HARDY PERENNIAL WANTS 





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Hardy Garden Pinks 



Old favorites, bearing their sweet, clove-scented doable flowers in the greatest 

 profusion during May and June. They are indispensable for the edge of the hardy 

 border and for cutting. 1 foot. 



Delicata. Soft delicate rose-pink. Homer. Rosy-red with dark centre. 



Elsie. Bright rose with maroon centre. Juliette. White laced crimson. 

 Her Majesty. A splendid smooth White Reserve. An ever-blooming 



edged white. pure white. 



Price. 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $15.00 per 100. Set of 6 sorts, $1.25. 



New Single Flowering Pink 



"Miss Gladys Cranfield" 



The finest English Single Border Pink yet introduced, and awarded a certificate 

 of merit by the Royal Horticultural Society of England. 



The plant is of vigorous growth and during May and June produces great num- 

 bers of twelve-inch high stems with large, beautiful, circular, fringed flowers of 

 good substance, delightfully sweet scented, and of an attractive rose-pink color 

 with well-defined velvety maroon centre. A splendid border plant and a desirable 

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



Plumbago (Lead Wort) 



Larpentae. One of the roost desirable border and rock plants; it is of dwarf, 

 spreading habit, growing 6 to 8 inches high; covered with deep blue flowers 

 during the summer and fall months. 25cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $18.00 per 100. 



Polemonium (Jacob's Ladder) 



Useful border plants, about 12 inches high, succeeding best in a partially shaded 

 position; deep green, finely cut foliage, and spikes of showy flowers. 

 Reptans. Showy blue flowers. May and June. 

 Richardsoni. Sky blue flowers with golden anthers. June and July. 

 — Alba. A white flowered form of above. 



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



PolygOnatum (Solomon's Seal) 



Majus. Exceedingly ornamental both in foliage and flowers; grows 3 feet 

 high and bears pendant, creamy-white flowers in May and June. Should be 

 grown in a shady or half-shady place for best results. 35 cts. each; $3.00 

 per doz.; $20.00 per 100. 



New Pink Miss Gladys Cranfield 



Pyrethrum Hybridum 



Polygonum (Knot-Weed) 



Compactum. Grows about 15 inches high, and during August and Septem- 

 ber the entire plant appears as a foamy mass of white flowers. 25 cts. each; 

 $2.50 per doz. 



Pyrethrum Hybridum 



This grand old-fashioned Hardy Perennial is easy to grow in any good 

 garden soil where there is good drainage and full exposure to the sun. They 

 prefer to be left undisturbed for two or three years and if given an annual 

 top dressing of well-rotted manure, flower generously. Their main season 

 of blooming is in June, but if the first crop of flower stems is removed as soon 

 as finished, they will give a fair sprinkling of flowers during the summer 

 and autumn months. The fine fern-like foliage of the plants is attractive 

 at all times. 



Hybridum Single Mixed. A splendid mixture embracing all the colors 

 from deep red through the various shades of rose to pure white. 25 cts. 

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



Hybridum Double Rose. A splendid double rose-colored variety that is 

 extensively grown for cut flower purposes. 50 cts. each; $5.00 per doz. 



Pyrethrum Uliginosum (Giant Daisy) 



Grows 3 to 4 feet high and is covered with large white Daisy-like flowers, 

 3 inches in diameter, from July to September. 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz. 

 $18.00 per 100. 



Every garden should have a generous planting of Dreer's De Luxe Delphiniums. See page 176. 



