HARDY PERENNIAL PLANTS 



What family does not want to pick its own blooms in the Spring, Summer and Fall ? Now is your 

 chance to get some of these delightful flowering plants, to grace your home grounds with color throughout 

 the growing season. Being perennials, the flowers which we list below will return each year, to bring 

 cheer to your home grounds, to conceal ugly stumps and fences, and to fill the vases in your house. 



We grow them by the million now. Our attractive prices are a result of this "quantity" production, 

 and not because of any inferiority on the part of our plants. Frankly, we do not see how better perennials 

 could be grown anywhere. 



All varieties (unless otherwise noted), each 20e., doz. $2.00, 100 $12.00 



{Add 10 per cent to your remittance if shipment is desired hy parcel post) 

 (R) following descriptions is intended to indicate that such varieties are good rock garden plants 



ACHILLEA. Yarrow 



Ptarmica, "Boule de Neige." Boule de Neige 

 Sneezewort. 15 to 18 in. June and July bring 

 the white flowers to the tops of the upright stalks 

 of this variety. Excellent for cutting. {R). 



ACONITUM. Monkshood 



Autumnale. Autumn Monkshood. 3 to 4 ft. Pro- 

 duces racemes of large, dark blue flowers like 

 hoods, in September and October. Each 30c., 

 doz. $3.00. 



Fischeri. Azure Monkshood. 18 to 24 in. Best 

 and hardiest of the Monkshoods, with blue, 

 helmet-shaped flowers in late September and 

 October. Each 30c., doz. $3.00. 



AJUGA. Bugle 



Reptans. Carpet Bugle. Prostrate, a good ground 

 cover, with deep purple blue flowers in May and 

 June. {R). Each 25c., doz. $2.50. 



ANCHUSA. Bugloss 



Italica, "Dropmore." Dropmore Bugloss. 4 to 

 5 ft. Deep green foliage, broad and hairy, from 

 which velvety blue flowers bloom in June and 

 July in large panicles. 



Italica, "Opal." Opal Bugloss. 3 to 4 ft. Large 

 flowers of a pale turquoise blue all Summer. 



ANTHEMIS. Camomile 



Tinctoria. Yellow Camomile. 2 ft. All through 

 the Summer, large, golden flowers, excellent for 

 cutting, grace the finely cut foliage of this 

 variety. 



AQUILEGIA. Columbine 

 Among the most beautiful flowers which bloom 

 in early Spring, with their gay, nodding heads of 

 the gaudiest colors. 



Gaerulea. Colorado Columbine. 18 in. A lovely 

 plant, producing flowers a delicate blue on outer 

 petals and pure white inside, with long spurs, in 

 May. {R). 



Ghrysantha. Golden Columbine. 23^ ft. A fra- 

 grant sort, with bright golden, long-spurred 

 flowers in May and June. {R). 



Mrs. Scott Elliott's Long Spurred Hybrids. 



Words are inapt to describe the beauty of these 

 colorful perennials. Individual flowers are larger, 

 spurs are more pronounced, colors are brighter 

 and more varied — well, you just can't go wrong 

 if you order Mrs. Scott Elliott's Hybrids. {R). 



ARABIS. Rockcress 

 Alpina. Alpine Rockcress. 8 to 12 in. Rock plant, 

 with pure white, fragrant flowers from early 

 Spring to Midsummer. (R). 



