FOREWORD 
The following lists of Great Plains plants 
are worthy of the critical attention of all 
lovers of the rare and beautiful. Many of them 
are very dwarf, some have remarkably long 
flowering periods, some win their place 
through mass color in their seasons, others by 
sheer individuality and beauty. Among them 
are gems as fine as America produces. 
Briefly, the Plains comprise the vast higher, 
drier prairies that slope from the 3500, oi 
5000, or 7000 foot base of the Rockies to the 
“true prairies” at about 1800 feet. Portions of 
ten states and two Canadian provinces are in¬ 
cluded. To travelers of the plains ascent or 
descent appear easy. Routes of passage, main¬ 
ly. frequent the more level places, and these 
are strongholds of the deserts of grass. But 
every water course has its valley margins, its 
bluffs or rugged hills, sand hills now and 
again paralelling' the larger streams, and 
every tableland or “plain” has its “breaks,” 
or as in the “bad lands” ancient base levels, 
upheaved, have been eroded into fantastic 
contour. And in these rugged places, more or 
less apart from the highways of men, the 
flowering plants hold sway. Not often in pan¬ 
oramas as in climates more favored in mois¬ 
ture but sometimes, if one is fortunate or 
“knows the roads,” enough of beauty to fill a 
day of adventuring to overflowing. 
To these plants drainage is an inherited 
advantage both as to the surface and the sub¬ 
soil, and further, they are adapted to endure 
all that drought can offer in any one season, 
growth and flowering naturally depending on 
adequate moisture. Such conditions tell the 
secret of their full enjoyment in gardens. 
TERMS 
In every instance we strive to supply the 
plant, large or small, that will meet your 
reasonable expectation and live and grow in 
your garden. The creeping phloxes are repre¬ 
sentative of many that are simply impossible 
in old, woody specimens but relatively easy in 
small plants with young vigorous roots. The 
final result is the measure of your money’s 
worth. 
Delivery ,is prepaid on all plants; it sim¬ 
plifies ordering and service. Orders of less 
than one dollar are not solicited. 
A list of seeds harvested during the year- 
will be mailed to you in autumn. Requests for 
rare plants or others not listed will have our 
best attention. 
Plant names used accord with HORTUS in 
so far as practicable. 
Actinea (Tetraneuris) simplex Flowers of 
pure shining gold, Gaillardia type, 4 to 8” 
above narrow basal leaves, May to July or 
later. Silver edged autumn rosettes. 20c; doz. 
$ 2 . 00 . 
Anemone patens nuttalliana (Pulsatilla ludo- 
viciana) Buds warm-robed in silver fur open 
into large six-pointed stars of lavender satin, 
