WAYSIDE GARDENS 
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LYTHRUM - Purple Loosestrife 
Superbum roseum Three $0.55, Doz. $1.50, 100 $10.00 
Very showy rosy purple spikes about 2 or 3 feet high, pro¬ 
duced in profusion all summer. Splendid for banks of streams 
and ponds. 
MATRICARIA - Double Mayweed; Feverfew 
Iiittle Gem Three $0.55, Doz. $1.50, 100 $10.00 
A most useful border plant and valuable summer cut flower, 
with large, double white flowers. June until October. 12 inches. 
Golden Ball Three $0.55, Doz. $1.50, 100 $10.00 
Dwarf yellow form of above. 
MAZUS 
Reptans Three $0.75, Doz. $2.00, 100 $15.00 
A dwarf and interesting Alpine plant, covered in early spring 
with dainty lilac flowers with a small, white lip, borne just 
above the foliage. 
MERTENSIA - Virginia Cowslip; Blue Bells 
Virginica Three $0.50, Doz. $1.25, 100 $8.00 
An early spring-flowering plant, growing about 1 to 1 V 2 feet 
high with blue flowers fading to pink; one of the most interest¬ 
ing of our native spring flowers. 
Matricaria. 
MIMULUS - Musk or Monkey-flower 
Mertcnsia Virginica. 
*Luteus Three $0.75, Doz. $2.00, 100 $15.00 
A splendid plant for shady, moist places. Produces during the 
entire summer large snapdragon-like, yellow flowers. Also 
does well in full sun. About 1 foot high; somewhat spreading 
habit. 
MITCHELLA - Partridgeberry 
*Repens Three $0.85, Doz. $2.50, 100 $18.00 
A little trailing evergreen. It forms fine mats under trees, and 
when once established is sure to please. 
MITELLA - Bishop's Cap 
*Diphylla Three $0.55, Doz. $1.50, 100 $10.00 
A gem for the shady position. Feathery spikes of creamy 
white flowers. 12 to 18 inches, in May and June. 
MONARDA - Bee-balm; Bergamot; Oswego Tea; 
Haremint 
Didyma, Cambridge Scarlet Three $0.55, Doz. $1.50, 100 $10.00 
Brilliant crimson-scarlet flowers are produced freely from 
June until August. A good plant for wild garden as well as 
border or garden in the city where other flowers don’t grow 
well. 
Didyma rosea Three $0.55, Doz. $1.50, 100 $10.00 
A variety of the preceding, with rose-colored flowers. 
Didyma violacea superba Three $0.55, Doz. $1.50, 100 $10.00 
Deep amaranth-red flowers. 
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MYOSOTIS - Forget-me-not 
Monarda Didyma. 
*Falustris semperflorens Three $0.50, Doz. $1.25, 100 $8.00 
Large, rich blue flowers with yellow eye; a charming plant for 
damp places and a more profuse bloomer than the alpestris, 
which also is inclined to be biennial in habit. 
NEPETA - Ground Ivy; Catmint 
*Mussini Three $0.55, Doz. $1.50, 100 $10.00 
An excellent plant for any position, but especially useful in 
the rock garden. Of dwarf, compact habit, producing masses 
of bloom of a beautiful shade of lavender all spring and in¬ 
termittently during the summer. 
Nervosa Three $0.65, Doz. $1.70, 100 $12.00 
Vivid light blue; a fine companion to the well known Mussini, 
the flowers of which are a deeper lavender and of a different 
shade. Lovely in the rockery. 
Souvenir Andre Chaudron Three $1.25, Doz. $4.00, 100 $30.00 
A very distinct, upright growing plant, 14 to 18 inches high. 
Silvery gray foliage and large dark blue flowers blooming con¬ 
stantly during June, July and August in the hottest and driest 
weather. Grow in the border in a dry, sunny place. 
NIEREMBERGIA - Trailing Cup-flower 
*Rivularis Three $0.65, Doz. $1.70, 100 $12.00 
A charming dwarf creeping Alpine plant, bearing large, creamy 
white, cup-shaped flowers from June till September; most de¬ 
sirable plants for the rockery. 
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