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A SELECTED FEV7 - VERY CHOICE - HARDY PEREMIAL FLOVJERg , ■ 
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Unusually fine large plants - to bloom in your 1940 gar den __ 
FOUR TALL SHOITY PEITTSTEMONS: Large open-mouth trumpets of bright blue, red, violet 
or lavender on long spires make lovely color lasting many weeks in garden border 
and as out flo^'rers. They bloom very freely on light sunny soil with little care or 
moisture, and last to late fall if spent blooms are removed, A dozen or two of 
these large blooming-size plants set 9" apart in early April will make a rare color 
display in your garden, and fill yo\ir vases all summer. 
Group prices: 12 plants, 5 of each kind sent for ^2,65 postpaid 
4 " 1 '• ” " ” " #1.15 ’’ 
Tall Blue Glaber: The richest-hued, most popular of our native perennials for 
border mass and indoor color. Great sky-blue trumpets cover erect stems two to 
four feet tall from. June to August, Pinch off tips of young shoots to increase 
floY/er-stalks. Cut flowers have kept fresh and showy indoors over tvro weeks. 
12 large plants #2,35, five for #1.25 sent postpaid. 
Cut-leaf Red (Richardsoni). Lovely rose-red trumpets on slender swaying 18" stems 
framed by handsome notched blue-green foliage make this a beautiful drape for rooks 
or in border. Crown enlarges each year, with many stems. Sam.e prices as Glaber. 
Violet Venus. New from Idaho. An enlarging cluster of erect 18" stalks from a 
permanent crovm gives constant blooms from July to frost. The showy flowers, like a 
lighter-hued bushy Glaber, make a fine display in late border. Prices same as Glaber. 
Evergreen Fruticosus, A handsome rotmded evergreen shrub a foot high, whose wide 
deep-green leaves turn to rich mahogany in winter, and are covered in May-June vrith 
large lavender-blue flovrers. This is one of ovir choicest hardy all-year ornamen¬ 
tals, a fine permanent cover for ledge or sunny slope. Unusually well-rooted 
two-year plants 3 for #1,35, or 50 cents each, sent postpaid. 
Copper-red Mallow ; Cupshape flowers of rare copper color opening in continuous 
clusters all summer on gray 18" maple foliage make a glorious display from spring 
to frost, especially striking among blue flowers. Easy rapid grofwer in sunniest 
dry porous soil. Four large plants $1,25 postpaid; 35j^ each with pentstemon order. 
SPRING QUEEN (Synthyris reniformis). Dazzling blue flov;er-heads in March and April 
bring striking color to the early spring garden, shovring above large bright ever¬ 
green leaves that are handsom.e all the year. Set in moist semd-shaded spot or amiong 
ferns. Easy as violets, very shoAvy.Fine large plants 3 for |1.15 or 45^ ea. postpaid, 
LEVYISIA FiTCEDYI. The rarest and most sought of our native Washington pererxials, 
conside'reT amtong the m^ost beautiful of all plants. Large handsom.e rosette of fleshy 
evergreen leaves is covered in May-June with many wide open salm.on-pink flowers. 
Entirely hardy with perfect drainage, not difficult when directions are followed. 
Very fine large plants #1.00 each; medium size 65^ postpaid. 
CHRISTIiLAS ROSE (Helleborus niger). Winter*s rare perennial, with large waxy white 
or pinkish flovrers blooming from Christmas to spring, often under the snow. Thick 
peony-shape evergreen leaves a foot high. Should be set in April in shaded rich loam, 
Tliree large blooming-size plants |1.75; 65j2^ each sent postpaid. 
Orders of not less than |1.00 will be shipped promptly to reach you safely for 
early planting. Single plants only as stated above. On orders of |5.00 or m.ore 
you may add 15^ of value in extra plants free. Tfe ship large quality plants only. 
MAIL YOUR REI4ITTA1ICE WITH ORDER - NOT. C. E. ARTMAN 1014 East 12th Avenue, 
N/lTIlUI gardens of SPOKANE, WASHINGTON. 
Why not invito tviTo or three neighbors to join you in a combined order, and benefit 
each garden by the lov':er cost and greater number of plants in a group shipment? 
