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PHLOX SUBULATA MOSS, or MOUNTAIN PINK 
An early spring-flowering type, with pretty moss-like 
evergreen foliage, which, during the flowering season, is hidden 
under the masses of bloom. An excellent plant for the rockery, 
the border, and invaluable for carpeting the ground. 
Alba. Pure white. 
Rosea. Rose pink. 
Vivid. Bright rosy red. 
PHYSOSTEGIA FALSE DRAGON-HEAD 
One of the most beautiful of our mid-summer flowering peren¬ 
nials, forming dense bushes 3 to 5 feet high, bearing spikes of 
delicate tubular-shaped flowers. 
Virginiana. Bright but soft pink. 
Virginiana Alba. Pure white; very fine. 
Vivid. New dwarf variety with deep pink flowers. 
PHYSALIS Francheti CHINESE LANTERNS 
Produces bright orange-scarlet lantern-like fruits which, when 
cut, will last all winter. 
PINKS, Hardy Garden (See Dianthus) 
PLATYCODON 
BALLOON FLOWER, or JAPANESE BELL-FLOWER 
Grandiflorum. Deep blue cupped star-shaped flowers. 
Grandiflorum Album. A white-flowered form of the above. 
PLUMBAGO LARPENTAE LEAD WORT 
Dwarf and spreading. Covered with deep blue flowers during 
late summer. 
POLEMONIUM reptans JACOBS LADDER 
Dwarf bushy plants with showy blue flowers in early spring. 
PRIMULA PRIMROSE 
Veris (Invincible Giant). Yellow. June and July. 18 inches. 
Japonica (Japanese Primrose). White, lilac, bright rose, 
deep pink. June and July. 18 to 24 inches. 
Denticulata. Neat, hardy species from Himalaya. Flowers 
early. Pale violet. 9-12 inches tall. 
Polyantha. Excellent strain with a fine range of color. 
PULMONARIA saccharata. LUNGWORT 
Similar to Mertensia with pink flowers in early spring. Beauti¬ 
ful silvery spotted foliage. 12 inches high. 
PYRETHRUM ROSEUM PAINTED LADY 
Hybridum. Red, pink, lavender, yellow. June. 3 to 4 feet. 
Uliginosum (Giant Daisy) 
Grows 3 to 4 feet high and is covered with large white daisy¬ 
like flowers, 3 inches in diameter, from July to September. 
RUDBECKIA CONEFLOWER 
Purpurea 
Giant purple coneflower. Peculiar reddish purple flowers, 
with a very large brown cone-shaped center. July to October. 
SALVIA MEADOW SAGE 
Azurea 
A Rocky Mountain species. Grows 3 to 4 feet high, pro¬ 
ducing, during August and September, pretty sky-blue flowers 
in the greatest profusion. 
Pratensis. Dwarf blue flowers in June. 
SAPONARIA SOAP WORT 
Ocymoides Splendens 
A very useful plant for the rockery or the border, producing 
from May to August masses of attractive small bright rose 
flowers; 8 inches. 
Plants on this page $0.25 each, $2.50 doz., $18.00 per 100, 
except as noted 
