18 PLANTS FOR GROUND-COVERS AND BORDERS 

FESTUCA glauca. Blue Fescue. A grass with silvery 
© blue leaves and culms forming clumps about 8 inches 
high. Graceful, with narrow foliage. Does not spread. 
Good for low masses, lines, and the rockery. Excellent 
substitute for boxwood as a dwarf edging. 
2a-inch pol-plamnts, eee $2.00 for 10; $15.00 per 100 
FUNKIA lancifolia (Hosta). Lanceleaf Plantain Lily. The 
plentiful basal leaves are about 6 inches long by 2 
inches or less wide. Flowers light blue, in racemes on 
slender stems about 1!/, feet high, in July and August. 
Suited for masses, borders. Endures considerable 
shade. 
Field: Clnis ake 2 ea eee ee $2.25 for 1C; $18.00 per 100 
F, subcordata grandiflora (Hosta plantaginea grandi- 
flora). Big Plantain Lily. The plentiful basal leaves 
are large, strongly veined, bright attractive yellowish 
green. Flowers waxy white, fragrant, 4 to 6 inches 
long, on 1/- to 2-foot stems. September. Plants form 
specimen clumps 2 feet or more across. Endures con- 
siderable shade. 
PielO=pOLEnits eae eee $3.00 for 10; $25.00 per 100 
F. undulata variegata (Hosta lancifolia undulata). Wavy- 
leaf Plantain Lily. Blue flowers and pretty variegated 
foliage. 
Piéld=plants: «se ae eee $1.50 for 10; $12.00 per 100 
GAILLARDIA, Dazzler. 2 feet. One of the best large 
golden yellow flowers with rich maroon centers. June 
to frost. 
FI6ld-pIiChic 3h. eee $2.00 for 10; $15.00 per 100 
G. grandiflora. Perennial Gaillardia. 1 to 2 feet. 
Plant with grayish, more or less notched or cut foliage 
and large, red and yellow daisy-like flowers, solitary 
on good stems from June to late fall. Any drained 
soil. Likes sun and dry weather. 
Pislcdenlanteae.ss sen oe ee $2.00 for 19; $15.00 per 100 
GALAX aphylla. Native. Dwarf evergreen, 6 inches. 
* Bears a profusion of pure white flowers in mid-summer. 
The leaves are round, 3 to 4 inches across, turning 
crimson and bronze in autumn. Invaluable as a shady 
and woodland ground-cover. 
Field-clumps— 
$3.00 for 10; $25.00 per 160; $225.00 per 1000 
GAULTHERIA procumbens. Aromatic Wintergreen. 
© Native. A low, trailing evergreen wiih bright green 
leaves. Flowers white, followed by large bright red 
berries which remain until next season. Mulch the 
bed with peat moss. It requires one season to estab- 
lish this plant. 
Large, clumpy plants— 
$2.50 for 10; $20.00 per 10; $175.00 per 1000 
GENTIANA Andrewsi. Closed Gentian. Native. Leaf- 
© bearing stems to about 2 feet. Flowers large, showy, 
purplish blue, clustered in the upper leaf-axils during 
July and August. Likes moist, rich soil in sunlight or 
semi-shade—not stagnant water. 
Fisld-plants.7, |. meee $2.00 for 1C; $15.00 per 100 
GYPSOPHILA, Bristol Fairy. 2 to 3 feet. Large panicles 
of double white flowers. Will bloom continuously 
throughout the summer. 
jelc-plontsg ee re een $4.00 for 10; $30.00 per 100 
Varieties marked % are Ground-Cover Plants. 

