OF HARDY PERENNIALS, SHRUBS AND VINES 
Rubens. Charming long feathery plumes of carmine- 
rose flowers. Excellent for cutting. 2 to 3 feet. 
For other varities see Astilbe, page 4. 
Price, 50c each; $5.00 per dozen. 
Stachys —Head Nettle; Woundwort 
Fine border plants, thriving in any ordinary garden 
soil, with showy spikes of flowers, often grown as a 
bedding plant, where it is prized for the foliage. 
Lanata. (Woolly Woundwort.) Bright silvery-white 
foliage, soft and woolly; light purple flowers in 
many-flowered whorls. 1 foot to 18 inches. 6-7. 
*Statice —Sea Lavender 
Very ornamental genus of easy culture, but prefer 
a rather deep, loose soil. From the delicate nature of the 
flower panicles, the species are better suited to rock- 
work and isolated positions than for mixing in a crowded 
border. Useful for cut blooms, especially for mixing 
with other flowers. 
Latifolia. (Great Sea Lavender.) Handsome plant 
with heads of dark blue flowers, invaluable for cut¬ 
ting, the flowers, when dried, lasting for months. 
1 to 2 feet. 6-7. 
Stokesia —Stokes’ Aster 
Stokes’ Aster is one of the rarest, choicest and most 
distinct of American hardy perennial herbs. It is a 
blue flowered plant, resembling a China Aster, perfectly 
hardy, and excellent for cutting purposes. 
Cyanea. Flowers blue-lavender, 4 to 5 inches across, 
in great profusion. 1 foot to 18 inches. 8-10. 
—alba. White flowered form of above. 1 foot to 18 
inches. 8-10. 
Sweet William —See Dianthus 
Barbatus 
Tanacetum—T ansy; Costmary 
Bible Leaf 
They are fragrant plants with variously cut leaves, 
and pretty little flowers, thriving in any situation and 
of the easiest culture. The leaves were formerly used 
as bookmarks because of their fragrance, and hence 
the popular name Bible Leaf. 
Vulgare. (Tansy.) Golden-yellow flowers and beautiful 
sprays of fern-like foliage. 3 feet. 6-8. 
Ten c riu m —Germander 
The Germanders are hardy with aromatic foliage, 
suitable for the border for late Summer bloom, or 
for rockwork. They are little known in this country 
as yet. 
Chamaedrys. (Wild Germander.) Terminal spikes 
of bright rosy flowers, the lower lip spotted with 
red and white. Foliage evergreen and upright growing. 
1 to 2 feet. 7-9. 
*Tlialictrum —Meadow Bue 
Adiantifolium. (Maidenhair Thalictrum.) The foliage 
of this plant closely resembles the Maidenhair Fern. 
It makes a very beautiful plant, is quite hardy and 
has greenish-yellow, drooping flowers. 9 inches. 6-8. 
Adiantifolium minus. A charming dwarf plant for 
rock work, with dainty foliage of a grayish-blue hue. 
% feet. 
The Peony Blooms Profusely (See page 19) 
Aquilegifolium. (Feathered or Tufted Columbine.) 
Graceful foliage; sepals of flowers white, stamens 
purple. 1 to 3 feet. 5-7. 
Dipterocarpum. An improved Delavayi. Flowers 
reddish-violet with pale sulphur yellow centers. 
The whole plant is extremely light and graceful. 6 feet. 
50c each; $5.00 per dozen. 
Flavum glaucum. (Blue Meadow Rue.) Finely cut 
foliage with a dense head a foot across of golden 
yellow flowers on stout, well branched stems. Blue 
foliage. 5 feet. 7-8. 
*Thermopsis —False Lupine 
Buffalo Pen 
Elegant subjects with showy pea-shaped flowers, 
doing well in any situation, but succeeding best in a 
light, rich soil. They are deep rooted plants and endure 
drought very well. 
Carolina. (St. Peter’s Staff.) Pretty yellow pea-shaped 
flowers on handsome, tall-growing stems. 5 to 6 feet. 
6-7. 
*Tradescantia —Spiclerwort 
Showy and decorative group of plants for the shrub¬ 
bery border, woodland walks or rockery, forming a 
neat bushy growth, and with numerous terminal 
panicles of flowers in greatest profusion the whole 
summer. Good for cutting. 
Virginiana. (Widow’s Tears.) Flowers violet-blue, 
produced freely. 1 to 2 feet. 5-9. 
—alba major. (Flower of a Day.) White flowers. 
1 to 2 feet. 5-9. 
*Tiarella —False Mitrewort 
An elegant plant, well worthy of cultivation. It is a 
lover of cool, shaded places and of rich, moist soil. 
Very effective for rockwork or the front of the border. 
Purpurea major. (Foam Flower.) Forms a tufted 
mass with simple, erect racemes of salmon-red flow ers 
borne well above the foliage. 6 to 12 inches. 5. 
PRICE FOR STRONG PLANTS OF ALL VARIETIES N AMED ON THIS PAGE, except where otherwise 
noted, 20 cents each; $2.00 per dozen; $15.00 per 100. No less than three plants of one variety furnished at dozen 
rates, or twenty at hundred rates. 
