GENTIANACEAE 
From the gentian family we have some of the most lovely bog and 
rock garden plants; flowers of most dazzling blue. Some are among 
the most stubborn of subjects; others are entirely amenable. All will 
grow in the open; most will have their roots cool. If you cannot offer 
this shade will compensate to some extent. Heavy rich soil. They fill 
a definite want for it is in late summer and fall, till frost cuts them, 
that they are most glorious. 
Gentiana cachemirica. A rosette of smooth gray leaves and large bright 
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blue flowers from the ends of prostrate branches. $1.00. 
Clusii. One of the G. acaulis congregation; the flower is large, dark 
clear blue and bottle-funnel-shaped. Small plants 50c. 
excisa. Another of the same clan; a close turf of smooth dark pointed 
leaves on which sit huge trumpets of evening-sky-blue; one of the 
best. 50c. 
. gracilis. A bold rosette of dark green gives off branched flowering 
shoots, each terminating in a large pure blue chalice. 60c. 
- hascombensis. Upstanding leafy branches erupting in large blue 
flowers. 60c. 
- kirishimensis. A Japanese gentian, with upstanding branches topped 
with large bright blue flowers in fall. 75c. 
G. Lagodechiana. Like a lax G. hascombensis. 60c. 
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. Macaulayi. A splendid easy free-flowering plant with grassy foliage 
and enormous brilliant turquoise-blue flowers, the outside striped 
with green and purple. 75c. 
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G. Orfordi. Prostrate; with thick dark green oval pointed overlapping 
leaves; medium sized dark blue flowers. As a foliage plant for 
ground cover this plant is excellent. 60c. 
Sikokiana. A prostrate species with maroon-green leafy branches 
turned up at the ends to support the large bright blue flowers. 
Blooms till frost cuts it. 75c. 
- Sino-ornata. A grassy species resembling G. Macaulayi but with 
smaller more sombre blue flowers. A late bloomer. 50c. 
- verna angulosa. Much stronger in constitution than G. verna and bear- 
ing equally beautiful deep azure-blue flowers. $1.50. 
GERANIACEAE 
From the crane’s bill family have been chosen a few of the loveliest 
ones, tidy in habit and free of ample-sized bloom. Given sunny banks 
and ledges and ordinary loam, they ask for nothing more than to be 
let alone to bloom the summer through. 
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