PLANTS FOR SHADE 37 


Shade Loving Perennials 
PULMON ARIAS—LUNGWORTS 
Soldier and Sailor Flower 
One of England’s best loved flowers that should be better 
known in this country. In most forms the showy flowers open 
deep pink and change to blue with age giving the name Sol- 
dier’s and Sailor’s Plant—the first for the English Red Coated 
Soldier, the second for the Blue Coated Sailor. They are very 
grateful plants repaying with a great show of color their 
simple requirements, shade, moisture, and fairly good soil. 
We cannot say enough in praise for the Lungworts’ splendid 
garden behavior or for their showy flowers from: ‘earliest 
spring until June. All are large, vigorous plants. 
50c each 3 for $1.39 
MOLLIS—Foliage cheery light green. Flowers. pink and 
blue in great profusion. 
MRS. MOON—Intensely bright pink and blue flowers. Leaves 
handsomely splotched silver. 
Use Bulbs In Your Shady Garden 
Many of the hardy bulbs are at home in the shade, 
under shrubs, in the woods, etc. The ones listed 
below flourish and multiply here, many of them 
even re-seeding and naturalizing themselves after 
a few years. 
All Narcissus and Daffodils, 
Colchicum, Lycoris 
Small Bulbs — Scillas, Snowdrops, Chionodoxa, 
Fritillaria, Eranthis 
MONARDA HYBRID BERGAMONTS 
New English Hybrid Bergamont. Very fragrant. Excellent 
border plant for sun or shade. Two-ft. Red and Rose shades. 
25¢ each 
3 for 69c $2.39 dozen 
FUNKIA 
LILIES 
Broad showy leaves— 
some varieties ‘with 
white  variegations. 
Flowers blue or white 
during the summer. 
Very hardy and perma- 
nent. 
35¢ each 
3 for $1.00 
$3.50 dozen 
6 FUNKIA LILIES $1.89 
2 EACH OF BELOW 


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LANCEOLATA—Long green leaves, showy blue flowers in 
mid-summer. 
LANCEOLATA VARIEGATA—Green leaves with yellow and 
white stripe down center. Blue flowers. 
DORONICUM EXCELSUM 
Leopard Bane 
A daisy early flowering perennial. Huge yellow daisies. 
Just about the first perennial to flower. 
35¢ each 3 for $1.00 


HARDY PRIMROSES 
35¢ each 3 for $1.00 $3.50 dozen 
ENGLISH PRIMROSE—HURST’S MONARCH STRAIN 
World famous strain with large open flowers of brilliant col- 
oring. Assorted colors in red, yellow, pink, maroon blends. 
TRUE FORGET-ME-NOTS Love Moisture 
Myosotis Palurtris 
25¢ each 3 for 69c $2.39 dozen 
For that wet shady spot, try the true Forget-Me-Not. Forms 
mats of bright green foliage always covered with true blue 
flowers. 
Ground Covers For Shade 
Plant Ground Covers 1 ft. Apart 
AJUGA—Bronze or green leaved. Fast growing plants with 
rosettes of strap shaped leaves of green or bronze green. 
Blue flowers. 
7 for $1.00 25 for $3.00 100 for $10.00 
ENGLISH IVY—Hardy small leaved type. Rapid growing, 
veyr hardy type that will last for years and years. 
6 for $1.00 25 for $4.50 100 for $15.00 
LILY OF THE VALLEY—Flowering Pips. Plant 8 inches 
apart. Will succeed in poorest soil. Foliage not evergreen 
as others are. Fragrant white flowers. 
100 for $10.00 
7 for $1.00 25 for $3.00 
Large Sods: 50c¢ 3 for $1.39 $5.00 dozen 
MAZUS—Use along walks—in stepping stones. Perfectly 
flat plants covered in April and May with thousands of pur- 
plish blue flowers 1 inch high. 
7 for $1.00 25 for $3.00 100 for $10.00 
PACHYSANDRA—Loves a deep rich soil. Handsome ever- 
green foliage. Spreads by underground side runners. A bit 
hard to start but worth the effort. 
6 for $1.00 25 for $4.50 100 for $15.00 
VINCA—BOWLES VARIETY—Large intense blue flowers. 
Rapidly spreading evergreen foliage. Shade or partial shade. 
7 for $1.00 25 for $3.00 100 for $10.00 

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