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AQUIL,KGIA (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 Hybrids. This is the most admired type of 

 Columbines. They have been produced from the strains of several famous 

 hybridizers, and are much superior to the usual grade. 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. We offer them in mixed colors only. 



Canadensis. Our native Columbine, bright red and yellow. 



Chrysantha. The golden-spurred " Columbine." 



Flabellata Nana Alba. A dwarf; pure white. 



Helenas. Large blue; while corolla. 



Nivea Orandiiflora. A spkndid robust large pure white. 



Vulgaris. The European violet-blue Columbine. 



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

 Set of 7 varieties, $1.50. 



ARl^KR I A (Sea P!nk 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 fall. Very 

 useful in the rockery. 

 Formosa Rosea. Light rose color. 

 Laucheana Rosea. Bright rose. 



3U cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $18.00 per 100. 



ARTEMISIA 



A most useful class of plants for the border. 

 Abrotanum ( Old Man, or Southernwood). Dark green finely cut foli- 

 age, with pleasant aromatic odor; 2 feet. 



Aomi.Er.iA {Com mhinh} 



Pedemontana. A handsome variety, with finely cut silvery 



foliage; 15 inches. 

 Stelleriana ( O^cZ Woman). Deeply cut silvery foliage; much 



used in carpet bedding; 18 inches. 



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



ARTEMISIA LACTIFLORA 



(Hawthorn>scented Mugwort) 



Unlike the other varities offered, which are grown for their 

 foliage, this comparatively new introduction from China is 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, lieing 

 unlike any other plant in bloom at that time. (See cut.) 35 cts. each; $3. 50 per 

 duz.; $18.00 per 100. 



ASCEEPIAS 



Tllberosa {Butterfly 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. 



DWARF ALPINE ASTERS 



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 which issue many leafless 

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

 inches in diameter. 



Price. 30 cts. each; $2.50 per doz. Set of 3 sorts, 75 cts. 



NEWER HARDY ASTERS 



Feltham Blue. One of the most decorative free-flowering varieties, a pretty 

 shade of aniline blue; August and September; 2^ feet. 



Glory of Colwall. A splendid variety, with good-sized, nearly double, ageratum- 

 blue flowers, remarkably free-flowering; 2J feet. September and October. 



Novi Belgii Climax. A grand new variety of strong, vigorous habit, over 5 feet 

 high, fully one half of which consists of much branched pyramidical-shaped flower 

 stems filled with light lavende;-blue flowers, each \\ inches or more in di;imeter. 

 It blooms from the latter part of August until the middle of October. 



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



St. Egwin. A pleasing soft rosy-pink. Very free and of erect habit; 3 to 



1 feet. September and October. 



Price. Any of the above, 35 cts. each; $3. 50 per doz. Set of 5 sorts for $1.-50. 



GENERAI. COI.I.ECTION HARDY ASTERS 



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■ NOT*.— All Bulbs, Roots and Plants are forwarded by Express, purchaser paying charges. If wanted by Parcel Post, add 10 percent, 

 to TaIu%of order to points eastof the Mississippi River, and 20 per cent, to points west of the Mississippi River. 



Au'l EMILIA LaC'I IFLOR, 



