106 MICHELL’S HARDY PERENNIAL PLANTS 
ANEMONE (Windflower) 
As a last greeting of Autumn these gay flowers appear in 
wondrous brilliancy and produce a wealth of bloom until cut 
down by hard frost. 
Plants vary from 2 to 3 feet high, and are ideal for cutting; 
the flowers appear in August and remain till frost. They require 
Winter protection with leaves, straw or long manure, which amply 
repays one for the extra trouble taken. 
Japonica, Geante Blanche. Large double, silvery white. 
•— Louise Uhink. Early, double white. 
— Mont Rose. Free flowering double pink. 
— Queen Charlotte. Very large semi-double flowers of La 
France pink, a color that is rare among hardy plants. 
— Whirlwind. Large, semi-double pure white flowers, very free. 
— Rubra. A lovely rosy-red with bright yellow stamens. 
*Hupehensis. A native of central China, resembling Anemone 
Japonica in a miniature way. The plant grows from 10 to 12 
inches in height and is wonderfully free flowering from early 
August until late Autumn. A pleasing mauve rose in color. 
*Pulsatilla (Pasque Flower). An interesting plant for the rockery 
or border, producing violet or purple flowers du-ing April and 
May; 9 to 12 inches. 
Price of Anemones, 30c. each; $2.75 per doz.; $18.00 per 100. 
AQUILEGIA (Columbine) 
For Spring blooming these are invaluable, producing their 
graceful spurred flowers on stems rising 2 feet over their attractive 
foliage, during May and June. 
Michell’s Long Spurred Hybrids. The plants are of strong, 
thrifty growth and the flowers of largest size and can be supplied 
in separate shades, blue, pink and red and orange. 
*AIpina. A very effective rich blue variety; splendid for rock 
gardens; 2 feet. 
Canadensis ( Common American Columbine). The native bright 
red and yellow variety, and one of the brightest. 
Chrysantha ( Golden Columbine). Bright yellow, long-spurred 
flowers. 
Coerulea ( Rocky Mountain Columbine). Bright blue and white 
long-spurred flowers. 
Mrs. Scott Elliott Hybrids. The most famous of these beautiful 
flowers; wonderful colors and very long spurs. 
*Nivea Grandiflora. A fine white; strong growing and very free 
flowering. 
Rose Queen. A new variety of a pleasing shade of delicate 
pink, long-spurred flowers. 
Snow Queen. A pure white, long-spurred type. 
Price of Aquilegias, 25c. each; $2.50 per doz.; per 100, $15.00. 
*ARMERIA (Sea Pink or Thrift) 
Attractive dwarf plants that will succeed in any soil, forming 
evergreen tufts of bright green foliage, from which innumerable 
flowers appear in dense heads, on stiff, wiry stems, from 9 to 12 
inches high. They flower more or less continuously from early 
Spring until late in the Fall. Very useful in the rockery. 
Cephalotes, Bee’s Ruby. Has stout stems with large globular 
heads of brilliant ruby-red flowers. 50c. each; per doz., $5.00. 
Laucheana Rosea. Bright rose. 
*Maritima Splendens. Pale pink. 
30c. each; $2.75 per doz.; $18.00 per 100. 
*ARENARIA (Sandwort) 
Montana. A very desirable creeping plant, forming a dense 
carpet of foliage, covered with attractive white flowers in Spring. 
Excellent for the rockery. 25c. each; $2.50 per doz.; per 100 
$15.00. 
Aquilegia (Columbine) Long Spurred 
*ARABIS (Rock Cress) 
Alpina. One of the most desirable of the very early Spring¬ 
flowering plants that is especially adapted for edging and for 
the rock garden, but does equally well in the border, forming a 
dense carpet, completely covered with pure white flowers. 
Lasts for a long time in bloom. 25c. each; $2.50 per doz.; 
per 100, $15.00. 
*— flore plena. The double white Rock Cress, flowering from 
April until June. 35c. each; $3.50 per dozen. 
*— Rosea. Single, delicate soft pink flowers. 35c. each; $3.50 
per dozen. 
ARTEMISIA 
A most useful class of plants either for the border or for filling 
in within the shrubbery. With the exception of the variety 
Lactiflora, they are not remarkable for their flowers; the foliage 
of the sorts offered is very ornamental. 
Abrotanum ( Old Man, or Southern-wood). Dark green, finely cut 
foliage, with pleasant aromatic odor; 2 feet. 
Frigida ( Fringed Wormwood). A shrubby little plant, growing 
from 8 to 12 inches high, with finely cut silvery foliage; a fine 
border plant. 
Lactiflora. A variety of great merit; flowers white, in much 
branched panicles; very fragrant; 4 ft.; Aug., Sept. Should be 
planted in fertile, moist soil. 
Pedemontana. A handsome variety with finely cut silverv 
foliage. 
Silver King. A new variety with beautiful, bright silvery 
foliage, which can be cut and dried, and which will retain its 
silver color all Winter. 
Stelleriana ( Old Woman). Deeply cut silvery foliage; much 
used in carpet bedding; 18 inches. 
Price of Artemisias, 30c. each; $2.75 per doz.; $18.00 per 100. 
ASCLEPIAS (Butterfly Weed) 
Tuberosa. Very showy native plants, about 2 feet high, pro¬ 
ducing their flowers of brilliant orange-scarlet during July and 
August. 25c. each; $2.50 per doz.; per 100, $15.00. 
A planting of Coreopsis will give an abundance of cut-flowers during the Summer. See page 109 
