WARD HEEL, MASS. 5 

DORONICUM pardalianches. 3’ June. Later variety 
with yellow daisy-like flowers. Stands part shade. 30¢. 
plantagineum excelsum. Showy Leopardbane. 2’ 
May. Earlier showy yellow, daisy-like flowers. 30¢. 
ECHINOPS ritro. Steel Globethistle. 5’ July. Tall thistle 
like, globular, metallic blue flowers. Very decorative. 
EPIMEDIUM,. 9” May. Dainty, charming plant for 
half shade. Lovely foliage and waxy flowers like tiny 
graceful Columbines, We like the white variety best, 
but have lavender, red, and yellow varieties also. 30¢. 
ERYNGIUM amethystinum. 2’ July. Steel-blue 
flowers, thistle-like in form. Can be cut and dried for 
winter bouquets. 
ERYTHRONIUM albidum. White Troutlily or Dog- 
tooth Violet. 6’’ May. Delicate nodding white flowers 
for part shade. 25¢ for 2. 
EUPATORIUM coelestinum. Mistflower. 2’ Sept. 
Light purple flowers like Ageratum. It likes a little 
shade and needs light winter protection. 3’’ pots. 20¢. 
urticaefolium. Snow Thoroughwort. 3’ Sept. Broad 
heads of white for moist shady place. 
EUPHORBIA epithymoides. Cushion Spurge. 1’ May, 
June. Showy yellow bracts that look like flowers. 
FILIPENDULA hexapetala. Dropwort. 2’ June. Fern- 
like foliage with corymbs of cream white flowers, buds 
flushed pink. 
—flore-pleno. Double Dropwort. 1%’ June, July. 
Small, white, globular flowers and fernlike foliage. 
Graceful. 30¢. 
GAILLARDIA aristata. Blanket Flower. 2’. Showy 
flowers with reddish brown centers and yellow daisy- 
like petals with rings of red. Blooms all summer. 
Short-lived but easily self-sows. Useful for cutting. 
20¢. 
GENTIANA andrewsi. Closed Gentian. 11%’ Sept. A 
lovely native with dark violet-blue flowers. Desirable 
because of its late season. Needs moisture. 20¢. 
GILLENIA trifoliata. Bowmansroot. 3’ June. Tiny 
white flowers in loose heads, dainty and airy in effect. 
Part shade in wild garden. 
GYPSOPHILA paniculata. Babysbreath. 244’ July. 
Minute white flowers in a gauze-like, misty mass. 
Valuable for contrast with coarser flowers, and indis- 
pensable for cutting. These are seedlings of the double 
form and some come double. 
—flore-pleno, Bristol Fairy. Double variety with 
larger flowers. Blooms over longer period than the 
older double form. Grafted. 40¢. 
repens. Creeping Gyposphila. July. A mat of gray foli- 
age and white flowers, for the rock garden. 
HELENIUM autumuale rubrum. Red Sneezeweed. 4’ 
Sept. Terracotta flowers. Beautiful for cutting. 
HELLEBORUS niger. Christmas-rose. 6’’ Nov. An in- 
teresting old-fashioned plant that blooms late in 
autumn and even after snow comes if protected.’ 
Large single white flowers like anemones that last a: 
long time. 75¢. 
