Edward Gillett, Southwick, Mass. • HARDY PERENNIALS 23 
HARDY PERENNIALS 
FLOWERS THAT LIVE YEAR AFTER YEAR 
Under this heading of Hardy Perennials I am placing after those that arc native to 
the United States the word Native. This will possibly assist prospective customers in 
selecting plants for a purely natural garden 
where only natives arc required. There is 
no class of plants which gives the same 
permanency of ell'ect as do these. When 
they are once established they go on bloom¬ 
ing year after year while many of the so- 
called hardy garden plants pass their period 
of usefulness alter two or three years. 
Prices on Perennials, 25 cts. each, 
$1.50 for 10, $12 per 100, unless other¬ 
wise noted. 
ACHILLEA 
Boule de Neige. Flowers white and double, 
borne in broad heads. Very choice for 
border. The plants will grow about 2 
feet high, and from June to August are 
well covered with flowers. 
ACT^A 
alba ('White Baneberry). Native. 
Racemes of white flowers, followed by 
white fruit. Fine for rock-work or the 
shady corner. 
rubra (Red Baneberry). '■*. Native. 
Rather taller than the preceding; very 
ornamental bright red fruit. Plant in 
rich soil in a shady place. 
Actsea alba in flower 
ALETRIS 
farinosa (Colic-root). Native. This 
plant grows where the soil is 
rather dry. It bears small white 
flowers on a slender stalk, 1 to 
13 ^ feet high. The flowers give 
the effect of being sprinkled with 
meal. 
ANDROSACE 
primuloides. A little low plant of 
the primrose family growing at 
high altitude. “The most alpine 
of Alpine plants,” says Robinson, 
“growing near the line of per¬ 
petual snow, in fissures of rocks 
well drained.” Forms rosettes of 
silky leaves. Flowers rose-lilac. 
3 inches high. Do not fail to have 
this in your rock-garden. 30 cts. 
each, S2.50 for 10, S20 per 100. 
ANEMONE 
nemorosa (Windflower). ® Native. 
2 to 4 inches high. Flowers 
white, tinged with purple; partial 
shade. 15 cts. eacli, SI for ^0, 
S8 per 100. 
