POLYGONATUM - Solomon’s Seal 
Popular and easily grown herbaceous plants, producing arching stems 
furnished with narrow leaves on each side, and from the axils of which 
drooping flowers are produced. Excellent plants for shady borders. 
Culture. They will thrive in any ordinary good soil containing plenty of 
humus or vegetable matter. May be grown under the shade of deciduous 
trees, n the shady border, or naturalized in woodland gardens. Plant 
in autumn or early spring, 6 inches apart. 
Multiflorum major Three $1.45, Doz. $4.75, 100 $25.00 
Pendent sprays of white flowers borne on long, 2-foot stems in May, 
followed in autumn with black or purple berries. A grand plant for a 
shady position, where it has plenty of room to show its pendulous sprays 
of bells. 
POTENTILLA - Cinquefoil 
Perennials for culture in sunny borders, and are most useful for cutting. 
They have strawberry-like leaves and showy, single or double flowers of 
varying rich shades of color. 
Culture. They should be grown in light, ordinary or sandy soil and on the 
margins of sunny borders. Heavy, damp soils are not suitable. Plant in 
autumn or spring, 12 inches apart. They must have a full sunny position. 
When the plants get overcrowded, divide and replant in spring. 
Lady Rolleston Three $1.50, Doz. $5.00, 100 $30.00 
For those who have trouble wintering the Geums, the new hybrid Poten- 
tillas will be most welcome. Lady Rolleston is a handsome free-flowering 
plant. Excellent foliage and covered with orange flowers from early 
June until the end of September. The blooms are about 11% to 2 inches 
in diameter and freely produced above the most attractive strawberry- 
shaped foliage, which is practically evergreen. A choice plant for border 
or rock garden. 
PULMONARIA - Lungwort 
A perennial noteworthy for hardiness of growth, freedom in flowering, 
and for its adaptability for growing in shady borders or rock gardens. 
The plants have rough foliage sometimes speckled with white, and blue 
or reddish flowers borne in racemes. 
Culture. Grow in ordinary soil in groups in the shady, mixed border, in 
masses under the shade of deciduous trees, or in the rock garden. Plant 
10 inches apart in autumn or early spring. 
Angustifolia azurea Three $1.50, Doz. $5.00, 100 $30.00 
This plant does well in light shade and moist ground. Grows not over 
1 foot high and is therefore excellently suited for ground covering in 
shady places. In April and May large masses of sky-blue flowers are 
produced which make an excellent foil for nearby planted spring bulbs. 
Angustifolia rubra Three $1.50, Doz. $5.00, 100 $30.00 
This is the ‘‘red’’ form of the above. The flowers are brick red. Other- 
wise the habit and requirements are the same. 
**Saccharata Three $1.75, Doz. $5.50, 100 $35.00 
A lovely early spring flower not unlike Mertensia, with pink flowers and 
when through blooming the plant has beautiful silvery spotted foliage. 
12 to 14 inches high. 

RANUNCULUS - Buttercups 
Herbaceous plants of easy culture and with attractive flowers. 
Culture. All require a moist, loamy soil. Grow in partial shade or full 
sun, in colonies, planting a foot apart in autumn or early spring. Do not 
permit plants to spread beyond their allotted space. 
Acris flore pleno Three $1.45, Doz. $4.75, 100 $25.00 
A double yellow upright growing Buttercup-like plant. Good for border 
in wet places; good cut flower. 
*Repens fl. pl. Three $1.15, Doz. $3.75, 100 $18.00 
A pretty, double-flowering bright golden yellow Buttercup of creeping 
habit; flowers in May and June. 

Santolina Chamaecyparissus (See page 68) Physalis Gigantea (See page 65) 
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