PERENNIALS 
Plant perennials in front of the shrubbery border for most, 
pleasing effect. They will give an attractive mass of color and 
an unfailing supply of flowers for cutting year after year, com¬ 
ing forth each season with renewed vigor. Varieties especially 
suited to rock gardens are indicated with a dagger. 
Achillea THE PEARL An excellent early blooming perennial which 
spreads rapidly by underground suckers. Its two foot flower stems bear small 
clusters of pure white double flowers in June and July. It is much grown for 
its cut flowers and is also valuable for interplanting with perennials which 
bloom later in the season. 
Althea officinalis MARSHMALLOW A giant among perennials. 
Almost a shrub. 4-5 feet with blooms like large single hollyhocks, but 
foliage much darker. Needs three to four feet of growing space. Red, pink 
and white. 
Althea rosea HOLLYHOCK Without doubt the most popular gar¬ 
den plant. Five to six feet tall. Rlossoms sometimes six inches across, showy, 
wax-like. Plant very hardy and not particular as to soil. A profuse bloomer 
from July to September. Pink, red and white. 
fAlyssum saxatile GOLDENTUFT This popular rock garden and 
border plant has many common names. Goldentuft, Goldust, Basket of 
Gold, Rock Madwort. It is covered in .April and May with a profusion of 
brilliant yellow flowers borne on woody, wiry stems with gray foliage. 
Anchusa italica ITALIAN BUGLOSS During June and July this 
popular border plant produces several course rough-leaved stocks three to 
Hve feet high bearing scattered inch-wide dazzling blue flowers of great 
beauty. 
The rock garden is a simple problem if one remembers to use plants profusely 
and rocks but sparingly. The space may not be large nor the situation sunny so 
long as the soil is fairly rich and the spot is well protected from winter wind. 
Anthemis tinctoria kelwayi KELWAY CAMOMILE 
An aromatic plant with fine ferny foliage producing sprays of 
lemon-yellow daisies about one and one-half inches across. Its 
three foot height makes it a fine border display during June 
and July. 
tAquilegia canadensis AMERICAN WILD COLUM¬ 
BINE A graceful and attractive early flowering rock-garden 
plant. It seems to do well in any garden soil both in sun and 
shade. Flowers are an inch or more long, red and yellow borne 
abundantly on eighteen to twenty-four inch stems. 
tAquilegia caerulea THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN COL¬ 
UMBINE Powder-blue flowers of great splendor are borne on 
twelve inch stems with bluish foliage during May and June. 
One of the handsomest of all Columbines, it shows up to re¬ 
markable advantage in the rock garden. This is the Colorado 
state flower. 
SEDUM SPECTABILE 
Aquilegia chrysantha GOLDEN COLUMBINE 
A very slender dainty long-spurred Columbine with 
golden yellow flowers blooming later than other long- 
spurred types in June and July. Height two and one 
half to three feet. 
Aquilegia MRS. SCOTT ELLIOTT HYBRIDS 
There is no better mixture than this with its wonderful 
flower colors and color combinations ranging through 
shades of lavender, mauve, blue, purple, white, cream, 
yellow, pink and red. 
Centaurea montana MOUNTAIN-BLUET 
Also known as Bagged Robbin, Ragged Sailor, Hard 
Head and Corn Flower. Its large blue blossoms are 
produced on two foot stems from July until September. 
At other times this plant is a low rough-leaved peren¬ 
nial about a foot high. 
JCerastium tomentosum SNOW-IN-SUM MEB 
The silvery gray foliage in a cloud of dazzling white 
flowers borne on this plant in June makes it easily 
recognized by every garden lover. It spreads rapidly, 
is excellent for the large rock-garden or border p-oduc- 
ing a wealth of flowers for cutting. 
Cheirantlius allioni WALL FLOWER No 
other garden flower has a more vivid orange coloring 
than the fragrant wall flower which produces its bril¬ 
liant blooms on one foot stalks, from early May until 
mid-summer. It is ideal for bordering the tulip bed or 
perennial bed giving color in early Spring before the 
blossoming time of other perennials. 
Chelone lyoni SHELL FLOWER A very hand¬ 
some perennial bearing numerous spikes of large flower 
heads on two foot stems in summer and fall. Flower 
purplish red. 
Chrysanthemum maximum SHASTA DAISY 
A class of garden flowers known by everyone. We list 
here a few of the best varieties. 
Glory of Wayside—earliest of bloomers coming into 
bloom in May. Pure white glistening flowers on twelve 
to fifteen inch stems. 
Mrs. C. Lothian Bell—this magnificient white Daisy 
is undoubtedly the largest flowering of its class. Flowers 
frequently measure six inches across with very broad 
petals of considerable substance. Height two and a 
half to three feet. Much used by florists. 
fDianthus deltoides MAIDEN PINK A 
charming creeping variety with brilliant carmine 
flowers in June and July; very effective in the rock 
garden. 
tDianthus plumarius GARDENPINK—Scarlet 
or White. Very beautiful, sweet scented, double, 
semi-double and single flowers in great diversity of 
color. 
Digitalis. MIXED FOXGLOVE. A handsome 
stately plant throwing up immense spikes of tubular 
flowers of all colors two to three feet above the foliage. 
It. blooms in June and July and is among the most effec¬ 
tive of the spring blooming perennials. Does best in 
partly shaded situations. 
FOXGLOVE Digitalis 
Goachers Crimson — crimson 
with bronze. 
Indian—Coppery red. 
Alaska—Blooms 4 T6 to 5 inches 
across of pure glistening white 
free flowering in summer and 
Fall, two feet height 
Coreopsis grand iflnra 
COREOPSIS A popular bor¬ 
der plant producing large, flat 
flowers, very much like a golden 
yellow cosmos on 2 to 2 foot 
stems, during July and August. 
Makes a splendid cut flower 
and blooms continuously if 
flowers are kept cut. 
Delphinium. NEW ENG¬ 
LISH HYBHID DELPIIIN 
IUMS. Wonderful pastel shades 
of blue unbelievably long spikes 
of flowers. Plants often five to 
six feet in height. 
Dianthus b a r b a I u s 
S W E E T WIL LI A M Sweet 
Williams are popular old-time 
flowers so well known as to 
need no description. 
