40 Native Plants 
Gardenside Nurseries, Inc., Shelburne, Vt. 


ARISAEMA dracontium. Dragon-Root. Much 
like the following, but light green with an 
extremely long green tail-like spadix, which 
projects through the foliage. Likes rather 
moist soil, in partial shade. 
A. triphyllum. Jack-in-the-Pulpit.  Attrac- 
tive foliage, green and lush, with the flower 
in a tubular spathe, green, striped purple. 
Bright red berries follow. The plant is at 
home in partial shade, but will grow in full 
sun. 
ASARUM canadense. Wild Ginger. Colts- 
Foot. A trailing plant, with lush soft green 
leaves, several inches across, and brown- 
purple flowers. Fine for covering the ground 
in dense shade, under shrubs or trees. 
CALLA palustris. Wild Calla. Grows in the 
edges of ponds and bogs, attractive green 
leaves and a small white calla-like flower. 
Useful in bog gardens, or will float in pools. 
CALOPOGON pulchellus. Grass-Pink Orchid. 
Found in open sphagnum bogs, and grows 
from a small bulbous root. May be cultivated 
in partial shade and quite dry soil. Grows a 
foot or more high, and has from 2-5 violet- 
rose flowers, with a yellow bearded lip, 1% 
inches across. 
CAULOPHYLLUM thalictroides. Blue Cohosh. 
A plant of damp woodland, making a large 
clump of foliage, like that of the Cimicifuga, 
2 feet high. It starts growth very early, the 
young stems an attractive purple. The flowers 
in May are yellow green, in a tuft, and in 
summer the large deep blue berries are very 
attractive. 
CHELONE glabra. White Turtle-Head. An 
attractive plant of moist hedgerows, grow- 
ing sometimes 3 feet tall, and with a terminal 
spike of White, or pinkish, hooded snapdragon- 
like flowers, in late summer. 
CHIMAPHILA maculata. Spotted Pipsissiwa. 
An evergreen woods herb, of pine land, or 
sour soil, growing a few inches tall, with dark 
green leaves, variegated white along the 
veins. The flowers are little white bells in an 
umbel above the leaves, quite fragrant. Very 
rare. 50 cts. each. 
C. umbellata. Pipsissiwa. Leaves not so round 
as in the preceding, and entirely dark glossy 
green. Larger flower cluster. An attrac- 
tive evergreen for carpeting sour soils, in 
partial shade. 
CHIOGENES hispidula. Creeping Snowberry. 
A tiny vine, wandering over the Moss in 
shaded bogs, but sometimes growing in peat 
or in rotted stumps. Attractive tiny foliage, 
and the bell shaped flowers, are followed by 
little white berries. Moist peaty soil will 
grow it nicely, if shaded. 
CLAYTONIA virginica. Early spring bloom- 
ing plants, the root a tiny hard corm, grow- 
ing just under the leaves. The stems wind 
for a foot or so, with slender leaves, and white 
flowers, tinged pink. July only. 15 cts. each; 
10 for $1.00. 
CLEMATIS virginiana. Old-Mans-Beard. 
Trails over trees and shrubs, on old road- 
sides, and often on stonewalls. A good vine, 
however, with clusters of white flowers, and 
Be feathery grey seed heads, in fall. 50 cts. 
each. 
CLINTONIA borealis. Attractive green leaves, 
several inches long and broad, in moist wood- 
land shade. The flowers on an 18-inch stem 
are greenish-yellow, and the berries are bright 
blue. 
COPTIS trifolia. Goldthread. A tiny plant, 
carpeting exposed knolls in woodland, with 
glossy three parted leaves on short stems, 
and single white flowers, in May and June. 
The roots are yellow, and when dried are 
very astringent. Used in medicine. 
CORNUS canadensis. Bunchberry. Grows to 9 
inches high, the leaves in whorls, and the 
yellow flowers surrounded by 4-6 white bracts, 
an inch or more across. The fruit is a large 
red berry. Carpets sour soil, in partial shade. 
DENTARIA diphylla. Toothwort. Lush grow- 
ing herbs of shaded woodland, and easily 
cultivated on the north of buildings, where 
they make large clumps of attractive foliage, 
12 inches high. The white flowers are above 
the leaves in a terminal raceme. 
DICENTRA canadensis. Squirrel-Corn. Tufts 
of finely divided blue green leaves, and an 
8-inch stem, holding a nodding raceme of 
greenish white flowers above them. Fine in 
the rockery or wild garden, and starts growth 
in earliest spring, dying away after flower- 
ing. July delivery only. 15 cts. each; 10 for 
$1.00. 
D. cucullaria. Dutchman’s-Breeches. Like the 
preceding, but taller, the flowers white, tipped 
yellow, and with two spurs, instead of one. 
Same prices. 
ER YTHRONIUM americanum. Adder’s- 
Tongue. The native variety has attractive 
spotted leaves, and large showy yellow flowers 
in May. A shy bloomer, but attractive for 
carpeting woodland, or under shrubs. 10 for 
65 cts.; 100 for $5.00. 
EUPATORIUM perfoliatum. Boneset. Strong 
growing plant of moist soil, with large grey- 
white flower heads, in summer. Used in 
medicine. 
E. purpureum. Joe-Pye Weed. May grow 10 
feet tall, in moist land, with large purple 
flower heads in late summer. 
E. urticaefolium. White Snakeroot. Found in 
open woodland, this is an attractive plant, 
growing to 4 feet high, with large clear white 
flower heads. 
GAULTHERIA procumbens. Wintergreen. 
Oval shining evergreen leaves, on short stems, 
will completely carpet sour soil in partial 
shade. The flowers are pendant pink bells, 
and the bright red fruits are the well known 
Checkerberry. 
GENTIANA andrewsi. Closed or Bottle 
Gentian. Grows 2 feet high, in moist soil 
along roadsides, or damp places, and carries 
a cluster of deep purplish blue tubular flowers, 
the tips closed, in late summer. 
G. crinita. Fringed Gentian. We cannot sup- 
ply plants of this, until they can be found 
in our wild colony, usually about September. 
We have seed at 50 cts. per packet. Plants 
cut in sods, will be sent at 50 cts. each, and if 
they can be made to seed, will often estab- 
lish a colony. 
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, 
