GERBERA 
(TRANSVAAL DAISY), 
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CHEIRANTHUS (SIBERIAN WALLFLOWER) 
HEUCHERA SANGUINEA 
(CORAL BELLS) i 
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FAVORITE PERENNIALS 
For real permanence in flowers, perennials which co 
be obtained as plants, but a great many are grown 
ing is over, until mid-August, and by the next season 
ALYSSUM (Basket of Gold) 
Low-growing clump of lovely grey-green foliage which is covered 
in early spring with small flowered clusters of golden or creamy 
yellow. When not in bloom, the attractive foliage mass, 6 to 8 
inches high, makes an excellent ground cover. 
Saxatile compactum. Golden Yellow. Pkt. 15c. 
Pkt. 15c. 
Silver Queen. Creamy yellow. 
ANCHUSA (Bugloss) 
A fine perennial for background in the border. It grows to the height 
of 3 to 5 feet with heavy foliage at the base which breaks into nu- 
merous flowering stems which produce a mist of deep turquoise blue 
flowers about an inch across. It blooms in June and July and will 
bloom again in late summer if not allowed to set seed. 
Italian Dropmore Variety. Pkt. 15c. 
ANEMONE (Poppy Anemone) 
The tuberous type of anemone, blooming in early spring. Poppy- 
like flower coming with the earliest longer days. A finely divided 
leaf which produces a clump 9 inches high through which push two- 
inch single flowers from white to deep blue and red. 
Coronarium. Pkt. 15c. 
ANTHEMIS (Camomile) 
A sturdy, easily grown plant which reaches 2/2 feet with finely 
cut, bushy foliage profusely covered with yellow daisy-like flowers 
from June until fall. Thrive in poor soil, in hot, dry places. 
Kelawayi. Deep yellow. Pkt. 15c. 
AQUILEGIA (Columbine) 
These are among the most beautiful of spring and early summer 
flowers; very effective when grown in the herbaceous border and 
grouped among shrubbery. Long-spurred flowers on graceful stems 
2. feet or more above the fern-like foliage. 
Mrs. Scott Elliott’s Strain. One of the finest ever developed, long- 
spurred, large flowers, in a splendid mixture of colors. Pkt. 25c. 
Blue Shades of Long Spurred Hybrids. Pkt. 15c. 
Pink Shades of Long Spurred Hybirds. Pkt. 25c. 
ARABIS (Rockcress) 
Six inch spreading plants ideally used in rockeries or as edging and 
ground cover for beds of bulbs. The white flowers appear to hide 
the foliage from early spring through May. If clipped back after 
blooming the gray foliage is attractive all summer. 
Alpina. Pkt. 15c. 
ARMERIA (Thrift) 
Low growing plant which makes a tight clump of foliage from 
which appear short 8-inch stems capped with a small round topped 
flower cluster. Not a showy flower, but is interesting in growth 
and flower, and well adapted to rockery or edging use. 
Maritima. Rosy-pink. Pkt. 20c. 
me up every year are the solution. Many of the newer varieties must 
from seed. Sow them from late spring, when the first rush of garden- 
they will be in flower. 
than annuals a little more care must be used in sowing and caring for the seed. 
Listed here are the most desirable of those perennials which can be raised from seed. 
Since perennials are slower to mature 
In all cases the best of its kind. 
ASTER (Hardy Aster) 
This is a dwarf form of the early summer and fall blooming single 
Aster called in its taller forms, Michaelmas Daisy. Growing 9 to 12 
inches tall and producing flowers in late May and June it is ideal 
for the front of the border or in the rockery. 
Alpinus Mixed. Shades of blue. 
AUBRIETA (Purple Rockcress) 
Another early creeping spring plant used in rock work, or as ground 
cover for spring bulbs. Small flowers borne in great numbers from 
rose to lavender and purple. Pkt. 20c. 
BLANKET FLOWER (See Gaillardia) 
BUGLOSS (See Anchusa) 
CALLIRHOE (Poppy Mallow) 
Long trailing 6-inch stems of hairy green foliage along which bril- 
liant rosy crimson, poppy-shaped flowers are borne in summer 
and fall. Best in sunny positions where they may trail at will. Pkt. 15¢. 
CAMOMILE (See Anthemis) 
CAMPANULA (Bellflower) 
A genus of great variety in size and height. The usual garden forms 
here listed vary from 10 inches to three feet. They are known for 
their lovely bell-shaped flowers of blue and white in bloom through 
June and July. They thrive in good soil in full sun. 
Medium. The Canterbury Bell, a biennial which must be seeded 
Pkt. 15c. 
every year. Separate colors blue, white, and pink. Pkt. 15c. 
Peachleaved Mixed. 3 feet high, blue and white flowers. Pkt. 15c. 
Rock Garden Mixture. Dwarf forms for rockeries. Pkt. 20c. 
CARNATION (See Dianthus) 
CHEIRANTHUS (Wallflower) 
Cheiri (English Wallflower). Spring blooming, low, erect perennial, 
in appearance much like stocks, but flowers include yellow, yellow- 
brown, red, and almost black. Sweetly fragrant. In mild climates 
plant in fall for early spring bloom and where winters are severe 
they should be carried over in a frame and set out early in spring. 
Mixed. Pkt. 15c. 
Allinoi (Siberian Wallflower) (Golden Bedder). This plant deserves 
a place in your rock garden or low border. 1 foot stems bear numer- 
ous four-petaled flowers of lovely golden yellow. Pkt. 15c. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM (maximum) (See annuals also) 
Alaska. The Single Shasta Daisy. Lovely drooping petaled white 
flowers of good size with disk of yellow. Pkt. 15c. 
Double Shasta Hybrids (The Double Shasta Daisy). A fully double 
form of large size. The irregularly shaped petals give the flowers a 
beautiful shaggy effect. Pkt. 25c. 
COLUMBINE (See Aquilegia) 
