VALLEY GARDENS | 
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LIST OF NATIVE SEEDS AND PLANTS 
ALSO CHOICE PERENNTAT 
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. 
ACONITUM UNCINATUM - Clambering Nonksiood or Summer Aconite. 3 to 5 Ft. Blue 
helmet-shaped flowers in late summer or early fall. Shade or partial shade. Plants 
only. Each 35¢, 3 - 95¢, 10 - $3.00. 
ACTAEA ALBA - White Baneberry.» 1 - 2 Fts 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 only. 
ACTAEA RUBRA + Red Baneberry. Similar to the preceding, but with red fruit-e Seed 
or plants. Each 30¢, 3 - 80¢, 10 - $2.50. 
ACTINEA HERBACEA = Lakeside Daisy. Yellow daisy-like flowers in spring on 6 - 10 
inch woolly stems. Foliage gray-green, forming a low neat mound. Full sun. Plants 
only. We believe this beautiful and rare plant never before offered to the public. 
$1.00 each, 3 — $2150. 
ANEMONE MULTIFIDA. 4 to 14Ft. Plant silky-hairy. Flowers red, varying to white 
or yellow. Early summers Full sun. Plants only. Each 25¢, 3 — 65¢, 10 -$2.00. 
ANEMONELLA THALICTROIDES - Rue Anemone. 6 = 9 inches. White to pink-tinged 
flowers in early spring. Light»shades One of the best-loved eastern spring wild 
flowers, Plants only. Each 25¢, 3 - 654, 10 ~ $2.00. 
AQUILEGIA CANADENSIS - American Columbine. 1- 3 Ft. Red and yellow. May - June. 
Attracts hummingbirds. Light shade. Plants only. Each 25¢, 3 = 65¢, 10 — $2.00. 
ASARUM CANADENSE - Wild Ginger. Creeper. April - May. Rich moist shade. Plants 
only. Each 25¢, 3 ~ 65¢, 10 — $2.00. 
“SCLEPIAS TUREROSA - Butterfly weed or Pleurisy root. 2 Ft. Showy orange flowers 
sune - Aug. Full sun. Seed or plants. Eacj 30¢, 3 - 80¢, 10 - $2.50. 
ARISAEMA TRIPHYLLUM ~ Jack~in-the-Pulpit. 1-2 Ft. Rich moist soil in shade. 
the scarlet fruit very showy in fall. Seed only. 
‘taPTISIA AUSTRALIS - Blue Wild Indigo. 3 -) Ft. Indigo-blue flowers in June, 
nearly an inch long, in loose-flowered, long terminal racemes. Foliage very at- 
tractive. Full sun. Seed or plants. Each 30¢, 3 — 80¢, 10 — $2.50. 
CALLIRHOE INVOLURCRATA ~ Wine Poppy or Purple Poppy-mallow. 12 inchese Showy deep 
ros iy oa flowers from spring to heavy fall frosts. Full sun. Seed or plants. 
h 35¢, a carat 95¢, 10 aE $36 00. j 
CAMPANULA ROTUNDIFOLIA — Blue Bells of Scotland. 9 - 15 inches. June until frost. 
Dainty blue flowers, loved the world around- Light shade or sun. Seed or plants. 
Hach 35¢, 3 - 95¢, 10 ~ $3,00. 
SHELONE GLABRA - White Turtlehead. 2-3 Ft. Flowers white, tinted rose. Aug. - 
Sept. Moist location or ordinary garden soil. Light shade or sun. Plants only. 
sach 30¢, 3 - 80¢, 10=2.50. 
CHSLONE 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. Plants only. Each 30¢, 3 - 80¢, 10 = $2.50. 
CORNUS CANDENSIS * Dwarf Cornell or Bunchberry. White flowers May - July, 1 - 14 
inches wide, followed by cluster of bright red berries in fall.  - 8 inches. Sun 
se shade. Fine ground cover, especially under rhododendrons+s Because of the rooting 
habits of this plant, we are only going to sell the seed. Easily established in 
this way where wanted. 
