NEWER PERENNIALS 
Here are hardy perennial flowering plants that are 
different, kinds that will lend distinction to your garden. 
They are not difficult to grow from seed, and seeds that are 
sown this season should produce good strong plants that 
will bloom next year, and over and over again for years 
beyond numbering. We offer the opportunity for a per¬ 
manent investment in beauty. 
ANCHUSA AFFINIS—A picture of floriferous informality. 
All summer, long racemes unroll, each set with little blos¬ 
soms of indigo vividness, center-starred, though, with white. 
Native on high alpine slopes, but will thrive in any garden. 
40 inches. Pkt. 15c. 
AQUILEGIA LONGISSIMA—Blossoms of soft canary, 
with spurs extended to greater length than with any other 
species. Makes very little seed, some years none at all, so 
will always be rare. An embodiment of exquisite, airy 
loveliness. Illustrated, page 6. Pkt. 35c. 
CAMPANULA PUNCTATA—A Japanese Bellflower, quite 
unlike other species. Large flowers, bells of slightest flaring, 
clustered and pendant, load the thirty-inch plants for many 
weeks. Waxen lilac-pink, or rarely white, purple-spotted, 
and downy within. Pkt. 15c. 
COREOPSIS ROSEA—A dwarf hardy Coreopsis, 8 to 10 
inches, fern-leaved, bearing for two months or more, little 
silvery rose daisies in utter prodigal profusion. Edgings, or 
rock garden. Pkt. 15c. 
CENTAUREA STENOLEPIS—Close clusters of buds, 
hidden in tangled nests of dainty brown basketry. Each 
big blossom is built of many crowded tassel and fringing 
ray-florets, giving an effect of full and charming doubleness; 
in color a soft lavender-shaded pink. Like all Centaureas, 
it is delightful as a cut flower, lasting long. Highly decora¬ 
tive in the border, too. Pkt. 20c. 
HELIANTHUS ORGYALIS—Column Sunflower. First 
half of the season the plants are grouped foot-wide pillars 
of rippling, undulant greenery. Then quickly they double in 
height, each stem topped with a branching four-foot panicle 
of pretty little yellow blossoms. A most desirable plant for 
the hardy border, no trace of coarseness, but always strik¬ 
ingly decorative. See illustration, page 6. Pkt. 20c. 
HYPERICUM LANUGINOSUM—Tasseled blossoms of 
soft butter-yellow for a full three months. Makes yard-wide 
mats of frosty foliage. 20 inches. Coast of Syria. An ex¬ 
cellent species of full hardiness. Pkt. 15c. 
PHYTEUMA SCHEUCHERZI—Flowers like fairy-flasks 
of vitreous azure, carried closely in fluffy shimmery cluster- 
balls a-top each 16 inch stem. Unique, easy, enduring, win- 
balls atop each 16 inch stem. Unique, easy, enduring, win¬ 
ter hardy. Pkt. 20c. 
TEUCRIUM CHAMAEDRYS—Leaves leathery, of glossed 
emerald green, with loose spikes of pretty rose-colored 
flowers in late summer. Left to itself, its branches spread 
about with that grace of naturalness that is so pleasing in 
the larger rockery, but if closely clipped, the plants may be 
trained to make the most rigidly formal of dwarf edging 
hedges, giving an effect like that of Box. It is hardier, 
though, than Box, and far quicker. Evergreen, of course. 
Pkt. 15c. 
TRITOMA TUCKI—This splendid Torch Lily will give 
spectacular border effects, with its oddlv exotic-appearing 
sheaves of foliage, and its many high-flung dense flower 
spikes; these shading from lemon yellow, through buff and 
cinnabar, to bright red. It is by far the most winter-hardy 
of the Red-Hot-Pokers, and may be grown safely weil 
north. Pkt. 15c. 
VERBASCUM PHOENICEUM HYBRIDS — Hyacinth 
Mullein. Blossoms of daintiest charm in tall, slender 
“hyacinth” spikes. There will be cream, apple-blossom pink, 
rose, lavender, violet, and purple of Tyre, above ground- 
hugging rosettes of leaves like pebbled morocco. Blooms 
long in spring, and again in autumn. 25 inches. Easy. Pkt. 10c. 
VESICARIA UTRICULATA—Tufted rosettes from which 
rise leafy stems, each with a clustered crown of golden 
yellow blossoms, like those of Wallflower. Later there are 
interestingly inflated seed-pods, Zeppelins of Liliput. Pkt. 20c. 
VIOLA ELATIOR—A branching, foot-high Violet, almost 
tall enough for the hardy border. It is long in bloom, and 
the blossoms, of softest azure blue with white eye, are 
considerably larger than those of most other Violet species. 
Particularly recommended. Pkt. 15c. 
OFFER 27S2—One pkt. each of above for $2.00. 
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