FLOWERING GUIDE AND INDEX 
Common names of all these perennials, shrubs and vines are listed below 
in groups by time of bloom and special use. Under the seven headings 
you can quickly find the items that interest you, and then locate then- 
descriptions and cultural requirements in the corresponding numbers on 
Page 5 to 12. There the plants are listed alphabetically by botanic name, 
according to latest authorities, with common name following. 
Some names may differ from those in other lists, but the descriptions will 
guide you correctly. The first nine numbers should be planted in the fall. 
The others are for fall or spring planting. 
Names preceeded by a * are plants desirable in the rock garden. Those 
preceded by ^ are fine for cutting and showy display. Plants and shrubs 
followed by t have evergreen foliage, 
VERY EARLY SPRING FLOWERS 
*4. Shootingstar 
^^5. Glacier Lily 
'^ 6 . Low Bluebell 
*7. March Buttercup 
‘Grass Widow’ 
"^'9. Two-tone Coulee Violet 
*33. Spring Gold 
*40. ‘Queen of Spring’t 
LOVELY FLOWERS IN MAY 
tl. Wild Hyacinth 
f3. Royal Blue Camas 
*20. Bitterroot 
*21. Lewisia Tweedyi t 
*27. Large Blue Shrub-pentstemon 
*30. Red Rupicola Pentstemon t 
SUMMER BLOOMERS. 
12. Mariposa Lily 
tl7. Desert Gold t 
*19. Lewisia Columbiana t 
t28. Tall Blue Glaber Pentstemon 
f:29. Red Richardson Pentstemon 
131. Violet Venustus Pentstemon 
f;37. Desert Mallow 
*41. Fame Flower 
EVERGREEN SHRUBS for border, 
clipped hedge, ground cover. 
*10. Western Bearberry, 
Kinnikinnick.t 
24. Oregon Holly grape t 
25. Creeping Hollygrape t 
26. Mountain Boxwood, Pachistima t 
*27. Large Blue Shrub-Pentstemon t 
FLOWERING SHRUBS for showy 
bloom, foliage, birdfood. 
14 Red-osier Dogwood 
tl8. Ocean Spray, Holodiscus 
:j:32. Western Mockorange 
34. Rocky Mountain Bush-cherry 
35. Scarlet Snake River Sumac 
36. Western Blue Elder 
^38. Rose Spirea 
1:39. Western Snowberry 
HANDSOME FOLIAGE and 
WILD GARDEN 
*12. Coptis t 
13. Bunchberry 
*15. Dry as t 
16. Stream Orchid 
*22. Twin Flower t 
*42. Vancouveria 
Also No. 17, 19, 21, 27, 29, 
30, 33, 37, 40. 
TRAILING and CLIMBING VINES 
to drape rocks, fences, trees. 
11. Early Blue Clematis 
23. Orange Honeysuckle 
X. American Bittersweet 
XX. Riverbank Grape 
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