HARDY PERENNIAL PLANTS 
DWARF HYBRID BORDER ASTERS 
These Asters make magnificent border subjects and are splen¬ 
didly adapted for rock garden work since they only attain a 
height of about 9 inches and are absolutely covered with flowers 
during the month of September. They are an acquisition to Rock 
Garden enthusiasts on account of their magnificent colors and 
free flowering habit. Also they are in flower at a time when flowers 
in the Rock Garden are scarce. 
*Blue Bird —A pleasing shade of dark lilac. 15 inches. 
*Constance—A really pure shell-pink, a delightful color, of very 
graceful habit. October. 8 inches. 
*Countess of Dudley—Charming clear pink flowers with yellow 
eye, of bushy habit and free-flowering. October. 1 foot. 
*Diana—Large delicate soft pink semi-double flowers with pretty 
feathery green foliage. September. 9 inches. 
*Hebe—A compact variety with small, deep pink flowers, an ideal 
rock plant. September. 10 inches. 
*Lady Henry Maddocks—Clear pale pink flowers, very free- 
flowering and of dwarf compact habit. September-October. 7 
inches. 
*Lavanda—Lavender-blue flowers, free flowering and early, com¬ 
mencing to bloom early September. 6 inches. 
*Lilac Time—Lovely soft lilac flowers, free flowering, of bushy 
habit. September-October. 12 inches. 
*Marjorie—A charming plant of compact habit, bearing large 
flowers of a bright rose-pink. Mid-October. 9 inches. 
*Nancy—Of dwarf bushy habit and very free-flowering, the 
plants being covered with pale flesh-pink flowers toward the 
end of September and early October. 9 inches. 
*Niobe—The only white variety, of dwarf, compact habit, with 
pure white flowers. September. 6 inches. 
*Ronald—Forming a dwarf bush covered with flowers of a pleas¬ 
ing bright shade of lilac-pink with rose-pink buds, very showy. 
Early October. 12 inches. 
BAPTISIA (False-Indigo) 
Australis—Very attractive dark blue, pea shaped flowers in long 
curving racemes, somewhat similar to Lupines, but more hardy 
in every way. Blooms in June and is about 2 feet high. Suitable 
for the hardy border or wild garden and not at all particular as 
to soil requirements. 
Ghelone (Shell Pink) 
BOLTONIA (False-camomile) 
Asteroides—Flower heads pure white; flowering at the same time 
as the popular Michaelmas Daisies. 5 to 6 feet. 
Latisquama—Beautiful pink flowers. Same type as above. 5 feet. 
BUDDLEIA 
Veitchiana—Beautiful violet mauve; a splendid Summer flower¬ 
ing shrub, absolutely hardy under any conditions; flowers are 
borne on long, cylindrical spikes, 12 to 15 inches in length; 
flowers the first season it is planted; a beautiful plant. 3 to 6 
feet. 
Magnifica Gigantica (See Shrubs). 
GERASTIUM 
*Tomentosiun—Silvery, low-growing foliage plant which is used 
very largely for planting dry, sunny spots. Carpet growth. May 
to mid-June. 
CAMPANULAS 
(Canterbury-bells or Bellflower) 
These lovely flowers have great variety of color and form and the 
taller varieties are useful for cut-flowers as well as in the hardy 
border. 
Medium—Blue, white, mauve and pink. 
Calycanthema—Cup-and-saucer. Blue, white, pink. 
Double—Blue, white, pink. 
Persicifolia (Telham Beauty Hybrids)—These very beautiful light 
blue bell-like flowers appear in June and July on 2J^ foot stems. 
The great advantage of this type is that it is Perennial and these 
particular hybrids have much larger flowers than the former 
Campanula Persicifolia. This also comes in the large flowered 
white form of the above. 
Double Blue —Deep blue form of the above. Introduced 
for the first time this year. Price; 50c each, $5.00 per 
dozen. 
*Carpatica Blue—A dwarf variety well suited to the rock garden, 
blooming from June to mid-October, a lovely blue flower on a 
slender stem 9 to 10 inches high. 
*Carpatica Alba—White form of the above. 
*Garganica—A very choice gem for the Rock Garden. It is very 
hardy, blooms from late June to September. Is a heavenly blue 
and has trailing habit of growth, but at the same time is neat. 
The foliage is almost as distinctive and attractive as the flower; 
3 to 6 inches high. 
CARYOPTERIS 
Caryopteris Mastacanthus Superbus—A handsome and free flow¬ 
ering woody hardy plant, blue, pink, white, growing from 2 to 3 
feet high. The long branches are completely covered with clear 
colored flowers during September and October. Well adapted 
for cutting and valuable on account of its late flowering habit. 
Blue, pink and white. 
CENTAUREA (Knapweed) 
Montana—The Perennial Cornflower. Producing large, violet blue 
flowers from July to September. 2 feet high. 
CHELONE (Shellflower) 
(See also Penstemon) 
Barbata—Hardy border perennial of Penstemon-like habit, pro¬ 
ducing long spikes of brilliant, scarlet flowers. Has not been 
grown very extensively in this country as yet. Height, 3 feet. 
July to September. 
Shell Pink—A delightful new form of the above, being the same 
hardy border plant, but the color is a wonderful shell pink, and 
the plant grows about 24 inches high. It comes into bloom in 
July and if the first bloom is cut back after the flowers have 
faded, it will send up second and third growth to carry the 
bloom into early September. 
33 
