NURSERY 
1947 SPRING CATALOG 13 

HARDY PERENNIALS 
HARDY PERENNIALS— 
Perennials are becoming more and 
more popular with the increase in garden- 
ing. No home grounds are now completely 
planted without a border of these continu- 
ously blooming plants. If you plan care- 
fully you can have flowers all year. For 
your selection there is listed here a wide 
variety of those dependable, hardy plants, 
that once established, assure you of a suc- 
cession of blossoms without the constant 
trouble of replanting. Prices of perennials, 
except as noted: 35c each; 12 for $3.50, 
Postpaid. Strong field-grown plants that 
will bloom the first year. 
FALL BLOOMING ASTERS 
Plant these brilliant fall-blooming hardy 
Asters and prolong your blooming season 
a full month. Have your garden a place 
of dazzling splendor when all about is 
brown and sere. They will bring a world of 
color during late September, all of October, 
and on into November until heavy freezing 
kills the flowers. These plants stand our 
Minnesota winters unprotected. 
ADORABLE— 
Best true pink hardy aster. Habit and 
growth are similar to Harrington Pink but 
color is slightly deeper salmon pink. 45c. 
MOUNT EVEREST— 
The finest and best white aster. It forms 
very tall, well-shaped pointed pyramids 
with an abundance of lateral growths, 
which flower right down to the ground. 
Makes wonderful bouquets as cut flowers. 
ASc. 
BLUE GEM— 
Large, lovely flowers of blue with a yel- 
low center, best blue in cultivation. Sep- 
tember until frost. 3 to 4 feet. 45c. 
BEECHWOOD CHALLENGER— 
This variety is in our opinion the 
closest to red we have been able to come 
so far in Hardy Asters. It is free-flowering, 
of medium height, and brilliant crimson-red 
color. The flowers are freely produced. 
Planted together with Mount Everest, the 
contrast is striking. 45c. 
COLUMBINE 
Delicate flowers in many colors, Long 
spurred. June and July. 24 inches. 
COREOPSIS 
Large brilliant yellow flowers. Stems 
long, graceful. Blooms all summer. 2 feet. 
CORAL BELLS 
Low-growing, tufted, plants which bear 
a profusion of dainty coral-red flowers on 
long, slender stems. Blooms nearly all 
summer. 
DELPHINIUM 
BELLADONNA— 
The freest and most continuous bloom- 
ing of all, never being out of flowers from 
the end of June until cut down by hard 
frost. The clear turquoise-blue of its flow- 
ers is not equaled for delicacy and beauty 
by any other flower. 
D. BELLAMOSA— 
A free-blooming, dark blue type. 
BLACKMORE & LANGDON STRAIN— 
A famous English strain. All the clear 
shades of blue, with bees of contrasting 
colors. 
BLEEDING .HEART 
DIELYTRA SPECTABILIS— 
Blooms May to June. Height 2 feet. 
Flowers pink and white; heart-shaped. 75c. 
D. EXIMIA— 
Plumy Bleeding Heart. Finely cut, fern- 
like foliage with showy rose-colored flow- 
ers. Blooms all summer. Stands partial 
shade. Height, 18 inches. 
GYPSOPHILA 
BRISTOL FAIRY— 
A double Baby Breath of great vigor, 
producing large panicles of flowers and 
blooming more or less continuously all sum- 
mer, if first blooms are cut. 75c. 
ROSY VEIL— 
A new dwarf pink double-flower- 
ing Gypsophila. Established plants reach 
a height of 2 feet and bloom in summer and 
fall. They start blooming 2 weeks earlier 
than the tall double Gypsophila and con- 
tinue later in the season. Fit perfectly in 
the garden and are fine for cutting. 75e. 
GAILLARDIA 
Gay blooms with reddish-brown centers 
and yellow, daisy-like petals ringed with 
red. June to November. 18 to 24 inches. 
Fine for cutting. 
PLATYCODON 
BALLOON FLOWER— 
Large, showy, balloon-shaped buds 
which open to star-shaped -flowers. Blue. 
June to September. 
