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CHAS. FIORE NURSERIES, PRAIRIE VIEW, ILLINOIS 
AQUILEGIA (Columbine) 
Farquhar Pink. 2 ft. Beautiful pink with lighter centers and creamy 
anthers. each 25c; per 10 $2.25 
Mrs. Scott Elliott’s Strain of Long-Spurred Hybrids. This strain is al¬ 
lowed by the Royal Horticultural Society to be the best ever raised, 
and ha's received awards whenever exhibited. The blooms are of 
large size and the spurs very long. The colors range through shades 
of lavenders, mauves, blues, purples, whites, creams, yellows, pinks, 
reds, etc. There are no jarring or crude tints and the whole form 
a most harmonious mass of coloring seldom seen in other flowers. 
each 20c; per 10 $1.80 
ARABIS (Rock Cress) 
Charming dwarf spring-flowering plants of easy cultivation; valuable 
for edging and for rock gardens, but does equally well in the border 
garden forming a dense beautiful carpet of pure white flowers. 
Alpina. 6 inches. Early in the Spring the pure white flowers make a 
pleasing contrast in the beds, bordering with golden Alyssum and 
blue Aubrietia. 
each 20c; per 10 $1.80 
ARENARIA (Sand-Wort) 
These are extremely pretty little alpine plants and will thrive in any 
ordinary soil in exposed places. Used in rockeries. 
Montana. A pretty creeping plant which during June is covered with 
attractive silvery white flowers. A good edging plant and invaluable 
for rock garden. Grows 6 inches high, in close tufts. 
each 25c; per 10 $2.25 
SHASTA DAISIES 
ARMERIA (Thrift Sea Pink) 
Dwarf growing perennials with grassy leaves and a tufted 
habit of growth. The flowers are borne in globular 
heads during May and July, and the plants are suitable 
for edgings to borders. 
Formosa Hybrids. 24 inches. Shades of pink. 
each 20c; per 10 $1.80 
Laucheana. Dwarf rosy crimson. each 25c; per 10 $2.25 
Maritima. 3 to 6 inches. Silvery pink flowers. 
each 25c; per 10 $2.25 
ARTEMISIA 
A most useful class of plants, either for the border or for 
filling in within the shrubbery. 
Frigida. each 25c; per 10 $2.25 
Lactiflora (Hawthorne Scented Magwort). A most desir¬ 
able and effective plant either for the border or to plant 
among shrubbery; it is of strong, free growth with 
erect stems 3 l /i to 4J4 feet high, terminated with great 
panicles of Astilbe-like, Hawthorn-scented, creamy 
white flowers produced from the latter part of August 
to the end of September, particularly valuable, being 
unlike any other plant in bloom at that time. 
each 25c; per 10 $2.25 
Silver King (Ghost Plant). A very showy white-leaved 
contrast plant growing 3 feet high and maturing its 
beautiful mist-like foliage early in Summer. Long 
sprays may be cut to mix with Winter bouquets. 
each 25c; per 10 $2.25 
ASCLEPIAS (Butterfly Weed) 
Tuberosa. 2 ft. One of the most showy of our native 
perennials. Compact umbels of brilliant orange flowers 
from July until frost. each 25c; per 10 $2.25 
ASPHODELUS (Asphodel, King’s Spear) 
Luteus. An effective plant for the border with sword-like foliage and 3 feet high 
spikes of fragrant yellow lily-like flowers in July. 
each 30c; per 10 $2.50 
ASTER (Michaelmas Daisy) 
These are among the showiest of our late flowering hardy plants, giving a wealth 
of bloom during September and October, a season when most other hardy 
flowers are past, and for the best effect should be planted in masses of one 
color. They grow freely in any soil. 
Alpinus. Mixed. 3 to 10 inches high, 
with yellow centers in May and June. 
Bears large showy bluish-purple flowers 
each 20c; per 10 $1.80 
Climax. Light lavender-blue flowers with gold centers. 
AUBRIETIA 
Splendid cut flowers. 
each 20c; per 10 $1.80 
Dainty, delicate dwarf creeping plants. 
Bougainvillei. Dark blue. 
Graeca. Light blue. 
Leichtlinii. Deep rosy purple. each 20c; per 10 $1.80 
BAPTISIA 
Australis (False Indigo). Forms a spreading bush 3 to 4 feet high with dark 
bluish-green leaves, cut very deeply to form three oval leaflets and bears its 
Lupin-like blue flowers in dainty branching spikes in June and July. 
each 25c; per 10 $2.25 
BOCCONIA 
Cordata (Plume Poppy). S ft. A handsome border plant of cream color. 
each 20c; per 10 $1.80 
BOLTONIA (False Chamomile) 
The Boltonias bloom at the same time and resemble some of the wild Asters of 
the woodland. The leaves are long and grayish and in these characteristics are 
roughly distinguished from the perennial Asters. The Boltonias, because of their 
great height, are highly desirable in large perennial border because the plants 
literally bear thousands of star-like flowers. They serve excellently as cut- 
flowers. 
Latisquama. Height 4 to 5 feet. Bloom from July to October. Are a very delicate 
pink slightly tinged with lavender. each 20c; per 10 $1.80 
Asteroides —Same as above. White. 
each 20c; per 10 $1.80 
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