PERENNIALS AROUND THE WORLD 
Here are six hardy perennials suitable for September and 
October setting, and capable of most unusual garden effects. 
ASTER FARRERI, Himalayas, late spring, 16 inches, enor¬ 
mous, shaggy purple flowers, each 30c. CENTAUREA 
BELLA, Caucasus, silvery mat-foliage, lovely long-stemmed 
pink-lilac flowers, each 25c ; 3 for 70c ; EUPHORBIA MYR- 
SINITES, Mediterranean, succulent “blue” foliage, yellow 
flower-heads, each 25c; 3 for 70c; DIANTHUS WINTERI, 
England, 14 inches, superb giant-flowered strain in wide 
color range, each 20c ; 3 for 50c ; 10 for $1.50 ; ASCLEPIAS 
TUBEROSA, America, 24 inches, brilliant orange Butterfly 
Flower, 2 for 25c; 6 for 70c ; ANCHUSA RIPARIA, South 
Africa, 28 inches, richest blue, floriferous, each 25c; 3 for 
70c. OFFER, two of the Asclepias, and one each of the 
others, 7 labeled perennials, for $1.25. 
ORNITHOCALUM LAC 
THE SPLENDID PENSTEMONS 
You have missed much if you have not grown them, for 
among them are many glorious things for rock garden, 
hardy border, or the cutting garden. In their season, and 
that may be a long one, there is no perennial as thor¬ 
oughly winter-hardy and easy, that will build a more pleasant 
garden picture. Here is opportunity to secure them in wide 
range of color and form, at very reasonable cost. The 
plants we offer are one-year stock, fine sturdy seedlings from 
sowings made a year ago, late autumn of 1938. The seeds 
germinated this spring, and the plants have been in thrifty 
growth all summer long. They are not big old clumps, 
but instead vigorous single or double crown young plants. 
At least 90% of them should give you excellent spikes of 
bloom this coming spring and summer, if you plant them 
out this fall. Ready for shipment after September first, and 
can be moved anytime until the ground freezes. Here they 
are. ACUMINATUM, opal-blue, each 20c; CENTRANTHI- 
FOLIUS, live-coal red, each 25c; COBAEA, largest of all, 
each 20c; CONFERTUS, brilliant blue-violet, each 25c; 
EATONI, showy red, each 25c; GRAND IFLORUS, giant 
n-chid-lavender, each 20c ; LAEVIGATUS AVALON DWARF, 
splendid variant pearl-tinted, each 20c; MURRAYANUS, 
flame scarlet, each 30c; OVATUS OLD ORCHARD, extra 
fine lavender, each 20c; SPECTABILTS, showy red tones, 
each 30c; TIDESTROMI, wide silvery lavender, each 20c. 
SPECIAL PENSTEMON COLLECTION—We will send one 
plant each of the eleven Penstemons listed here, labeled, 
for $2.25, or three plants of each for $5.50. 
OTHER PERENNIALS FOR TRANSPLANTING NOW— 
There are some hundreds of kinds of unusual and desirable 
hardy perennials listed in our General Catalog No. 
31, that may be safely moved in September and October, 
thus getting an early start for spring growth. The kinds 
listed in this folder are simply a few out of many. Ask 
for the General Catalog, No. 31, if you do not already 
have it. 
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