BR I OGEPORT, PENH A. 
HARDY PERENNIAL PLANTS 
Polyphyllus Varieties: 
Albus. (S.) 
Fine pure white, large spikes 2 to 3 feet tall. 
Blue King. (S.) 
Intense dark blue. 
Gold Crest. (S.) 
Yellow with deeper yellow wings. 
Luteus. 'S.) 
Yellow shades. 
Princess Juliana. (S.) 
Bright Pink. 
Roseas. (S.) 
D ink shades. 
Tangerine. (S. ) 
Golden yellow and orange terra-cotta. 
Harkness Regal Hybrids Mixed. (S.) 
Contains a fine range of colors. 
LYCHNIS. Campion or Catchfly. Maltese Cross. 
Easily grown and attractive perennials. They vary in stature and are suitable for growing in 
sunny borders or rock gardens. Fine old-fashioned flower, bearing large heads of brilliantly 
colored flowers, that liven up the border during summer and early autumn. 
Culture. All are best grown in groups in good, ordinary soil, kith the exception of Haageana, 
which does best in partial shade in the rockery, the rest should be grown in a sunny border. 
♦ Alpina. (S.L.) 
Dwarf, rose-pink. A charming little plant for the rock garden about 4 inches high. 
Chalcedonica. (S.L.) 
Heads of vivid scarlet flowers, blooming a long time. One of the brightest plants in the hardy 
border. 3 feet; all summer. 
♦Haageana. (S.L.) 
1 foot. June to August. Very showy, producing orange-red, scarlet or crimson,flowers nearly 
2 inches across. Should be planted in light shade. 
Viscaria splendens alba. (S.L.) 
Flowering profusely in June and July; it is one of the best rosey-pink flowers at that time of 
the year. 12 to 15 inches high; fine border plant. 
LYSIMACHIA. Loosestrife. Moneywort. 
These are prostrate or creeping plants that grow very rapidly. It is useful for cutting as it 
lasts well. They are useful to grow in a border, wild garden or along lake margins. They 
serve as good carpeting for shady places. 
Culture: Prefers moist situations, and it is because of this that they grow so well on stream 
banks or in any kind of waterside plantings. The plants do not require any care except to thin 
them out every two or three years before they become too rank in growth. 
Nummularia. (S.L.) 
Yellow, 2 to 3 inbhes. June, July. 
LYTHRUM. 
Suitable showy plants for moist, shady borders on the waterside. There is hardly any plant 
which can equal this when it is naturalized in the swampy woodlands or in the wild gardens. 
Culture: These plants are moisture loving and will grow in any ordinary soil providing it is 
moist and in partial shade. Divide and replant every third year. 
Superbum Roseum. (L.) 
Showy, rosey-purple spikes 2i to 3 ft. High; produce freely in July and August. 
MAZUS. 
Prostrate and creeping rock garden plant. 
Culture: Well drained, sandy soil, in a sheltered position. Wi-11 grow in full sunlight or 
light shade. Where the winters are sever protect with straw or litter. 
♦ Reptans. (S.L.) 
This dwarf and interesting alpine plant, which is covered in early spring with dainty lilac 
flowers with a small white lip, borne just above the foliage, is a real gem. 
MERTENSIA. Virginia Cowslip. Virginia Blue Bell. 
This is one of the loveliest of the early spring blooming plants. The flowers hang in a 
drooping, nodding, graceful clusters of Gentian-blue. It serves one of it's best purposes when 
allowed to naturalize itself in shady places. 
Culture: They need moist, preferably a rich, deep, loamy soil, 
with daffodils and Bleeding Hearts. 
Virginica. (L. ) 
This blooms in the early spring, growing about 1 to 14 feet high with blue flowers fading to 
pink. Cne of the most interesting of our native plants. 
These look well when combined 
MYOSOTIS. Forget-me-not. . . . 
Charming spring and summer-flowering plants. Their dainty blue, pink or white flowers are al¬ 
ways produced freely. The perennial kind may be massed in beds or on the margins or borders 
of streams and ponds. . . 
Culture: Forget-me-nots are grown similarly to Pansies and Violas, requiring damp, cool, shady 
places. They will grow in almost any soil and should be protected slightly during the winter. 
Excellent as a ground cover between tulips and other spring-flowering bulbs. 
♦Palustris semperflorens. (S.L.) 
Large blue flowers with yellow eyes. A charming plant for damp places and a more profuse 
bloomer than the Alpestris type. This is the true perennial variety. 
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