BRIDGEPORT, PENNA. 
HARDY PERENNIAL PLANTS 
Tangerine. (S.L.) 
4 striking novelty of quite a new color in Gaillardia’s. The elegantly built flowers are of a 
beautiful tangerine-orange self-color, not yet seen in the family. 
GALIUM. Bedstraw. 
Slender plants creating a rather airy effect. Often used in Europe for curdling milk. 
Culture: Any well drained, good garden soil in a sunny position in the rock garden suits them 
best. Plant in fall or spring, six inches apart. 
★ Vernum. (L. ) 
Erect, thin stems, topped with many attractive, small, yellow flowers used to lighten the effect 
of heavier flowers. It is also good in rockeries and on banks. The general effect is that of 
the Gypsophila. It is because of the legend that one of these plants was in the hay on which the 
Mother of Christ rested that it received the name of Bedstraw.. 
GEUM. Avens. 
Most useful hardy perennials; free-flowering, producing a wealth of attractive flowers which are 
much prized for cutting. They are of a tufted habit of growth. Excellent for the border. 
Culture: All succeed in good, ordinary soil in sunny borders. They, however, require plenty of 
moisture in summer. Best grown in groups. In late fall it is well to protect them carefully 
for the winter. 
♦Coccineum, Mrs. Bradshaw. (L. HChiloense). 
A splendid variety, with large, double flowers of a fiery orange-red, blooming nearly all summer. 
♦Lady Stratheden. (L. ) 
A new introduction of great merit. Rich golden yellow blossoms, counterpart of Mrs. Bradshaw. 
GLOBULARIA. Globe Daisy. 
A dwarf-growing perennial suitable for growing on the 
margin of sunny borders and very showy in the rock 
garden. They have evergreen foliage, and blue flowers, 
borne in globular heads on S inch stems. 
Culture: A rich, sandy loam and a sunny position will 
suit all. Best grown in colonies. Plant in fall or 
spring, 6 inches apart. 
♦ Trichosantha. (L.) 
A dwarf tufted little plant with beautiful lavender 
flower heads. Does well in front of a well drained 
border and is a brilliant picture in the rock garden. 
GRASSES, HARDY ORNAMENTAL 
Hardy grasses that are distinctly attractive plants for 
the flower garden. Many of them are of noble, and 
others of medium or low growth. All produce a striking 
effect when growing in isolated positions on the lawn, 
or add to the grace of the border by their elegant 
green or variegated foliage. 
Culture. All will thrive in good, ordinary, and well 
drained soil. All should have a protective covering 
of dry straw placed around the base in autumn. In dry 
weather give plenty of water. 
♦Festuca glauca. (S.L.) (Blue Rescue Grass). 
12 to 15 inches. Ornamental Grass. Grown for dense 
tufts of very narrow, bluish leaves. Used for edgings 
or for contrast with darker foliage. 
Phalaris. (S.L.) Ribbon grass 
This grass is a favorite of old gardens. The leaves 
are attractively striped with pure white. It is use¬ 
ful as a border for the taller perennial grasses be¬ 
cause it grows 2 feet tall. It thrives especially well 
in wet soil and may be used on the margins of ponds. 
In soil too rich it loses its variegation. 
Gtum - Lady Stratheden 
rPSOPHILA. Baby's Breath. 
They are desirable for their many feathery panicles of 
small, stary, white flowers, borne in the greatest pro¬ 
fusion in early summer. They are highly prized for . ... 
cutting; "mist effect" in bouquets and in the garden where a mass of del’cate misty bloom will 
fill a bare place ,, _ , .. . 
Culture: They will succeed in any well drained and not too heavy soil, lhe name aypsophila s 
•seems to indicate its preference for limestone soils.’ They resent disturbance, so in planting, 
chose a permanent location where it can grow unmolested. 
Br '**Double*"Gypsophila of greater vigor, producing larger panicles of fiowers, and having the ad¬ 
vantage of blooming more or less continuously all summer, new branches of bloom appearing after 
the first flush of flowers has passed, if these are cut. 35 <t each; fl.CO for 3. $3.00 per doz. 
^New* flowers pure white almost as large as Achilleas. A fine filler for all sorts of floral 
pieces. 35<? each, $ 1.CO for 3; $3.00 per doz. 
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