AQUILEGIAS, OR COLUMBINES 
The Columbines are one of the most elegant and beautiful of hardy plants, producing their graceful spurred flowers on stems rising 
2 feet or more above the beautifully divided foliage, and should be planted wherever their presence will serve to lighten up a too stiff and 
formal planting, for no other plant has so airy a grace as the Columbine, is more generous of its blooms, or more effectively adapted for 
cut flowers. 
They are not at all particular as to soil or location, although they prefer a sandy loam and a moist but well drained sunny position, 
and usually make themselves at home in any hardy border or rockery. Their period of flowering covers the late spring and early summer 
months. 
fashioned garden flowers. 
Dreer’s Long-spurred Mixed Hybrids. ‘While all the 
varieties of Columbines are beautiful and much admired 
we have selected this strain for our illustration on the plate 
opposite, this being the most admired type. The plants are 
of strong thrifty growth with flowers of largest size, varying 
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. 
Price. 
Seeds of Aquilegia. 
Taken as a whole, they are a most important part of the hardy garden, and should be grown in quantity by every lover of old- 
Chrysantha (Golden Columbine). 
flowers. 
Bright yellow long-spurred 
— Alba. Long-spurred pure white. 
Flabellata Nana Alba. 
Nivea Grandiflora. 
white. 
Dwarf, large, pure white flowers. 
A splendid robust growing large pure 
Petals yellow with long red spurs. 
Violet blue. 
Skinneri. 
Vulgaris (European Columbine). Very free. 
30 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $18.00 per 100. One each of the 9 sorts for $2.00. 
We offer the best kinds. 
See page 66. 
Delphiniums, or Hardy Larkspurs 
Mrs. Ely, author of “A Woman’s Hardy Garden,” says: 
“Perennial Larkspur may be planted as soon as the spring has 
opened. The ground should be well drained and carefully pre- 
pared, but manure must not be allowed to come in contact with the 
roots, or grubs are apt to destroy the plants. A little finely ground 
bone meal dug around each plant early in May will be of benefit, 
and in late autumn coal-ashes should be sifted over the crowns of 
the plants to protect them from the white grub, which is their only 
enemy. The stalks being very tender, the plants should be staked 
when they are about three feet high, to protect them from heavy 
wind. Larkspur begins to bloom about June 20th, and by cutting 
off the plants close to the ground, as soon as each crop of flowers has 
faded, a second and third crop of flowers will succeed. Each time 
the plants are cut a little bone meal should be dug about them.” 
Belladonna. The freest and most continuous blooming of all, 
never being out of flower from the end of June until cut down 
by hard frost. The clear turquoise-blue of its flowers is not 
equalled for delicacy and beauty by any other flower. 
Bellamosum. This isa dark blue form of the popular light blue 
Belladonna, with which it is identical in habit of growth, freedom 
of bloom and other good qualities, but with intensely rich, deep 
blue flowers. 
Chinense. A very pretty dwarf species, with fine feathery 
foliage and intense gentian-blue flowers in open panicles. 
— Album. A pure white form of the above. 
Dreer’s Gold Medal Hybrids. 
strain of mixed hybrids offered. The original stock came from 
Unquestionably the finest 
England, and consisted of the best-named varieties. The plants 
are of strong, vigorous habit, with large flowers on spikes 
two feet and over long, the majority running in the lighter 
shades of blue. We can supply them in mixture only. 
Price. Any of the above, 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $15.00 
per 100. Set of 5 sorts, $1.00. 
Two Beautiful Hardy Perennials 
Artemisia Lactiflora and Scabiosa Caucasica, which is illus- 
trated and offered on page 177, are well worth growing. 
Dianthus (Pinks) 
Deltoides (Maiden Pink). A charming creeping variety, with 
medium-sized pink flowers in June and July; especially suited 
for the rock garden. 
— Alba. A pretty white-flowered form. 
Latifolius atrococcineus Fl. Pl. (Ever-blooming Hybrid 
Sweet William). A beautiful summer bedding variety, producing 
masses of brilliant fiery crimson double flowers throughout the 
entire season. 
25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $15.00 per 100. 
See also Hardy Pinks, page ror, and Sweet William, page 195. 
Dreer’s Gotp MepAL Hysrip DELPHINIUM 
