Helenium (Sneeze Wort) 
All of these are desirable border plants, succeeding in any soil in 
a sunny location, with broad-spreading heads of flowers, useful for 
cutting, each species covering a long-blooming season. 
Autumnale Rubrum. Robust growing; 3 to 4 feet high, with 
bright terra-cotta red flowers in August and September. 
Autumnale Superbum. Golden-yellow flowers during the late 
summer and fall months; 5 to 6 feet. 
Hoopesi. Pure orange-yellow flowers, 24 inches 
across, and the earliest to flower, coming in early in 
June and continuing throughout the summer; 2 feet. 
Pumilum Magnificum. Grows about 18 inches 
high, very vigorous, producing large golden-yellow 
flowers throughout the summer, one of the most flo- 
riferous and desirable border plants in cultivation. 
Riverton Beauty. Rich lemon-yellow, with large 
purplish black cone; August and September; 4 feet. 
Riverton Gem. Old gold, changing to wall-flower 
red; August and September; 3} feet. 
Price. 30 cts. each; $3.00 per doz.; $20.00 per 100. 
One each of the 6 varieties, $1.50. 
Helianthus (Hardy Sunflower) 
The perennial Sunflowers are among the most effective hardy 
plants for large borders for planting among shrubbery, or as clumps 
on the lawn. They are remarkably free-flowering, will succeed in any 
soil, and are invaluable for decorative purposes, or as cut flowers during 
the summer and autumn. 
Giganteus. One of our native varieties, with medium sized bright 
canary-yellow flowers in September and October; 6 feet. 
Maximiliana. The latest of all, perfecting its fine golden-yellow 
flowers in long, graceful sprays 
during October, when all others 
have finished flowering; invaluable 
for cutting; 5 to 7 feet. 
HELIANTHUS 
MULTIFLORUS FL. PL. 
Mollis. Large, single lemon-yellow flowers with downy white 
foliage; blooms in August and September; 4 feet. 
Multiflorus Fl. Pl. (Double Hardy Sunflower). Large, double 
Dahlia-like golden-yellow flowers in great profusion during July 
and August; 4 feet. (See cut.) 
Rigidus Japonicus. One of the most desirable varieties, 
beginning to bloom early in July and continuing until fall; 
flowers golden-yellow, with dark centres; 5 feet. 
Wolley Dod. The best of the September-flowering varieties, with deep yel- 
low flowers; entirely distinct; 6 feet. 
Price. Any of the above, 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $15.00 per 
100. One each of the 6 sorts for $1.25. 
Helianthemum (Rock, or Sun Rose) 
Exceedingly pretty low growing evergreen plants, forming broad clumps, 
and which during their flowering season, June to July, are quite hidden by a 
mass of bloom; well adapted for the front of the border, the rockery, or a dry 
sunny bank. 
Album Plenum. Double white. 
Buttercup. Golden yellow; single. 
Fireball. Fiery double red. 
Mrs. Earle. Rich single red. 
Rhodanthe Carneum. Pretty single pink, silvery foliage. 
e ; ant Sudbury Gem. Single crimson-bronze. 
HELENIUM 35 cts. each; $3.50 per doz.; $20.00 per 100. 
We can supply seed of many Hardy Perennials, see Flower Seed Department, beginning on page 51 
