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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 or more above 
the beautifully 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 
effectively 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 Hybrids. This is the most admired type of 
Columbines. They have been produced from the strains of several famous 
hybridizers and are much superior to the usual grade. 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. We offer them in mixed colors only. 
Canadensis (Common American Columbine). The native bright red and 
yellow variety, and one of the brightest. 
Chrysantha (Golden Columoine). Bright yellow long-spurred flowers. 
Ceerulea (Rocky Mountain Columbine). Bright blue and white long- 
spurred flowers. 
Flabellata Nana Alba. A dwarf growing, pure white, 
Helenz. Large blue flowers and wide expanded white corolla. 
Skinneri (Mexican Columbine). Yellow with long orange-red spurs. 
Vulgaris (Common Huropean Columbine). Violet-blue. A strong, vig- 
orous grower. 
Price. Any of the above, 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $15.00 per 100. 
One each of the 8 sorts for $1.75. 
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Japanese ANEMONE 
ANEMONE JAPONICA 
(Japanese Windflower) 
These ‘beautiful \Windflowers are one of the most important 
hardy plants. \While they begin blooming in August they 
are more espenially valuable on account of their continuing in 
full beasrty till cut down by hard frost. All are excellent for 
cutting, lasting iin:good condition for many days. The plants 
grow 2 te 3 feet high, are perfectly hardy if given the protec- 
tion of 2 or 3iinches.of leaves or litter during the winter, and, 
while they respond ifreely to liberal feeding, they will succeed 
in any ordinany garden soil, increasing in beauty from year to 
year. They can be wsed in solid beds or borders or clumps 
plamted through ithe ‘hardy border, which they brighten dur- 
ing 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 flowets of La 
France pink, a color that iis rare among hardy plants. 
Rosea Superba. Flowers of medium size, of a delicate sil- 
very-rose. 
Whirlwind. Large, semi-double pure white flowers, very 
free. x 
Price. Any of the above, 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; 
$15.00 per 100. Set of the 5 sorts for $1.00. 
New Anemone “Hupehensis” 
An introduction from Central China, closely allied to Ane- 
mone Japonica which, in a miniature way, it closely resem- 
bles. _ The plants grow from 10 to 12 inches high and from 
early in August until late in Autumn, produce an abundance 
of flowers, about 1} inches in diameter, of a pleasing pale 
mMauve-rose. 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz. 
AQuiLecia, or CoLuMBINE 
We are the largest growers of Hardy Perennial Plants in this country 
