S & H HARDY PERENNIAL PLANTS 
PAINESVILLE, OHIO 
Hardy Perennial Plants 33 
l This is How We Price Them 
By Mail—We Bay the Postage 
The least number practical for planting:; for - 
show, for cutting, and for protection of the 
variety should one plant die. _ 
(6 of a kind take the dozen rate). A dozen, 
or half-dozen of each are much more im- 
pressive than lesser lots. 
By Express—Yon Pay the Charges 
- (25 of a kind take the hundred rate). Land¬ 
scape effects require solid masses. Note our 
extremely low quantity prices. 
ACHILLEA. Delightful cut flowers and garden units, espe¬ 
cially valuable because of long blooming season. 
—Boule de Neige (Ball of Snow). 18 inches. The best white- 
flowered edging plant; erect, stiff stems and compact clus¬ 
ters, fully double, rounded, pure white florets. June to 
September. (Illustrated on Color Page C.) 
—millefolium. Cerise Queen (Rosy Milfoil). Fine cut, 
decorative foliage on spreading bushes 18 inches high. Bril¬ 
liant cerise-red flowers continuous all summer, in flat um¬ 
bels. This with foliage, is a dainty bowl cut-flower. 
—Perry’s White. 2% feet. Takes the place of The Pearl, 
giving height maintained by rigid, upright stems. Extremely 
free, with clustered double white flowers, excellent for cut¬ 
ting. June and July. 
—tomentosa ♦ (Woolly Yarrow). A low mat of leaves, 
bright with flat heads of yellow flowers in June and later. 
1 foot. 
All Achilleas: 3, 55c; doz., $2.00. 
AC02TITUM Pischeri (Monkshood). 2 to 3 feet. September 
and October. Valuable for either sun or shade, and very 
hardy. The foliage is attractive, and the bloom abundant in 
long, dense spikes of hood-shaped flowers ; dark blue. 
Each, 25c; 3, 70c; doz., $2.50. 
AETHIONEMA persicum (Persian Candytuft). 9 inches. 
Group six inches apart in sunny location for edging, or 
distribute freely among the rocks. Leaves are glaucous 
blue on twiggy stems, with many midsummer spikes of 
rose-pink bloom. 3, 70c; doz., $2.50. 
AJUGA<$> reptans rubra (Bugle). 3 to 4 inches. Deep pur¬ 
plish blue. Excellent carpeting plants for grass, bare spots 
in border, beneath trees or in rockery, in either sun or par¬ 
tial shade; blooming freely May and June. 
3, 55c ; doz., $2.00. 
ALYSSUM<§> 
argenteum. 
15 inches. 
Dense growth. 
Leaves silvery 
beneath, flow¬ 
ers yellow in 
clustered heads 
all summer 
— s a x a t i le 
compact um 
(Golden Tuft). 
A useful, flat, 
spreading edg¬ 
ing and rock¬ 
ery plant, 
growing not 
over 12 inches 
high; covered 
with envelop¬ 
ing flat clus¬ 
ters of bright 
golden yeliow 
flowers early 
in summer. 
Both kinds: 
3, 5 5c; doz., 
$ 2 . 00 . 
Alyssum Saxatile Compactum. 
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. 3, 55c; doz., $2.00. 
—myosotidiflora.<$> 1 foot. A beautiful dwarf border and 
rockery plant, best in sand. Its foliage is broad on spreading 
stools, but the vivid flowers in _ May are almost identical 
with Forget-Me-Not, a rich gentian-blue. 
Each, 25c ; 3, 70c; doz., $2.50. 
Come into the garden . . . “Pink Cushion” greets you. 
T HE strongest practical argument in favor of hardy peren¬ 
nials is the fact that once planted, they continue year 
after year with no further gardening concern beyond 
cultivation, cutting and thinning. 
Beautiful in a thousand types and expressions, embracing 
every color shade and pattern within the knowledge of man, 
it needs only a little thought, study, and art sense to so select 
types and associate colors, that the perennial garden will be¬ 
come a vivid, glorious, living adventure in beauty and self- 
expression. 
In all descriptions, we aim to show normal matured height, 
blooming period, color, and any special quality or utility ; so 
that the reader may easily select and associate varieties to fit 
any desired plot or purpose. 
“Bock Plants” are designated with this character <$>. 
Refer to page 48 for special rock garden information. 
PLANTING. These roots may be planted as early in spring 
as the ground is pliable (or in the autumn) ; selecting an op¬ 
portunity when the soil is not cold, wet or soggy. Large clumps 
are not necessary nor often desirable; the smaller divisions or 
pot grown stock showing more thrift and virility and develop¬ 
ing into shapelier plants than the bulkier old roots. 
I Any good soil sensibly enriched with rotted manure, bone 
I meal, sheep manure, or any other available fertilizer, dug deep 
= and thoroughly mixed, will be satisfactory. 
WINTER PROTECTION. .Everything listed in this section 
: is “hardy,” but in varying degree. For instance, Tritomas, 
f Poppies and Shastas really need some protection. A light 
covering of coarse straw, manure or leaves (not over 2 or 3 
Ij inches deep) will give comfort to all kinds, and insure safety 
i for the weak. After removing all stems and dead foliage, dur- 
* ing the last days of November, or before severely cold weather 
sets in, apply this dressing, remembering to remove it gradual¬ 
ly next spring, as soon as frost begins to leave the ground. 
Study Gardening 
BOOKS 
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cover the innumerable comparisons, 
selections, arrangements, processes, 
cultivation, etc., which enter into the 
matter of Garden and Gardening. 
We recommend and offer THE 
BOOK OF PEREN-*^ f e 
NIALS by Alfred C. > 
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and most practical for 
general information. Postpaid. 
