PERENNIALS 
Price, 15c each; 3 for 40c; $1.50 per dozen; prepaid, except where noted 
DIANTHUS BARBATUS (Sweet Williams)—One of the loveliest of old 
fashioned flowers. Profuse bloomers. Splendid for cutting. White, pink, 
and red. 
DIANTHUS PLUMARIS (Old Fashioned Clove Pinks)—Pink and white, 
fragrant flowers on long spikes. Handsome, glaucous green foliage. For 
border. 
DICENTRA—SPECTABILIS BLEEDING-HEART—The Bleeding-heart is one 
of the choicest memories of the old-fashioned garden. Price, 35c each; 3 for 
$1.00; prepaid. 
CHINESE LANTERN PLANT 
FRANCHETTI—Forms dense bushes 2 feet high, producing bright orange 
scarlet lantern-like fruits, which are very interesting for indoor decorations. 
FUNKIA DAY LILY—SUBCORDATA—Large pure white day lily, fragrant 
flowers, blooms August and September. 
FUNKIA COERULEA—Broad green leaves, blue flowers. July to August. 
GAILLARDIA—BLANKET FLOWER—Improved giants. Bloom crimson 
daisy with lovely shades orange and golden yellow. Blooms all summer. 
GYPSOPHILA or BABY’S BREATH 
PANICULATA—Branching or spreading slender perennials and very desir¬ 
able, misty white bloom. 
HARDY AGERATUM—A pretty, hardy plant, with light purple flowers, in 
flower from August until frost. 12-24 inches. Good cut flower. 
HELIANTHUS—MISS MELLISH—An improved variety of Helianthus, pro¬ 
fuse bloomer. Yellow. 
HELIOPSIS—Orange Sunflower—Flowers on long wiry stems. Good for 
cutting. 
HEMEROCALLIS 
FLAVA (Yellow Day Lily)—Popular hardy plants; belong to the Lilv family. 
Succeed everywhere, should be included in the border of old-fashioned 
hardy plants. 
FULVA—Coppery orange shaded to crimson. 3 feet. Blooms in July. 
HOLLYHOCKS—Immense flowers; all shades and colors mixed. 
HIBISCUS (Mallow Marvels)—A robust type of upright habit, producing 
an abundance of flowers of enormous size in the richest shades of crimson. 
FLOWERING FLAX (Linum Perenne)—Very attractive both in foliage 
and bloom. Pale blue on slender, graceful stems.. 
LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY—Very small and sweet and dainty, the creamy 
white escalloped bells pendant along slender stems. They make up (with 
their broad shiny leaves) into dainty bouquets of fragrance. They spread 
actively from the roots and soon reclaim shaded cold ground which other¬ 
wise would be cheerless and barren. 3 for 25c. 
LYCHNIS CHALCEDONICA (Maltese Cross)—Heart-lobed stars of brightest 
vermillion, arranged in large flat panicles. 
LYTHRUM (Purple Loosestrife-Roseum)—Showy rosy purple spikes pro¬ 
duced in profusion all summer. 
MERTENSIA—BLUE BELLS (Virginica)—An early spring flowering plant, 
1 to IV 2 feet, with blue flowers overlaid with pink. One of the loveliest 
spring flowers we have. 
MONARDA (Oswego Tea)—Showy plants growing from 2 to 3 feet high, 
succeeding in any soil or position, with aromatic foliage, and producing 
their bright flowers during July and August. 
PENSTEMON—BARBATUS TORREYI (B)—June to September. A very 
valuable late flowering variety with beautiful bright flowers. 
PENSTEMON ACUMINATUS—Glaucous foliage. Flowers long, lilac to 
violet. 
PENSTEMON GLABRA (Rosea)—Pretty strain of dwarf variety, flowers 
pink to rose. 
OENOTHERA—EVENING PRIMROSE (Missouriensis)—Low growing. Blooms 
all summer. Firm shiny foliage, bright lemon-yellow flowers, June to August. 
POPPY (Oriental Poppy)—One of the most striking flowers of the perennial 
border. After blooming in June the plants die down and disappear, making 
roseattes of foliage in late fall, and stay green all winter. 
PYRETHRUM OR PAINTED DAISY (Roseum)—Attractive fern-like foli¬ 
age. Rose colored flowers, good for cutting. Bloom May and June. Single 
and double. 
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