1925 Fall Catalogue 21 



51. ADONIS VERNALIS 

 (Spring Adonis) 



This attractive little perennial plant, with its feathery 

 foliage and beautiful yellow flowers, is suitable for the border 

 and the rock garden. It grows about 10 inches high and is 

 one of our earliest plants to bloom. Pkt. 10c. j oz. 25c. 



70. AGROSTEMMA CORONARIA 

 (Rose of Heaven) 



An easily cultivated, hardy perennial with silvery fohage 

 and crimson flowers. Will bloom the first season, and if 

 seed is planted at different intervals, will furnish cut flowers 

 all summer. Pkt. 10c. Oz. 40c. 



92. ALYSSUM SAXITALE. (Basket of Gold) 



Dainty, fragrant little plants with golden yellow flowers 

 which bloom in great profusion all summer, also indoors during 

 the winter. Charming for edging, borders, rockwork, vases 

 and baskets. Pkt. 10c. j oz. 30c. 



120. ANCHUSA ITALICA (Dropmore Variety) 



A hardy perennial with forget-me-not like flowers of rich 

 gentian blue. It blooms in great abundance during the 

 entire season and attains a height of from 3 to 5 feet. Pkt. 

 10c. I oz. 45c. 



130. ANEMONE (Windflovt'er) 



St. Brigid. A very pleasing perennial, producing large, 

 Irish poppy flowers; few plants compare with them in beauty; 

 fine for bouquets. Sow indoors in spring, keep shaded till 

 the plants appear. Pkt. 10c. j oz. 50c. 



AOUILEGIA (Columbine) 



The columbines are among the most beautiful and most 

 popular of all hardy plants. They produce graceful, spurred 

 flowers on long stems, and are valuable for cutting, beds ard 

 rockeries. 



160. Coerula Hybrids (Long Spurred Columbine). A 



free flowering showy strain. The flowers have unusually long 

 spurs and most delicate colorings. Pkt. 20c. | oz. 60c. 



161. Finest Mixed Pkt. 10c. i oz. 35c. 



180. ARABIS. (Rock Cress) 



Alpina (Grandiflora Superba). A spring essential. It 

 is suitable for the tops of old stone walls, crevices in rocks or 

 as edging plants for bulbs or any of the early flowering plants. 

 Rock Cress grows about 6 inches high and is covered with a 

 sheet of pure white flowers. Pkt. 10c. 



195. ASPARAGUS SPRENGERI (Emerald Feather) 



One of the most popular and easily grown plants for cut- 

 green and hanging baskets. It is especially ornamental, 

 bearing minute rose-colored flowers in summer and bright red 

 berries in winter. Pkt. 10c. l oz. 65c. 



HARDY PERENNIAL ASTERS 



410. Michaelmas Daisies. These plants are the charm 

 of the late fall garden for they are covered with masses of 

 beautiful delicate flowers during September and October 

 when most of the hardy flowers have finished blooming. They 

 also make an excellent background for earlier flowering 

 plants. Mixed. Pkt. 10c. i oz. 50c. 



