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Giese’s Bulb and Flower Garden 
PLANTS 
Perennials, Rockery, Alpine and 
Bog Plants 
All rockery plants are marked with an R. Bog plants are marked B. 
All plants are well rooted, and in good condition when shipped. 
Price for plants is for commercial size, as shipped by parcel post seedlings 
or extra large plants according to size, twelve plants at the price of ten, 
parcel post prepaid. I have many other varieties but not a large enough 
supply to list at present. Let me know your wants and I may have it 
or can get it for you. 
ACHILLEA (Milfoil. Yarrow) 
(R) Achilleas are of easy culture and grow in any good garden soil. 
They are useful for the border, wild garden or shrubbery; also for cutting. 
The Pearl —2 ft., June to August. Pure white, fine for cutting. 
Plants, each 10c. 
AGROSTEMMA (Coronario. Mullen Pink) 
Rose Campion —One of the most attractive of the hardy perennials. 
Blooms the first season from seed, producing pretty pink-like blossoms 
on long slender stems. Fine for both mass planting and for bouquets. 
Height about 18 inches. Plants, each 10c. 
ALYSSUM SAXATILE COMPACTUM 
(R) (Basket of Gold) — 1 foot. May-June. Producing masses of gold¬ 
en flowers very early. May be planted effectively with Arabis. Plants, 
each 15c. 
ANDROSACE (Rock Jasmine) 
(R) Lanuginosa Leichtlini —“The most alpine of all alpines,” a free 
growing trailing plant with gray silky foliage and umbels of white flowers 
with small crimson eye. Plant in gritty soil, the roots requiring the cool 
moisture of the stones. Protect from extreme moisture during winter 
months. May to October. Plants, each 30c. 
AQUILEGIA (Columbine) 
(R) Alpina. (Rocky Mountain)—Blue and white, bronze. All colors. 
Hybrid Longspur —All colors. 
Plants, each 20c. 
ARABIS (Rock Cress) 
(R) One of the earliest and prettiest spring flowers for rockeries 
or edging. Sow seeds in permanent location and thin to 6 inches. Gray 
green foliage, sheets of fragrant flowers. Will stand drouth. 6 to 8 inches 
high. April and May. 
(R) Alpina —Pure white flowers. Plants, each 20c. 
(R) Alpina Flore Pleno —Double white flowers with pinkish tinge. 
Plants, each 20c. 
(R) Rosea —Dainty sprays of rose colored flowers. Plants, each 20c. 
ARMERIA (Thrift Sea Pink) 
(R) Grand plants for crevices of wall and rocks, and also for 
growing in flower borders or as permanent edgings; excellent plants for 
the sea coast. June-July. 
Maritima —3 to 6 inches. May-June. Silvery pink flowers. Plants, 
each 20c. 
ASTER (Alpinus) 
(R) Now fill a most important place in all hardy flower gardens, 
lighting up the borders and shrubberies with their masses and clouds of 
dainty and brightly colored blossoms throughout the autumn months up 
to November, when other flowers are scarce. 
Alpinus Goliath —Large, soft blue. Plants, each 20c. 
Alpinus Nixc —Light blue, star-shaped. Plants, each 20c. 
(R) Alpinus Townsendii —Fine early flowering type; 18 to 24 inches, 
in lavender, pink, and dark blue. Plants, each 20c. 
ASTERS—PERENNIAL 
(Fall-Flowering Hardy Michaelmas Daisies) 
Among the showiest of our late flowering perennials giving a wealth 
of bloom during September and October. For best effect should be planted 
in masses of one color. 
Abendroethe (Evening Glow)—Rosy red; 3 feet. 
Novae Angeliae —Bright violet purple. 4 feet. 
Nova Belgi St. Egwin—Soft rose pink, very free. 3 feet. 
Perry’s White —Flowers pure white, golden center. 2 inches. 3 to 4 
feet. Plants, each 15c. 
