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PERENNIAL FLOWER SEED 
HARDY PERENNIAL FLOWER SEEDS 
CULTURE—Everyone likes perennials because they are permanent—once established they increase in 
size and beauty. Many sorts are raised from seed, usually blooming the year after sowing. The seed bed 
must be well drained, fine and firm. If the soil is at all heavy, cover with one inch of sand. The seed 
may be planted from June 10th to early July. After soaking the seed 24 hours, sow the fine sorts in rows, 
3 inches apart, on the surface of sand or well sifted soil, and press down with a board. Large seeds may 
be covered to twice their thickness. The bed must be kept shaded constantly with a screen made as fol¬ 
lows: Nail common laths 2 inches apart on end strips. Place the screen over the bed on 4 bricks set end¬ 
wise. Water as required ; when seedlings have two pairs of leaves, transplant into rows a few inches 
apart each way, and later, when they begin to crowd, transplant a second time. This involves extra work, 
but it is necessary to raise sturdy plants. Keep them shaded with the screens all Summer. In September, 
if well developed, they may be placed in their permanent locations where they are to blossom the follow¬ 
ing year, or left in the seed beds for early Spring transplanting. After the ground freezes haid, cover 
with evergreen or other branches and a few inches of straw or leaves loosely piled on top. In late March 
remove one-half the top mulch and loosen up the rest, to admit air. Take off the remainder gradually, as 
the season advances. 
AQUILEGIA, COLUMBINE 
Charming, hardy perennial plants grow¬ 
ing from one to three feet high, bearing 
in countless numbers through May and 
June their exquisite blossoms of clear blue, 
white, rose, yellow, purple, striped, etc. 
For planting in permanent borders or nat¬ 
uralizing along the edge of woods or shrub¬ 
bery they are unsurpassed. 
Single Long Spurred Hybrids. All col¬ 
ors mixed. Pkt. 15c. 
California Hybrids. Exquisite flowers, 
in yellow and orange shades, all with long 
spurs. Pkt. 15c 
♦ 
ANTHEMIS TINCTORIA, HARDY 
MARGUERITE 
A native of England, grows about a foot 
high, bearing in profusion daisy-shaped 
yellow flowers which come in July and 
August. Pkt. 15c. 
AGOSTEMMA, ROSE OF HEAVEN 
An attractive, free-blooming, hardy per¬ 
ennial, of easy culture, producing bright 
colored flowers on long, slender stems. 
Blooms first season, fine for cutting, two 
feet. Pkt. 15c 
ANCHUSA ITALIAN DROPFORE 
VARIETY 
Blue, large, forget-me-not-like flowers. 
Very fine for the back of the perennial 
border or for a screen. Five feet high. 
Pkt. 15c. 
ARCHILLA, DOUBLE WHITE YARROW 
One of the best hardy white perennials. 
Grows about two feet high and from 
Spring until frost is covered with heads 
of purest white, double flowers. Pkt. 15c. 
BELLIS—ENGLISH DAISY 
Daisies are easily raised from Spring 
sown seed, and come into flowers in a very 
short time. They thrive best in cool, shady 
places, but do well in almost any soil. 
They are very pretty when in bloom and 
deserve to be grown more universally than 
they are. Admirably adapted for edgings, 
borders and low beds; 6 to 8 in. Double 
mixed, embracing all colors. Pkt. 15c. 
ALYSSUM SAXTILE COMPACTUM 
Has handsome masses of bright yellow 
flowers. Fine for borders. Pkt. 15c. 
ARABS ALPINE 
A low early blooming perennial with 
white, fragrant flowers. For rock work, 
borders or covering steep banks. Pkt. 15c 
BOLTONIA—FALSE CHAMOMLIE 
One of the showiest of our native hardy 
perennials, growing 4 to 6 feet high, with 
daisy-like flowers in countless thousands 
from July to September. 
Asteroides, white.Pkt. 15c 
Lastisquama, lilac pink.Pkt. 15c 
CAMPANULA—BELLFLOWER 
Beautiful, hardy, herbaceous perennials, 
bearing a great profusion of attractive 
bellflowers; thrive best in light soil. They 
will continue to bloom for weeks if given 
a partially shaded location. 
C. carpatica. Very charming plant six 
to eight inches high, deep blue flowers. 
Pkt. 15c. 
CANTERBURY BELLS — CAMPONULA 
CALYCANTHEMA 
Cup and Saucer. Produces beautiful 
single flowers three inches in length with 
saucers three to four inches in diameter. 
The plants form pyramids of bloom bear¬ 
ing from 100 to 200 of these exquisite 
blossoms for weeks during the early Sum¬ 
mer. A hardy biennial 2 Ms feet high, flow¬ 
ering the second season from seed. Mixed, 
all colors. Pkt. 15c. 
COREOPSIS 
C. Lancelata Grandiflora. A hardy per¬ 
ennial about two feet high. This produces 
an abundance of large, daisy-shaped flow¬ 
ers on long stems. One of the best of all 
perennials for cut flowers. Pkt. 15c. 
CANTERBURY BELLS — CAMPANULA 
MEDIUM 
The old-fashioned variety which pro¬ 
duces large, bell-shaped flowers. Popular 
and beautiful are Campanulas. Although 
the Canterbury Bells are biennials, they 
may also be treated as annuals, and will 
flower the first year from seed, if sown 
early in the Spring. 
Dark blue.Pkt. 15c 
Rose .Pkt. 15c 
Single mixed, all colors.Pkt. 15c 
Double mixed, all colors.Pkt. 15c 
