THE FRIENDLY VIOLETS 
Here are happy and loveable flowers for rock¬ 
ery, woodland, garden path or meadow. They 
greet the spring with their blossoms, but in latest 
autumn one will find an occasional dainty bloom 
braving the cold winds. Even the foliage has 
charm, and some kinds make good ground cover 
or carpeting plants. Try Viola striata in Lily 
beds, or with Tulips. Violets are easy from seed, 
sometimes flowering same season, and of course 
they naturalize wonderfully well. See also p. 10. 
UNIFORM PRICE, pkt. 20c; spec. pkg. 50c. 
VIOLA PAPILIONACEA — ecrbnh. Butterfly 
Violet. Large, long-stemmed deep purple flowers. 
Makes robust clumps of rich attractive foliage. 
Particularly easy and hardy. y 8 oz. 75c. 
V. GLABELLA—ernsh. Very many little bright 
yellow flowers, purple veined. Makes green mats 
in rich shade. Long and persistent bloomer. 
VIOLA MXJMBYANA—erh. Big handsome flow¬ 
ers of fine blue-violet, sometimes white patched. 
Blooms from early to late; summer heat does 
not stop it. Rather rare, but easy. 
V. LANCEOLATA—ernmgh. Lance-leaf Violet. 
Makes great drifts of solid white along the road¬ 
sides and in meadows. Very pretty. 
V. PUBESCENS—ersnh. Deep yellow flowers, 
marked with violet. Downy leaves. Woods. 
V. SCABRISCULA—ernsh. Pretty shade of soft 
yellow. Grows in rich low woods. 
V. CANADENSE—ernsth. Abundant flowers of 
richest cream color, but royal purple in reverse. 
VIOLA FLORARIENSIS—erh. A delightful hy¬ 
brid Violet with flowers like large lilac Pansies. 
A continuous bloomer from earliest spring, till 
winter. 
VIOLA LUTE A—erh. Dainty yellow, just too 
light to be called golden, this little Violet of moun¬ 
tain meadows has a most delicate beauty. Blos¬ 
soms recurrently all season. 
V. EMARGINATA—ernh. Dwarf, with many 
very pretty flowers of light blue. Oddly shaped 
leaves. 
V. SAGITTATA—ernh. A stalwart ten-inch field 
Violet. Pure purple. 
V. PEDUNCULATA—ernh. Golden Violet. A 
royal beauty. Inch wide flowers of brilliant golden 
orange, starred with mahogany and tinted with 
ruddy brown in reverse. Splendid species. 
V. PEDATA—ec nah. The showy Birdsfoot Vio¬ 
let. Very large blossoms, purest blue lavender to 
deep purple. As splendidly beautiful as V. pedun- 
culata. Deeply shredded leaves. 
V. SHELTONI—ernh. Another attractive bicolor 
with upper petals of brown-shaded golden yellow, 
the lower of creamy primrose. Cut leaves. 
V. STRIATA—ergnh. A carpeting violet for deep 
soils, making masses of spreading green. Many 
pretty cream-white flowers, purple lined. 
V. BRITTONIANA—erensth. A noble species 
with long-stemmed and large blossoms of deep 
purple. Cut leaves. Particularly good. 
VIOLA ODORATA ROSE SHADES—ersty. A 
lovely strain of the richly fragrant and long¬ 
stemmed English Violet. Persistent if given a 
cool, sheltered location. 
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