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WILL’S PIONEER SEEDHOUSE, GREENHOUSE AND NURSERY 
HOLLYHOCK, Double and Single. This old, midsummer blooming favorite is one of our most 
useful and hardy perennials. Sometimes called Wallflower owing to its frequent use against 
the walls of buildings. Grows 4 to 7 feet high and comes in a great variety of beautiful 
shades. Price: Postpaid, each, 20c; doz., $2.00. Double Mixed. Postpaid, each, 25c; doz., 
$2.50. Double in solid colors, pink, white, red, or yellow. Postpaid, each, 35c; doz., $3.50. 
TIGER LILY, Single. This handsome and striking lily with its deep orange, spotted with black, 
is the hardiest member of the lily family, and perfectly at home in our climate. 
DOUBLE TIGER LILY. This resembles the single form but is fully double and of a trifle more 
delicate shape and appearance. Exceedingly handsome. Postpaid, each, 25c; doz., $2.50. 
LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY. An old favorite, early blooming, shade loving. Of wonderful beauty and 
fragrance. Blooms in June. Height 6 to 12 inches. Clumps. Postpaid, each, 30c; doz., $3.00. 
ELEGANS LILY. This is similar in color to the tiger lily but blooms earlier and more, and the 
flowers are upright. Grows 1 to 3 ft. in height and blooms in late June and July. 
DAY-LILY' or HEMOROCALLIS, Lemon and Orange Types. Flowers in June and July and at¬ 
tains a height of 2 to 2 Va ft. Fragrant. 
CORAL LILY. This is the tenuifolium lily from Siberia and very hardy indeed as well as beau¬ 
tiful. Height about 18 in. to 2 ft., slender and delicate, with a cluster of handsome red blooms 
at the top. Each, postpaid, 25c; doz., $2.50. 
RED MALLOW. A native rock garden plant sometimes called wild geranium. Flowers appear 
in June and July and make the low growing plant a mass of scarlet. Plant in light and not 
too moist soil. 
RED POPPY MALLOW. This is a purplish red flowered, low growing plant, with handsome, 
deeply cut foliage, which blooms throughout the summer. 
SEA HOLLY or ERYNGIUM. This is not notable for its bloom but for the fact that the whole 
plant takes on a brilliant amethyst blue color as the flower matures. This color is so fixed 
that the plant may be dried and still preserve it. 
PENTSTEMON GRANDIFLORA. This is one of the very showiest of our native flowers with 
its large bell-shaped blue or lavender flowers hanging from a long spike. Very hardy, stands 
Hollyhock dry weather and sandy soil well. Blooms in early July and attains a height of 15 to 20 inches. 
ICELAND POPPY, Mixed colors, orange, yellow and white. Height about a foot. A bright green 
tuft of foliage with the handsome cup shaped 
flower borne on a tall stem. Blooms over a long period. 
PRICKLY POPPY. A hardy native of the Great Plains of outstanding beauty. 
A true poppy, bearing large white flowers 3 in. across with yellow centers. 
Foliage silvery. Bushy and 18 in. to 2 ft. high. Flowers numerous and very 
graceful. 
PLATYCODON or CHINESE BELL FLOWERS. We have a stock of both the 
deep blue and the white sort. With its balloon-like buds and large, hand¬ 
some bell-like flowers this is a most satisfactory hardy flower. Blooms in 
early July. Height 20 to 30 inches. 
POTENTILLA FRUTICOSA. A shrubby perennial, hardy, drouth resistant, 
distinctive with its bright green foliage and many bright yellow blooms 
resembling strawberry blossoms. Valuable as a low shrub in foundation 
plantings. Postpaid, each, 30c; doz., $3.00. 
PRAIRIE CLOVER, Petalostenium. This is a handsome purple native, the 
numerous heads coming into blossom in August. Very attractive to bees 
and butterflies. Height 12 to 30 inches, varying with the quality of the soil. 
GUMBO LILY, Cow Boy Lily (White Evening Primrose). This denizen of our 
Bad Lands and buttes is one of the most beautiful of our native flowers as 
well as one of the hardiest. It is very low growing and under good condi¬ 
tions is covered with white blossoms the size of a large single rose most 
of the summer. As the flower ages the blossoms take on a pink color. 
MISSOURI EVENING PRIMROSE. This is a na¬ 
tive of the plains region south of here. It is 
low growing like the gumbo lily with a tre¬ 
mendous blossom, some 3 in. across of a bright 
yellow color. Blooms for a long time and is very striking. 
RIBBON GRASS, Phalaris. This handsome ornamental grass is useful in a dozen places around 
the garden. With its stripes of light green and white and its bushy habit of growth it is 
valuable in clumps and beds with many other plants. Height, 15 to 25 inches. Good root. 
Each, 15c; doz., $1.50. 
SIBERIAN SWEET PEA. This is a perennial pea of a carmine color brought to America by 
Professor N. E. Hansen. Hardy and beautiful. Vines get to be 18 to 24 in. long. 
SIBERIAN LAVATERA. This is a tall, very hardy type from Prof. N. E. Hansen. Grows from 
3 to 4 feet high and in midsummer and later is covered with large pink mallow like flowers. 
SEDUM (Stolonifera). This is a beautiful ground cover and rock garden plant. Exceedingly 
hardy and drouth resistant. Low growing and spreading, it has been used to advantage as a 
grave cover under severe conditions and has given excellent satisfaction. Suitable also for 
rocky slopes and terraces. 
SPIDERWORT (Virginiana). An old favorite and a hardy native as well. Grasslike foliage 
bearing in clusters large brilliant blue flowers which appear about July first. Height about 
12 to 15 inches. 
MAXIMILIAN’S SUNFLOWER, Helianthus. Large single flowers, borne profusely, rich-golden 
yellow, center reddish brown. Dark green drooping foliage. Blooms August and September. 
5 to 7 feet. 
SWEET WILLIAM. Another old favorite, belonging to the pink family. Colors mostly red and 
white. Blooms in July. 18 to 24 inches high. 
TANSY, Plover Head. An old perennial, 2 to 3 feet high and with a fernlike foliage and clusters 
of yellow bloom. Also valued for its medicinal uses. 
BLUE VIOLET. For early Spring the native violets are unsurpassed in beauty. The blue will 
stand either shade or sun and is very greatly enlarged by cultivation. Blooms in late May 
and early June. 
WHITE YYOLET. The native woods violet, especially suited to shady or partly shaded locations 
and of great beauty. 
CRIMSON YARROW. This is the dark red form of the common white yarrow or millefoil. Height 18 in. Blooms from 
July 'to fall. 
YUCCA or SPANISH BAYONET, Yucca Glauca. Native on dry clay buttes and in the driest possible locations. Very orna¬ 
mental in its ordinary condition, and unusually beautiful when it blooms in July with its long spike of greenish white 
bells. Height 12 to 24 inches. 
NATIVE NORTH DAKOTA CACTI 
OPUNTIA or PRICKLY PEAR. This is the flat stemmed, branched eaclus covered with spines and bearing many gorgeous 
yellow flowers, varying considerably in shading during the month of July. Price, postpaid, each, 35c; doz., $3.50. 
MAMMILLARLV VTVTPARA— The Prairie Rose Cactus. This is the little pin cushion cactus with the rose colored flowefs. 
Does well cither indoors or out. Price, postpaid, each, 35c. 
MAMMILLARIA MISSOURIENS1S. This resembles the vivipara except that the flowers are a pale yellow in color. Not 
plentiful in our locality but found in large numbers further south. Price, each, postpaid, 35c. 
Pentstemon Grandlflora 
