Rare Perenntals, Continued ‘THE LisTER ROSE GARDENS 

OTHER HARDY PERENNIAL 
GERANIUMS 
These resemble in habit and 
form our True Blue Geranium de- 
scribed above but are in different 
colors. Useful for the border or 
rockery; quite immune from pests; 
easy to grow. We offer these kinds 
and colors: 
G. pratense album, with large, 
beautifully veined white flowers 
on long stems; a strong grower. 
G. endressi, brilliant pink. 
G. sylvaticum, a delicate silvery- 
lavender-blue. 
G. sanguineum, with deep red flow- 
ers; dwarf habit of growth. 
Large field-grown plants of the 
above, blooming size, 2 to 8 years 
old, prepaid in California only, 
each 50c; amy 3 for $1.25. 
An Exquisite 
BLUE GENTIAN 
G. acaulis clusi—A low evergreen 
Gentian, only a few inches high, 
that spreads to 8 inches or 
more and bears in great profu- 
sion huge trumpet flowers of 
that glorious gentian blue which 
has no equal in the flower king- 
dom. Often you may have over a 
dozen blooms on a single plant 
at one time. Blooms heaviest in 
spring and intermittently 
Showing the Leaf, Seed, and Flower of our TRUE through the season. Quite hardy. 
BLUE GERANIUM, which bears its intense heavenly. Stone 1-year well rooted plants, 
each 35c; 3 f 1.00. 
blue flowers all summer long. (See page 25.) ah 

TWO USEFUL, UNCOMMON IVIES 
HEDERA helix conglomerata—Very distinct; low- 
growing, with crowded contorted small leaves 
densely matted. Unequalled for the rock-garden 
where it hugs the rocks to form a pleasing 
mass of rich dark green. 3-inch pot plants, 30c. 
H. helix marmorata—Hardy trailing or climbing 
sort with variegated, marbled leaf, a lovely 
contrast of silver with green. Nice well-rooted 
young plants (they grow quickly), 25c. 
JASMINE VINE, The New Pink Jasminum steph- 
anense. A twining slender-stemmed climber that 
bears beautiful light pink flowers 14% inches 
wide, with the most intense fragrance; perfectly 
hardy anywhere and evergreen in mild climates. 
Grows well in either sun or shade. Strong plants 
from 4-inch pots, 2 to 38 feet high, each 75c; 
3 for $2. (If to go beyond 3rd zone add 15c 
each.) 
TWO GOOD PERENNIAL LOBELIAS 
Lobelia cardinalis, The Cardinalflower—A stately, 
hardy, shade-loving, Lobelia that throws up 
long-lasting spikes of brilliant cardinal-red 
bloom, 4 feet and more in height. Extra strong 
plants, 40c. Seed, 25c. 
L. Davidi—From Central China, grows to 4 feet 
or so, with rosy-purple bloom. Likes shade. 
Uncommon but very good. 50c. 
LOPEZIA albiflora, var. rosea—Here is a lovely 
thing for the shady rockery. Dark green foliage 
with all summer long a profusion of rosy-pink 
blooms like gay butterflies. Very choice. Strong 
plants, 35c; 3 for $1.00. 
MANDEVILLA suaveolens, The Chile Jasmine 
Vine—lIllustrated. One of the best vines, hardy 
and deciduous under severe frost, rank-growing F Wi : ; 
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with handsome foliage and, for a long season, lo a foliage and MAELO as seed 
deliciously fragrant white jasmine-like flowers. pods of the fragrant CHILE JAS- 
Young plants, each, 35c. Seed, 25c. MINE VINE (Mandevilla Suaveolens ) 
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