i HARDY PERENNIAL PIANTS / 



Dielytra, or Dicentra 



Spectabilis (Bleeding Heart, or Seal Flower). An old-fashioned favorite; its long ra- 

 cemes of graceful heart-shaped pink flowers in May or June are always attractive; it is 

 used largely for forcing, and is perfectly at home in any part of the hardy border, and 

 especially valuable for planting in the shade; 1 to 2 feet. Strong clumps, 50 cts. each; 

 $5.00 per doz.; $40.00 per 100. 



Formosa (Plumy Bleeding Heart). A dwarfer-growing species, with finely cut orna- 

 mental foliage, growing about 15 inches high and producing its showy pink flowers from 

 April till October. 30 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $18.00 per 100. 



Digitalis (Foxglove) 



The Foxgloves, old-fashioned, dignified and stately, are wholesome company in any 

 garden. The strong flower stalks rising from rich and luxuriant masses of leaves, always 

 give an appearance of strength to the hardy border, and during their period of flowering 

 in June, dominate the whole garden. 



Ambigua or Grandiflora. Showy flowers of pale yellow, veined brown; 2 to 3 feet. 



Giant Shirley. A magnificent strain of the Gloxinia-flowered type of vigorous habit 

 attaining a height of from 5 to 7 feet with spikes of bloom 4 feet in length, closely set 

 with flowers of unusual size ranging in color from purest white to deepest rose, hand- 

 somely spotted with crimson-maroon. We offer them in mixture only. 



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



DorOnicUm (Leopard's Bane) 



Excelsum. Large bright yellow daisy-like flowers and one of the most effective very 

 early spring flowering perennials. There are many who have seen this only as a 

 single plant, here or there in a hardy 

 border, and have no idea of the effect it 

 has when planted in a mass. Also a 

 splendid flower for cutting. It suc- 

 ceeds everywhere; 2 feet. 35 cts. 

 each; $3.50 per doz. 



EchillOpS (Globe Thistle) 



Ritro. Deep metallic-blue flowers; 

 July. 3 feet. 



Sphaerocephalus. An interesting 

 thistle-like plant with large globular 

 heads of bluish-white attractive flow- 

 ers in July. 3 feet. 30 cts. each; $2.50 

 per doz.; $18.00 per 100. 



Dielytra (Bleeding Heart) 



DlCTAMNUS 



Epi medium 



(Barren -wort, Bishop's Hat) 



An attractive plant growing 8 to 10 inches 

 high with leathery bronzy foliage and panicles 

 of interesting flowers in April and May. 

 Suitable for a shady spot on the rockery or for 

 the edge of the border. 

 Lilacea. Soft lilac. 

 Niveum. Snow white. 

 Pinnatum Elegans. Yellow. 

 Rubrum. Deep red. 



50 cts. each; $5.00 per doz.; $40.00 per 100. 



ErigerOIl (Fleabane) 



Coulteri. Grows about 15 inches high and 

 during July bears attractive single mauve- 

 colored Aster-like flowers in profusion. 



Speciosus. Large rosy-pink flowers; June to 

 August; 2 feet. 



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



DORONICUM 



Erinus 



Alpinus. Forms pretty rosettes of foliage and racemes of rosy purple flowers 

 during May and June. A desirable rock plant; 4 inches. 25 cts. each; 

 $2.50 per doz. 



Eryngium (Sea Hoiiy) 



Handsome ornamental plants, growing from 2 to 3 feet high. The flower 

 heads, which are produced from July to September, are useful to cut for 

 vases or to dry for winter bouquets. 



Amethystinum. The finely cut, spiny foliage and the beautiful thistle 



like heads are of glistening amethystine-blue; 3 feet. 

 Maritimum. Has most attractive large glaucous-blue, deeply toothed 



foliage and pale blue globular flower heads. 1 foot. 

 Planum. Steel-blue flowers, large spiny foliage; 2 feet. 



35 cts. each; $3.50 per doz. 



Garden Chrysanthemums offered on pages 172 and 173 will supply an abundance of flowers after every 



thing else has been cut by frost 



