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Dreer's Long-spurred Aquilegia (Columbine) 



ANTHEM IS (Marguerite) 



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 pr more above the beautifullj' 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 effective- 

 ly 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 charm- 

 ing 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 yellow variety, and one 



of the brightest. 

 Chrysantha (Golden Columbine). Bright yellow long-spurred 



flowers. 

 Coerulea (Rocky Mounlain Columbine). Bright blue and white 



long-spurred flowers. 

 Nivea Grandiflora. A splendid robust growing large pure 

 white. 



Skinner i. Petals yellow with long red spurs. 

 Vulgaris (Common European Columbine). Violet-blue. 

 Price. 30 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; S18.00 per 100. 

 One each of the 8 sorts for $2:00. 



Tinctoria. This hardy Marguerite is one of the most satisfactory summer- 

 flowering perennials, succeeding in the poorest soil; of bushy habit, grow- 

 ing about 15 inches high, and producing its large, golden-yellow, daisy- 

 like flowers continuously during the entire summer. 



— Alba. Creamy-white flowers with j^ellow centre. 



— Pallida. Light canary-yellow. 



25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; S15.00 per 100. 



ARAB IS (Rock Cress) 



Alpina. One of the most desirable of the very early spring-flowering 

 plants that is especially adapted for edging and for the rock garden but 

 does equally well in the border, forming a dense carpet, completely covered 

 with pure white flowers. It is nice for cutting, and lasts for a long time 

 in bloom. 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; S15.00 per 100. 



ARMERIA (Sea Pink or Thrift) 



Attractive dwarf plants that will succeed in any soU, 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 early spring until late in faU. Verj' useful 

 in the rockery as well as in the border. 

 Cephalotes Rubra. A strong growing variety with large heads of 



crimson-red flowers. 

 Laucheana Rosea. Bright rose. 



— Alba. White. 



Maritima Rosea. Bright rosy-pink. 



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



Armeri.\ 



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, emd 20 per cent, to 

 points west of the Mississippi River. 



