BRIDGEPORT, PENNA 
HARDY PERENNIAL PLANTS 
Culture: Will thrive in ordinary soil in a sunny border or rockery. For edging purposes plant 
8 inches apart in autumn or spring. Remove any flowers that form on Lanata as the plant is grown 
only for its lovely silvery foliage. 
Lanata. (L.) 
Fine, old-fashioned cottage, garden plant for edging; useful in rock garden; dwarf; soft silvery 
foliage; flowers useless. 4 inches. 15tf each; 40tf per 3; SI.50 per dozen. 
STAT ICE. Sea-Lavender. 
The flowers are useful for cutting for indoor decoration, also for drying for winter use. 
Culture: A sandy loam is essential to grow these plants well. They will not thrive on heavy 
soils. A sunny position is indispensable. They show to the best advantage when grown towards the 
front of the border. 
Latifolia. (L.) 
A valuable plant either for the border or rockery, immense heads, frequently a foot high and 14 feet 
across, of purplish blue, minute flowers during July and August. These, if cut and dried before 
fully expanded, last in perfect condition for months. 
STOKES I A. Stokes' Aster. 
A very handsome perennial that resembles both a China-Aster and a Cornflower. It should be 
grown in all gardens as its flowers are of the most beautiful form and color. Especially re¬ 
commended for the front of a border, and may be used for cut flowers. 
Culture: Grows well in a sunny, well drained border, in sandy loam. It will thrive in hot, dry 
places with other drought- resistent subjects. 
Cyanea. (L.) 
Beautiful light-blue flowers, produced in 
July until frost, on 18 inch stems. Cne 
of our best late summer flowering per¬ 
ennials. 
SWEET WILLIAM (See Dianthus Barbatus). 
THAUCTRUM. Meadow-Rue. 
Hardy perennials, with elegant, finely 
divided. Maiden-hair-like foliage, which 
is most useful for cutting and mixing 
with cut flowers. The flowers are borne 
in feathery clusters. 
Culture: They are of easy cultivation; 
thriving in any good, comrrion, ordinary 
well drained soil. May be grown in a 
sunny or partially shaded border. Effec¬ 
tive when grown as single specimans in 
the front of the shrubbery borders or in 
the wild garden. 
Adiantifolium. (L.) 
A beautiful variety, with foliage like 
the Maidenhair Fern and many yellow 
flowers in June. 2 feet. 
Dipterocarpum. (L.) 
Cne of the handsomest Thalictrums with 
graceful, rosy-purple flowers on stems 4 
feet high. Produced during August and 
Sept. Protect with straw during winter. 
THYMUS. Thyme. 
Covered completely during June and July with their brilliant flowers the Thymes make a beautiful 
, display in the rockery, along sunny banks or dry rocky slopes or the wall garden; and between 
stepping stones. The fragrant foliage makes an excellent carpet for the spring bulb beds. 
Culture: These will thrive in ordinary soil, in well drained situations; in full sunlight. They 
soon spread and form neat patches of foliage covered with blooms. 
*Citriodorus. (S.L.) 
The well known lemon Thyme, the foliage having a strong lemon fragrance; rosy pink, 4 inches. 
*Citriodorus argenteus. (S.L.) 
Silver-leaved Lemon-scented Thyme. 8 to 10 inches. 
*Citriodorus aureus. (S.L.) 
Golden yellow foliage, making a wonderful display of color during June and July. Growing only 2 
to 3 inches high, and matting out into a beautiful carpet. 
A’Lanuginosus. (S. L.)(Wooly-leaved). 
Wooly foliage of a grayish green color; densely covered with its bright pink flowers in the early 
summer. 
★ Serpyllum album. (S.L.) (White Mountain Thyme). 
Forms dense mats of dark green foliage and covered with clouds of white flowers. 
*Serpyl)um coccineum. (S.L.) 
Plants become completely covered with brilliant crimson-scarlet flowers. 
★Serpyllum splendens. (S.L. ) 
A rapid, dwarf-growing; very hardy and excellent to cover bare spots. Also good for the edge 
of walks or in the rock garden. 
TIARELLA. Foam-flower. 
It has prettily marbled or bronzy foliage, and feathery, creamy white flowers. A suitable plant 
for massing in a shady border or in shade in the rockery. 
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Stokesia Cyanea. 
