PHLOX—Continued. 
HARDY PERENNIAL PHLOX 
One of the most valuable of flowers for summer bloom, 
giving- unsurpassed mass effects in fine colors. 
Give a well prepared and enriched soil and plenty of 
water and where there is much summer heat, a mulch of 
manure or peat moss is invaluable to protect their sensitive 
surface roots. Plant 16 inches apart. 
There are fine old varieties which are still among the 
best and late years have brought unusually fine new ones. 
This is a fine selection of both old and new. 
B. Compte. Wine color. 
Champs Elysee. Bright rose. 
Coquelicot. Red with salmon eye. 
Colonial. Lavender. 
Dr. Chas, Mayo. White with crimson eye. 
Fiancee. Glistening pure white. 
Fuerbrand. Brilliant orange scarlet, almost vermilion. One 
of most brilliant known. Flowers all summer. 
Jules Sandeau. Pink with white center. 
Lothair. Bright crimson. 
Marechal French. Massive flower heads, deep scarlet with 
blood red eye. 
M rs. Jenkins. Immense heads of pure white. 
Rheinlander. Salmon pink with red eye. 
Thor. Splendid salmon-pink. 
Special French. An unnamed sort of beautiful clear pink. 
Phlox prices: 25 cts. each; 3 for 65 cts; $2.25 per doz. 
Phlox Collection: 1 each above 14 varieties, $3.00. 
Columbia. The loveliest pink in any Phlox is a patented 
variety. A lovely soft pink with an eye of very light blue, 
and grows 2 to 2% ft. tall. Unusual in every way. Each 
50 cts.; 3 for $1.25; doz. $4.50. 
PHYSOSTEGIA “Vivid.” Compact plants with showy 
spikes of deep pink flowers on 18 in. stems, Aug.-Sept., 
lasting well, cut or in garden. 25 cts. each; 3 for 65 cts. 
♦PINKS. See Dianthus. 
♦PLUMBAGO. See Ceratostigma. 
♦POLEMONIUM carneum. A delightful native plant 12 to 20 
inches tall; fern-like, pinnate foliage and graceful stems 
carrying large flowers, opening creamy or flesh color 
and soon turning to deep rose. Most beautiful of Pole- 
moniums. Cult: A good moist loam. Prefers partial 
shade. 35 cts each; 3 for 90 cts. 
♦POTENTILLA Repens. 1 in. Neat creeper with fine-cut 
ruddy foliage and yellow flowers. Fine for a ground 
cover, or between steps or stepping stones. 25 cts. each. 
♦PRIMULA or PRIMROSES. Primula acaulis is the English 
primrose and differs from the Polyanthus in having each 
flower on a separate stem and they continue to flower 
over a much longer season. They thrive in any situation 
in light or medium shade and in ordinary rich soil. Splen¬ 
did alike in shady border and rock garden. PI., fall or 
spring. I offer the following rare sorts: 
♦Primrose Heavenly Blue. So rare and beautiful that they 
always attract. Of the Acaulis type with stems 6 to 8 
inches with flowers in varying shades of very deep blue. 
40 cts. each; 3 for $1. Seeds, pkt. 50 cts. 
♦Primrose “Double Lavender.” Of the acaulis type and very 
free flowering with very double deep lavender flowers. If 
you do not just love them on sight you,, will differ from 
every visitor to my gardens. 40 cts. each; 3 for $1. 
♦♦PRIMULA Juliae has a neat tuft a half inch high and lovely 
deep claret colored flowers with a golden eye on 2-inch 
stems. A jewel among alpines. Give a cool sunny situa¬ 
tion, light shade, and a good moist loam. PI., fall to 
spring. 35 cts. each; 3 for 90 cts. 
♦PTEROCEPHALUS parnassi forms low dense clumps, gray¬ 
ish foliage and above this produces many lilac-pink, 
scabiosa-like flowers through the summer. Cult: Sun. 
