HUGH B. BARCLAY, Narberth, Pa. 
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Gentiana Andrewsi (Closed Gentian) 
EUPHORBIA Myrsinites. Europe. A plant of old 
<$> gardens. The thick, declining stems are covered 
in close spirals by gray, fleshy, concave evergreen 
leaves, giving the plant the appearance of a 
gigantic sedum. Flowers yellow, terminating the 
stems. The plants become nearly 2 feet across. 
Unique and attractive. 
Field-plants.$2.50 for 10; $18 per 100 
FESTUCA glauca. Blue Fescue. Europe. A grass 
<§> with silvery blue leaves and culms forming clumps 
about 8 inches high. Graceful, with narrow foliage. 
Does not spread. Good for low masses, lines, and 
the rockery. Excellent substitute for boxwood as 
a dwarf edging. 
2J4-in. pot-plants.$1.25 for 10; $10 per 100 
FUNKIA lancifolia (Hosta japonica)-. Lanceleaf 
Plantain Lily. Japan. The plentiful basal leaves 
are about 6 inches long by 2 inches or less wide. 
Flowers light blue, in racemes on slender stems 
about \}/2 feet high, in July and August. Suited 
for masses, borders. Endures considerable shade. 
Field-plants.$1.50 for 10; $12 per 100 
F. subcordata grandiflora (Hosta plantaginea 
grandiflora). Big Plantain Lily. Japan. The 
plentiful basal leaves are large, strongly veined, 
bright attractive yellowish green. Flowers waxy 
white, fragrant, 4 to 6 inches long, on 1F6 to 2-foot 
stems. September. Plants form specimen clumps 
2 feet or more across. Endures considerable shade. 
Field-plants.$3 for 10; $20 per 100 
F. undulata variegata (Hosta lancifolia undulala). 
Wavyleaf Plantain Lily. Blue flowers and pretty 
variegated foliage. 
Field-plants.$1.50 for 10; $12 per 100 
GAILLARDIA, Dazzler. 2 ft. One of the best large 
golden yellow flowers with rich maroon centers. 
June to frost. 
Field-plants.$1.50 for 10; $12 per 100 
G. grandiflora. Perennial Gaillardia. l)/£ to 2 ft. 
Western United States. Plant with grayish, more 
or less notched or cut foliage and large, red and 
yellow daisy-like flowers, solitary on good stems 
from June to late fall. Any drained soil. Likes 
sun and dry weather. The plants offered are from 
seed of plants which bore very large flowers with 
a double row of ray florets. 
Field-plants.$1.25 for 10; $10 per 100 
GALAX aphylla. Native. Dwarf evergreen, 6 in. 
-ft Bears a profusion of pure white flowers in mid¬ 
summer. The leaves are round, 3 to 4 inches 
across, turning crimson and bronze in autumn. 
Invaluable as a shady and woodland ground-cover. 
For 10 Per 100 Per 1000 
Collected clumps.$2 50 $20 00 $150 00 
GALIUM verum. Yellow Bedstraw. Europe. Foli- 
<§> age linear, about inch long, in bright green 
tufts or mats about 4 inches high. Flower stems 
about 15 inches high, plume-like, branched with 
numerous bright yellow flowers. Pleasing fra¬ 
grance. Excellent for cutting. Rockery, low 
masses, and banks. Any soil. 
2}^-in. pot-plants.$1.50 for 10; $12 per 100 
GENTIANA Andrewsi. Closed Gentian. Native. 
<§> Leaf-bearing stems to about 2 feet. Flowers large, 
showy, purplish blue, clustered in the upper leaf- 
axils during July and August. Likes moist, rich 
soil in sunlight or semi-shade—not stagnant water. 
Field-plants.$1.50 for 10; $12 per 100 
Funkia subcordata grandiflora 
