PAINESVILLE, OHIO 
Hardy Perennial Plants 33 
Anemone Japonica. (See page 34). 
Alyssum Saxatile Compactum. 
Anchusa Dropmore. (Page 34). 
S & H HARDY PERENNIAL PLANTS 
Study Gardening 
BOOKS 
No commercial catalog can fully 
cover the innumerable comparisons, 
selections, arrangements, processes, 
cultivation, etc., which enter into the 
matter of Garden and Gardening. 
We recommend and offer THE 
BOOK OF PEREN¬ 
NIALS by Alfred C. 
Hottes, one of the best 
and most practical for 
general information. Postpaid. 
T HE strongest practical argument in favor of hardy peren¬ 
nials is the fact that once planted, they continue year 
after year with no further gardening concern beyond 
cultivation, cutting and thinning. 
Beautiful in a thousand types and expressions, embracing 
every color shade and pattern within the knowledge of man, 
it needs only a little thought, study, and art sense to so select 
types and associate colors, that the perennial garden will be¬ 
come a vivid, glorious, living adventure in beauty and self- 
expression. 
In all descriptions, we aim to show normal matured height, 
blooming period, color, and any special quality or utility ; so 
that the reader may easily select and associate varieties to fit 
any desired plot or purpose. 
“Rock Plants” are designated with this character <$>. 
Refer to page 49 for spscial rock garden information. 
PLANTING. These roots may be planted as early in spring 
as the ground is pliable (or in the autumn) ; selecting an op¬ 
portunity when the soil is not cold, wet or soggy. Large clumps 
are not necessary nor often desirable; the smaller divisions or 
pot grown stock showing more thrift and virility and develop¬ 
ing into shapelier plants than the bulkier old roots. 
Any good soil sensibly enriched with fertilizer, dug deep and 
thoroughly mixed, will be satisfactory. 
WINTER PROTECTION. Everything listed in this sec¬ 
tion is “hardy,” but in varying degree. A light covering 
of coarse straw, manure or leaves (not over 2 or 3 inches 
deep) will give comfort to all kinds, and insure safety. 
j This is How We Price Them 
By Mail—We Pay the Postag-e 
3 The least number practical for planting; for 
show, for cutting, and for protection of the 
_ variety should one plant die. 
I"\ (6 of a kind take the dozen rate). A dozen, 
or half-dozen of each are much more im- 
* pressive than lesser lots. 
100 
By Express—You Pay the Charges 
(25 of a kind take the hundred rate). Land¬ 
scape effects require solid masses. Roughly 
100 rate is 7 times dozen prices—or write us. 
<$> This Designates a Rock Plant <$> 
ACHILLEA. Delightful cut flowers and garden units, espe¬ 
cially valuable because of long blooming season. 
—Boule de Neige (Ball of Snow). 18 inches. The best 
white-flowered edging plant; erect, stiff stems and com¬ 
pact clusters; fully double, rounded, pure white florets. 
June on. 
—millefolium, Cerise Queen (Rosy Milfoil). Fine cut, 
decorative foliage on spreading bushes 18 inches high. Bril¬ 
liant cerise-red flowers continuous all summer, in flat um¬ 
bels. This with foliage, is a dainty bowl cut-flower. 
—Perry’8 White. 2% feet. Takes the place of The Pearl, 
giving height maintained by rigid, upright stems. Extremely 
free, with clustered double white flowers, excellent for cut¬ 
ting. June and July. 
—tomentosa <$> (Woolly Yarrow). A low mat of leaves, 
bright with flat heads of yellow flowers in June and later. 
All Achilleas: 3, 55c; doz., $2.00. 
ACONITUM (Monkshood). Long spikes of hood-shaped 
flowers, above glossy foliage like the Larkspur. Plants re¬ 
quire a heavy, moist, acid soil, thriving best in shade. They 
make excellent cut flowers, all but one variety below bloom¬ 
ing Sept.-Oct. 
—Autumnale (3-4'). Dark purplish blue. 40c each; 3 for 
$1.15; doz., $4.00. 
—Pischeri (2'). Dwarf, stocky clumps; with very large 
Delft or azure-blue flowers. The hardiest and most useful, 
frequently showing color in August. 25c each; 3 for 70c; 
doz., $2.50. 
—Sparks’ Variety (3-4'). Earliest, and most branched; 
rich, royal blue. July-Aug. 30c each; 3, 85c; doz., $3.00. 
— Wilsoni (6'). Gleaming violet-blue. 40c each; 3 for $1.15; 
doz., $4.00. 
ACTINEA <$> herbacea (6-9"). Rather flat, dense rosettes 
of shiny, dark green, lanceolate, 3-inch leaves; intermit- 
tingly supporting short-stemmed, inch-wide, golden yellow 
flowers. 25c each; 3, 70c. 
AETHIONEMA persicum (Persian Candytuft). 9 inches. 
Group six inches apart in sunny location for edging, or 
distribute freely among the rocks. Leaves are glaucous 
blue on twiggy stems, with many midsummer spikes of 
rose-pink bloom. 3, 70c; doz., $2.50. 
A JUG A <$> reptans rubra (Bugle). 3 to 4 inches. Deep pur¬ 
plish blue. Excellent carpeting plants for grass, bare spots 
in border, beneath trees or in rockery, in either sun or par¬ 
tial shade; blooming freely May and June. 3, 55c; doz., 
$ 2 . 00 . 
— Variegfated. A new derivation in which the leaves are 
heavily veined white. 30c each ; 3 for 85c. 
ALYSSUM <$> argrenteum. 15 inches. Dense growth. Leaves 
silvery beneath, flowers yellow, in clustered heads all sum¬ 
mer, 3, 55c; doz., $2.00. 
— saxatile compactum (Golden Tuft). A useful, flat¬ 
spreading edging and rockery plant, growing not over 12 
inches high ; covered with enveloping flat clusters of bright 
golden yellow flowers. May-June 3, 55c ; doz., $2.00. 
— spinulosum roseum. 10 inches. Silver-gray foliage, neat¬ 
ly small and attractive, long beyond the season of its light 
pink flowers. 3, $1.00; doz; $3.50. 
