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ALLEN’S NURSERIES, GENEVA, OHIO 
Pyre thrum 
Tritoma Ffitzeri (Red Hot Poker). Rushlike foliage supports 
smooth thick flower stalks a yard long, with a single fiery cone at 
the top. Brilliant scarlet, the opened lower petals rimmed with 
orange, July to September. A magnificent autumn cut flower. 
Mulch heavily for winter protection. 3 for 60c; doz., $3.00; 100, 
$ 22 . 00 . 
Veronica longifolia. Two feet high, green foliage, beautiful blue 
flowers. No. 1 plants. 12c each. 
Viola, Admiration (Tufted Pansy). Velvety wine-purple. 15c each. 
Yucca filamentosa (Adam’s Needle or Spanish Bayonet). A stately 
foliage and flowering plant, always conspicuous. The broad, sword¬ 
like foliage is evergreen ; supporting a showy display of pendent 
creamy white bells. 25c each; $2.50 per doz. 
Yucca, Variegated. A member of the Yucca family with variegated 
leaf, beautiful. A production of this locality especially adapted to 
planting along walks where cheap nice article is wanted. Will 
please you very much. No. 1 plants, 25c each. 
Allen’s, Hazel Green, Ky., August 1, 1938. 
Geneva, Ohio. 
Gentlemen: I want to thank you for the gorgeous Gladiolus 
grown from the bulbs purchased from you ,in the spring. They 
are as beautiful as some I bought at the price of mere than twice 
amount I paid you. Please send me your catalog or price list on 
Tulips, Iris, etc., for fall planting. 
Thank you. Very respectfully, 
MRS. SCOTT McCLURE. 
^Sedum 
Stonecrop 
Price on all: 3, 54c; doz., 
$ 2 . 00 ; 100 , $ 8 . 00 . 
A diversified, interesting 
and very useful family, the 
backbone of rock garden- Oriental Poppy 
ing; and fitting beautifully 
into the edging and low 
plant situations of general 
gardening. Mainly very low 
growing, close jointed, densely spreading, good in either shade or sun. 
Acre (Golden Moss). 2 to 3 inches. Minute foliage very dense like 
moss, dark green • flowers similar to leaves, an all-covering golden 
yellow sheet. May to July. Used for carpet bedding and filling 
between rock and flagstones. 
Eiydium. 1 to 3 inches. The smallest Sedum; close groups of little 
round balls made up of the tiniest green beads, the color changing 
to purplish bronze; pink June flowers. 
Sarmentosum. Dwarf, rapid grower; one of the best for filling 
seams between rocks in wall-gardens or other rock garden usage, 
or for bordering. Bright yellow carpeting bloom. June-July. 
Sexang’ulare. Very dark green foliage, with yellow flowers ; habit 
of growth much like that of Acre. 
Spurium coccineum. A very fast spreading variety, with beautiful 
rosy crimson flowers in July and August. 6 inches. Good for 
covering sandy banks. 
Shasta Daisy. This new type is one of the largest flowered, and 
is a splendid cut flower supply for Memorial Day. 15c each. 
Statice dumosa. Color dense lilac; ideal for drying; silvery white 
when dried. 15c each. 
Thymus (Thyme). The charming Mountain Thymes make a dense, 
perfect carpet of foliage, of great value for covering dry banks 
where grass will not easily persist, giving out a pleasing fragrance 
under the hot sun. They are very useful in rockeries, and provide 
a rich carpet for blocks of spring-flowering bulbs ; their early bloom 
all-covering. Lavender blossom. 12c each. 
Shasta Daisy 
Sedum Acre 
PERENNIAL 
PLANTS — Cent. 
Salvia azure a gfrandi- 
flora (Meadow Sage). A 
Rocky Mountain species 
of Salvia, very pretty in 
August and September 
with its profusion of sky- 
blue flowers. 2 to 3 feet, 
15c each. 
Saponaria (Soapwort). 
Rockery plant, pink blos¬ 
soms. 15c each. 
Plant a Permanent Garden With Perennials 
