
SECTION 2. 
Hardy Perennial and Rock Plants 
and Seeds 
SEE PAGE 30 FOR NOVELTIES FOR 1943 
Perennial plants must be given an important place in any 
flower garden for there can be no permanent success without 
them. Long lived, with moderate care they bring a maximum 
of beauty over a long period. They range from the tall stately 
plants for the background down to the intermediates and the 
low plants for a neat edging or border. Their generous use 
will bring untold pleasures. 
A number of fine things have been dropped this year because sale 
did not pay for space to describe them. Most of them are still 
grown and if you want them order from older catalogs. 
*This indicates plants suited to the rock garden. But do 
not overlook that plants so marked are also the very finest 
of low border, edging and trailing plants. 
**This indicates tiny plants or those suited only to the 
rock garden. 
SPECIAL OFFER: Where selection of varieties is left 
to me I will give $6 worth of plants for $5.00; $12.50 value 
for $10.00. For larger amounts 25% additional value will be 
sent. Such selections can be made for: Perennial Border; 
Rock Garden; Shaded and Difficult Corners. Just state your 
problem and soil, and other conditions when ordering. 
ACONITUM Spark’s Var, is a very fine Monks Hood, plants 
closely allied to Larkspurs, and they have hooded flow- 
ers and bulbous roots. This variety is 2 to 3 ft. high with 
the flowers a lovely deep blue coming in late summer. 
Cult: Cool moist situation in sun to moderate shade; 
Soil, a rich loam. Pl., Fall is best, can plant in spring. 
Prop., offsets. 30 cts. each; 3 for 75 cts. 
AETHIONEMA, Persian Candytuft. Most fascinating dwarf 
rock plants which are in reality tiny shrubs, and most 
valuable in the rock garden, odd corner or border. Bluish 
green leaves and woody stems, bearing an umbel of most 
charming flowers, May to June. They are treasures in 
bloom and the evergreen foliage most attractive the year 
around. 
*Coridifolium makes a prostrate mass of pretty foliage a foot 
or so across and a solid mass of deep pink flowers. 30 
cts. each; 3 for 75 cts. Seeds, pkt. 25 cts. 
*Grandiflora bears its flowers in erect spires as much as 18 
in. high. Color is a glowing rose and a plant in flower a 
delight to the eve while foliage is always handsome. 40 
cts. each; 3 for $1. Seeds, pkt. 25 cts. 
*Persicum. Quite similar to Coridifolium but the foliage 
more bluish and the flowers very soft pink. 30 cts. each; 
3 for 75 cts. Seeds, pkt. 25 cts. 
*Pulchellum makes a flattish half trailing mass a foot or so 
across, with many clear rose pink flowers. 30 cts. each; 
3 for 75 cts. Seeds, pkt. 25 cts. 
*Warley Rose—True. Very rare and simply exquisite. Com- 
pact bushes a foot high are masses of bloom May-June. 
This is not light centered like the familiar one of this 
name but the color is a solid deep rose. 60 cts. each. 
Cult: Sit., sun, thrive in a hot dry place. Soil, deep and any 
loose and well drained. Prop., seeds (2 years to flower) 
or cuttings. Pl., Fall to spring. Shear flowering stems to 
foliage at once after flowering. 
WEST AMERICAN COLUMBINES 
*AQUILEGIA truncata. Lovely woodland species with rather 
short spurred flowers, red outside and yellow at center. 
Fine for woodsy corners. 25 cts. each; 3 for 65 cts.; $2.00 
per doz. 
*AQUILEGIA eximea. A delightful large flowered Colum- 
bine that flowers in mid-summer, the flowers, scarlet 
with yellow center. It loves a cool wet place, sun or 
shade. 25 cts. each; 3 for 65 cts. 
*AQUILEGIA or COLUMBINE is a little large for the small 
rock garden but in the medium to large one produces 
delightful effects. 

AQUILEGIA, Columbines 
AQUILEGIA, Columbine. These remarkably beautiful and 
graceful plants with most charming flowers are so well 
known as to need little description. With handsome foli- 
age, fine flowers and ease of culture, few flowers satisfy 
so many needs. Then, too, they harmonize with most 
anything and are particularly beautiful with ferns and 
woodsy things. They give color effects in deepest shade 
where it is so valuable. Cult: Sun or shade, but are finer 
and last much longer in shade. Soil, any, but finest re- 
sults obtained with a rich, well drained loam. PIl., fall to 
spring. Prop., seeds. Seeds should be sown in fall or very 
early spring. Seeds offered are the finest strains obtain- 
able. 
“My Choice” Long Spurred Hybrids. Huge flowers in a bal- 
anced mixture of all colors with many colors possessed 
by no other strain. Simply superb. Plants, 30 cts. each; 
3 for 75 cts. Seeds, pkt. 25 cts.; 1/16 oz. 80 cts. 
Long-Spurred Blue Shades. The finest strain I have ever 
seen with flowers often 2 inches across. Seeds, only, 
25 cts. per pkt.; 1/16 oz. 65 cts. 
Supreme Pink Shades. Loveliest of soft and clear pink tones. 
Plants, next spring, 30 cts. each; 3 for 75 cts. Seeds, 
pkt. 25 cts. 
Coerulea Mrs. Nicholls. The lovely Colorado Blue Colum 
bine in a form easily grown without petting. Really 
ehoice. Plants, 30 cts. each; 3 for 75c. Seeds, pkt. 25c. 
Long-Spurred Purdy’s Sulphur Yellow. Delightful soft sul- 
phur yellow flowers on strong plants of fine foliage 
Each 30 cts.; 3 for 75 cts.; $2.50 per doz. Seeds, pkt. 30c. 
*NEW DWARF ALASKAN. A rare little Columbine from 
Alaska as yet unnamed; it is a foot high with lovely 
short-spurred medium blue flowers for weeks even in 
full sun. I prize it highly and all visitors are charmed by 
it. Elegant in rock garden. 35 cts. each; 3 for 90 cts.; 
seeds, 50 cts. pkt. 
*Akitensis, Charming dwarf, 6-12 in. high, with silver foli- 
age. Quite large flowers are clear soft blue, the corolla 
blue rimmed with creamy white. Each 35 cts.; 3 for 90 
cts. Seeds, pkt. 30 cts. 
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