Soil, any. PI., fall to spring. Prop., div. 25 cts. each; 3 
for 65 cts. 
♦PULMONARIA angustifolia. A lovely cousin of Mertensia 
with a tuft of rather large basal leaves and many 10-inch 
stems bearing sky blue flowers in early spring. PL, fall 
to spring, in cool or shady situation in a good loam. 25 
cts. each; 3 for 65 cts. 
The above prices are postpaid to your door. 
* Indicates plants well suited to rock gardens. 
** Indicates plants suited to the rock garden only. 
Oenothera Missouriensis 
PYRETHRUM Roseum, Painty Daisy. Lovely in the garden 
and the best of cut flowers with dainty daisy-like flowers 
in white and from palest pink to deep red. They flower 
May-June and again in fall. Sow seeds June to October 
in cold frame or cool place. Transplant in spring, or sow 
in spring very early. A rich moist soil is best. 
Double Hybrids. Marvelous range of colors. A percentage 
will be single but those fine. Seeds only, pkt. 25 cts.; 
large pkt. $1. 
Single Hybrids. From a famous breeder, my strain is 
supremely fine with colors from palest pink to deep red. 
Seeds only, pkt. 15 cts.; Vs oz. 40 cts. 
REDBUD, Cercis occidentalis. A beautiful shrub from 4 
to 10 feet in height and spreading broadly and in May 
it is literally smothered with its blooms, which are 
large pea blossoms of purplish rose studded densely on 
the branchlets. When they are in flower, tourists come 
hundreds of miles to this region to admire them. Hardy 
and drouth resistant and of rapid growth. Nursery 
grown trees, 18 to 24 inches high, at 85 cts. each, postpaid. 
ROMNEYA Coulterii, the Matilija Poppy. Noble deciduous 
perennial with very large white flowers with gold sta¬ 
mens. I have really discontinued but so many continue 
to ask for it, so I will continue to supply potted plants. 
Only half-hardy in colder regions. East of Rockies 
$1.50; west of Rockies $1.15, postpaid. 
♦ROSA spithamea. Creeping by underground runners, this 
lovely native rose makes little scattered colonies. Never 
over 6 inches high and its large, bright pink blossoms are 
lovely. 50 cts. each. 
SALVIA in Blue. Many people ask for blue flowers and 
there are no finer blues than in these Salvias. Grace¬ 
fully branched woody plants with beautiful masses of 
flowers and very drouth resistant, except S. patens. Cult: 
Sun and any soil. PL, fall to spring. 
Azurea. With many stout and wiry stems this makes a 
bush-like mass with flowers of clear azure-blue after 
midsummer. 25 cts. each; 3 for 65 cts.; $2.50 per doz. 
Seeds, pkt. 25 cts. 
Bracteata Rosea makes a much branched plant, 3 to 4 ft. in 
height with heavy bluish basal leaves. On the branches 
are many lavender bracts which give the effect of flow¬ 
ers in June and July. Striking and a favorite with visitors 
here. 25 cts. each; 3 for 65 cts. Seeds, pkt. 25 cts. 
Farinacea Blue Bedder. This splendid new variety with its 
deep blue flower throughout the summer is indispensable 
in the border and a fine cut flower. It grows 2-2% ft. 
tall with slender, wiry stems. 30 cts. each; 3 for 75 cts.; 
$2.50 per doz. Seeds, sown early will flower first season, 
pkt. 25 cts. 
Pitcheri, like azurea, but the splendid flowers are an in¬ 
tense deep blue. It blooms from August to frost. One 
of the best late fall flowers. 30 cts. each; 3 for 75 cts. 
Patens. 18 in. Velvety deep blue flowers 2 in. long above 
a luxuriant basal foliage. It has aptly been called the 
world’s finest blue. Prefers moist mellow loam. Sun. 
Not hardy below 15 degrees but roots may be stored. 
30 cts. each. 
Plant your own Redbud and in a few years have one of the flower displays that make Lake County famous. 
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