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Plants for Ground-Covers and Borders 
Delphiniums 
DELPHINIUM belladonna. 2 to 3 ft. Garden 
origin. Flowers light blue, continuously during 
the summer. Garden groups. 
Field-plants.$1.50 for 10; $10 per 100 
D. bellamosum. 2 to 3 ft. Garden origin. Flowers 
dark blue, continuously during the summer. 
Garden groups. 
Field-plants.$1.50 for 10; $10 per 100 
D., Garden Hybrids. Taller, with longer and stiffer 
spikes, much larger flowers of many different 
shades. Plants from Kelway, Wrexham, and 
Blackmore & Langdon seeds. Garden groups. 
Very stately plant. 
Field-plants.$2.50 for 10; $15 per 100 
D. grandiflorum (D. chinense). Slender Larkspur. 
# About 134 ft. China. Finer cut foliage than the 
preceding. Flowers deep blue, showy, June to 
fall. Suited to massing and rockery. 
Field-plants.$1.50 for 10; $12 per 100 
D. grandiflorum album (D. chinense album). A 
white form of the preceding. 
Field-plants.$1.50 for 10; $12 per 100 
PEAT MOSS, mixed with heavy garden soils, 
tends to break up the soil and retain moisture. It 
is clean, entirely odorless, and easily handled. We 
advise its use with ground-cover plants and ever¬ 
greens. A bale will cover 240 square feet of surface, 
1 inch deep. 
DIANTHUS Allwoodi. A hardy Carnation with the 
<§> heavy foliage of that plant, strong stems, and 
mainly double flowers of the usual carnation 
colors. Fragrant. 
2/4-i n - pot-plants.$2.50 for 10; $20 per 100 
D. barbatus. Sweet William. 15 to 18 in. Europe, 
Asia. Old-time garden plant producing great 
masses of bloom of extremely rich and varied 
colors. June, July. 
Field-plants.$1.50 for 10; $12 per 100 
D. caesius. Cheddar Pink. Rosettes of blue-gray 
foliage. Sweet-scented, rose-pink flowers in May 
and June. 
Field-plants.$1.50 for 10; $12 per 100 
234-in. pot-plants.$1.50 for 10; $12 per 100 
D. cruentus. Blood Pink. Asia. Foliage in neat 
dark green tufts. Flowers dark red, in tight 
clusters, on wiry stems about 134 feet high, in 
May, June. Good for massing, banks, or rockery. 
Field-plants.$1.50 for 10; $12 per 100 
D. deltoides. Low-tufted evergreen creeper hidden 
by profusion of pink flowers in June and July. 
Full sun and partial shade. Rapid grower, not 
particular as to soil. 
234-in. pot-plants.$1.25 for 10; $9 per 100 
D. plumarius. Garden Pink; Grass Pink. Mounds 
<§■ of blue, glaucous leaves, with numerous flowers on 
about 1-foot stems in June and July. Our plants 
from seed of a single plant of exceptional merit are 
much superior to the usual type, and better than 
most named varieties. The flowers are very large, 
of light and deep pink shades. Garden masses and 
rockery. 
Field-plants.$1.50 for 10; $12 per 100 
4-in. pot-plants.$2 for 10; $15 per 100 
We shall be glad to have you consult us about your 
plans for planting large or small home-grounds. Our 
long experience is at your service. 
Dianthus plumarius 
