THE FINE TRIBE OF PENTSTEMONS 
This beautiful and varied group of flowers reaches the peak of pei^ection int the 
Pacific Northwest. Few gardens know the lovely blues and rich reds of our choice 
native perennial and shrubby types. This useful and adaptable group should have 
a prominent place in every garden, both for outdoor brilliance of color and for long- 
continued cutting to enjoy indoors. Their pleasing enduring foliage makes a fine 
setting in borders and other planting, that justfies liberal use. 
Pentstemons are of very easy culture, permanent, entirely hardy and bloom freely. 
All are sun-lovers and bloom best on deep sandy soil where the vigorous roots may 
stretch out. They recpiire very little water, yet bloom abundantly in rich moist 
gardens, though slow growth brings deeper color and longer life. Our young stock of 
large well-rooted plants from selected native parents is easy to transplant in your 
garden, in sunny, lean, well-drained soil, fall or spring. 
We have chosen the following five types for their fine colors, to bring continuous 
bloom to your garden through spring and summer. These include a fine evergreen 
shrub, two tall blue types for cutting, a cut-leaf red type for wall drape and cutting, 
and a rare tiny shrublet foi- the rock garden. 
*27. FRUITIGOSUS, t Large blue shrub-pent- 
stemon. Evergreen foliage a foot to 15” 
tall, richly bronzed in winter, with unusually 
broad fine-tooth leaves, makes this a fine 
ornamental ground-cover to border a sunny 
drive or to crown the rockery. Spikes of 
long deep blue to purple flowers make very 
showy color display in middle and late spring. 
Native plants form handsome foliage mass 
three or four feet across, but it may be 
easily pruned to small space. Fine for 
sunny lawn or rocky slope. 
Large two-year plants 6” tops 50c 8 for 
$1.25; 10 for $4.00; 25 for $9.00. 
428. TALL BLUE GLABER. This 
native of our dry sunny stretches near 
Spokane is the largest-flowered and rich¬ 
est hued of the pentstemons. It has the 
clearest vivid blue cf any summer flower, 
by judgment of experts, and is surely the 
finest for cutting. Open-mouth trumpets 
near 2” long, pure heaven blue, ranged 
about erect stalks two to three feet tall 
make a showy long-lasting display that 
when cut . continues all summer. Cut 
flowers hold their freshness remarkably. 
Vigorous stems grow to four feet, clad 
with smooth narrow leaves. Glaber is 
one of our spectacular flowers. Plant a 
dozen in a row a font apart, and rejoice 
in their beauty. 
Very fine plants 85c; 3 for $1.00; 12 for 
$3.00; 25 for $5.00. 
*30. RUPICOLAf This prostrate shrublet 
clothed with bright masses of little gray 
mouse-ears all the year, is decked in spring 
with lo\’ely reddish-pink blooms up to 6” tall. 
It is one of our choicest evergreen Alpines 
from the Cascades, endures long drouth, and 
is commended as the finest pentstemon for 
the small rockery. 
Small well-rooted plants 45c; 3 for $1.25. 
29. RICHARDSON RED. Fine cut leaf 
foliage with deep-rose flowers from July 
through late summer make this one of our 
most graceful and lovely plants for garden 
and rockery, also fine for cutting. Several 
slender 2 ft. stems with blue green leaves 
ascend from the crown, bearing many inch- 
long red trumpets showy over a long period. 
Very effective drapery from sunny wall or 
rocks, blooming on cliffs along the Columbia 
Gorge and in rimrock crevices about Spokane 
Does well also in moist semi-shade. Large 
2 yr. plants 45c; 3 for $1.25: 10 for $3.50. 
Fine ] year plants 35c; 3 for $1.00; 10 for 
$3.00 
^31. VENUSTUS. This new pentstemon 
from the sunny hillsides of Idaho forms a 
bushy cluster of flower-stalks two feet 
tall, covered with large-lipped violet-blue 
trumpets an inch long. Comes a little later 
than Glaber, whose habit and foliage it re¬ 
sembles, with oval toothed leaves and flow¬ 
ers of lighter blue. It is an easy grower and 
eager bloomer, showy over a long period, has 
enduring crown that thrives with repeated 
cutting. We counted 90 flower-stalks on one 
plant near Lewiston last summer. We can¬ 
not be over-enthusiastic about it for perman¬ 
ent broad border and garden display. 
Large strong plants 35c each; 3 for $l.p:>; 
12 for $3.50. 
SPECIAL PENTSTEMON OFFER: 
One plant each of No. 27, 28, 29, Si- 
total 4 plants $1.25, postpaid. 
Three plants each of No. 27, 28, 29, 31_ 
total 12 plants, $3.25, postpaid. 
FROM WASHINGTON D. C., “The 
pentstemons arrived yesterday in excellent 
condition. They are the finest plants I 
have ever seen.” 
*—desirable for rock garden ^—fine for cutting t—evergreen foliage 
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