PERENNIALS AND CALIFORNIA BULBS 
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The Harebell of Scotland is C. rotundifolia, and produces delightful little flowers, 
borne freely on many slender stems a foot or so high. A mass of these in late fall is 
among the prettiest of sights and for rockeries they are fine, giving a touch of the Old 
World to our American gardens. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
C. Trachelium is a most excellent, strong-growing perennial with slender but stout 
stems and many pendent, dark blue flowers. Any garden soil suits it, and if planted a 
foot apart each way, any time after November 1, it will thrive. A sunny or slightly 
shaded situation best meets its needs. 15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
C. Medium, or Canterbury Bell, is a universal favorite, but it is biennial and does 
not flower the first year from seed. If you buy seed you will wait a full year for flowers, 
and the small plants that the florists sell are no better. Why not buy the splendid 
heavily rooted, full year-old plants that: I sell and have your bioom at once? Sit., sun 
or in hot places, with an afternoon shade. Soil, any garden loam, but, if fairly rich and 
well tilled very much finer results will be secured. Prop., seeds and plants. PL, October 
to April. I have C. Medium in White, Blue, Rose, and Mixed. Very strong, i-ycar 
plants, 10 cts. each, $1 per doz. 
CARNATIONS we all love, but the Florist's or Tree Carnations are poor garden 
flowers. The smaller Marguerite Carnations are in the same colors and are just as fra- 
grant, while they are most hardy garden flowers. Sit., sun. Soil, garden loam and ordi- 
nary care. Prop., seeds. PL, October to April. The plant persists but year-olds are 
best. Fine, strong plants ready to flower, in White and Yellow, 60 cts. per doz. 
CELASTRUS scandens. See Bittersweet, page 6, 
CENTRANTHUS ruber, or 
Valerian, grows to 2 to 3 feet, 
brandling freely at the base and 
well filled with pleasing foliage. 
The innumerable small flowers 
are borne in many small clusters 
at the ends of the branches. It 
flowers for many months and 
blends wonderfully well with any 
of the tall perennials. The white 
form excellently supplements the 
tall delphiniums or hollyhocks 
when set in front, as they well 
conceal the temporary bareness 
between the flower-crops of these. 
Very hardy, drought-resisting, 
and long-lasting, it is a flower for 
either the rich or the poor man's 
garden. Sit., sun. Soil, any 
garden soil. Prop., seeds or 
divisions, but it is better not to 
divide well-established clumps. 
PL, October to April. I have dull 
rose or pure white. Fine plants, 
15 cts. each, $1.25 per doz. 
CERASTIUM tomentosum, 
or Mouse Ears, makes a dense- 
mass of silvery foliage not over 4 
inches- high and often 2 feet 
across. The white flowers are 
produced in myraids in early 
summer and sparingly later. It 
withstands drought wonderfully 
and for dry, sunny rockwork or 
banks, for carpeting dry spots, 
and for covering graves, is very 
useful. Fine for front of broad 
hardy borders. Sit., sunny and 
warm. Soil, any even, very light 
soil. Prop., seeds or divisions. 
PL, October to April. Fine 
plants, 15c. each, $1.25 per doz. Campanula Medium 
