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HARDY PEREMrilAL PLANT! 



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AQVILEGIAS, or COLIIMBINES. 



The Columbines are one of the most elegant and beautiful of 

 hardy plants, producing their giaceful spurred flowers on stems 

 rising 2 feet or more above the l)eautifully divided foliage, and 

 are highly prized for cutting. 



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. 



Californica Hybrida, Long spurred flowers in a variety of 

 colorings, such as yellow, pink, flesh, red, etc. 



Canadensis {Common American Columbine). The native 

 bright red and yellow variety, and one of the brightest. 



Chrysantha {Golden Columbine). Bright yellow long- 

 spurred flowers. 



Ccerulea (Rocki/ Mountain Columbine). Bright blue and 

 white long-spurred flowers. 



Flabellata nana alba. Pure white, of dwarf growth. 

 Helenas. A new hybrid with very large blue flowers and wide 

 expanded pure white corolla. 



Skinned. Yellow with long red 



spurs. 

 Truncata. Scarlet tipped yellow; 



very distinct. 



Vulgaris (Common European 

 Columbine). Violet -blue; a 

 strong, vigorous grower. 



Price, 15 cts. each; $1.50 per 

 doz.; $10.00 per 100. 

 One each of the 9 sorts for |1.25. 



AKABIS Rock Cress). 



Armeria Makitima. 



Alpina. One of the most desir- 



e of the very early spring- 



owering plants that is especially 



adapted for edging and for the 



rock garden, but does equally 



Arabis Alpina. 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. (See cut. ) 15 cts. 



each; $1.50 per doz.; $10.00 per 100. 



ARCNARIA (Sand-wort>. 

 Montana. A pretty creeping plant covered with large snow-white 

 flowers in June. A gem for overhanging rocks or in the border. 

 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz. 



ARMERIA (Thrift). 



Attractive dwarf plants that will succeed in any .soil, .orming evergreen 

 tufts of bripht green foliage, from which innimierable flowers appear in 

 dense heads, on .^tifl" wiry stems about 9 inches high. They flower more 

 or less continuously from early spring until late in the fall. Very useful 

 in the rockery. 



Maritima Splendens. Bright rosy-pink. 

 — alba. A pretty white. 



15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz.; $10.00 per 100. 



ASPERXTLA (Sweet Woodruff, Waldmeister). 

 Odorata. An old-fashioned favorite, grown for its fragrant leaves and 

 stems, which have an odor not unlike new mown hay, and are used for 

 putting among clothes, etc.; also used in Germany to flavor the 

 "Maitrank," or May wine; best grown in semi-shaded positions; 

 flowers white. 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz. 



We are the larsest BTowert of Hardy Perennials in this country. 



