September and October; 6 feet. 
Maximiliani. The latest of all, perfecting its fine golden-yel- 
low flowers in long, graceful sprays during October, when all 
others have finished flowering; invaluable for cutting; 5 to 7 
feet. 
[Mollis. Large, single lemon-yellow flowers, with downy white 
foliage; blooms in August and September; 4 feet. 
Orgyalis. A tall variety, 6 feet high, with medium-sized 
single golden-yellow flowers during September. 
Rigidus Japonicus. One of the most desirable varieties, 
beginning to bloom early in July and continuing until fall; 
flowers golden-yellow, with dark centres; 5 feet. 
Wolley Dod. The best of the September flowering varieties, 
with deep yelicw flowers; entirely distinct, 6 feet. 
Price. Any of the above, 15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz.; $10.00 
per 100. One each of the 6 sorts for 75 cents. 
25 cts. each. 
