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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 effec- 

 tively 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 Mixed Hybrids/ This is the most admired type 

 of Columbines. The plants are of strong, chrifty 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. 



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



Chrysantha Alba. A fine long-spurred white. 



Nivea Grandinora. A splendid large pure white. 



Skinneri. Petals yellow with long red spurs. 



Dreer's Long-spurred Aquilegia or Columbine 



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

 of the 6 sorts for $1.25. 











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Arenaria (Sand-wort) 



Montana. A pretty creeping plant which during June is covered 

 with attractive white flowers. A good edging plant and 

 invaluable for the rock garden. 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; 

 $18.00 per 100. 



Artemisia Lactiflora 



Armeria (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 fall. 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. 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 shrubbery. 



Lactiflora (Hawthorne 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| to 4t 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 



AsclepiaS (Butterfly Weed) 



Tuberosa. Very showy native plants, about 2| feet high, producing flowers of brilliant 

 orange-scarlet during July and August. 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. 



AsphodelUS (Asphodel, King's Spear) 



Luteus. An effective plant for the border with sword-like foliage and 3 feet high spikes 

 of fragrant yellow lily-like flowers in July. 30 cts. each; $3.00 per doz. 



Seeds of Columbines are offered on page 66 



