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TAYLOR’S 1934 FLOWER AND PLANT GUIDE 
HARDY PERENIALS 
Today, more than ever before, lovers of flow¬ 
ers everywhere are seeking for their gardens 
the better forms of those “Old-Fashioned Flowers 
of Grandmother’s Days.” New and rare types 
continue to appear from various sources. Both 
here and from foreign countries. Not pot grown. 
Blooming size plants. 
HARDY HIBISCUS 
(Mallow) 
Grows four to six feet high, large flowers; 
tops die in fall, sprout up each spring; mixed 
colors. 15c each. 
HARDY WHITE HIBISCUS 
Tall free flowering, perfectly hardy; color 
white, with deep crimson center. 20c each; 
2 for 45c. 
HARDY PINK HIBISCUS 
Similar to the hardy white Hibiscus, but the 
flowers are of a pink, very striking. 25c each; 
2 for 45c. 
HARDY CRIMSON HIBISCUS 
Immense striking deep crimson flowers ; noth¬ 
ing with as much merit has been introduced in 
recent years. Price, 25c; 2 for 45c. 
Bleeding Hearts 
(Dicentra Spectabillis) 
These pretty spring bloomers with their grace¬ 
ful, drooping sprays of heart-shaped pink and 
white flowers. Are very ornamental; and bloom 
early in season. Blooming size, 30c each; two- 
year-old plants, 60c; 2 for $1.00. 
YUCCA (Adam’s Needle) 
A very effective and striking hardy plant; 
will grow on high dry banks or on the lawn. 
Good for the rockery; sword-like evergreen 
foliage. Creamy white flowers, borne on all 
stems. 25c and 50c each. 
Delphinum 
These hardy plants belong in every garden. 
Few perenials make such a fine show during 
spring and early summer, and in cooler sections 
the plants keep on blooming for many months. 
They are excellent for cutting. Set the plants 
four feet apart, so that they can develop freely. 
During severe winter weather cover with coarse 
straw or leaves. 
BELLADONNA—A magnificent sort with 
spikes of the most delicate turquoise-blue. Make 
up prettily with Baby’c Breath. Blooms, July 
till frost. 20c each; 2 for 35c; 6 for 95c. 
BELL AMOS A—A very dark blue variety ; 
strikingly contrastive in connection with the 
azure shade of Belladonna. 20c each; 2 for 85c; 
6 for 95c. 
FRAGRANT HARDY GARDEN PINKS 
Favorite of the old-fashioned garden—the 
fragrant Pinks. Price, 15c each; 6 for 50c, 
GYSOPHILIA (Baby’s Breath) 
The flowers are small, star-like and borne in 
feathery sprays which are highly esteemed for 
cut flowers. Price, 30c each; 2 for 60c. 
HOLLYHOCK 
DOUBLE—Dong spikes of short-stemmed rose 
flowers are well suited to plant against the wall 
or fence or in the background of a hardy per- 
enial border. Four best ccolors, yellow, crimson, 
maroon and pink. Price 15c each; 2 for 25c. 
GIANT PURPLE CONE-FLOWER 
Flowers about four inches across, of a pecu¬ 
liar reddish purple with a remarkably large 
cone-shaped center of brown; forms bushy 
plants three feet high, and blooms from July to 
Octcober. Price. 20c each; 3 for 50c. 
FOXGLOYE-—DIGITALIS 
The strong flower-stalks—fequently four to six 
feet high—rising from rich and luxuriant 
masses of leaves, always given an elegant ap¬ 
pearance to the hardy border. Mixed colors, 
20c each; 3 for 50c. 
SWEET WILLIAM 
A well-known attractive, free-flowering hardy 
perenial, producing in early summer a splendid 
effect in beds and borders, with their rich and 
varied flowers. 12 to 18 Inches. Mixed, con¬ 
taining all colors, 15c each; 4 for 60c; 12 for 
*1.25. 
TERMINALI8 
(Japanese Spurge) 
Trailing plant 6 to 8 inches high, foming broad 
mats of bright glossy green foliage. A ground 
cover, which will grow in all shady situations. 
Under all evergreen plantings, under al shrub 
pantings ; for shrub and flower bed borders, for 
bordering walks and drives, for steep terraces 
in sun or shade, for city yards it is ideal, for 
dense shades under any kind of trees. Price, 
strong 3-inch pot plants with from 8 to 12 leaves, 
15c each: $1.50 per dozen: $10,00 per 100. 
ARTEMISIA SILVER KING 
(The New Misty “Mixer” for Boquets.) —A 
strikingly effective white-leaved contrast plant. 
A beautiful "mist” for setting off boquets and 
floral combinations. A splendid filler for Can- 
na beds. A root-spreading perenial (2-2*4 feet). 
20r; 2 for 35: $2.50 per dozen. 
ASTERS (Michaelmas Daisies) 
Very useful and attractive family of perfectly 
hardy perenials, largely used by landscapers to 
provide masses of foliage and bloom throughout 
the fall : flowers the size of a half dollar, com¬ 
pact. a bright Aeeratum-blue. 10c. 
TUBEROSES 
DOUBLE DWARF PEARL—-No flower is 
more fragrant than the Tuberose. It is of very 
easy cutlure, producing tall spikes of fragrant 
white flowers in August and September. Extra 
Large first size bulbs, 10c each; 12 for $1.00. 
MEXICAN TUBEROSE—Pure waxy-like single 
fragrant flowers on tall, stiff stems. Very free 
perpetual bloomer of easy culture. Each 10c; 
12 for $1.00. 
