34 Hordy Perennial Plants 
The STORRS & HARRISON CO. 
S & H HARDY PERENNIAL PLANTS 
Achillea, Boule de Neige 
<$> This Mark Designates a Rock Plant <$> 
Ajuga Reptans Rubra 
T HE strongest practical argument in favor of hardy peren¬ 
nials is the fact that once planted, they continue year 
after year with no further gardening concern beyond 
cultivation, cutting and thinning. 
In all descriptions, we aim to show normal matured height, 
blooming period, color, and any special quality or utility ; so 
that the reader may easily select and associate varieties to fit 
any desired plot or purpose. 
PLANTING. These roots may be planted as early in spring 
as the ground is pliable (or in the autumn) ; selecting an op¬ 
portunity when the soil is not cold, wet or soggy. Large clumps 
are not necessary nor often desirable; the smaller divisions or 
pot grown stock showing more thrift and virility and develop¬ 
ing into shapelier plants than the bulkier old roots. 
Any good soil sensibly enriched with fertilizer, dug deep and 
thoroughly mixed, will be satisfactory. 
WINTER PROTECTION. Everything listed in this sec¬ 
tion is “hardy,” but in varying degree. A light covering 
of coarse straw, manure or leaves (not over 2 or 3 inches 
deep) will give comfort to all kinds, and insure safety. 
i; This is How We Price Them 
By Mail—We Pay the Postage 
3 The least number practical for planting; for 
show, for cutting, and for protection of the 
variety should one plant die. If you can use 
<| only one plant, the price is (unless stated ) 
1/10 of dozen rate. 
i: Doz. 
(6 of a kind take the dozen rate.) A dozen, 
or half-dozen of each are much more im- S 
pressive than lesser lots. 
By Express—You Pay the Charg-es 
1 A A (25 of a kind take the hundred rate.) Land- 
I II II scape effects require solid masses. Roughly 
100 rate is 7 times dozen prices—or write us. 
ACHILLEA, Boule de Neig-e (Ball of Snow). 18 inches. 
The best white-flowered edging plant; erect, stiff stems and 
compact clusters ; fully double, rounded, pure white florets. 
June on. Longest blooming season. 
—Cerise Queen (Rosy Milfoil). Fine cut, decorative foliage 
on spreading bushes 18 inches high. Brilliant cerise-red 
flowers continuous all summer, in flat umbels. This with 
foliage, is a dainty bowl cut-flower. 
—Perry’s White. 2i/> feet. Characterized by rigid, upright 
stems. Extremely free, with clustered double white flowers, 
superior for cutting. June and July. 
—The Pearl. 3 feet. A valuable landscape type, with long 
wands of pure white flowers in midsummer. 
—Tomentosum<$> (Woolly Yarrow). A low mat of leaves, 
bright with flat heads of yellow flowers in June and later. 
All Achilleas: 3, 70c; doz., $2.50. 
ACONITUM Wilsoni (Monkshood). 6 feet. Latest, Sept, 
and October. Valuable for either sun or shade, and very 
hardy. The foliage is attractive, and the bloom abundant in 
long dense spikes of hood-shaped flowers ; violet-blue. 
Each, 40c; 3, $1.10; doz., $4.00. 
AG-ROSTEMMA Coronaria (Rose Campion). 2% feet. 
White woolly leaves, and midsummer solitary, phlox-like 
crimson flowers ; a striking contrast. 
—Alba. The flowers are glistening white. 
3 for 70c; doz., $2.50. 
AJUGA^> (Bugle). Excellent carpeting plants for grass, 
bare spots in border, beneath trees or in rockery, in either 
sun or partial shade; blooming May and June. 
—Reptans rubra. 3-4". Deep purplish blue. 
- alba. 3-4". Blush-white. 
—Variegated. A new derivation in which the leaves are 
heavily veined white. 
3 for 85c; doz., $3.00. 
AI»YSSUM<*> Argenteum. 15 inches. Dense upright 
growth, leaves silvery beneath, flowers yellow, in clustered 
heads. June-July. 3, 70c; doz., $2.50. 
—Moellendorfianum. Small silvery leaves ; yellow mid¬ 
summer flowers in small umbels. 3, 70c; doz., $2.50. 
—Montanum. Gray leaves of varying shape; low, compact. 
Fragrant, yellow clusters. 3, 85c ; doz., $3.00. 
—Saxatile Compactum (Golden Tuft). 12 inches. A flat¬ 
spreading edging and rockery plant, completely covered with 
bright golden yellow clusters. May-June. 3, 70c; doz., $2.50. 
— Serpyllifolium. 4-5". Rough, gray leaves; racemes of 
pale yellow flowers, in season just following Saxatile. 3 for 
85c ; doz. $3.00. 
ANTHEMIS Kelwayi (Hardy Marguerite). 18 inches. 
Golden yellow “Daisies” all summer. 3, 55c ; doz., $2.00. 
— Aizoon.<§> 6 inch. The pretty “Mountain Chamomile,” with 
silvery foliage and yellow flowers. A quite striking rock 
plant. 3, 70c ; doz., $2.50. 
ANCHUSA 
(Alkanet) 
Dropmore variety. 3 to 
5 feet. Intermittent bloom 
until late summer. The 
stools are quite dense and 
bushy, each stem nearly 
covered full length with 
double, inch-wide flowers of 
the deepest cobalt-blue. 
3, 50c ; doz., $2.50. 
Myosotidiflora^ A beauti _ 
ful dwarf specimen, or 
massing plant, with broad 
foliage on spreading stools. 
The vivid flowers in May 
are glorified “Forget-me- 
nots,” in a rich gentian- 
blue. You cannot conceive 
their sparkling beauty un¬ 
til you have seen them in 
appropriate spring setting. 
Each, 35c; 3, 85c; doz., 
$3.00. 
