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AQUII.EGIAS, OR COI.UMBINES 



The Columbines are one of the most elegant and beautiful of hardy plants, pro- 

 ducing 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 eff^ectively 

 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 impor- 

 tant 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 ad- 

 mired pink shades of this most popular type, now offered for the first time. 35 

 cts. each; $3.50 per doz.; $25.00 per 100. 



Canadensis {Common American Columbine). The native bright red and 

 yellow variety, and one of the brightest. 



CHrysantha {Golden Columbine). Bright yellow long-spurred flowers. 



Coerulea {Rocky Mountain Columbine). Bright blue and white long-spurred 

 flowers. 



Fiabellata Nana Alba. A dwarf growing, pure white. 



Helens. Large blue flowers and wide expanded white corolla. 



Vulgaris {Common European Columbine). Violet-blue. 



Price. Any of the above, except where noted, 30 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; 

 $18.00 per 100. One each of the 8 sorts for $2.00. 



Dreer's Long-spurred Aquilegia, or Columbine 



Artemisia Lactiflora 



ARABIS (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.; $15.00 per 100. 



ARTEMISIA I^ACTIFI^ORA 



( Hawthorn-scented Mugwort) 



Unlike the other varieties offered, which are grown for their 

 foliage, this comparatively new introduction from China is a 

 most effective flowering plant, with erect stems SJ to 4j feet 

 high, clothed with elegantly cut dark green foliage and ter- 

 minated by panicles of Hawthorn-scented creamy white 

 Spirsea-like light and graceful flowers. It is at its best from 

 the latter part of August to the end of September, and is 

 particularly valuable on this account, being unlike any other 

 plant in bloom at that time. (See cut. ) 35 cts. each; $3.50 

 per doz.; $18.00 per 100. 



ARTEMISIA 



A most useful class of plants, either for the border or for 

 filling in within the shrubbery. With the exception of the 

 new variety Lactiflora they are not remarkable for their flow- 

 ers; the foliage of the sorts offered is very ornamental. All 

 the varieties offered stand cutting down to 5 or 6 inches when 

 used in carpet or ribbon bedding. 

 Abrotanum ( Old 31an, or Southern-wood). Dark green, 



finely cut foliage, with pleasant aromatic odor; 2 feet. 

 Pedemontana. A handsome variety with finely cut silvery 



foliage. 

 Stelleriana [Old Woman). Deeply-cut silvery foliage; 



much used in carpet bedding, 18 inches. 



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



NOTE — All Bulbs, Roots and Plants are forwarded by Express, purchaser paying charges. If wanted by Pucel Post add 10 per cent, 

 to value of order to points east of the Mississippi River, and 20 per cent, to points west of the Mississippi River. 



