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CHAS. FIORE NURSERIES, PRAIRIE VIEW, ILLINOIS 
SCABIOSA 
ALPINE PHLOX 
These are remarkable for their dense prostrate habit and 
mass of bloom in Spring and early Summer. Used for 
the front of borders, on graves and in rock gardens. 
Amoena. This belongs to the dwarf or creeping varieties. 
It is fine for carpeting the ground; rich, bright flowers 
of pink in early Spring. 6 inches. 
each 20c; per 10 $1.80 
Divaricata. Wild Sweet scented. 
each 20c; per 10 $1.80 
Subulata. Blue hill. 
each 30c; per 10 $2.75 
Subulata Alba. Dainty white flowers in May and June. 
10 to 12 inches. 
each 20c; per 10 $1.80 
Subulata Lilacina. Light lilac in flower. 
each 20c; per 10 $1.80 
Subulata Rosea. Has dainty pink flowers. 
each 20c; per 10 $1.80 
Subulata Vivid. Bright pink with fiery red eye. 
each 25c; per 10 $2.25 
PHYSOSTEGIA 
(False Dragon Head) 
Grows 3 to 4 feet high. Extremely beautiful with spikes 
of rosy pink, lilac or white flowers, which a> e tube¬ 
shaped similar to a tiny Antirrhinum blossom. The buds 
and flowers grow on the stem as if growing four sides 
of a square; very attractive foliage surrounding the 
graceful spikes. Flowers in August. 
Virginica. Dense bushes with spikes of delicate pink tubu¬ 
lar flowers. each 20c; per 10 $1.80 
HARDY PRIMULUS (Primroses) 
These are among the most beautiful and interesting of our early 
Spring flowers. Plant them in rich, well-drained soil in the 
border or in a sheltered nook in the rockery. 
Grandiflora. An extra choice large flowered variety. 
each 20c; per 10 $1.80 
Polyanthus. A giant variety of many shades, quite charming. 
each 20c; per 10 $1.80 
Veris. The Oxlip, bearing bright yellow flowers in umbels. 6 to 
9 inches. 
each 20c; per 10 $1.89 
PULMONARIA (Lungwort) 
Angustifolia Azurea. A lovely early blue Spring flower. Dwari 
flowers. When the flowers are through blooming the plant 
has beautifully marked foliage. 
each 25c; per 10 $2.25 
Saccharata Maculata. A beautiful plant, rivaling in the markings 
of its foliage many of the choicest hot house plants; of easy 
culture. Foliage deep green, handsomely mottled with a silvery 
grey, and terminal 1 foot high spikes of pink flowers, chang¬ 
ing to blue. Bloom during May and June. 
each 25c; per 10 $2.25 
PYRETHRUM (Painted Daisy) 
This grand old-fashioned Hardy Perennial is easy to grow 
in any good garden soil where there is good drainage 
and full exposure to the sun. They prefer to be left un_ 
disturbed for two or three years and if given an annual 
top dressing of well-rotted manure, flower generously. 
Their main season of blooming is in June, but if the 
first crop of flowers is removed as soon as finished, 
they will give a fair sprinkling of flowers during the 
Summer and Autumn months. The fine fern-like foli¬ 
age of the plants is attractive at all times. 
Atro-Sanguineum. Blood red. 
General French. Beauty of staple sort. 
each 25c; per 10 $2.25 
Hybridum. Double mixed. 
R'oseum. Rose. 
Uliginosum. 4 ft. Large giant Daisy-like white flowers 
in Fall. 
each 20c; per 10 $1.80 
RANUNCULUS (Buttercup) 
Well-known double yellow buttercup, effective either as a 
cut flower or grouped in the hardy borders. 
Acris Flore Pleno. A double yellow, upright growing 
Buttercup-like plant. Can be planted in wet places. 
Blooms in May and June. 
each 20c; per 10 $1.80 
PLUMBAGO (Lead Wort) 
Larpentae. One of the finest and most desirable border and 
rock plants; it is of dwarf, spreading habit, growing 
6 to 8 inches high; covered with deep blue flowers during 
the Summer a'nd Fall months. 
each 25c; per 10 $2.25 
POLEMONIUM (Jacob’s Ladder) 
A very rccommendable plant on account of its neat habits. 
The foliage is very pretty. It comes early in the Spring 
and stays neat and bright green until late in the Fall. 
Coeruleum Prima Donna. Is a delicate blue shade. This 
variety is dwarf growing to about V/ 2 feet in height. 
each 20c; per 10 $1.80 
Reptans. 8 to 10 inches. April-June. Dwarf bushy plant 
of graceful growth. Showy blue flowers. 
each 25c; per 10 $2.25 
Richardsoni. Has sky blue flowers with golden anthers. 
Blooms during June and July. 
each 20c; per 10 $1.80 
POTENTILLA 
Salmon Beauty. Miss Wilmott. Very free flowering. 
each 25c; per 10 $2.25 
Dwarf Leander. Beautiful free flowering, rose color with 
red center variety. 
each 25c; per 10 $2.25 
SPIREA ASTILBE 
