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HARDY PERENNIAL PIANTS 



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ANEMONE JAPONICA (Japanese Windflower) 



These beautiful Windflowers are among the most important hardy plants. While 

 they begin blooming in August they arc more especially valuable on account of their 

 continuing in full beauty till cut down by hard frost. All are excellent for cutting, 

 lasting in good condition for many days. The plants grow 2 to 3 feet high, are perfectly 

 hardy if given the protection of 2 or 3 inches of leaves or litter during the winter, and, 

 while they respond freely to liberal feeding, they will succeed in any ordinary garden soil, 

 increasing in beauty from year to year. They can be used in solid beds or borders or 

 clumps planted through the hardy border, which they brighten during the late fall months. 

 Japonica Alba. Large, snowy-white; very chaste. 

 Japonica Rubra. Beautiful rosy-red; stamens bright yellow. 

 Queen Charlotte. Very large semi-double flowers of La France pink, a color that 



is rare among hardy plants. 

 Whirlwind. Large, semi-double pure white flowers, very free. 

 Price. Any of the above, 30 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $18.00 per 100. Set of the 4 sorts 



for $1.00. 



ANEMONES (Windflowers) 



Hupehensis. We offered this little gem some five years ago, but a limited stock made 

 it necessary for us to withdraw same. We have now a fine lot and are certain many 

 who have seen it at our Nurseries during the past few seasons will be glad to secure a 

 supply. It was originally introduced from central China, is closely allied to Anemone 

 Japonica which in a miniature form it closely resembles. The plant grows from 10 to 

 12 inches high and from early in August until late in autumn, produces an abundance of 

 flowers about IJ inches in diameter, of a pleasing mauve-rose. 35 cts. each; $3.50 per 

 doz.; $18.00 per 100. 



Pulsatilla {Pasgtie Flower). Grows from 9 to 12 inches high and produces violet or 

 purple flowers during April or May. An interesting plant for the rockery or well- 

 drained border. 30 cts. e?ch; $3.00 per doz. 



Pulsatilla Rubra. Of dwarfer habit with reddish-purple flowers. 30 cts. each; $3.00 

 per doz. 



Anchusa Italica, Dropmore Variety 



ALYSSUM (Mad Wort) 



Rostratum. Bright golden yellow flowers in Jime and July. 1 foot. 



Saxatile Compactum {Basket of Gold, Gold Tufl, Rockmadwort) . An indispensable 



plant for the rockery or border, growing 1 foot high and producing in May masses of 



broad, flat heads of bright yellow flowers. 



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



AMSONIA 



Salicifolius. A stout, shrub-like plant, growing about 2 feet high, with terminal 

 spikes of light steel-blue flowers, desirable to intersperse in clumps in the front 

 row of the shrubbery border. 



Tabernaemontana. Heavier foliage than the above and clear blue flowers. 

 35 cts. each; $3.50 per doz. 



ANCHUSA ITALICA 



(The Improved Italian Alkanet or Bugloss) 



The improved Alkanets justly take a front rank among early summer 

 flowering perennials. The rich blue tones of their flowers fill a vacancy in 

 this color, of which there is never a superabundance, particularly during , 

 their flowering period which covers the months of May and June. They — 

 form much branched specimens 3 to 5 feet high, each branch terminated by 

 a large, pyramidal, graceful spike of blue flowers, and while the habit of the 

 plants are strong and vigorous they are not at all coarse. Of easy culture in any 

 good garden soil and a sunny position. Very effective either in solid beds or in the 

 hardy border. 



Dropmore Variety. Rich gentian blue. 

 Opal. A splendid lustrous light blue. 



35 cts. each; $3.50 per doz.; $20.00 per 100. 



ANCHUSA MYOSOTIDI FLORA 



An entirely different and distinct dwarf species from the Caucasian mountains 

 growing but 10 to 12 inches high, producing during April and May sprays of beau- 

 tiful Forget-me-not-like flowers of a rich hue. 50 cts. each; $5.00 per doz. 



Anemone Hupehensis 



We can supply seeds of many of the Hardy Perennials. See Flower Seed Department, beginning page 51 



