PREPAID 
AT PRICES 
GIVEN 

Perennials are plants which flower several years 
in succession and are used for permanent plantings. 
We list with perennials the biennials which are not 
usually treated as annuals, and those that are in 
perfection the second year. All varieties listed on 
this and pages 45 to 50 are hardy perennials unless 
BURGESS’ HARDY PERENNIALS 
SEEDS AND PLANTS 
otherwise stated. 
We take pride in offering our stock of perennial 
plants to the public because of their superior quality. 
Our plants are not light grade seedlings like those 
offered by so many growers at burgain prices. Neither 
are they overcrowded clumps which have outlived 
FREE FROM 
DISEASE 
and 
True-to-Name 

their usefulness and are difficult to transplant. They 
are of the proper age to insure their being suceess- 
fully transplanted. All our plants are free from 
disease and insects and carefully selected to be true 
to name. For best results plant Burgess’ high grade 
perennials. 



Giant Chinese Lantern Plant 

COLUMBINE 
Much hybridizing has been done to obtain 
the varieties of Aquilegia or Columbine 
which are now offered. All varieties will 
endure some shade -and will thrive in any 
well-drained soil. -For best effect plant in 
groups of 3 or more. 
LONG SPURRED HYBRIDS. It would be 
impossible to describe the wide variation of 
color in our Hybrid Columbines. They range 
from bright yellow to vivid scarlet and from 
the daintiest blues to deep purple, with all 
the intermediate shades. Pkt., 20c; %6 oz., 
60c. 
CLEMATIFLORA (Clematis-Flowered Col- 
umbine). Just imagine, Clematis flowers on 
a Columbine plant. If you can you have a 
picture of Clematiflora. It is the newest and 
most unusual of all recent introductions. 
The flowers are produced in great abundance 
in pastel shades. They are wide open, with- 
out spurs or corolla. Clematiflora is differ- 
ent from anything you have ever seen. Pkt., 
35¢. 
GIANT CHINESE LANTERN 
For years the Chinese Lantern (Physalis Franchetii) has been 
highly prized for winter decoration. 
proved form with the balloon-like pods or lanterns measuring 6 to 
9 inches in circumference. The strong, stiff stems grow upright to 
a height of 4 feet, while the common variety is usually too weak 
to hold the Janterns off the ground. The brilliant orange pods re- 
tain their shape and color all winter. Easily grown in almost any 
soil. A money maker for the florist and the roadside stand. 
Pkt., 20c. 
PERENNIAL CANDYTUFT 
Iberis Sempervirens. 
Does well in sun or shade. 
ete.- Pkt. .25¢e. 
A profuse, white-blooming, hardy peren- 
nial, coming in flower early in the spring. Has evergreen foliage. 
Much used for cemeteries, rockeries, 
BLEEDING HEART 
DICENTRA SPECTABILIS. 2 ft. April- 
June. An old garden favorite; oné of the 
earliest blooming hardy plants; long ra- 
cemes of graceful heart-shaped rose-pink 
flowers; easily grown anywhere; especially 
valuable for border planting and for plant- 
ing in the shade. Also makes a_ beautiful 
house plant if potted late in the fall and 
kept in a cool place until a few weeks be- 
fere the flowers are wanted. Plants, 75c 
each; 3 for $1.95; 12 for $6.00, postpaid. 
New Giant is a much im- 
DICENTRA EXIMIA (Everblooming or 
Plumy Bleeding Heart). 18 inches. An ey- 
erblooming sort with beautiful finely cut 
foliage and showy racemes of heart-shaped 
deep pink flowers from April to August. It 
.is equally at home in full shade or sun and 
perfectly hardy everywhere. Plants, 60c 
each; 3 for $1.50; 12:for $5.40,: postpaid. 


Clematiflora or Clematis-Flowered Columbine 

Dicentra Spectabilis (Bleeding Heart) 
Early Flowering Chrysanthemums 
If they bloom for us, they will bloom for you. Late-flowering Mums have no place in Northern gardens. - 
While our list is small, every variety we grow is carefully selected for both earliness and hardiness and we 

Pink Cushion Chrysanthemum 
Burgess Seed & Plant Co. 
GALESBURG, MICHIGAN 

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know they will please you, 
BURGUNDY. Rich cerise-crimson, deepening in 
eolor as the bloom matures. Flowers of good size, 
quite double and borne on good stems. 
CHIPPEWA. One of the best of the new Mums 
with large, double Aster-purple flowers produced in 
large clusters. Blooms in early September and grows 
2 ft. high. 
GERONIMO. A very early dwarf-growing variety, 
producing an abundance of full double bronze flowers 
shaded with buff tones. Blooms in August. 
GLACIER. Introduced in 1944, this White Mum is 
rapidly replacing the older varieties. The medium 
height plants are covered with loose clusters of full 
double, pure white fiowers, commencing in August 
and continuing until late September. 
KING MIDAS. The finest tall golden yellow we 
have found and the most popular variety we grow. 
Produces large quantities of full double blooms 4 
inches and. more across. Early and unusually hardy. 
SALMON GLOW. A tall grower and heavy bloomer, 
producing semi-double flowers in a blending of gold 
and salmon. Blooms in mid-September on 2-ft, plants. 
PRICES: Your choice of the above Chrysanthemums, at 35c¢ each; 3 for 90c; 12 for $3.00. 
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Cushion Chrysanthemums or Ameliamums 
These most popular Mums form.Jow mounds, comparable in shape to an inverted bushel basket. One fully 
developed plant will produce hundreds of flowers, so many-—open at one time that the foliage is almost en-— 
tirely covered. Although this type of Chrysanthemum is. sold under many names, the term. “Cushion” seems 
to be the most accepted and it describes the plant perfectly. 
mid-August until late October. 
PINK CUSHION. Two-tone pink flowers. The first 
to bloom. s 
CRIMSON CUSHION. Deep crimson. 
WHITE CUSHION. Pure white; extra large flowers. 
You are sure to enjoy these varieties from 
BRO NZE CUSHION: Bronze-red changing to yellow- 
ronze. : 
GOLD CUSHION. Bright golden yellow ball-shaped 
flowers. > 
All Chrysanthemums on this page 35¢ each; 3 for 90c; 12 for $3.00, postpaid 
