38 HARDY PERENNIALS. 
STATE NURSERY CO.|| 
LOBELIA CARDINALIS. 
An addition to our list of border plants. They thrive 
in almost any garden soil, but prefer a moist deep loam. 
Rich, fiery cardinal flowers in spikes from 12 to 24 inches 
Each 15c; doz., $1.50 
Each, (Postpaid) 20c; doz., $1.75 
LYCHNIS CHALCEDONIC.A— (Ragged Robin.) 
Tall, heavy, brilliant scarlet flowers. 
Each 15c; doz., $1.50 
Each, (Postpaid) 20c; doz., $1.75 
LYTHRUM. 
LYTHRUM— (Ro.se Loose-Strife.) 
Roseum — Three feet high, heavy, large spikes of rosy 
flowers. 
Virgatum — Grows two to three feet high, erect stems and 
bright rosy purple flowers. 
Each 15c; doz., $1.50 
Each, (Postpaid) 20c; doz., $1.75 
The Lythrum Virgatum is one of our new introductions. 
Something unusual and well worth trying. 
PENTSTEMON. 
Pentstemon. 
A most useful 
and showy peren- 
nial, either for 
mass planting, the 
rockery or border 
work. In some re- 
spects they rival 
Phlox, Petunias, 
etc., especially for 
bedding purposes. 
Barbatus Torryeii 
—Scarlet spikes, 
height 3 feet. 
Digitalis — Purple 
and white. 
Sensation — A 
strain, bearing 
spikes of large 
gloxinia like 
flowers in a 
large variety of 
colors, including 
rose, cherry, 
crimson, purple 
and lilac. 
Each 15c 
Dozen $1.50 
Each, (Postpaid^ 
20c; doz., $1.75 
PHLOX, HARDY. 
Among the whole list of perennials there is no plant of 
more important than the Phlox, succeeding in almost any 
soil and requiring the least amount of attention. Have 
you ever tried a border of Phlox? For example, form the 
outer border with purple, with occasional bunches of 
white, and massing the inner border with bunches of the 
different shades. This will give you a "pride spot" of 
Ihe garden. 
PHYSOSTEGIA— (Virginia Heather.) 
A beautiful flowering perennial forming bushes 3 feet 
high with spikes of delicate pink flowers. 
Each 15c; doz., $1.50 
Each, (Postpaid) 20c; doz., $1.75 
Lewistown, Mont., Nov. 22, 1914. 
State Nursery Co., 
Helena, Mont 
Gentlemen: 
Please accept my grateful thanks for the excel- 
lent plants you sent me, also for the extra bush cur- 
rents, the Perfection. I was simply delighted witli 
everything received. I never saw better or more 
thrifty looking bushes. Those two were worth morf 
than six I planted last spring received from ♦ • * • • 
You will get all my orders in future. Thank you. 
Yours respectfully 
MRS. PETER KRAUSE. 
Hardy Plilox. 
