MICHELL’S HARDY PERENNIAL PLANTS 
Peonies for best results should be planted just as early as the ground can be worked 
Plants marked * are suitable for the rock garden 
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Scabiosa Caucasica 
SCABIGSA 
The hardy variety is even more wonderful and of greater 
beauty than the annual sort, commonly called Mourning Bride. 
The flowers are gigantic, measuring frequently 3 inches and more 
in diameter. It delights in a sunny position, and is a cut flower 
few perennials can equal. It lasts a long while in water; the 
average height is about 2L£ feet. Very free flowering. 
Caucasica. A delicate shade of lavender blue, starting in flower 
in June and lasting well through the Summer. 
Caucasica Alba. White. Like the above, except the color. 
Caucasica, Giant Blue (Isaac House Strain). A splendid im¬ 
provement in the Caucasica type; flowers larger and with longer 
stems; colors range from light lavender to dark blue; excellent 
for cutting. 
Columbaria Anthemifolia. A low growing variety, with flowers 
measuring 2 to inches across; color a delightful shade of 
pink; splendid for cutting. 
30c. each; $3.00 per doz.; per 100, $20.00. 
SALVIA (Meadow-Sage) 
Perennials with strikingly beautiful, orchid-like bloom, that 
make them welcome in the herbaceous border. Leaves are used 
in medicine and for the kitchen. 
Azurea Grandiflora (Rocky Mountain Sage). Sky-blue flowers 
in greatest profusion during August and September; 6 feet. 
Pitcheri. Similar to Azurea but of more branching habit and 
larger flowers of rich Gentian blue; 3 to 4 feet. 
Virgata Nemorosa. An interesting plant for the hardy border; 
flower spikes bear many-flowered whorls of dark blue blossoms 
30c. each; $2.75 per doz.; per 100, $18.00 
*SAPONARlA (Soap Wort) 
Ocymoides Splendens. A good subject for the border or rockery, 
producing freely masses of bright rose-pink flowers. 25c. each; 
$2.50 per doz.; per 100, $15.00. 
*SAXIFRAGA (Megasea) 
Very useful plants, growing about 12 inches, high, having 
broad, deep green foliage and thriving in any soil in almost any 
position. The pretty rose-pink flowers appear very early in the 
Spring, almost as soon as the frost is out of the ground. 
Cordifolia. Rosy-pink flowers. Extra strong plants. 50c. each; 
$5.00 per dozen. 
PRUNELLA (Self-Heal) 
Webbiana. A low growing plant, suitable for a shady spot on 
the rockery or border; bright pink flowers, produced freely 
from June to September. 30c. each; $3.00 per doz. 
PYRETHRUM HYBRIDUM 
A good old-fashioned perennial resembling colored daisies, 
blooming in June. They will succeed in any good garden soil in 
a sunny position and do best when left undisturbed for 2 or 3 
years, hut they should be given an annual top dressing of well- 
rotted manure. 
Single Flowering. Mixed colors only, ranging from pure white 
to dark red. 25c. each; $2.50 per doz.; per 100, $15.00. 
PYRETHRUM (Giant Daisy) 
Uliginosum. Grows 3 to 4 feet high and is covered with large 
white Daisy-like flowers, 3 inches in diameter, from July to 
September. 25c. each; $2.50 per doz.; per 100, $15.00. 
RANUNCULUS (Crowfoot Buttercup) 
*Acris FI. PI. A double flowered form of our common buttercup; 
2 feet; May and June. 
Repens, FI. PL (Bachelor’s Buttons). A pretty double flowering 
golden buttercup; masses of flowers during May and June. 
25c. each; $2.50 per doz.; per 100, $15.00. 
RUDBECKI A (Cone-Bower) 
Indispensable plants for the hardy border; grow and thrive 
anywhere, giving a wealth of bloom, which are well suited for 
cutting. 
Golden Glow. A strong, robust grower, attaining a height of 5 to 
6 feet, and produces masses of double golden-yellow, Cactus 
Dahlia-like flowers from July to September. 
Newmani. Dark orange-yellow flowers, with deep purple cone; 
good stiff stems; 3 feet high; July to September. 
Purpurea (Giant Purple Cone-flower). Flowers about 4 inches 
across, of a peculiar reddish purple with a remarkably large 
cone-shaped center of brown; forms bushy plants 3 feet high 
and blooms from July to October. 
25c. each; $2.50 per doz.; per 100, $15.00. 
Rudbeckia Purpurea 
SANTOLINA (Lavender Cotton) 
♦Chamaecyparissus Incana. A dwarf evergreen perennial with 
attractive, silvery-white foliage; suitable for the border or rock¬ 
ery. 25c. each; $2.50 per doz.; per 100, $15.00. 
