


Lythrum Superbum, The Beacon 
LINARIA - Toad Flax 
Most of them are more suitable for rockery than border culture. Yields 
dainty, snapdragon-like flowers. The one offered is a very attractive 
creeping, vinelike plant for the rock garden or in crevices in an old wall. 
Culture. Ordinary soil and a sunny position. Best grown in a mass on the 
wall or a well-drained rock garden. Plant in autumn or early spring, 4 
inches apart. 
Alpina Three $1.25, Doz. $4.00, 100 $20.00 
Brilliant orange and purple flowers like miniature Snapdragons, produced 
on trailing plants with neat greyish green foliage. Invaluable for the 
rock and Alpine garden. Blooms in summer and autumn. 
LYCHNIS - Campion or Catchfly 
Easily grown and attractive perennials. They vary in stature and are 
suitable for growing in sunny borders or rock gardens, bearing large 
heads of brilliantly colored flowers, that liven up the border during 
summer and early autumn. 
Culture. All are best grown in groups in good, ordinary soil, with the 
exception of Haageana, which does best in partial shade in the rock- 
ery; the rest should be grown in a sunny border. Plant the tall kinds 18 
inches apart and the dwarf ones 6 inches apart in autumn or early 
spring. Divide and replant every third year. 
*Alpina Three $1.25, Doz. $4.00, 100 $20.00 
Dwarf, rose-pink. A charming little plant for the rock garden about 4 
inches high. 
Chalcedonica Three $1.00, Doz. $3.50, 100 $15.00 
Heads of vivid scarlet flowers, blooming a long time. One of the bright- 
est plants in the hardy border. 3 feet; all summer. 
*Haageana Three $1.25, Doz. $4.00, 100 $20.00 
1 foot. June to August. Very showy, producing orange-red, scarlet or 
crimson flowers nearly 2 inches arcoss. Should be planted in light shade. 
*Viscaria flore-pleno Three $1.25, Doz. $4.00, 100 $20.00 
A fine double variety; fine for cutting. 
LYTHRUM - Purple Loosestrife 
Suitable showy plants for moist, shady borders and the waterside. There 
is only one really worth growing, and that is Superbum. The plants are 
oietetely growth, and bear their rosy or purplish flowers in tall leafy 
spikes. 
Culture. Grow in ordinary soil in moist, shady borders, or in groups by 
the waterside. Plant in autumn or early spring and divide and replant 
every third year. 
Superbum roseum Three $1.15, Doz. $3.75, 100 $18.00 
Very showy rosy purple spikes about 2 or 3 feet high, produced in pro- 
fusion all summer. Splendid for banks of streams and ponds. 
Superbum, The Beacon Three $1.45, Doz. $4.75, 100 $25.00 
Excellent for moist or wet locations in the border. An English introduc- 
tion of merit, produce 12 or more 3-foot upright spikes of clear rosy 
red which last a month or more, and are also good for cutting. 
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LYSIMACHIA - Yellow and White Loosestrife 
Although weedy in habit they are very welcome additions to the gar- 
den. They grow naturally in moist positions, and hence to cultivate 
them properly they must be grown in moist, shady borders, or by the 
waterside. The Creeping Jenny is an excellent carpeting plant to grow 
among hardy ferns or other !ow, wet places. 
Culture. The Creeping Jenny should be grown as a carpeting plant on 
a shady, moist border. The other variety may be grown in shady, moist 
borders, or in bold groups in moist parts of the wild garden, or by the 
waterside. Plant in autumn or spring, in ordinary soil, 8 to 10 inches 
apart. Should be divided every third year. ; 
Clethroides Three $1.25, Doz. $4.00, 100 $20.00 
Long, recurved spikes, 2 feet long, of pure white flowers, from June to 
September. A desirable variety. 
LUNARIA - Honesty; Judas Penny 
An annual noted for its handsome silvery disks which are left on the 
plant after the seed has been removed. 
Culture. Plant in fall or very early spring in ordinary garden soil in full 
sun. Space plants 18 inches apart to permit proper development. 
Biennis Three $1.15, Doz. $3.75, 100 $18.00 
Violet and white flowers are produced early in spring which should not 
be cut. The seed pods, which are very freely and quickly produced, are 
round; upon removal of the outer husks a silvery round disk is disclosed. 
The entire plant should be cut down and used for winter decoration. 
Especially handsome combined with Bittersweet. 
MATRICARIA - Double Mayweed; Feverfew 
Attractive, low-growing plants for the border. It has finely divided 
leaves and double flowers on stems about 1% feet in height, which make 
an effective display throughout the entire summer. 
Culture. Will grow freely in ordinary well-drained soil in a sunny border. 
Plant one foot apart in autumn or early spring. 
Silver Ball Three $1.15, Doz. $3.75, 100 $18.00 
A most useful border plant and valuable summer cut flower, with 
large, double, white flowers. June until October. 18 to 24 inches. 
Golden Ball Three $1.15, Doz. $3.75, 100 $18.00 
Dwarf yellow form of above. 
MERTENSIA - Virginia Cowslip; Blue Bells 
All are of medium growth, and well suited for shady or partially shady 
borders. Mostly blue- or white-flowered. The only one we really recom- 
mend is Mertensia virginica. 
Culture. All will succeed in ordinary soil. A shady or partially shady 
position is desirable; lovely planted in open woodlands together with 
daffodils. Plant in autumn or very early spring, 6 to 8 inches apart. 
Virginica Three $1.00, Doz. $3.50, 100 $15.00 
An early spring-flowering plant, growing about | to 114 feet high with 
blue flowers fading to pink; one of the most interesting of our native 
spring flowers. 
MITCHELLA .- Partridgeberry 
Lovely creeping evergreen plants, their shiny foliage and red berries are 
a great attraction in winter. 
Culture. They prefer a soil containing plenty of humus, such as provided 
by rotted leaves. Plant in half-shade in the rockery or open woods, in 
early spring or fall, 6 to 8 inches apart. 
*Repens Three $1.45, Doz. $4.75, 100 $25.00 
A little trailing evergreen. It forms fine mats under trees, and when 
once established is sure to please. 
Oenothera Missouriensis 

