57th Year—1877-1934—Innisfallen Greenhouses, Springfield, Ohio, 
27 
Hardy Herbaceous Perennials 
Fine for the Rock Garden bedding- or bordering. 
The wonderful, striking- and perpetual charm of the hardy garden flowers has made them indispensable 
to any garden. Their beauty is ever appealing, ever varying, as each day some new bloom is displaying 
its beauty. Season after season we find new uses for them with their myriad shapes, colors, time of 
bloom and their captivating train of enchantment. 
ACONITUM 
Monkshend or Helmet Flower 
Aconites form bushy clumps, and are invaluable 
for planting under trees or in shady or semi-shady 
positions. They adapt themselves, however, to 
brighty sunny locations. The flowers vary some¬ 
what in height and color, but the hood shaped 
blooms arranged in spikes are very attractive. 
AUTUMNALE —A very striking form on account 
of its dark navy blue flowers. 4 to 5 feet. A fine 
basket flower. 15c each; 4 for 50c. 
AGATHEA 
COELESTIS (Blue Daisy) —Flowers sky-blue with 
yellow disc. Easy growth. Useful in the border for 
bedding. 20c each; 3 for 50c. 
AGERATUM (Hardy) 
MIST FLOWER (Eupatorium)—Light blue flow¬ 
ers from August to frost. 18 to 24 inches. 15c each; 
4 for 50c. 
ANEMONE—WINDFLOWER 
ST. BRIGID —The flowers are 3 to 5 inches across, 
single, semidouble, and produce in great baundance. 
The colors are of all shades, and markings, scarlet, 
pink, maroon, purple, lilac, striped, mottled, etc. It 
is one of the most gorgeous flowers, unsurpassed for 
cutting. Height, 15 inches. Hardy perennial. 20c 
each; 3 for 50c. 
ANCHUSA (Sea Bugloss) 
A race of intensely blue flowering plants. Inval¬ 
uable for the border. Grows in common soil. 15c 
each; 2 for 25c. 
ANCHUSA Dropmore — A bold, broad-leaved 
growth with flower stems 3 to 5 feet high, bearing 
a continuous show of deep blue flowers from spring 
until late summer. The stools are quite dense and 
bushy, each stem nearly covered full length with 
double, inch-wide flowers of the deepest cobalt blue. 
MYOSOTIDIFLORA (Forget-Me-Not Flowered 
Anchusa)—Heght 1% feet when in bloom, during 
April and May, making a tidy, compact plant, en¬ 
tirely lacking of the coarseness of the taller An- 
chusas, forming a mound of dainty blue flowers re¬ 
sembling the forget-me-not, but borne in branchy 
sprays. Foliage is robust and has a healthy, attrac¬ 
tive appearance throughout the entire season. An 
effective rock plant for shady places. 
Bleeding Heart 
ARTEMISIA 
SILVER KING —A plant of rare beauty for land¬ 
scape or cut flowers. Its bright silver colored stems 
and foliage blend harmoniously with other foliage 
or blooming plants. It thrives in ordinary soil, 
growing to a height of about 3-feet in almost per¬ 
fect symmetrical form. The stems are well branched 
and thickly covered with bright- silver colored foli¬ 
age, delicate and lacylike. It produces its entire 
new growth from the roots each year. One-year pot 
plants, 20c each; 3 for 50c, 
Columbine (Aqullegia) 
ASTER (Hardy) 
MAUVE CUSHION —Distinct new type, forming a 
large circular cushion-like plant only about 9 inches 
in height. Flowers of delicate mauve with silvery 
white reflection, measure l 1 ^ inches and over across, 
are produced in amazing profusion; blooms are at 
their best in late fall. 15c each; 2 for 25c. 
ASTILBES 
Strong, vigorous growers, producing many grace¬ 
ful and branched feathered heads of flowers during 
June and July. They succeed best in a half-shady, 
moist position in ordinary garden soil. 30c each; 
2 for 50c. 
AMERICA —Deep pink; excellent forcing variety. 
GLADSTONE —18 inches. June-July. A fine va¬ 
riety. Immense trusses of flowers are as white as 
snow, borne on erect, strong stocks. 
BAPTISIA (False Indigo) 
(Australis) —A strong-growing plant, about two 
feet high; suitable either for the border or wild- 
garden, with dark green, deeply cut foliage, and 
spikes of dark blue flowers in June and July. 20c 
each; 2 for 35c. 
BLEEDING HEART 
DICENTRA SPECTABILIS — A beautiful plant, 
with clustered stems, 1 to 2 feet tall. Flowers large 
and heart shaped, deep, rosy-red in nodding, grace¬ 
ful, drooping racemes. Will grow in any good gar¬ 
den soil and is especially partial to shady locations. 
35c each; 3 for $1.00. 
COLUMBINE (Aquilegia) 
LONG-SPURRED COLUMBINE —The flowers of 
this new strain are greatly enlarged, and the range 
of colors and shades has been increased. They are 
hardy perennials, luxuriating in the more moist sit¬ 
uations in the garden, where they form permanent 
clumps, growing from l 1 /^ to 2 feet high. The large, 
unique, long spurred flowers gracefully hung on 
long stems, are not only brilliantly effective on the 
plant, but equally desirable when cut for vase and 
house decoration. Mixed colors only. 15c each; 
6 for 75c. 
