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HART’S NURSERY, SPENCERVILLE, INDIANA 
HART’S 
Perennials 
HARDY FLOWERS 
Your yard or flower garden is not complete unless you plant several beds of per¬ 
ennials. These flowers bloom year after year without replanting. They die down in 
the fall and send new shoots from the roots in the spring. Very little protection is 
needed to keep them from freezing out in the winter. Our plants are strong, healthy 
plants, and most varieties will bloom the first year and continue to do so as long as 
they are cared for. The varieties we list here are standard varieties that have proven 
satisfactory in this climate and are sure to satisfy. 
TRITOMA 
TRITOMA (Red Hot Poker). Pfitzeri. 
Rich orange scarlet blooms with stems 3 
ft. high. Very attractive for massed 
planting or in single plants. Also fine 
for cutting. The blooms are formed of a 
solid spike of bright orange red. The 
flower stems grow 2 or 3 ft. tall. Blooms 
from August to October. 
BLAZING- STAR, Gay Feather. A per¬ 
fectly hardy perennial of luxuriant growth, 
doing well in any kind of soil, poor or 
rich, moist or dry. Produces richly col¬ 
ored purple flowers on stout stalks 5 to 6 
ft. high in graceful spikes a foot long. 
Blooms in July and August. 
PLATYCODON. (Balloon Flower). June 
to October. Large, showy, deep blue 
flowers. Good for rock garden and border. 
AQUILEGIA, Columbine. Mrs. Scott El¬ 
liott Hybrids. One of the most beautiful 
hardy perennials. The peculiarly shaped 
flowers are borne on slender, graceful 
stems well above the handsome foliage. 
Plants grow 2 or 3 feet high. Blooms in 
May and June. 
HIBISCUS. Large, single, light pink 
flowers, which measure from 5 to 10 inches 
in diameter, and grow profusely along the 
stem. Blooms from early July until frost. 
Plants grow from three to five feet tall 
under ordinary circumstances. 
SWEET WIVELSFIELD. Similar to Sweet 
Williams but hardier. They grow in large 
clumps and are just covered with bloom 
nearly all summer. They grow about a 
foot and a half high. They come in mixed 
colors. 
GAILLARDIA. (Blanket Flower). Flow¬ 
ers are of the most gorgeous coloring. 
Center dark brown. Plants marked with 
brilliant crimson orange and vermilion. 
Blooms all summer. 
