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OUR SELECT HARDY 
Including Special Types for Rock Gardens 
The wonderful, striking and perpetual charm of the hardy garden flowers has made them 
indispensable to any garden. Their beauty is ever appealing, ever varying, as each day some 
new bloom is displaying its beauty. Season after season we find new uses for them with their 
myriad shapes, colors, time of bloom and their captivating train of enchantment. 
ACONITUM (Monkshead or Helmet Flower) 
Aconites form bushy clumps, and are invaluable for planting under trees or in shady or semi-shady 
E ositions. They adapt themselves, however, to bright sunny locations. The flowers vary somewhat in 
eight and color, but the hood shaped blooms arranged in spikes are very attractive. 
AUTUMNALE—A very striking form on account of its dark navy blue flowers. 4 to 5 feet. A fine 
basket flower. 15c each; 4 for 50c. 
AGATHEA 
COELESTIS (Blue Daisy)—Flowers sky-blue with yellow disc. Easy growth. Useful in the border for 
bedding. 20c each; 3 for 50c. 
Bleeding Heart 
AGERATUM (Hardy) 
MIST FLOWER (Eupatorium)—Light blue flowers from August to frost. 18 to 24 inches. 15c each; 4 for 50c. 
ANEMONE—WINDFLOWER 
ST. BRIGID—The flowers are 3 to 5 inches across, single, semidouble, and produce in great abundance. The colors are of all 
shades, and markings, scarlet, pink, maroon, purple, lilac, striped, mottled, etc. It is one of the most gorgeous flowers, unsurpassed 
for cutting. Height, 15 inches. 20c each; 3 for 50c. 
ANCHUSA (Sea Bugloss) 
A race of intensely blue flowering plants. Invaluable for the border. Grows in common soil. 
ANCHUSA (Dropmore)—A bold, broad-leaved growth with flower stems 3 to 5 feet high, bearing a continuous show of deep 
blue flowers from spring until late summer. The stools are quite dense and bushy, each stem nearly covered full length with 
double, inch-wide flowers of the deepest cobalt blue. 15c each; 2 for 25c. 
M YOSOTIDIFLORA (Forget-Me-Not Flowered Anchusa)—Height feet when in bloom, during April and May, making 
a tidy, compact plant, entirely lacking of the coarseness of the taller Anchusas, forming a mound of dainty blue flowers re¬ 
sembling the forget-me-not, but borne in branchy sprays. 20c each; 3 for 50c. 
ARABIS (White Rockcress) 
ALPINA—One of the most desirable of the very early Spring flowering plants that is 
especially adapted for edging and for the rock garden, but does equally well in the low 
border, forming a dense carpet of pure white flowers. It is nice for cutting and lasts a long 
time in bloom. 20c each; 3 for 50c. 
ARTEMISIA 
SILVER KING—A plant of rare beauty for landscape or cut flowers. Its bright silver 
colored stems and foliage blend harmoniously with other foliage or blooming plants. It 
thrives in ordinary soil, growing to a height of about 3 feet in almost perfect symmetrical 
form. The stems are well branched and thickly covered with bright silver colored foliage, 
delicate and lacy-like. It produces its entire new growth from the roots each year. One 
year pot plants, 20c each; 3 for 50c. 
ASTER (Hardy) 
MAUVE CUSHION—Distinct new type, forming a large circular cushion-like plant only about 9 inches in height. Flowers of 
delicate mauve with silvery white reflection, measure 1}4 inches and over across, are produced in amazing profusion; blooms 
are at their best in late fall. 15c each; 2 for 25c. 
ASTILBES 
Strong, vigorous growers, producing many graceful and branched feathered heads of flowers during June and July. They 
succeed best in a half-shady, moist position in ordinary garden soil. 30c each; 2 for 50c. 
AMERICA—Deep pink; excellent forcing variety. 
GLADSTONE—18 inches. June-July A fine variety. Immense trusses of flowers are as white as snow, borne on erect, strong 
BALLOONFLOWER 
PLATYCODON GRAND.—A free flowering plant covered with flowers that resemble somewhat the Clematis; two colors, 
blue and pure white. 15c each; 2 for 25c. 
BAPTISIA (False Indigo) 
AUSTRALIS—A strong-growing plant, about two feet high; suitable either for the border or wild-garden, with dark green, 
deeply cut foliage, and spikes of dark blue flowers in June and July. 20c each; 2 for 35c. 
BLAZING STAR 
LIATRIS or KANSAS GAY FEATHER—A most striking and desirable plant with great rocket-like spikes of rosy purple 
flowers. Excellent for the border or among shrubbery and fine for cutting. Grows 3 to 5 feet tall. Blooms from August to 
October. 20c each; 3 for 50c. 
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BLEEDING HEART 
DICENTRA SPECTABILIS—A beautiful plant, with clustered stems, 1 to 2 feet tall. Flowers large and heart shaped, deep, 
rosy-red in nodding, graceful, drooping racemes. Will grow in any good garden soil and is especially partial to shady locations. 
Small plants, 20c each; 3 for 50c. Large plants, 40c each; 3 for $1.00. 
BOCGONIA (Tree-Celandine or Plume Poppy) 
CORDATA—A noble hardy perennial, beautiful in foliage and flower, and adapted for planting in the shrubbery borders, and 
in bold groups in any position, attaining 6 to 8 feet in height. Flowers creamy white in terminal 
panicles. 20c each; 3 for 50c. 
CACTUS (Hardy) 
OPUNTIA RAFINESQUII—This variety will stand 20 degrees below zero. Can be grown indoors 
or outdoors. Fine for rockeries, border for evergreen, banks, perennial beds, etc. It is evergreen, 
producing from June till September, large semi-double red and yellow flowers 4 inches across. An 
ornamental interesting plant for outdoor culture, easily grown. 25c each; 3 for 65c. 
DAISY, DOUBLE ENGLISH 
BELLIS PERENNIS—Flowers double, ranging in color from purest white to pink 
and deep rose. Fine for borders. 15c each; 4 for 50c. 
DAISY (Shasta) 
CHRYSANTHEMUM MAXIMUM—One of the most popular garden flowers. It 
blooms profusely from spring till midsummer. Large, white daisies with yellow centers 
carried erect on 2 foot stems. 15c each; 2 for 25c. 
DAISY (Glory of Wayside) 
A variety blooming abundantly early in May. Pure glistening white flowers are pro¬ 
duced in great profusion on symmetrical, compact plants. Perfectly hardy. Fine for cut 
flowers and excellent for rock gardens. 15c each; 2 for 25c. 
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Blazing Star 
——^ Balloonflower 
GEO. H. MELLEN, SPRINGFIELD, OHIO 
