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SUMMER FLOWERING 
HARDY ASTERS 
The following grow from 12 to 15 inches high, and produce their 
showy flowers during July and August. Their free flowering habit and 
compact growth makes them most desirable subjects for the front of the 
mixed border. 
Acris. A neat variety, completely covered with violet-blue flowers. 
Amellus Beauty of Ronsdorf. Of a tender lilac-rose, perfect in 
form and entirely distinct. 
— Perry’s Favorite. A most distinct, bright, clear rose. 
— Preziosa. A fine deep violet-blue. 
Ptarmicoides. White flowers, not large, but produced in great 
masses; fine for cutting. 
Price. Any of the above 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz. 
NEW SUMMER FLOWERING 
HARDY ASTER. 
AMELLUS “KING GEORGE.”’ 
The finest form of the Amellus type yet introduced, individual flowers 
frequently measures three inches in diameter and of a good blue color | 
(see cut). 50 cts. each; $5.00 per doz. 
Set of one each of the above 6 Asters for $1.50. 
DWARF ALPINE 
ASTERS. 
ARMERIA Alpinus. Indispensable for the | 
rockery or edge of hardy borders; | P 
F grows 6 to 10 inches high and bears 
ARMERZIA. 2) large showy bluish-purple flowers in 
May and June. 
— Albus. Identical to the above, 
but with pure white flowers. 
(4,.| Sub=coeruleus. Forms a dense tuft 
of leaves, from which issue many 
leafless stems 12 inches high, bearing 
in June and July massive bluish-vio- 
let flowers 3 inches in diameter. 
Price, 20 cts. each; $2.00 per doz. 
Set of 3 sorts, 50 cts. 
Fall Flowering Hardy Asters 
are offered on page 203. 
(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 the fall. Very 
useful in the rockery. (See cut.) 
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Formosa Rosea. Light pink. 
— Alba. Rose tinted white. 
Laucheana Rosea. Bright rose. 
— Alba. White. 
Price. Any of the above 20 cts. each; * 
$2.00 per doz.; $12.00 per 100. ASCLEPIAS 
New Armeria Cephalotes “Ruby.”’ 
A splendid improvement on the old variety growing 18 to 24 
inches high with large heads of ruby-red flowers, 50 cts. each; 
$5.00 per doz. 
ASCLEPIAS. 
(Butterfly Weed.) 
Very showy native plants, about 24 feet high, producing their 
flowers during July and August. 
Incarnata Rosea (Swamp Milkweed). A selection of our 
native Milkweed, having pretty rosy-flesh colored flowers. 
Tuberosa. Compact umbels of brilliant orange-colored 
flowers. 
20 cts. each; $2.00 per doz.; $12.00 per 100. 
PLANS OF HARDY BORDERS. 
These are shown together with list of suitable plants in our 
Special Catalogue of Hardy Plants. Copies free on request. Aster AMELLUS Kinc GEorGE 
We offer a grand collection of Japanese Iris. See page 222 
