Plant This Spring -BLOOMS THIS YEAR 
Your choice of any perennial on this 
pag'e (unless priced otherwise). 
PRICE 
20c each; 6 for $1.00; 12 for $1.75. Postpaid. 
Adam’s Needle—Yucca 
Old Fashioned 
Bleeding Heart 
As hardy as the peony and easy to 
grow. Along its graceful drooping 
branches you find many heart-shaped 
lavender-rose colored flowers in the 
month of May. Blooms this year. 
Likes a moist shady location. 30c 
each. 
Sage 
(Saivia) 
OFriCINAEIS. The leaves of this 
old-fashioned plant are used for 
dressing and flavoring purposes, 
particularly meats of all kinds and 
fowl. Cut fn the fall and hang up 
to dry. 3 for 40c; 10 for $1.25. 
Hardy Sweet Peas 
See description above. MIXED 
COLORS : 3 for 40c; 12 for $1.50. 
Old Fashioned Bleeding Heart 
Dwarf Phlox 
(Subulata) 
This is often called Mountain 
[ Phlox. Is used for borders and 
in Rock Gardens. It is a dwarf 
grower and creeping in its 
habit. Grows about 18 inches 
to 2 feet in each direction. 
WHITE. Fine for contrast. 
VIVID. New large purple. 
ROSEA. Rose colored flowers. 
Great Sea Lavender 
(Statice) 
One of the everlasting flowers. 
Leathery dark green leaves, with 
purplish blue, small flowers that 
come in July and August. Cut and 
dry for indoor use the same as 
Baby’s Breath. 
Great Sea Lavender 
Painted 
Daisy 
Adam's Needle 
(Yucca) 
FILAMENTOSA. A unique plant for your 
rock garden. It is a very symmetrical 
grower with stiff, sword-like leaves. 
The flowers are large, creamy white, 
coming in June, and are borne on tall, 
erect stalks. I have seen as many as a 
hundred flowers on one stem. Remark¬ 
ably drought resistant. 
VARIEGATED or ZEBRA. Grows only 3 
feet high. The sword-like leaves have a 
green streak through the center with 
yellow on each side. Has the beautiful 
flowers of the Filamentosa variety. 
Shasta Daisy 
(Alaska) 
A selected strain of freest flow¬ 
ering daisies. Large white flow¬ 
ers suitable for cutting or making 
a wonderful bank of snow-white 
with yellow centers in your gar¬ 
den. Plant in full sun. Hardy. 2 
ft. Almost everblooming. 
Everlasting Hardy 
Sweet Peas 
The flowers are large, wax-like 
and come in pink, crimson and 
white. They bloom from June to 
August. This trailing plant is 
suitable for arch, trellis or fence 
planting, too._Your choice RED, 
PINK, or WHITE. 
Hardy Verbena 
Growth hardy, if mulched. 
Producing a wealth of lilac- 
blue flowers from June until 
October. Dwarf growing. 
Shasta Daisy 
Sure to bloon 
this year 
Everblooming 
Hardy 
Sweet Peas 
Calico Flowered Sweet William 
I Calico Flowered 
Sweet William 
Resembles a hardy garden 
Phlox. The heads are a solid mass 
| of blooms in May, June and July. 
I Easy to grow. Your choice of col- 
> ors,MIDNIGHT PURPLE, SCAR- 
I LET, PINK or WHITE. 
Special Sweet William Mixture 
The above varieties and other odd J f or 50c 
colors included. Special price, post* «|2f or $ , |50 
Painted Daisy 
(Pyrethrum) 
DARK RED PAINTED DAISY. 
Beautiful shades of darkest- 
red. Cut off the flowers and 
they will keep on blooming. 
25c' each; 5 for $1.00; 12 for 
$2.00, postpaid. 
Earl E. May Seed Co., Shenandoah, Iowa—Page 23 
