Rare Perennials , Continued 
The Lester Rose Gardens 
Silver Cace c Cine 
Here is a hardy, rampant vine that in one short 
season will cover an old or unsightly building and 
transform it into a thing of beauty! Bears an enveloping 
mass of white flowers in panicles that provide a lovely 
sight and are followed by seed masses of delicate silvery 
effect, hence its name. 
This Silver Lace Vine, (Polygonum aubertii), is 
also a useful vine for growing on fence or trellis. It 
will, in fact, grow anywhere, and one of its valuable 
qualities is that it calls for no care and flourishes in 
poor soil or even under neglect. 
Well-started young plants, 3 for 7 5c; each 3 0c. 
*<9 he Dew ‘Double 
Purple Dussian Diolet 
is the best of all violets for edging or borders 
for it quickly forms a dense mass of green that is 
attractive all through the year. Its deep purple, 
very double flowers are intensely fragrant and 
last well in water. Long blooming season. Strong 
divisions, 12 for $1.7 5; 6 for $1; each 20c. 
Lester Photo 
A single plant of SILVER LACE VINE 
transformed this old building in a few 
weeks into a thing of beauty! 
Other (Choice, Uncommon Diolets 
MARIE LOUISE VIOLET is like the Double-Purple Russian but bears profusely and for a long 
season very double, very fragrant flowers of soft lavender. Strong divisions, 12 for $1.3 5; 6 for 
7 5c; each 1 5c. 
EVERBLOOMING PINK VIOLET, a real garden treasure, a gem for the rockery; from its mound 
of glossy leafage spring jewel-like flowers of the loveliest rose-pink shade, quite different to other 
violets and borne all summer through. Strong plants, 3 for 7 5c; each 3 0c. 
EVERBLOOMING BLUE VIOLA, this we have found to be the most continuous bloomer of all our 
Violas for it yields us bloom every month of the year! Flowers of intense deep blue on long stems 
borne profusely. 3 for 50c; 1 2 for $1.3 5; each 20c. 
WISTERIA, Chinese Blue, most popular of all the Wisterias for each spring sees this beautiful vine 
literally covered with its giant clusters of pale blue flowers. Because it is well, in order to insure 
success, to establish a wisteria vine when young we offer strong young vines, about 6 inches high, at 
this low price: 3 for 50c; each 20c. 
YARROW, Rose —Grows to 1 1 / 2 to 2 feet high; with soft, feathery dark green foliage, each plant 
with many stems that terminate in large heads of bright rose flower; in bloom most of the year 
and always attractive; a good cut flower. Strong clumps, 3 for 40c; each 1 5c. 
GOLDEN YELLOW—A scarcer variety of similar habit but with brilliant buttercup yellow 
bloom; a fine, lasting cut flower, 3 for 40c; each 1 5c. 
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Roses As Ground Cover 
Have you a barren, bare piece of land you would like transformed into a thing of beauty? Then 
plant it with trailing roses. We describe two kinds on page 10, both of them varieties you can plant and 
forget for they take good care of themselves, grow rapidly, have handsome foliage and flowers, and 
cover the ground like a mat; and they are quite resistant to pests and disease. 
Another rose that can be used for this purpose, though it will not hug the ground so closely, is 
Mermaid. Here is a rose that stands in a class by itself,—for its lovely, fragrant bloom, its disease proof, 
glossy foliage, its fitness for so many different uses. It may be trained as a climber, is ideal for the fence, 
is a grand covering for bank or bare ground. Being a seedling of a wild rose it inherits all the tremen¬ 
dously resistant qualities which such roses possess and which make them so valuable. See description on 
page 10. 
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