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HARDY PERENNIAL PIANTS 



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Aquilegia (Coiumbine) 



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 

 tjrightest. 



Chrysantha. Bright yellow long-spurred flowers. 



Coerulea (Rocky Mountain Columbine). Bright blue and white long- 

 spurred flowers. 



Nivea Grandiflora. A splendid robust large pure white. 



Skinneri. Yellow with long orange-red spurs. 



Price. Any of the above, 30 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; S18.00 per 100. 

 One each of the 7 sorts for SI -50. 



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; S2.50 per doz.; $15.00 per 100. 



Armeria (Sea Plnk or Thrift) 



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

 tufts of bright green foliage, from which innumerable flowers 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 faU. Very useful in 

 the rockery. 



Aquilegi.\ (Columbine) 



variety with large 



Cephalotes Rubra. A strong growin; 



heads of crimson red flowers. 

 Laucheana Rosea. Bright rose. 



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



Artemisia Lactiflora 



(Hawthorn-scented Mugwort) 



A most effective flowering plant, with erect stems 3^ to 41 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 {Butlcrfly Weed). One of the showiest of our native perennials; 2 feet high, 

 and producing from July to September heads of orange-colored flowers. 25 cts. each; 

 $2.50 per doz.; $15.00 per 100. 



Hardy Asters 



(Michaelmas Daisies, or Starworts) 



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. 

 Feltham Blue. A pretty aniline blue, very free; 2j 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 counterpaft of above with white flowers; 5 feet. 



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

 Snowflake. Very free, pure white; 18 inches. 



Price. Any of the above, 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $18.00 per 100. Set of 8 varieties 

 for $1.75. 



Dwarf Alpine Asters 



Artemisia Lactiflora 



Alpinus. Indispensable for the rockery or edge of hardy borders; grows 6 to 10 inches 

 high, and bears large showy bluish-purple flowers in May and June. 



— Albus. Identical to the above, but with pure white flowers. 



Sub-coeruleus. Forms a dense tuft of leaves, from wliich issue many leafless stems 

 12 inches high, bearing in June and July massive bluish-violet flowers 3 inches in 

 diameter. 



Price. 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz. Set of 3 sorts, 65 cts. 



NOTE — All Bulbs, Roots and Plants are forwarded by Express, purchaser paying charges. If wanted by Parcel Post add 10 per cent, 

 to value of order to points east of the Mississippi River, and 20 per cent, to points west of the Mississippi River. 



