The tall asters start another display of blue with the lovely starlike Aster Frikarti, 
which gives billows of perfect blue flowers from August to frost, then come the blue 
dwarts and the taller blue forms like to give a showing of blue to the very end of the 
season. 
Another group which has some lovely blue blooms is the Viola family and this 
year a mammoth purple blue perennial form joined the parade of blues. Purple Heart, 
the new Viola, blooms trom spring until the first snows fall and the blooms bravely 
punctuate the pure white. It is bound to become a favorite — and if the rampant 
runners are clipped close to the plant in August, the masses of long stemmed blooms 
will be a point of admiration in any garden the full fall period. 
Other colors too may be carried thru in a similar manner for the new improved 
types of perennials are a boon for both the new comer and the old time professional. 
VIOLA PURPLE HEART 
Plant Patent Applied For 
Something outstanding and new comes to the perennial world in the form of the 
Giant Viola Purple Heart. A seedling of the older Beauty of Larone, and the prolific 
Jersey Gem, this hardy perennial Viola is absolutely the largest flowered variety yet 
offered and with its seven to eight inch stems, also the longest stemmed. 
The three inch deep Violet Purple blooms are most unusual and as effective in 
early spring as they are in late fall when they successfully brave the chill of the first 
snow. 
From general reports thruout the country, the plant does well everywhere except 
in the extremes of moist or dry heat. It does not care for too rich a soil and starts 
sending out runners soon after planting. In early August, the runners are best clipped 
in to five or six inches. The plants then send up a mass of flowers which continue until 
freezing stops all growth. 
In the very heart of the velvety sheened rich purple blooms, there is a small gol- 
den yellow eye, the only variation in the color. 
The plant may be used in a low border, as an edging, as a permanent carpet 
planting and in many other ways, for like all Violas, it is always gay and lively. 
POLEMONIUM BLUE PEARL 
Early spring flowers are much desired and those that can be depended on for a 
mass bloom over a rather long period are doubly welcome. 
One of this group is the exquisite new Polemonium Blue Pearl. With its myriads 
of tiny light blue flowers produced in umbel-shaped heads, this plant blooms thruout 
May and June and frequently has five or six stems forming heads at one time. 
It blooms with the Iris and Bleeding Hearts and when finished resolves itself into 
a tuft of dark green fernlike foliage about 8 inches high. The composite leaves are 
themselves interesting and decorative. The spring bloom height is 15 to 18 inches. 
Blue Pearl not only is outstanding in garden decorations, where it likes a good 
loam soil, but cuts well and keeps beautifully in the house. 
