Breck’s Perennial Flower Seeds 
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Lythrum • Loosestrife 
8090 Roseum super bum. A splendid landscape plant, 4 feet 
high, for stream-sides, with broad, steeple-like clusters of 
brightjpurple flowers. Pkts. 10c and 25c. 
Malva • Mallow 
Decorative plants with ascending branches about 2 feet high, 
bearing flowers like single hollyhocks. 
Pkts. 10c and 25c, except where noted 
8095 Alcea. Hollyhock Mallow. Rose-color. Pkts. 15c and 35c. 
8097 Moschata. Musk Mallow. Rich pink. Medium height. 
8099 Moschata alba. White flowers. 
Myosotis . Forget-me-not 
Beautiful little perennials, treasured for their exquisitely blue 
flowers, each marked with a sparkling yellow eye. Other colors 
exist but blue is most popular. Best treated like pansies by sowing 
in Midsummer and carrying the plants over Winter for early 
Spring bloom, discarding them after flowering. 
Pkts. 15c and 35c, except where noted 
8112 Alpestris Victoria alba. Clear white. 6 in. 
8116 Alpestris Victoria rosea. Pink. 6 in. 
8118 Alpestris Victoria. Clear blue. Compact plants. 6 in. 
8120 Alpestris, Mixed. Blue, pink, and white. Plants about 6 
inches high. Pkts. 10c and 25c. 
8124 Farquhar’s Pillar. Plants upright. Bright blue flowers in 
profusion throughout the Summer. Excellent variety for Winter 
blooming. Sow outside in June and later transfer the young 
plants to the greenhouse. 
8126 Palustris semperflorens. The bright blue Water Forget- 
me-not. A splendid type that blooms all Summer. Extraordi¬ 
narily vigorous. A true perennial for wet or dry places. 
8128 Royal Blue. Superb deep blue flowers on bushy plants. 
Nepeta 
Prostrate, mounded plants with aromatic foliage. Excellent for 
edging. Height 12 to 18 inches. 
8138 Nervosa. Bushy plants with bright and attractive light 
blue flowers. Pkt. 25c. 
8139 Mussini. Bluish gray foliage, with bluish mauve flowers 
all Summer. Pkt. 25c. 
Nepeta mussini 
Oenothera Missouriensis 
Oenothera • Evening Primrose 
A handsome family of American wild flowers. They are ex¬ 
tremely showy and easy to grow. 
8142 Glauca Fraseri. Useful edging or border plant, with 
clusters of clear yellow flowers for many weeks in Summer. 
18 in. Pkts. 15c and 35c. 
8146 Missouriensis. A prostrate plant, less than a foot high, 
with long branches bearing great golden yellow flowers in 
Midsummer. Pkt. 15c. 
Pentstemon 
A family of intensely interesting and beautiful native plants, 
scarcely appreciated at their true worth in this country. 
Other Pentstemons are listed as Chelone. 
8160 Digitalis. A fine perennial with interrupted spikes of 
white flowers touched with purple in the throats. 3 to 4 ft. 
Pkts. 10c and 25c. 
8163 Breck’s Giant Hybrids. Half-hardy perennials with huge 
flowers like brilliant rose, pink, lavender, crimson, and purple 
foxgloves. Pkt. 25c. 
Phlox 
Popular border plants with huge heads of salver-shaped flowers, 
pink, white, red, or lavender. 
Pkts. 25c 
8168 Decussata, Mixed. 
8170 Decussata nana, Mixed. Dwarf. 
Physostegia • False Dragonhead 
Slender but stout plants, 3 to 6 feet high, with terminal spikes 
of tubular flowers, in Midsummer. 
Pkts. 15c and 35c 
8175 Virginiana grandiflora rosea. Pink. 
8177 Virginiana grandiflora alba. White. 
BRECK’S IMPROVED FORCING FRAME 
Provides ideal conditions for starting your perennial 
flower seeds—a splendid protection also for plants 
too small or too tender to withstand winter weather 
in the open. See page 106. 
