
In early spring, you can, of course, have wide flows 
of color below your trees if you have remembered to plant 
bulbs of Museari, Ornithogalum, Narcissus the fall before. 
Later on, assuming your shade is not too dense and dry, 
the hardy perennials below will help to give brightness when 
you need it most. 
EUPATORIUM COELESTINUM — Mist Flower. Profuse 
airy blossoms of fluffiest blue. 25 inches. Cuts well. Each 
2c; 3 for 0c; 10° for $2.00: 
GILLENIA STIPULATA—Attractive always, flower and 
foliage alike. Blossoms of irregular loosely open, starry 
form, white, or with faint suggestion of pink tinting, are 
carried in graceful spraying showers. 30 inches. Each 
30c; 3 for 85dc. 
TRICYRTIS HIRTA — A pretty Lily-cousin from wooded 
Japanese hills. Recurved blossoms in each leaf-axil, pure 
white with violet marblings. Established blossoms may 
earry a hundred blossoms at once. Blooms in fall. 30 
Inches. Each 380c; 3 for 85ce. 
ANEMONE CANADENSIS — Big up-facing star blossoms 
of purest white, carried above decorative foliage mounds. 
A most attractive perennial that increases rapidly to form 
wide clumps. 15 inches. Each 25c; 3 for 70c; 10 for $2.00. 
AMSONIA TABERNAEMONTANA—Blue Star of Texas. In 
May and June, big panicles of pretty blue star-flowers. 
Foliage always good. (Illustrated above.) 28 inches. Each 
Zoe; 3 for 70c; 10 for $2.00. 
BLACKBERRY LILY—Showy orange-and-crimson blossoms, 
followed by glossy ‘‘blackberries’’ of seed clusters, all on four- 
foot stems over lIris-like foliage. (Illustrated page 8 as 
Belamcanda chinensis.) Each 20c; 3 for 55c; 10 for $1.60. 
BLEPHILIA CILIATA—Wide mats of flat, overlapping fol- 
iage, from which rise in June 24-inch stems topped with 
fluffy whorls of pretty lavender bloom. Good ground cover. 
Each 25c; 3 for 70c; 10 for $2.00. 
ASPERULA HUMIFUSA—Plants that are airy mounds of 
little white flowers. Not spectacular, but pretty. 16 inches. 
Pach Z0CetomtOr oDCs..10. for ?o1.65, 
MONARDA FISTULOSA—Lavender Bergamot. Blossoms of 
pure lavender, closely packed to effect of full fluffy 
doubleness. 45 inches. Each 25c; 3 for 60c; 10 for $1.85. 
MONARDA CAMBRIDGE SCARLET—Crown-like flowers of 
glowing, far-visible scarlet. 30 inches. Each 25c; 3 for 70c. 
AQUILEGIA MOORCROFTIANA—Delightful short-spurred 
species from Kashmir and Ladak. Most of the plants will 
hear flowers of the so-called “‘Clematis’ form, no spurs at 
all. Color varies from rosy lilac to violet. Vigorous, 
floriferous, long-lived. Each 25c; 3 for 70c; 10 for $2.10; 
25 for $4.50. 
SHADY-PLACE PERENNIALS OFFER 36A12—One plant 
each of the 11, with labels, for $2.50. 
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