


Create Your Own 
Defense Herb-Garden 
Your Country needs herbs. 
Due to the war many sources of 
supply are cut off. Growing of 
herbs is simple and interesting, 
and you can aid the Defense 
Program by raising your own. 
Many herbs have great decora- 
tive value in the garden as well 
as utility value. We are offering 
the following collections which 
will afford a good start on this 
interesting phase of gardening. 
Burnet. Ornamental fern-like foliage. 
Used for flavoring soups, cold drinks 
or punch. 
Chives. For soups, cheeses and salads. 
Horehound. Dried leaves used for 
Horehound candy, also Horehound 
ale. 
Hyssop. Ideal plant to edge the 
flower border. Used to enrich soups. 
Thymus vulgaris. Good herb plant 
for border of flower garden. For 
seasoning soups, poultry stuflings, 
etc: 
Salvia vulgaris. Sage. 
sausages and stuflings. 
Used with 
Mint Collection 
Apple Mint (Mentha rotundifolia). 
The leaves are used to flavor 
drinks. 
Curly Mint (Mentha crispa). The 
aristocratic spearmint. 
Orange Mint (Mentha citrata). 
Leaves are round with a brownish 
purple tinge. Quite different in 
taste from all other Mints. 
Peppermint (Mentha piperita). The 
true Peppermint used in teas. 
Pineapple Mint (Mentha rotundi- 
folia variegaa). The leaves are 
very decorative in glass. 
Spearmint (Mentha spicata). Some- 
times called “Lambs Mint.”’ The 
julep Mint of the South. 
Prices of the above Collection: 
1 plant each of 6 varieties $2 00 
3 plants each of 6 varieties. 5 50 
6 plants each of 6 varieties. 10 00 


Perennial Collection 
Anchusa myosotidiflora. 
Blue. April, May. 
Armeria. Pink. May,June. 
Delphinium — chinense. 
Blue. June, July. 
Gaillardia. Orange-red. 
All summer. 
Lobelia cardinalis. Scar- 
let. July, August. 
Lychnis  chalcedonica. 
Scarlet. July, August. 
Phlox, B. Comte. Red. 
Summer. 
Physostegia, Vivid. Pink. 
Summer and fall. 
Pyrethrum, Mixed. May 
to July. 
Stokesia. [Lavender-blue. 
July to October. 
3 plants each of 10 varieties 
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Rock-Garden Collection 
Ajuga. Blue. May, June. 
Aster, Victor. Lavender-blue. Late 
summer and fall. 
Dianthus deltoides. Pink. Summer. 
Iris pumila. Yellow. April, May. 
Phlox subulata. Pink. April, May. 
Primula, Mixed. April, May. 
Ranunculus. Yellow. May, June. 
Sedum coccineum. Rose-pink. July, 
August. 
S.sarmentosum. Yellow. May to July. 
Veronica repens. Blue. May. 
$6.00 **eu' $6.00 







b-Garden view showing that such a garden can be 
attractive as well as useful. 


