: i VALLEY GARDENS 
Spring of 1950 
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LIST OF NATIVE SEEDS AND PLANTS-~ 
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The following wild flowers were all propagated and grown at Valley 
Gardens, Conservationists can buy our stock knowing that they are not 
contributing to the despoilation of any natural area. Gardeners can buy 
knowing the stock has the compact root system of the nursery-grown plant, 
not the rambling root of the collected plant that had to compete with 
other vegetation in the natural habitat, 
1. ACONITUM UNCINATUM - Clambering Monkshood or Summer Aconite, 3 to 5 ft, Blue 
helmet-shaped flowers in late sumer or early fall, Shade or partial shade, 
Plants only. 
2. ACTAFA ALBA - White Baneberry, About 2 ft. Racemes of small white flowers in 
spring. Fruit glossy white berries 1/3 inch in diameter with a purple dot on 
the end, suggesting the common name of "dollseyes", Rich, moist soil in shade 
or light shade. Seed or plants, Iach 30¢, 3 - 80¢, 6 - $1.50, 12 - 2.75. 
3. ACTAEA RUBRA - Red Baneberry, Similar to the preceding, but with red fruit, 
Plants only. Each 30¢, 3 - 80¢, 6 - 1,50, 12 = 2.75, 
h. ADLUMIA FUNGOSA ~- Mountain-fringe or Alleshany Vine. Biermial, Pink flowers 
on a climbing stem several feet long. Flowers from June to Qctober, Light 
Shade, As easily grown from seed as columodines, First year makes a most beauti-~ 
ful rosette, elongating the second year into the blooming and fruiting stem, 
Plants only. 
5S. ANEMONES MULTIFIDA. # to 14 ft, Plant silky-hairy. Flowers red, varying to 
white or yellow, Early summer, Full sun. Seed or plants. iach 25¢, 3 - 70¢, 
6 ay wl. 25, 12 <= peecd. 
6. ANEMONE PATENS = Pasque flower or Wild crocus, A single bluish-purple flower 
on a 6- to 16-inch densely hairy stem, March to April, Full sun, Because of 
its beauty, the Pasque flower has been selected as the state flower of South 
Dakota, Plants only, 5 
7. <AWLMOME VIRGINIANA - Tall Anemone or Thimbleweed. 2-3 ft. Greenish-white, 
ioe a Light shade or sun, Seed or plants, iach 25¢, 3 - 7O¢, 6 — (41.25, 
Le = ac. 25, 
8, ANEMONELLA THALICTROIDES - Rue Anemone, 6-9 in, ‘“Jhite to pink~tinged flowers 
in early spring. Light snade, One of the best-loved eastern spring wild flow-~ 
ers, Plants only. Each 25¢, 3 = 70¢, 6 - 1.25, 12 --2,25, 
9. AQUILEGIA COHRULEA - Colorado Columbine, 1-13: ft. Large blue long-spurred 
flowers in May-June. Light shade or full sun, The state flower of Colorado, 
Plants only. 
10, AQUILHGIA CANADENSIS = American Columbine, 1-3 ft. Red and yellow, May-~ 
June, Attracts humming birds, Light shade, Plants only. Each 25¢, 3 ~ 7O¢, 
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11,  ASARUM CANADUNSE - \Gld Ginger, Creeper, April-May. Rich moist shade, 
Plants only. Hach 25¢, 3 - 7O¢, 6 = 331,25, 12 = ~2,25, 
12, ASCLEPIAS TUBEROSA -- Butterfly weed or Pleurisy root, 2 ft, Showy orange 
flowers June ~ Aug. Full sun. Seed or plants, ach 30¢, 3 ~ 80¢, 6 - 91,50, 
12 si pee ioe 
13, BAPTISIA AUSTRALIS - Blue ‘Hild Indigo. 3 - ) ft. Incigo-blue flowers in June , 
nearly an inch long, in loose-flowered, Long terminal racemes, Foliage very:at-~ 
tractive. Full sun. Seed or plants. Hach 30¢, 3 - 80¢, 6 » 41,50, 12 = 2575, 
1h. CALLIRHOE INVOLURCRATA - Vine Poppy or Purple Poppy-mallow, 12 inches, Showy 
decp rose-purple flowers from spring to heavy fall frosts, Full sun, Seed or 
plants, 
15. CAMPANULA ROTUNDIFOLLA - Blue Bells of Scotland. 9 =15 in, June until frost, 
Dainty blue flowers loved the world around, Light shade or sun, Seed or plants, 
16, CHULONH GLABRA - White Turtlehead, 2 - 3 ft. Flowers white, tinted rose, 
Aug. - Sept. Moist location or ordinary garden soil. Light shade or sun, Seed 
or plants, Each 30¢, 3 - 80¢, 6 = 1.50, 12 - $2.75, 
17. CH#LONS LYONI - Pink Turtlehead, Native to the mountains of Virginia and 
southward, Perfectly hardy, Rose-colored flowers aug.-Sept. Moist location 
or garden conditions, Light shade or sun, Seed or plants, Each 30¢, 3 - 80¢, 
6 - $1.50, 12 — 23.75. 
18, CORNUS CANADENSIS - Dwarf Cornell or Bunchberry, White flowers May-July, 
1-14 in, wide, followed by cluster of bright red berries in fall, h-8 in, Sun 
or shade, Fine ground covey, especially under rhododendrons, Plants only, 
