HARDY PERENNIALS 
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Hardy Perennials 
One of the host beautiful and cherished pictures one retains on memory’s wall is the old-fashioned garden. The delightful 
fragrance and the many hued flowers entranced and delighted. The old-fashioned informal garden has again come into its own 
and we can now bring into reality in our own garden the picture so long carried only in memory. 
Perennials and bulbs are easy to grow, require no special care and once planted are permanent and the most satisfactory 
plants in the garden. Either as an informal garden, a border or combined with shrubbery the effect is most pleasing. You will 
have a wonderful mass of color and an unfailing supply for cutting. 
COLUMBINE 
Aquilegia. Blooming in late spring 
and through the early summer 
months, preferring slightly shaded 
positions, though it does well in the 
sun. The flowers are borne on 
slender stems and mostly long 
spurred — coming in the many 
shades they do, prove very valua¬ 
ble in any border. 
BOCCONIA CORDATA 
Plume Poppy, Tree Celandine. Most 
tropical looking of our hardy 
plants. Foliage broad and glau¬ 
cous. Tall, upright habit, plant 
terminating in great spikes of 
whitish flowers. Grows in grass 
or any wild spot. Used for back¬ 
grounds of perennial borders. 
DELPHINIUM 
Belladonna Light Blue. The praises 
of this variety have been sung by 
every lover of the hardy border. Light turquoise blue 
flowers are borne in spikes, the first coming in June. These 
may be cut away and young growth will start from the 
crown, producing blossoms all summer. 
Bellamosum Dark Blue. This is an improved dark blue with 
all the other characteristics of the preceding. 
COREOPSIS 
Lanceolata (Golden Wave). Un¬ 
questionably the best of all 
hardy yellow flowers for mass¬ 
ing. Blooms constantly from 
June until frost, with large, 
daisy-like flowers on wiry 
stems. 
DIGITALIS 
Gloxiniaeflora (Foxglove). Grand 
display of thimble-shaped flow¬ 
ers in immense spikes during 
July and August. White or rose. 
A Rock Garden. 
GAILLARDIA 
Grandiflora (Blanket Flower). One 
of the most gorgeous, and prodigal 
displays of all perennials, provid¬ 
ing an unfailing supply of bloom, 
in those rich, tawny shades so 
highly prized. Flowers often meas¬ 
ure 3 inches in diameter, on clean 
2-foot stems. A hard center of 
deep maroon, is thickly bordered 
by petals of orange and yellow, 
strikingly ringed by circles of 
crimson, red and maroon. 
HOLLYHOCKS 
Few hardy plants combine as many 
good qualities as the Hollyhock. For 
planting in rows or groups on the 
lawn, or for interspersing among 
shrubbery, they are invaluable. The 
flowers form perfect rosettes of the 
most lovely shades of yellow crim¬ 
son, rose pink, orange, white, etc. 
HARDY GARDEN PINKS 
Spice-scented bloom in prime during May and June, but in¬ 
termittently throughout the season. They make compact 
clumps a foot or more in height. 
CARNATIONS (Hardy) 
We are offering this year a new 
Hardy Carnation. This Hardy 
Carnation has crimson flowers, 
lives out doors all winter and 
blooms continually from May un¬ 
til frost. 
DIANTHUS (Pinks) 
Barbatus (Sweet William). The 
Sweet William is a fine plant 
which produces great masses of 
bloom of extremely rich and 
varied colors. The flowers are 
lasting and fine for cutting. 
Deipmniuni 
Belladonna. 
A Perennial Garden—Digitalis in foreground 
Shasta Daisy. 
