FOREWORD: Here, there and everywhere even the 
difficult ones among the Great Plains plants are 
being grown successfully, by simple good fortune 
when a natural environment includes the right soil 
types and good drainage, or by the expedients of 
artificial screes, sand beds, etc. \ 
The made soils vary from the extreme of 9 parts 
of bank gravel and sand to 1 of good loam, found 
effective for Cacti in wet climates, to the 2 parts 
of stone chips to 1 of coarse sand and 1 of good 
soil recommended by the American Penstemon So- 
ciety for their specialty in moist climates, and on 
down to 1 of gravel or chips, 1 of sand, 1 of soil over 
a layer of gravel, or merely a sub-layer of gravel 
under the average garden soil where such soil is not 
too rich and moisture retentive. 
Whatever formula is employed, the desideratum 
is drainage such that water will not stand in or on 
the rooting medium during prolonged wet periods. 
A further aid in keeping crowns and woolly leaves 
of certain dry plains plants relatively dry is a sur- 
facing of hard stone chips. 
SERVICE: High quality plants only are sent. on 
your order. We do not substitute without permis- 
sion. Our packing will please. In addition to culture 
suggested in this catalog, special advice is offered 
when it may prove useful, or on request. Every 
effort will be made to get shipments out when de- 
sired and a statement of your preferred date will be 
appreciated. 
PRICES include prepaid delivery. 

HERBACEOUS PERENNIALS 
Achillaea lanulosa A pleasant little non-ramping 
Yarrow with heads of unusual whiteness. Suggests 
A. millefolium but flowers at 6 to 9” and travels 
only an inch or two a year. Clump 35c. 
Actinea fastigiata Rock garden plant of the first — 
order, indigenous to the Plains. Lovely soft yellow 
daisies 4 or 5” above narrow green leaves. Recurrent 
bloom. Stock limited. 65c each. 
A. simplex Wide daisies of. brilliant gold 4 to 8” 
above narrow silvery leaves. Fine show in June, 
occasional later. 35c; 3, 85c. 
Agastache anethiodora Anise Hyssop. Delightfully 
fragrant tall herb, spikes of purple-blue continu- 
ously, late June on. Rich soil, shade. 50c; 3, $1.15. 
Anemone caroliniana Prairie Anemone. Inch and a 
half wide, of 8 to 20 white or blue cupped seg- 
ments, 4 to 10” high. Brave and dainty and jewel- 
like. Summer dormant. 8, 50c; doz. $1.50. 
A. patens nuttalliana Pasque Flower. Large six- 
pointed stars of satiny lavender. March, April. State 
flower, South Dakota. 40c; 3, $1.00. 
Antennarias, Pussy-toes, Ladies’ Tobaccos, are 
among the most valuable evergreen, slow spread- 
ing rock garden ground covers. 
A. aprica Broad little leaves of silvery olive in inch 
high evergreen mats, pussy-toe blossoms at 4”. 
Gray-white flowered, 25c; soft pink, 40c. 
A. campestris Broad leaves of rich soft deep green 
lined with white; “toes” white or silvery. 35c. 
