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HARDY PERENNIAL PIMTS 



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Aquilegias, or Columbines 



The Columbines are one of the most elegant and beautifiil 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 stifi 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 aU particular as to soU 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 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 yellow variety, and one of the 

 brightest. 



Chrysantha (Golden Columbine). Bright yellow long-spurred flowers, 



Chrysantha Alba. A fine long-spurred white. 



Flabellata Nana Alba. A dwarf growing pure white. 



Skinneri. Petals yellow with long red spurs. 



Vulgaris. The European violet-blue columbine. 



Price. 30 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $18.00 per 100. One each 

 of the 8 sorts for $1.65. 



Dreer's Long-spurred Aquilegia or Columbine 



AsclepiaS (Butterfly Weed) 



Tuberosa. Very showy native plants, about 2^ feet high, pro- 

 ducing flowers of brilliant orange-scarlet during July and 

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



Arabis (Rock Cress) 



Artemisia Lactiflora 



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

 flowering plants that is especiaUy adapted for edging and for the 

 rock garden, but does equally weU 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.; $15.00 per 100. 



— Flore-pleno. A very pretty double flowering form of the above. 35 cts. each; 

 $3.50 per doz.; $20.00 per 100. 



Arineria (Sea pink or Thrift) 

 Attractive dwarf plants that will succeed in any soil, 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. Very useful in the rockery as well as in the border. 

 Cephalotes Rubra. A strong grower with large heads of crimson-red flowers. 



— Rosea. Large heads of rose-pink flowers. 



— Bees Ruby ( New) . Has stout stems with large globular heads of brilliant ruby-red 

 flowers. 50 cts. each. 



Laucheana Rosea. Bright rose. 

 Maritima Alba. A pretty pure white. 



Price. Except where noted. 30 cts. each; $3.00 per doz.; $18.00 per 100. 



Artemisia 



. A most useful class of plants, either for the border or for filling in within the shrub- 

 bery. With the exception of the variety Lactiflora 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. 

 Abrotanum (Old Man, or Southern-wood). Dark green, finely cut foliage, with 



pleasant aromatic odor; 2 feet. 

 Lactiflora (Hawthorn Scented Mugworl). A most desirable and effective plant either 

 for the border or to plant among shrubbery; it is of strong free growth with erect 

 stems 3-1 to 4J feet high terminated with great panicles of Astilbe-like, Hawthorn- 

 scented creamy white flowers produced from the latter part of August to the end of 

 September particularly valuable, being unlike any other plant in bloom at that time. 

 Stelleriana (Old Woman). Deeply-cut silvery white foliage; much used in carpet 

 bedding, 18 inches. 



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



Asperula (Sweet woodruff) 



Odorata. A sweetly scented herb growing from 6 to 8 inches high with terminal 

 clusters of white flowers in May. A useful plant for a shady spot in the garden or 

 rockery or for carpeting the ground in a shady position. The dried leaves have a 

 delightful fragrance like new-mown hay. 30 cts. each; $3.00 per doz. 



