PAINESVILLE, OHIO 
Hardy Perennial Plants 39 
The Gipsy Blanket Flower. 
Doronicum Excelsum. 
Edelweiss, 
DORONICUM^ excelsum (Leopard's Bane). A superb cut 
flower for May and June, the perfect rayed Daisy flowers a 
brilliant canary-yellow, 3 inches wide. Blooming plants av¬ 
erage 2 feet in height, stool heavily, and are extremely 
showy. 3, 85c; doz. $3.00. 
ECHINOPS ritro (Globe Thistle). 2 to 3 feet. Thistle-like 
plants with globular heads of deep metallic-blue flowers. 
Can be dried for winter decoration. 
Each, 25c; 3, 70c; doz., $2.50. 
EDELWEISS<§> (Leontopodium alpinum). A splendid, typical 
Alpine plant, 4 to 6 inches ; small yellow flowers, June to 
August, surrounded by starlike heads of leaves which are 
clothed with a dense white woolly substance. 
3, 65c; doz., $2.25. 
ERIGEROH speciosus. 2 feet. June and July. Very large, 
terminal, aster-like flowers, of considerable gardening value 
and excellent for cutting. The slender rays are perfectly 
aligned, a brilliant blue slightly overcast violet, streaking 
away from a button center of gold. 3, 65c ; doz., $2.25. 
ERYNGIUM amethystinum (Sea Holly). A highly orna¬ 
mental plant growing 2 to 3 feet high, with hard, angular 
stalks ; fine cut, spiny foliage. The true blue thistle, stems 
and bracts a glistening amethyst blue. 
25c each ; 3, 65c ; doz., $2.25. 
EUPATORIUM coelestinum. All-covering cymes of pretty 
purplish blue, ageratum-like flowers good for cutting. 2 feet. 
August to October. Valuable because of its scarce color for 
that season. 3, 55c ; doz., $2.00. 
EUPHORBIA 
Corollata (Flowering Spurge). 2 ft. A branchy, low growing 
plant with fine stems and foliage, literally covered from 
June to August with loose umbels of pretty white flowers. 
Good for cutting in long sprays ; and one of the most charm¬ 
ing midseason mist-flowers. 3, 55c; doz., $2.00. 
Myrsinites<$>. Small, creeping plants of striking beauty, 
when protruding from wall pockets ; or on the garden level, 
when the upright growth forms close ranks of 6-inch stems, 
covered with fieshy, oblong, concave pointed blue leaves in 
close spirals; the spring flowers yellow in crowded umbels. 
3, 70c; doz., $2.50. 
Polychroma^. 1 foot. Attractive hemispheres of many 
stems clothed with dark green, oblong leaves. Yellow flowers 
May and June, in 5-rayed umbels which snuggle into a 
whorl of leaves, also yellow tinged. 
3, 85c ; doz., $3.00. 
A planting of Hardy Ferns. 
HARDY FERNS 
Many people go to the woods for wild ferns to tuck in here 
and there against shady foundations. Few live or prosper ; but 
here is a list of hardy, nursery grown varieties, for that pur¬ 
pose. 
ADIANTUM pedatum (Maidenhair). Will do well in shade 
or sun, not particular as to soil. Needs moisture and good 
drainage. Its airy poise and delicate frond texture make it 
an excellent pot or rockery plant. Height 15 inches. 
ASPIDIUM acrostichoides (Christmas Fern). 15 inches. 
“An evergreen fern,” best in shady location, deep green 
fronds and an excellent species for rock gardens. 
ASPIDIUM margdnale (Evergreen Wood Fern). 18 inches. 
A valuable fern for rockeries. Fronds light green, 3 to 4 
inches wide. 
ASPIDIUM spinulosum (Spinulose Wood Fern; Shield 
Fern). 18 inches. An “evergreen fern” with handsome and 
finely dissected fronds. Requires a rich moist location. 
A splendid fern for rockeries. 
ONOCLEA struthiopteris (Ostrich Fern). 3% feet. Very 
stately, likes partial shade and moisture, but does well in 
a dry location. 
Price: 3, 55c; doz., $2.00; 100, $12.00. 
★ One each of the 5 varieties for $1.00. ★ 
FUNKIA (Day Lily). Thick-leaved, substantial plants valued 
even more for their foliage than for their flowers. They are 
also adaptable to a shady location. 
—subcordata alba (White Day Lily). Gracefully arching, 
very broad heart-shaped leaves of light green, with notice¬ 
able ribs. Prominent flowers in August; waxy white long 
tubes with flaring bells, pendent like Lilies in whorled 
racemes, sweetly fragrant. Popular for low, narrow founda¬ 
tion planting along the east or north sides. 
3, 70c ; doz., $2.50 ; 100, $15.00. 
—undulata variegfata.^ The leaves are broad and definitely 
fluted, pale green with a broad white central band and vary¬ 
ing streaks ; the flower stems just long enough to clear the 
foliage clump; small pendent blue florets in loose racemes. 
12 to 18 inches. 3, 70c ; doz., $2.50 ; 100, $15.00. 
GAILLARDIA grandiflora (Blanket Flower). Makes an 
unfailing supply of bloom in those rich, tawny shades so 
highly prized. Flowers often measui'e 3 inches in diameter, 
on clean 2-foot stems. A hard center of deep maroon is 
thickly bordered by petals of orange and yellow, ringed by 
circles of crimson, red and maroon. (Kelway’s improved 
strain). 3, 40c; doz., $1.50. 
—Portola Hybrids. 2V; to 3 feet. A new type of vigor¬ 
ous growth and flower production. Flowers extra large 
and perfect, an ideal cutting type; brilliant coppery 
scarlet rimmed in gold. 3, 55c; doz. $2.00. 
GERANIUM sanguineum (Cranesbill). 2 feet. An ex¬ 
cellent plant for naturalistic locations in the shade. The 
foliage shaped like geraniums but smaller; flowers single 
in small clusters, very light purple. 3, 70c; doz., $2.50. 
GEUM. iy 2 feet. Brilliant, beautifully ruffled double 
flowers resembling Carnations, on long, slender upright 
stems. June to September. (Illustrated on Color page C.) 
—Lady Stratheden. Bright golden yellow. 
—Mrs. Bradshaw. Showy double crimson-scarlet. 
Both: 3, 70c; doz., $2.50. 
