
Thermopsis Caroliniana 
SPIRAEA - Goat’s Beard; Meadow Sweet 
Very handsome herbaceous perennials. The species named below have 
handsomely divided leaves and flowers borne in graceful, feathery plumes. 
Culture. The Spiraeas require a deep, rich and moist soil. Plenty of leaf 
mold and well-decayed manure must be incorporated with it before 
planting. They will thrive in-shady, moist borders, or they may be grown 
by the waterside. Filipendula flore-pleno, being small, should be grown 
in groups of three or six plants. Plant in autumn or early spring, 12 
inches apart. 
Filipendula flore-pleno Each 60c, Three $1.50, Doz. $5.00 
Double white flowers on 12-inch stems; lovely fernlike foliage. A very 
neat plant and excellent for edging beds or walks. Flowers are fine for 
cutting, lasting well in water. 
Venusta Each 60c, Three $1.50, Doz. $5.00 
(Martha Washington Plume). A noble plant growing about four feet 
high, producing in July and August handsome, rosy carmine flowers 
which are delightfully fragrant. A desirable subject for the border or 
along a small brook or pond. Superb for wet ground. 
SPIRAEA - Astilbe 
Betsy Cuperus Each 60c, Three $1.50, Doz. $5.00 
The fine drooping flower spikes, 4 feet long, show in Summer during 
some weeks a great number of blush-white flowers with pink center. 
Deutschland Each 60c, Three $1.50, Doz. $5.00 
A lovely pure white variety of strong growth and very free flowering. 
2-foot spikes. The best white grown. 
Fanal Each $1.00, Three $2.75, Doz. $8.50 
This brilliantly colored new Spiraea not only develops plants that are 
delightfully decorative, with their bronzy, divided foliage all season, 
but the flowers are the darkest in color of the family. Height of both 
plant and bloom spike is about 2 feet, at least a foot of which is a 
feathery spike of rich deep garnet which appears to be lightly dusted 
with tiny frost crystals. Bloom lasts over a long period during early 
summer, providing a vivid. splash of unusual color in the border, 
Granat Each 60c, Three $1.50, Doz. $5.00 
Striking novelty with long, well formed spikes and splendid crimson 
flowers, shaded salmon. 
Peach Blossom Each 60c, Three $1.50, Doz. $5.00 
Conspicuously beautiful with dense, feathery plumes of brilliant pink. 
Prof. Van Der Wielen Each 60c, Three $1.50, Doz. $5.00 
White spikes four feet tall; beautiful garden variety. 
Salland Each 60c, Three $1.50, Doz. $5.00 
The flower stem itself has a length of over 4 feet. The very fine fringed 
flowers are bright red tinged with dark blue. 
STOKESIA - Cornflower Aster; Stokes’ Aster 
A very handsome perennial, with China-Aster-like flowers, that appear 
late in the season, about September. It prefers a warm, sheltered loca- 
tion. Should certainly be grown in all gardens since its flowers are most 
beautiful in form and color. 
Culture. Grow in a sunny, well-drained border in sandy loam, 6 inches 
apart. Plant in March or early autumn. 
Blue Moon Three $1.50, Doz. $5.00, 100 $30.00 
The immense light blue disc-like flowers are 5 to 6 inches in diameter, 
growing on stiff 12- to 18-inch stems. In the foreground of the bor- 
der they make a picture not easily duplicated. Stokesia, Blue Moon, 
is a vigorous-growing and free-flowering variety of exceptional merit 
and distinction. it is perfectly hardy and has no insects bothering it. 
It is of easy culture and flowers throughout the summer and autumn 
until stopped by hard frosts. A most worth-while addition to the 
hardy plant garden. 

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SWEET WILLIAM (See Dianthus Barbatus) 
TEUCRIUM - Germander 
Shrublike plants of moderate growth. Chamaedrys has shrublike, shiny, 
dark leaves. 
Culture. A well-drained, good garden soil is all that is required to grow 
them to perfection. Plant in fall or early spring, 6 inches apart in full 
sun, in rock garden or border. Chamaedrys may also be used as an 
edging to flower beds or garden plants in the small formal garden. 
**Chamaedrys Three $1.45, Doz. $4.75, 100 $25.00 
Glossy green foliage resembling dwarf boxwood, may be used in place 
of boxwood where the latter is not hardy; can be clipped to suit any 
height up to 12 inches. 
THERMOPSIS 
Only one species is worthy of mention here. This has three-foliate 
leaves, and yellow, lupine-like flowers borne in long, terminal racemes. 
It is of graceful growth and specially suitable for the sunny. border. 
Culture. Ordinary soil in a sunny, well-drained, dry border. Plant in 
autumn or spring, 8 inches apart. 
Caroliniana | Three $1.45, Doz. $4.75, 100 $25.00 
A lovely lupine-like plant with rich green foliage, growing about 2 feet 
high. In June and July, yellow, pealike flowers are produced in racemes, 
6 to 12 inches long. The general appearance is that of a yellow lupine. 
THYMUS - Thyme 
Dwarf-growing, almost prostrate creeping perennials with fragrant foli- 
age, suitable for growing on the margins of dry, sunny banks, slopes or 
rock gardens. 
Culture. These will thrive in ordinary soil in well-drained, dry borders 
or on sunny slopes and rockeries. They soon spread and form neat 
patches of foliage, studded in summer with rosy purple or crimson 
flowers. Plant in autumn or spring, 6 inches apart. All flower in June 
and July. 
*Citriodorus Three $1.45, Doz. $4.75, 100 $25.00 
The well known ‘Lemon Thyme.” 
*Lanuginosus Three $1.45, Doz. $4.75, 100 $25.00 
(Woolly-Leaved Thyme.) Woolly foliage with bright pink flowers. 
*Serpyllum album Three $1.45, Doz. $4.75, 100 $25.00 
(White Mountain Thyme.) Forms dense mats of dark green foliage and 
clouds of white flowers. 
*Serpyllum coccineum Three $1.45, Doz. $4.75, 100 $25.00 
Plants become completely covered with brilliant crimson-scarlet flowers. 
*Serpyllum splendens Three $1.45, Doz. $4.75, 100 $25.00 
A rapid, dwarf-growing variety; very hardy and excellent to cover bare 
spots, also good for the edge of walks or in the rock garden. 

FOOD FOR THOUGHT 
As Well As For Your Flowers 
What your plants need is a balanced organic plant food. Not just a 
stimulant. They need one containing in right amounts, those things 
that make plenty of strong roots, produce sturdy stalks, thrifty foliage 
and an abundance of good sized blooms. 
That’s exactly the kind of Plant Food we use at Wayside. Much of 
our success in growing such unfailingly fine plants is due to it. 
What it has done, and is doing for our 600 miles of plants, it will 
do for your garden. 
Turn to page 174 and get the full facts about it. 

Spiraea (Astilbe), Deutschland 

