MICHELL’S HARDY PERENNIAL PLANTS 
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ANCHUSA (Sea Bugloss) 
Italica “Dropmore Variety.” Plants grow 4 feet high in 
pyramidal shape, branch freely and are loaded with bright blue, 
Forget-me-not-like flowers in June; very showy and valuable. 
25c. each; $2.50 per doz.; per 100, $15.00. 
Myosotidiflora. A distinct dwarf variety from the Caucasian 
Mountains, with clusters of pretty blue Forget-me-not-like 
flowers in May; 1 foot. 30c. each; $3.00 per doz.; $20.00 per 100. 
ANTHEMIS (Marguerite) 
Perry’s Variety (Improved Golden Marguerite), A wonderful im¬ 
provement over the well known Anthemis Tinctoria, large, well 
shaped flowers nearly 3 inches across, from June to October. The 
well proportioned plants with delicate fern-like foliage are most 
attractive and become covered with bright golden-yellow flowers 
which are valuable for cutting; 15-18 inches. 25c. each; 
$2.50 per doz.; per 100, $15.00. 
AQUILEGIA (Columbine) 
For Spring blooming these are invaluable, producing their 
graceful spurred flowers on stems rising 2 feet over their attractive 
foliage, during May and June. 
Michell’s Long Spurred Hybrids. The plants are of strong, 
thrifty growth and the flowers of largest size and can be supplied 
in separate shades, blue, pink and red and orange. 
*Alpina. A very effective rich blue variety; splendid for rock 
gardens; 2 feet. 
Canadensis (Common American Columbine). The native bright 
red and yellow variety, and one of the brightest. 
Chrysantha (Golden Columbine). Bright yellow, long-spurred 
flowers. 
Coerulea (Rocky Mountain Columbine). Bright blue and white 
long-spurred flowers. 
Mrs. Scott Elliott Hybrids. The most famous of these beautiful 
flowers; wonderful colors and very long spurs. 
*Nivea Grandiflora. A fine white; strong growing and very free 
flowering. 
Rose Queen. A new variety of a pleasing shade of delicate pink, 
long-spurred flowers. 
Snow Queen. A pure white, long-spurred type. 
Price of Aquilegias, 25c. each; $2.50 per doz.; per 100, $15.00. 
*ARABIS (Rock Cress) 
Alpina. One of the most desirable of the very early Spring-flower¬ 
ing plants that is especially adapted for edging and for the rock 
garden, but does equally well in the border, forming a dense 
carpet, completely covered with pure white flowers. 25c. each; 
$2.50 per doz.; per 100, $15.00. 
*— flore plena. The double white Rock Cress, flowering from 
April until June. 35c. each; $3.50 per dozen. 
*— Rosea. Single* delicate soft pink flowers. 35c. each; $3.50 
per dozen. 
*ARMERIA (Sea Pink or Thrift) 
Attractive dwarf plants that will succeed in any soil, forming 
evergreen tufts of bright green foliage, from which innumerable 
flowers appear in dense heads, on stiff, wiry stems, from 9 to 12 
inches high. 
Caespitosa Hybrids. Knots of spiny cushions, studded with 
heads of delicate pink flowers; 2 to 3 inches high. 35c. each; 
$3.50 per dozen. 
Cephalotes, Bee’s Ruby. Has stout stems with large globular 
heads of brilliant ruby-red flowers. 50c. each; per doz., $5.00. 
Cephalotes Rubra. Large heads of crimson-red flowers on stout 
stems. 
Laucheana Rosea. Bright rose. 
Price (except where noted), 30c. each; $2.75 per doz.; $18.00 
per 100. 
Aquilegia ( Columbine) Long Spurred 
*ARENARIA (Sandwort) 
Montana. A very desirable creeping plant, forming a dense carpet 
of foliage, covered with attractive white flowers in Spring. Excel¬ 
lent for the rockery. 25c. each; $2.50 per doz.; per 100, $15.00. 
ASCLEPIAS (Butterfly Weed) 
Tuberosa. Very showy native plants, about 2 feet high, producing 
their flowers of brilliant orange-scarlet during July and August. 
25c. each; $2.50 per doz.; per 100, $15.00. 
ASTER FRIKARTI (Wonder of Stafa) 
A new everblooming perennial, blooms from June until 
frost. Flowers of a clear azure-blue, about 3 inches in diameter 
on long stems. 50c. each; per doz., $5.00. 
*DWARF ASTERS 
Alpinus. Indispensable for the rockery or edge of hardy borders; 
grows 6 to 10 inches high and bears large, showy bluish-purple 
flowers in May and June. 
Alpinus Albus. Identical to the above, but with pure white 
flowers. 
Mauve Cushion. An entirely distinct species. Forms a circular 
cushion-like plant 2)4 feet across, rarely exceeding 9 inches in 
height. Flowers delicate, soft mauve, with silvery white 
reflection and over 1)4 inches in diameter and completely cover 
the plant; blooms begin to expand early in October, but are not 
at their best until November. 
Sub-coeruleus. Forms a dense tuft of leaves from which spring 
many leafless stems 12 inches high, bearing in June and July 
large, bluish-violet flowers. 
— Wartburg Star. An excellent new variety, valuable for cutting. 
Long stemmed flowers; large, bright lavender-blue with yellow 
centers. 
Price of Dwarf Asters, 30c. each; $3.00 per doz.; per 
100 , $ 20 . 00 . 
Plants marked * are suitable for the rock garden 
A planting of Coreopsis will give an abundance of cut-flowers during the Summer. See page 113 
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