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HARDY GARDEN FLOWERS 
This, too, is an abridged list of the Perennials we offer, these varieties being 
selected as representative and generally useful for garden planting. They are practi- 
cally permanent, when once established, and can well form the framework or back- 
ground for interplantings of annuals or bulbs. 
Price: except as otherwise noted, 35c each; $1.00 for 3: $3.00 per dozen. 
6 plants of one variety furnished at dozen rate. 
Hardy Asters 
The autumn parade of colors in the landscape 
would be incomplete without the Asters of the 
open fields; and the garden varieties are no 
less gorgeous. 
ASTER ALPINUS “GOLIATH” for the rock-garden; 
bluish-purple, ten inches high, breaks the rule 
by blossoming in May and June. 
AsTER “MAuve CusHION” creates a broad mass 
of flowers in October, delicate mauve, scarcely 
more than nine inches high. 
AsteR “LAapy Henry Mappocks” is slightly 
taller, about twelve inches; with light pink 
flowers in great profusion. 
TALL LATE-FLOWERING ASTERS 
BLUE Gown. 4 ft.; large china-blue flowers in 
September. 50c each; $5.00 per doz. 
Ciimax. 5 ft.; light blue with golden center, 
in large clusters. 
Harrincton’s Pink. 3 ft.; magenta-free shade 
of pink, flowering in September and October. 
One of the most beautiful Asters. 
40c each; $4.00 per doz. 
Peccy Bariarp. 3 ft.; double, rosy-mauve 
flowers in heavy spikes, the plants compact 
and shapely. September-October. 
6 plants of one variety will be furnished at the dozen rate. 
Monkshood 
(Aconitum.) The Monkshoods bring their 
clear deep blues to your garden in late sum- 
mer, after many earlier flowers are gone. They 
are equally at home in sunlight or shade. 
These two varieties together carry their bloom- 
ing-time over a long period. 
AzurE MonxsuHoop (A. fischeri). Blooms late, 
in September and October, its flower-spikes 
eighteen inches tall. 40c each, $4.00 per doz. 
Sparks’ Aconite (A. napellus Sparks’ vari- 
ety). Deep blue, flowering in July and August; 
three feet high. 40c each, $4.00 per doz. 
Alyssum or “Golden Tuft” 
(Alyssum saxatile compactum.) The dwarf 
yellow flower seen everywhere in early May, 
when it seems to capture the warm sunlight 
for itself. Seldom more than a foot high; 
masses of little golden-yellow blossoms. 
Monkshood 
Anchusa 
Commonly known as Bugloss, with gentian- 
blue flowers. Two differing types, both beauti- 
ful. 
DropmorE Bucioss (Anchusa italica Drop- 
more). Four feet tall, its long spikes of blue 
florets give rich notes of color in June. 
SIBERIAN BucLoss (A. myosotidiflora). This is 
the forget-me-not-flowered Anchusa, growing a 
foot high, with heart-shaped leaves. 
Centaurea 
CENTAUREA or Mountain Buiuer (Centaurea 
montana). Robust, sprawling plants with bold 
blue flowers in July and August, like giant 
Bachelors Buttons. Its usual height is 18 
inches. 
Snow-in-Summer 
SNOW-IN-SUMMER or MouseE-EAR (Cerast/um 
tomentosum). Creeping, with silvery-gray fo- 
liage and many small white flowers in May 
and June. It is a pretty, six-inch plant for 
a rocky corner. 

