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HARDy PERENNIAL PIANTS 



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Astilbe 



This collection includes the best of the latest novelties, all are varieties 

 of strong vigorous growth producing many branched feathered heads of 

 flowers during June and July. They succeed best in a half-shady moist 

 position in any ordinary garden soil. 

 Betsy Cuperius. Stems 5 ft. high with drooping branches 18 to 



24 inches long, of white flowers with pink centres; very showy. 

 Geres. An attractive rosy-lilac; 2\ to 3 feet. 

 Grandis Rosea Maxima. Grows 5 to 6 feet high, with 2 feet long 



drooping branches of white flowers with rosy centres. 

 Marguerite Van Rechteren. Finely fringed flowers, bright red 



tinged with dark lilac. 4 to 5 feet. 

 Metta Immink. Dense plumes of pink flowers; 3 feet. 

 Salland. A vigorous growing variety with bronzy red stems and 



crimson-red flowers; 6 feet. 

 Price. 50 cts. each; $5.00 per doz.; set of 6 sorts, $2.50. 



AubHetia (Rainbow Rock Cress) 

 Pretty dwarf growing plants suitable for the rockery or for the edge of 

 the border, they form masses of silvery green foliage and sheets of various 

 colored flowers in spring and early summer. Choice mixed varieties, 25 

 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $18.00 per 100. 



Baptisia (False Indigo) 



Australis. A strong growing plant, about 2 feet high; suitable either 

 for the border or wild garden, with dark green, deeply-cut foliage and 

 spikes of dark-blue flowers in June. 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz. 



Bellis Perennis (English Daisy) 



Improved double-flowering, white and pink. 20 cts. each; $2.00 per 

 doz.; $15.00 per 100. 



BOCCOnia (Plume Poppy, or Tree Celandine) 



Cordata. A noble, hardy perennial, beautiful in foliage and flower, 

 admirably adapted for planting in the shrubbery borders, centre of beds 

 and in bold groups in almost any position. It will grow in any soil or situation, attaining from 6 to 



Bocconia Cordata 



feet in height; flowers 

 in terminal panicles, of a creamy-white color during July and August. 

 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $18.00 per 100. 



BoltOIlia (False Chamomile) 



Among the showiest of our native hardy perennial plants with large, 

 single Aster-like flowers. The plant is in bloom during the summer and 

 autumn months, and with its thousands of flowers open at one time produces 

 a very showy effect. 



Asteroides. Pure white; very effective; 5 to 7 feet. 



Latisquama. Pink, slightly tinged with lavender; 4 to 6 feet. 



— Nana. Identical to the type but grows only 2 feet high. 

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



Calamintha 



Alpina. A good rock plant or for the edge of the border, succeeds well in dry 

 ground in a sunny position, small blue flowers in June. 6 inches. 25 cts. 

 each; $2.50 per doz.; $18.00 per 100. 



Calimeris (star wort) 



Incisa. An attractive, free-flowering plant; grows 12 to 18 inches high, 

 producing from July to September daisy-like, pale, lavender flowers, with 

 yellow centre. 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz. 



Callirhoe (Poppy Mallow) 



Involucrata. An elegant tcaling plant, with finely divided foliage and 

 large saucer-shaped flowers of bright, rosy-crimson, with white centres, 

 which are produced all summer and fall. 25cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $18.00 

 per 100. 



Caltha (Marsh Marigold) 



Palustris. Effective hardy perennials, of much value in marshy places and 

 by the side of streams and ponds; grow about a foot high, with bright 

 yellow single flowers in early spring. 30 cts. each; $3.00 per doz. 



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