Dreer’s Reliable Flower Seeds 
FOR SUMMER SOWING 
On the following sixteen pages we give a list of Seeds of the Best Hardy Perennials which are now so deservedly popular. 
With little trouble you can have an abundant supply of Columbines, Canterbury Bells, Foxgloves, Gaillardias, Hollyhocks, Lark- 
spurs, Forget-me-nots, Daisies, Sweet Williams, etc., etc., for flowering in 1917. The list also includes a choice selection of other 
Flower Seeds for summer sowing, such as Cinerarias, Cyclamens, 
Pansies, Primulas, etc. 
Hardy perennials are easily grown from seed. In many cases 
they are a little slower than annuals, but with intelligent care 
they are successfully raised, and from seed is an excellent way 
to get up a big stock of perennials. Most professionals make 
summer sowings in a cold frame shaded with a lath frame or 
shaded glass sash, but the amateur may have more success and 
less bother growing hardy perennials from seed sown in the open 
ground than in any other way. Prepare a bed in a nice, shel- 
tered spot in the garden, preferably not very sunny; let the sur- 
face of the bed be raised four or five inches above the general 
level, and the soil be a mellow, free, fine earth on the surface. 
Draw shallow rows across the surface of the bed, three to four 
inches apart, and here sow the s<ed, keeping the varieties of 
one kind or nature as much together as practical; cover the 
seeds thinly, press the whole surface gently, water moderately, 
then dust a little fine, loose soil over all. If the weather is 
sunny or windy, shade with papers ora 
few branches, but remove these in the 
eyening. When the szedlings come up 
thin them out to stiffen those that are left, 
and when they are two to three inches 
high, they are fit for transplanting into per- 
manent quarters. 
PLANS OF 
HARDY BORDERS 
These are shown together with list of 
suitable plants in our Special Catalogue 
of Hardy Plants. Copies free on request. 
AncuusaA ITALICA, DROPMORE VARIETY 
AGROSTEMMA CORONARIA 
AGROSTEMMA (Rose of Heaven, Mullein Pink). 
1090 Coronaria. 
producing glowing crimson flowers like a single pink and silvery white foli- 
age; fine for’ cutting; "2jfeet 9 oz. mlloncishee eee ee ee eee eee 5) 
1104 Saxatile Compactum (‘Basket of Gold’). 
flowers; hardy perennial; excellent for reck work; 1 foot. 4 z., 30 cts.. 10 
A Cortp Frame with LatH SHapr, a Goop PLace TO GERMINATE 
FLOWER SEEDs IN DURING THE SUMMER 
ACHILLEA. 
(Milfoil, or Yarrow.) 
PER PKT. 
1021 Ptarmica ‘The 
Pearl.’’ One of the best 
hardy white perennials. 
Grows about 2 feet high, 
and from spring till frost 
is covered with heads of 
purest white double flow- 
ers. Easily grown from 
ACONITUM. 
(Monk’s Hood, or Wolf’s Bane ) 
1031 Napellus. A hardy 
perennial, growing in 
any good garden soil, 
producing long spikes of 
and white flowers. Well 
-adapted for planting 
among shrubbery or in 
shady corners of the gar- 
den; 3 to 5 feet ....... 10 
An attractive free-flowering hardy perennial of easy culture, 
ALWYSSUM (Mad Wort). 
Showy golden-yellow 
ANCH USA (Alkanet). 
1138 Italica Dropmore Variety. One ofthe best hardy perennials, and be- 
coming more popular each season, grows about 5 feet high, and bears in 
abundance all summer flowers of the richest gentian-blue. 4 0z., 50 cis... 15 
ANEMONE (Windflower). 
A very pleasing perennial, producing large flowers; few plants compare with them 
in beauty; fine for bouquets. Sow outdoors in spring or early summer, keeping 
shaded till the plants appear. 
1140 Coronaria, [Mixed Colors (Poppy Anemone)... ...............-- 5 
1146 St. Brigid. 
famous Irish grower, and comprises semi-double and double flowers in a 
wonderfull anayzoficolorsse peepee eee eC eRe eerie 15 
A beautiful selection of the above; our seed comes from a 
(40) For complete list and cultural notes see our Garden Book for 1916. 
curiously shaped blue  . 
