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HARDY PERENNIAL PIANTS 



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Aquilegia CCoIumbine) 



Old favorite spring and early summer blooming plants, growing about 

 2 feet high, that succeed in any ordinary garden soil. 

 Dreer's Long-spurred Mixed Hybrids. This is the most admired 



type of Columbines. The plants are of strong, thrifty growth. The 



flowers of largest size vary in color through charming tones of cream, 



pink, lavender, blue, white, red. etc.. hardly any two being exactly alike. 

 Dreer's Long-spurred Pink Shades. A special selection of the 



greatly admired pink shades of this most popular type. 

 Canadensis. The native bright red and yellow variety, and one of the 



brightest. 

 Chrysantha. Bright yellow long-spurred flowers. 

 — Alba. Long spurred white. 



Flabellata Alba. Compact growing, large, pure white. 

 Skinneri. Yellow with long orange-red spurs. 

 Vulgaris {European Columbine). Flowers violet-blue, very free. 

 Price. .\ny of the above, 30 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $18.00 per 100. 



One each of the 8 sorts for Sl.f>.'^. 



ArabiS (Rock Cress) 



Alpina. One of the most desirable of the very early spring-flowering 

 plants that is especially adapted for edging and for the rock garden, but 

 does equally well in the border, forming a dense carpet, completely 

 covered with pure white flowers. It is nice for cutting, and lasts for 

 a long time in bloom. 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $15.00 per 100. 



Alpina Flore plena. A most desirable double flowering from of above. 

 35 cts. each; S3. 50 per doz. 



Armeria (Sea Pink or Thrift) 



Attractive dwarf plants that will succeed in any soil, forming evergreen 

 tufts of bright green foliage, from which innumerable (lowers appear in 

 dense heads, on stiff, wiry- stems, from 9 to 12 inches high. They flower 

 more or less continuously from early spring until late in the fall 

 Very useful in the rockery. 

 Laucheana Rosea. Bright rose. 

 Maritima Alba. A pretty pure white. 



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



H.VRDV .XSTERS, OR MlCU.\ELM.\S DAISIES 



Artemisia Lactiflora 



Artemisia Lactiflora 



(Hawthorn-scented Mugwort) 



A most effective flowering plant, with erect stems 35 to 4^ feet 

 high, clothed with elegantly cut dark green foliage, and terminated 

 by panicles of Hawthorn-scented creamy white Spiraea-like light and graceful flowers. 

 It is at its best from the latter part of August to the end of September, and is particularly 

 valuable on this account, being unlike any other plant in bloom at that time. (See cut.) 

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



Asclepias 



Tuberosa {.Butterfly Weed). One of the showiest of our native perennials; 2 feet high; 

 and producing from July to August heads of orange-colored flowers. 25 cts. each, 

 $2.50 per doz.; $15.00 per 100. 



Hardy Asters 



(Michaelmas Daisies, or Star^vorts) 



These are among the showiest of our late-flowering hardy plants, giving a wealth of 

 bloom during September and October, a season when most other hardy flowers are past, 

 and for the best effect should be planted in masses of one color. 



Brussels. Large light lavender blue flowers, loosely arranged in graceful sprays; 4 feet. 

 Capitaine. Light lavender blue; 4 to 4| ft. 



King of the Belgians. Light lobelia blue, very large flowers; 3 to 4 ft. 

 Laevis. Pretty light heliotrope; 4 feet. 

 Novae angliae. Bright violet-purple; 4 feet. 



— — Roseus. Bright purplish-mauve; 4 feet. 



Novi Belgii Climax. One of the showiest, with pyramidal spikes of large light 

 lavender-blue flowers, very free; 5 feet. 



— — White Climax. A counterpart of above with white flowers; 5 feet. 



— — St. Egwin. A pleasing soft rosy-pink, very free; 3 to 4 feet. 

 Sam Banham. Very large graceful pure white; 3 feet. 

 Tataricus. Distinct large bluish-violet, very late; 6 feet. 

 Thos. S. Ware. Soft lilac-mauve; i\ feet. 



Price. Any of the above, 25 cts. each; S2.50 per doz.; $18.00 per 100. Set of 12 

 varieties for $2.50. 



NOTE — Bulbs, Roots or Plants will be sent by Parcel Post if remittance is made to cover postage and special packing as noted on 

 the order blank and inside of front cover of this catalogue. 



