Old-Fashioned Hardy Perennials 
There is a constantly increasing demand for the old favorites in the gardens of long ago, and more and 
more the flower-lovers are filling their gardens with hardy perennials—the kind that live from year to year, 
increasing in size and beauty until they fairly run riot with their wealth of bloom and glory of form and color. 
Canterbury Bells 
Coreopsis—A gem among hardy plants. 
It begins to flower in June and con¬ 
tinues in bloom more or less throughout 
the season. Flowers are of a golden 
yellow. Graceful form and invaluable 
for cutting, having long stems. 
Achillea (The Pearl)—Double white 
flowers produced in large sprays all 
summer. Fine for cutting. 
Physostegia (False Dragon-head)—One 
of the most beautiful midsummer per¬ 
ennials, forming dense bushes 4 to 6 
feet high, bearing spikes of delicate tubu¬ 
lar soft pink flowers. 
Gaillardia (Blanket Flower)—One mass 
of bloom from June till Autumn. The gor¬ 
geous flowers, 2 or 3 inches in diameter, 
dark red, brown in center with bands of 
crimson-orange and vermilion, are borne 
on stems 18 to 24 inches long. 
Babys Breath—Beautiful for cutting. 
Dainty white flowers in branches so 
thick they look like spun lace. 
Funkia (Day Lily)—Immense spike pure 
yellow, waxy-like flowers; fragrance like 
orange blossom. Glossy green foliage. 
Rudbeckia (Golden Glow)—Grows six 
to eight feet high, bearing exquisite, 
double flowers, of golden yellow. 
Chinese Lantern Plant—An ornamental 
plant forming dense bushes 2 feet high 
producing freely bright orange-scarlet 
lantern-like flowers which can be cut 
and dried for winter bouquets. 
Bocconia (Plume Poppy)—A stately 
plant with fig-like foliage and white 
flowers. Effective for lawns. 
Delphiniums (Hardy Larkspur)—One of 
the most popular perennials, excellent 
for cutting, colors range from palest sky 
blue to the very deep indigo blue. Many 
of the blooms have pink fillings. Long, 
large spikes of flowers. 
Campanula (Canterbury Bell)—Large 
clusters of bell-shaped flowers, mixed. 
Shasta Daisies—The flowers are of the 
purest, glistening white, of enormous 
size and produced on long stiff wiry 
stems, which make them excellent for 
cutting purposes. 
Clove (Pinks)—All colors. Their clove 
fragrance, perfect form and rich coloring 
make them great favorites for edgings, 
walks, drives and rock gardens. 
Hollyhocks—Double, mixed colors. 
Aquilegia (Columbine)—As a cut flower 
the Long Spurred Columbines are the 
daintiest of all outdoor grown flowers. 
Mixed colors. 
Oriental Poppy—Brilliant orange, black 
blotches at base of petals. Beautiful. 
NEW LOW PRICE of all Hardy Perennials on this page, extra strong, well>ooted plants for 
immediate blooming, 20c each, any 6 for $1.00; $2.25 per dozen, postpaid. 
Physostefiia 
Oriental Poppy 
Gaillardia 
Chinese Lantern Plant 
Delphinium 
OUR HARDY PERENNIALS, ONCE PLANTED LAST A LIFETIME 
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