6 Perennial Plants 

Gardenside Nurseries, Inc., Shelburne, Vt. 


great numbers. Here they flower over a two 
months period, and are greatly liked. 
AQUILEGIA. Columbine. Again plants of the 
Crowfoot family, and among the finest and 
most showily graceful garden subjects. They 
are native to all types of soil, but prefer a 
light sandy loam, or shale, well drained, and 
in some cases partial shade. They are ideal 
plants for shade, in most cases. Protection 
from wind is helpful, but the best forms re- 
sist it. In the border they fit well anywhere, 
and the smaller sorts are fine for the rockery. 
caerulea. Colorado Columbine. A long-spurred 
sort, with blue and white flowers. May to 
July. 
canadensis. The little native form, with red 
and yellow flowers, fine in the rockery, and 
on dry poor soils. May. 
chrysantha. Golden Columbine. Very tall sort, 
even 4 feet high, with large, long-spurred 
yellow flowers, all summer. 
Long-spurred Hybrids. All the colors available 
in these plants are to be found in this strain, 
which is not so strong growing as some. A 
very beautiful garden plant, flowering all sum- 
mer. 
Long-spurred, Crimson Star. This is a selected 
seedling strain with bright red and white 
flowers. 
ARABIS. Rock-Cress. Low plants, from cool 
sections, but usually for poor soil. Except 
that they like full sun, they are not choosy. 
Used in rockerys, and as edgings. 
albida fl. pl. Double Wall Rock-Cress. For- 
merly listed as A. alpina, this is the correct 
name. The double form has attractive fragrant 
white flowers and makes a nice mat of gray 
foliage. 
sundermanni. A hybrid form, with green foliage 
in a fine mat, and white flowers in May. 
ARENARIA. Sandwort. Mat forming plants, 
found the world over, but mostly in cool sec- 
tions, or at high altitudes. Useful for the 
rockery, for carpeting, or edging, on sharply 
drained soils, with ample moisture, or dry 
soils, not too hot. 
grandiflora. May grow 10 inches high, a loose 
mat, and with large white single flowers in 
June, and later. 
verna aurea. Makes a flat close growth more 
like a moss, than a plant. This sort has a 
bright yellow cast, and carries tiny white 
flowers, in summer. 
ARTEMISIA. Wormwood. Most plants of this 
group are grown for their medicinal proper- 
ties, and are unfortunately, not satisfactorily 
hardy here. One form is grown for its bloom. 
lactiflora. Mugwort. <A tall plant, often 6 
feet, and best on poor soils, and dry. Useful 
at the back of the border, where it makes a 
strong clump of good foliage. In September, 
it is notable for its plumy white flower heads, 
which are delightfully fragrant. 
ASCLEPIAS. Milkweed. Silkweed. Native 
summer flowering plants, of easy culture in 
any deep soil, but suffering on wet or shallow 
dry land. Useful in the border, and several 
kinds in the wild garden. While we have a 
number of uncommon forms, our stocks do not 
permit offering. 
tuberosa. Butterfly-Weed. May grow to 3 
feet, with rough hairy stems, each topped by 
an umbel of bright orange flowers, followed 
by the characteristic seed pods, with their 
silky contents. Useful for cutting. July, 
August. 
ASTER. Starwort. Michaelmas Daisy. One 
of the most widely distributed plant groups. 
American forms are largely fall flowering, but 
there are attractive spring or summer types. 
On the whole, any well drained soil suits them, 
avoiding too much fertility for the stronger 
sorts, or indeed for all. Ranging from plants 
with basal tufts, and slender short scapes, to 
giants 8 feet tall, they fit all parts of the 
garden. Many are fine for cutting. 
alpinus. Rock Aster. Grows to 10 inches high, 
with single rosy blue or violet flowers 2 inches 
across, in summer. 
White form of the preceding. 
alpinus, Nancy Perry. A fine deep blue form. 
50 cts. each. 
alpinus, Topsham Gem. A fine salmon pink, 
of which you’ll hear more. Only a few at 
$1.00 each. 
alpinus, Star of Wartburg. It is hard to de- 
termine differences between A. alpinus and 
A. subcaeruleus, save that the latter is larger. 
This is a very fine blue Aster, which may be- 
long in either group, or be a hybrid form. We 
have no authoritative placing. 
amellus, King George. This species is one of 
the parents of Aster frikarti. It grows two 
feet high, quite stiffly erect. It flowers earlier 
than A. frikarti, and is very fine, especially 
on poor soils. The variety listed is very dark 
blue, and the plants are from cuttings of true 
to name stock not seedlings. 
cordifolius. Blue Wood Aster. Grows 5 feet 
tall, stiffly erect stems, with large lanceolate 
leaves, clasping the stem. The terminal heads 
are filled with small lavender blue flowers. 
alpinus albus. 
Late. Fine as a background plant, in poor 
soil. 
frikarti, Wonder of Stafa. This hybrid be- 
tween A. thomsoni and A. amellus, is very 
well known, now. It flowers in September, 
and through October, with large lovely soft 
blue blooms, nearly 2 inches across. The plant 
is bushy, fine stemmed, compact, but not 
rigid, and may grow 30 inches high. We list 
under the varietal name, above, as we_ have 
two others of the Frikart Asters, to offer in 
the future. 
hybridus luteus. Golden Aster. Not a true 
Aster, as we well know, but held here, through 
familiarity. Grows to 3 feet, with many tiny 
straw-yellow flowers in branching heads, in 
August. 

novae-angliae. New England Aster. We have 
the true form, with purple flowers. 4 feet high. 
September. - 
n. a. Barr’s Pink. A typical New England 
Aster, but with semi-double rose pink flowers. 
n. a. Harrington’s Pink. <A very fine, pure 
pink flowered sort. 
n. a. Mount Rainier. The best white New 
England Aster. 35 cts. each. 
All Perennial Plants 25 cts. each, $2 for 10, $18 per 100 unless otherwise noted, 
POSTPAID east of the Mississippi; add 5 PERCENT WEST. Five 
of one kind or variety exactly alike at 10 rate, 25 at 100 rate. 
