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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
September, 1912 
Andorra-Grown Peonies 
TO CLEAR A BLOCK 
Four-year-old Plants, good standard sorts, 
in varieties of our selection. 
Per Dozen . . . $4.00 
Two Dozen . . . 7.00 
Fifty.13-°° 
Hundred .... 25.00 
ANDORRA NURSERIES 
Wm. Warner Harper, Proprietor 
Box H Chestnut Hill, Phila., Pa. 
For SEPTEMBER Planting 
We catalog a collection of choice varieties, with complete descriptions, in our 
Calendar of Perennials 
Special Offer 
Partial View of Peony Exhibition at Andorra 
Send For Fall Price List 
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Makers of SILVER 
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This valuable booklet is free. It illustrates over three 
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Dutch Craftsmen who fashion it, imparting to each piece, 
which bears our branded Trade Mark, a distinctive touch 
and individuality. 
We will send you the address of our Associate Distributor 
nearest you. Call on him and ask to see 
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THE CHARM UNUSU|AL 
One of Our Pompeian Stone 
Bird Baths 
will give your garden a new touch and add 
greatly to its charm. 
We make them in large variety to har¬ 
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Our new cata¬ 
logue S fully des¬ 
cribes them. It 
also contains many 
illustrations of sun 
I dials, fountains, 
benches, vases, stat¬ 
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gladly mail it on 
request. 
The 
^Erkins Studios 
The*Largest Manufacturers 
of Ornamental Stone 
226 Lexington Ave. 
New York 
Factory: Astoria, L. I. 
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Riceeri Florentine Terra Cotta 
and the rest of the hardy class need merely 
a litter of leaves to cover them. 
The African lily (Agapanthus umbrel- 
latus), and the Peruvian day lily ( Alstro- 
meria pulchella ) will have to be wintered 
in the greenhouse, but the Chilian day lily 
(Alstromeria Chiliensis ) may be left out- 
of-doors with merely a covering of leaves. 
Some of the perennials will, if planted 
early, bloom the first season, but if any of 
them show signs of blooming before trans¬ 
planting time, merely pinch out the flower 
buds when they begin to form. Some va¬ 
rieties of the larkspur, snap-dragon and 
the Chinese bell-flower may show an incli¬ 
nation to bloom if they have room. There 
is no advantage in this. It is better to 
conserve the plant’s energies for a long 
blooming season next year. 
These perennials may be planted to 
bloom next May and June : 
Adonis vernalis (Ox-eye). Cowslip (Primula). 
Hardy Garden or Clove Pansies. 
Pinks. _ Violets. 
A r a b i s alpina (rock Perennial poppies, 
cress), (give dry loca¬ 
tion ultimately). 
The following will bloom in June; 
Platycodon, a Chinese 
bell-flower (until 
August). 
Peonies. 
Peruvian day lily. 
Astilbe (Spiraea). 
Centaurea (Perennial 
cornflower). 
Hardy candytuft. 
Campanula persicifolia. 
Bush clematis. 
Yellow larkspur (June 
and July). 
Butterfly nower (asclepias 
tuberosa). 
These will bloom all summer: 
Physostegia ( V irgin ica 
grandiflora) Dragon 
Head, blooms from 
June until frost. 
Lupins (Polyphyllus and 
Albur) until Sept. 
Hardy phlox. 
Painted daisies ( Pyreth- 
rum roseum) 
Trollius (globe flower). 
Cornflower aster (stoke- 
sia) July to October. 
Tritoma (red hot poker 
plant or torch lily). 
Dicentra or bleeding 
heart. 
Pentstemon. 
Myosotis forget-me-not. 
Veronica spicata (Longi■ 
folia subsessiles), 
(Speedwell or Bluejay 
flower). 
Anchusa (Italica) Italian 
alkanet, (Italica) drop- 
more. 
Achillea (The Pearl). 
Aquilegia or columbine 
(Rocky Mt. blue and 
Chrysantha do best 
where a little shaded). 
Chilian day lily. 
Coreopsis. 
Perennial larkspur (ex¬ 
cept the Sulphureum ). 
The following plants bloom in midsum¬ 
mer ; 
Hollyhocks. 
Shasta daisy. 
Sweet william. 
Foxglove. 
Canterbury bells. 
Yellow Chamomile (An- 
themis Tinctoria). 
Snapdragon (Antirrhi¬ 
num). 
Heliopsis or orange sun¬ 
flower until autumn. 
For August and 
count upon the 
Aconitum m a p e 11 u s 
(monk’s hood). 
Gypsophila or baby's 
breath. 
Caryopteris (blue spireae) 
until frost. 
Gland bell-flower ( adena- 
phora potanini), until 
frost. 
Plume poppy ( bocconia 
japonica). 
Campanula (chimney bell¬ 
flower), until autumn. 
Baptisia Australus (false 
indigo). 
fall bloom, one may 
Lobelia cardinalis. 
Hardy aster or Michael¬ 
mas daisy. 
Anomone (japonica). 
Anomone, St. Brigid’s or 
poppy-flowered. 
The Helianthus or hardy sunflower and 
the Rudbeckia or golden glow bloom in 
the fall. 
M. Roberts Conover 
A Good Perennial 
O NE of the most beautiful and satis¬ 
factory midsummer flowering per¬ 
ennials is the Physostegia or false dragon 
head. It is not appreciated as it deserves, 
perhaps because little known. It forms a 
dense bush, three to four feet high, and 
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