HARDY PERENNIALS 61 
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The I. W. Scott Company, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Hardy Phlox 
HARDY PERENNIAL PLANTS, continued 
Miss Lingard. Pure white, pale pink 
centers. The most popular and 
earliest white. 
Rheinlander. Large, salmon-pink 
flowers. 
Rijnstroom. Rose-pink. 
R. P. Struthers. Cherry-red, suf¬ 
fused salmon. 
Pyrethrum hybridum 
IRIS, German. Flag. Superbly colored 
varieties of this popular garden plant. 
Japanese. White, gold, or blue flow¬ 
ers. Flowers very attractive. 35 cts. 
each, $1 for 3. 
LIATRIS pycnostachya. Kansas Gay 
Feather. Flowers purple, in dense 
spikes. Foliage thick and grass-like. 
Excellent for masses or cut-flowers. 
scariosa. Spikes of deep purple flow¬ 
ers. Very desirable. 
LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY. A dainty 
plant for shady places. Fragrant, 
bell-like, white flowers in May. A 
good ground-cover. 
LUPINUS polyphyllus, Mixed. Grows 
2 'A to 3 feet tall and produces 
White, Pink, or Lavender-Blue 
flowers. 
PAPAVER nudicaule. Iceland Poppy. 
Grows 1 foot high, with very pretty 
single, crinkled flowers in White, 
Salmon, Yellow, or Orange. 
orientale. Oriental Poppy. Im¬ 
mense, single, bright scarlet flowers 
in spring. 
orientale, Mrs. Perry. Orange- 
apricot. The best of all the pink 
Poppies. 
PENTSTEMON barbatus Torreyi. 
Beard Tongue. Spikes of brilliant 
scarlet flowers. Grows 3 to 4 feet high. 
PHYSALIS Francheti. Chinese Lan¬ 
tern Plant. An ornamental variety 
of the Winter Cherry, with orange- 
scarlet lantern-like fruits. 
PYRETHRUM hybridum. Persian or 
Painted Daisy. A good hardy 
perennial with fern-like foliage. 
Fine for cutting or planting in the 
hardy border. Mixed colors. 
PHLOX. A universal favorite and the 
most showy of garden plants. They 
grow 2 to 3 feet high, according to 
variety, and have large heads of 
bloom. Thrive in a cool, moist, well- 
drained soil. 
B. Comte. Dark red. 
Beacon. Brilliant cherry-red. 
Commander. Crimson-red with 
darker eye. 
Elisabeth Campbell. Light salmon, 
shading to pink at center. 
Enchantress. Salmon-pink. 
Fernand Cortez. Deep crimson. 
Fraulein G. von Lassburg. Pure 
white. 
Phlox, New Varieties. We consider 
these the best of the new sorts. 
Caroline Vandenberg. Vivid blue. 
Free bloomer. 
George Stipp. Carmine with violet- 
pink center. 
Hauptman Koehl. Dark blood-red. 
Rigoletto. Dark carmine-lilac, edged 
with light maroon. 
Rokoko. Clear soft pink. Large 
flowers. 
Price of above varieties, 35 cts. each, $1 for 
3, $3.50 per doz. 
PHYSOSTEGIA virginiana. Erect 
plants, 3 to 6 feet high, with rigid 
spikes of delicate lavender-pink 
flowers in late summer. A very use¬ 
ful tall border plant. 
PLATYCODON grandiflorum. Bal¬ 
loon Flower. A very good hardy 
perennial producing large, showy, 
steel-blue flowers the whole season. 
Excellent for borders. 
SCABIOSA caucasica. Pin-Cushion 
Flower; Mourning Bride. Flowers a 
soft shade of lavender. Grows 
to 2 feet high and blooms from 
June to September. 
SHASTA DAISY (Chrysanthemum 
maximum), Alaska. Pure white 
blooms 4 to 5 inches across with 
yellow centers. 
STATICE latifolia. Sea Lavender. 
Invaluable for cutting. Attains a 
height of 1 to 2 feet. Purplish blue 
flowers. 
SWEET WIVELSFIELD. An unusual, 
handsome race of China Pinks. 
Fragrant and everblooming. 
THALICTRUM adiantifolium. Vig¬ 
orous plants with maidenhair foliage 
and featheiy clusters of yellowish 
flowers. 
TRITOMA pfitzeri. Red-Hot Poker. 
Spikes of orange-scarlet flowers. 
VALERIANA officinalis. Flat heads 
of white flowers. Strong heliotrope 
scent. An old-fashioned favorite. 
YUCCA filamentosa. Adam's Needle. 
Broad, sword-like, evergreen foliage 
and large, drooping, creamy white 
flowers on stems about 6 feet high. 
filamentosa Hockeri. Variegated 
leaved. 50 cts. each, $1.35 for 3. 
Thor. Salmon-pink, suffused scarlet. 
Traviata. Carmine-red, with light 
red sheen and blood-red eye. 
Valeriana officinalis 
Gypsophila, Bristol Fairy. See page 60 
