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(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. They grow freely in any soil. 

 The collection offered below is made up of the choicest varieties only. 

 Blushing Bride. White with just a tint of pink; 3 feet. 

 Brussells. Very large light lavender blue; 4 feet. 

 Capitaine. Light lavender blue; 4 to 4J feet. 

 Emilie Thoury. Light ageratum blue; 3 feet. 



Enfant de Vitry. Distinct semi-double lilac mauve, very free; 

 2i feet. 



Ghent. Large soft lilac-mauve; 3 ft. 



Gra.ce Sweet. Rich dark blue; 4J feet. 



King of the Belgians. Light lobelia blue; 3 feet. 



Laevis. Light heliotrope; 4 feet. 



Liege. Large soft rosy pink; 2 J feet. 



Novae angliae. Bright violet-purple; 4 feet. 



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



— — Mrs. F. W. Raynor. Large crimson-purple. 4 feet. 

 Novi Belgii Climax. One of the best and showiest, with large 



pyramidal spikes of large light lavender-blue flowers; very free; 

 5 feet. 



Hardy .\sters. or Mich.aelm.^s Daisies 



Novi Belgii White Climax. 



white flowers. 



A counterpart of above with 



Anthericum (St. Bruno's Lily) 



Liliastrum Major. A charming border plant with rush-like 

 foliage and 18 to 24 inch high racemes of small white lily-like 

 flowers. 35 cts. each; S3. 50 per doz. 



Aquilegia (Columbine) 



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 Colum- 

 bines. The plants are of strong, thrifty growth. The flowers of largest size vary in 

 color through charming tonds 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. 



Chrysantha. Bright yellow long-spurred flowers. 



— Alba. Long spurred white. 



Helenae. Large blue flowers and wide expanded white corolla. 

 Skinneri. Yellow with ?ong orange-red spurs. 



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

 One each of the 6 sorts for $1.25. 



ArabiS (RockCress) 



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. 25 cts. 

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

 Alpina Flore plena. A most desirable double flowering formi. 35 cts. each; $3.50 

 per doz. 



Armeria (Sea Plnk or Thrift) 

 Attractive dwarf plants that will succeed in any soil, forming evergreen tuits 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 untU late in fall. Very useful in the rockery as well as in the border. 

 Cephalotes Rubra. A strong growing variety with large heads of crimson-red flowers. 



— Rosea. Large heads of rose-pink flowers. 

 Laucheana Rosea. Bright rose. 

 Maritima Alba. A pretty pure white. 



30 cts. each; $3.00 per doz.; $18.00 per 100. 



Artemisia Lactiflora (Hawthom-scented Mugwort) 



A most effective flowering plant, with erect stems 3J to 4^ feet high, clothed with ele- 

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



Novi Belgii St. Egwtn. A pleasing soft rosy-pink, 3 to 4 feet- 

 Sam Banham. Large feathery pure white, one of the earliest; 



3 feet. 

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

 The President. Large light bluish-violet; 4 feet. 

 Trouvaille. Full double mauve-pink flowers. 3 feet. 

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



per 100. Set of 20 varieties for $4.00. 



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

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