20 Hardy Perennials 
Geo. H. Mellen Co. 
OUR SELECT HARDY 
Including Special Types for Rock Gardens 
The wonderful, striking and perpetual charm of the hardy garden flowers has made 
them indispensable to any garden. Their beauty is ever appealing, ever varying, as each 
day some new bloom is displaying its beauty. Season after season we find new uses for 
them with their myriad shapes, colors, time of bloom and their captivating train of 
enchantment. 
ACONITUM (Monkshead or Helmet Flower) 
Aconites form bushy clumps, and are invaluable for planting under trees or in shady 
or semi-shady positions. They adapt themselves, however, to bright sunny locations. 
The flowers vary somewhat in height and color, but the hood shaped blooms arranged 
in spikes are very attractive. 
AUTUMN ALE—A very striking form on account of its dark navy blue flowers. 4 to 5 
feet. A fine basket flower. 15c each; 4 for 50c. 
ACATHEA 
COELESTIS (Blue Daisy)—Flowers sky-blue with yellow disc. Easy growth. Useful in 
the border for bedding. 20c each; 3 for 50c. 
Arabis 
ARABIS (White Rockcress) 
ALPINA—One of the most desirable 
of the very early Spring flowering 
plants that is especially adapted 
for edging and for the rock gar¬ 
den, but does equally well in the 
low border, forming a dense car¬ 
pet of pure white flowers. It is 
nice for cutting and lasts a long 
time in bloom. 20c each; 3 for 
50c. 
ARTEMISIA 
SILVER KING—A plant of rare 
beauty for landscape or cut flow¬ 
ers. Its bright silver colored stems 
and foliage blend harmoniously 
with other foliage or blooming 
plants. It thrives in orditjary soil, 
growing to a height of about 3 
feet in almost perfect symmetri¬ 
cal form. The stems are well 
branched and thickly covered with 
bright silver colored foliage, de¬ 
licate and lacy-like. It produces its 
entire new growth from the roots 
each year. One-year pot plants, 
20c each; 3 for 50c. 
ASTER (Hardy) 
MAUVE CUSHION—Distinct new 
type, forming a large circular 
cushion-like plant only about 9 
inches in height. Flowers of de¬ 
licate mauve with silvery white reflection, 
measure 1 'A inches and over across, are 
produced in amazing profusion; blooms are 
at their best in late fall. 15c each; 2 for 25c. 
ASTILBES 
Strong, vigorous growers, producing many 
graceful and branched feathered heads of 
flowers during June and July. They succeed 
best in a half-shady, moist position in ordi¬ 
nary garden soil. 30c each; 2 for 50c. 
AMERICA—Deep pink; excellent forcing var¬ 
iety. 
CLADSTONE—18 inches. June-July. A fine 
variety. Immense trusses of flowers are as 
white as snow, borne on erect, strong 
stocks. 
BAPTISIA (False Indigo) 
(Australis)—A strong-growing plant, about 
two feet high; suitable either for the border 
or wild-garden, with dark green, deeply cut 
foliage, and spikes of dark blue flowers in 
June and July. 20c each; 2 for 35e. 
BLAZINC STAR 
LIATRIS or KANSAS CAY FEATHER—A most 
striking and desirable plant with great 
rocket-like spikes of rosy purple flowers. 
Excellent for the border or among shrub¬ 
bery and fine for cutting. Crows 3 to 5 
feet tall. Blooms from August to October. 
20c each; 3 for 50c. 
Astilbes 
ACERATUM (Hardy) 
MIST FLOWER (Eupatorium) — Light blue 
flowers from August to frost. 18 to 24 
inches. 15e each; 4 for 50c. 
ANEMONE—WINDFLOWER 
ST. BRIGID—The flowers are 3 to 5 inches 
across, single, semidouble, and produce in 
great abundance. The colors are of all shades, 
and markings, scarlet, pink, maroon, purple, 
lilac, striped, mottled, etc. It is one of the 
most gorgeous flowers, unsurpassed for cut¬ 
ting. Height, 15 inches. Hardy perennial. 20c 
each; 3 for 50c. 
ANCHUSA (Sea Bugloss) 
A race of intensely blue flowering plants. 
Invaluable for the border. Crows in common 
soil. 
ANCHUSA (Dropmore)—A bold, broad-leaved 
growth with flower stems 3 to 5 feet high, 
bearing a continuous show of deep blue 
flowers from spring until late summer. The 
stools are quite dense and bushy, each stem 
nearly covered full length with double, inch¬ 
wide flowers of the deepest cobalt blue. 15c 
each; 2 for 25c. 
MYOSOTI Dl FLORA (Forget-Me-Not Flowered 
Anchusa)—Height 1 Vi feet when in bloom, 
during April and May, making a tidy, com¬ 
pact plant, entirely lacking of the coarseness 
of the taller Anchusas, forming a 
mound of dainty blue flowers re¬ 
sembling the forget-me-not, but 
borne in branchy sprays. Foliage is 
robust and has a healthy, attractive 
appearance throughout the entire 
season. An effective rock plant for 
shady places. 20e each; 3 for 50c. 
Bleeding Heart 
BLEEDINC HEART 
DICENTRA SPECTABILIS—A beautiful plant, with clustered stems, 1 to 2 feet tall. Flowers large and 
heart shaped, deep, rosy-red in nodding, graceful, drooping racemes. Will grow in any good garden 
soil and is especially partial to shady locations. Small plants, 20e each; 3 for 50c. Large plants, 40c 
each; 3 for $1.00. 
BOCCONIA (Tree-Celandine or Plume Poppy) 
CORDATA—A noble hardy perennial, beautiful in foliage and flower, and adapted for planting in the 
shrubbery borders, and in bold groups in any position, attaining 6 to 8 feet in height. Flowers creamy 
white in terminal panicles. 20c each; 3 for 50c. 
CACTUS (Hardy) 
OPUNTIA RAFINESQUII—This variety will stand 20 degrees below zero. Can be grown indoors or out¬ 
doors. Fine for rockeries, border for evergreen, banks, perennial beds, etc. It is evergreen, producing 
from June till September, large semi-double red and yellow flowers 4 inches across. An ornamental 
interesting plant for outdoor culture, easily grown. 25c each; 3 for 65c. 
Blazing Star 
