SALZER’S NORTHERN GROWN HARDY PERENNIALS 
OUR GUARANTEE 
Our nursery stock is guaranteed to be 
true to name. We will replace free or re- 
fund your money if it proves otherwise. 
We guarantee our nursery stock to be as 
represented, inspected, disease free and ta 
reach you in live growing condition. Exam- 
ine carefully upon arrival and if you are 
not satisfied return to us at once and we 
will replace free or refund your money. 
We also guarantee our nursery stock to 
grow and produce if given intelligent han- 
dling and care. Weather conditions, care- 
lessness and 
which fails to grow will be replaced at 
half price provided we are notified by Oct. 
1, 1953 and your. report includes remit- 
tance of one half the purchase price. 
The above guarantee does not apply to House Plants—see page 66. 
PRICES $2.85, postpaid. 
*Suitable for rock garden. 
Achillea, Perry’s White 
ACHILLEA 
Its many branches hold their mass of 
feverfew-like flowers about a foot above 
the soil. For cemetery planting, it is the 
most valuable of all white flowers. Blooms 
from May on. 
*PERRY’S WHITE. Very choice. The 
whitest of all Achilleas, large flowers, 
broad overlapping petals. 
*“ROSEA. Pink flowers, very pretty. 1 ft. 
May and on. 
AQUILEGIA (COLUMBINE) 
Bloom early in spring. 1% to 2 feet. 
CRIMSON STAR. A_ beautiful large 
flower with crimson sepal and spurs and 
white petals. Long spurred type. 
LONG SPURRED MRS. SCOTT EL- 
LIOTI’S HYBRIDS. A superb strain with 
large flowers of many shades including 
pink, rose, lavender and blue. 
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Perennial or Hardy Asters 
HARDY ASTERS 
These are one of the last flowers to 
bloom in the fall of the year, providing a 
blaze of color. Fine for cutting. 3 feet. 
Mixed colors. 
(For named varieties of Hardy Asters, 
see next page.) 
BELLFLOWER 
PLATYCODON GRANDIFLORA. Large, 
showy, deep blue bell shaped flowers are 
produced all summer on long stems. 2 ft. 
Carnations, Mixed 
CARNATION 
Hardy garden carnations. Mixed colors, 
flowers all summer. 20 in. 
CHINESE LANTERN 
PHYSALIS FRANCHETTI. Blooms in 
late summer with balloon like bright scar- 
let fruits. Fine for winter decoration. 2 ft. 
CONE FLOWER 
RUDBECKIA PURPUREA. Plants 3 feet 
high, bearing peculiar reddish-purple 
flowers 4 inches across, With a large cone- 
shaped center. July to October. 
. The prices quoted above ap- 
PRICES * ply ONLY to plants offered on 
this page. 
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Coreopsis New Gold 
COREOPSIS 
For continuous display of bloom all 
summer long, it is hard to beat this. 
GRANDIFLORA. Flowers are of rich, 
golden yellow, graceful form; blooms en- 
fire summer and autumn. 2 feet. 
DOUBLE NEW GOLD. Deep golden yel- 
low double flowers, blooms constantly. 
CORN FLOWER 
CENTAUREA MONTANA (Perennial 
Cornflower). A showy plant of easy cul- 
ture with large violet-blue flowers from 
July to Sept. 2 ft. 
DAISIES 
should have plenty of 
free blooming summer 
Every garden 
these colorful 
flowers. 
PAINTED DAISY (Pyrethrum). Also 
known as Persian Daisy. Large, single 
daisy-like flowers, 3 to 4 inches across on 
stems 2 ft. high. They come mostly in 
shades of pink and red. Very showy and 
satisfactory. Mixed colors only. 
*YELLOW MARGUERITE (Anthemis 
Tinctoria). Handsome, finely cut foliage 
and large daisy-like yellow. flowers all 
summer. Succeeds in poor soil. 1% ft. 
Dianthus Semperflorens 
DIANTHUS (PINKS) 
These are the well known hardy garden 
pinks. They live for years and grow easily 
in sunny locations and in the rock garden. 
*PLUMARIUS SEMPERFLORENS 
(Everblooming Hardy Pinks). Sweet 
scented double, single, and semi-double 
flowers, mixed colors. 18 in. 
FOXGLOVE 
THE SHIRLEY (Digitalis). Old fash- 
ioned tall growing plant. This is the best 
strain available with showy flowers in 
many colors.’ 3 to 5 ft. Mixed only. 
LUPINE 
Grow almost anywhere and bloom freely 
in spring and early summer. Large flow- 
ered strain, big, tall spikes, mixed colors. 
8-4 feet. June. 
JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO., 
inexperience of the planter 
are beyond our control. Nevertheless, any 
nursery stock set out this spring and 
@ 39c ea.; 3 for 89c; 6 for $1.58; 12 for 
 --Gaillardin’ Grandlflora 
GAILLARDIA 
OR BLANKET -FLOWER. Showy free 
flowering plants easily grown in any 
sunny location. Blooms freely from June 
until frost. 
GRANDIFLORA. Centers are dark red 
brown, while the petals are marked with 
rings of brilliant crimson. 
ORIENTAL POPPY 
Large flaming flowers of bright scarlet. 
2% ft. Note: Orders for Oriental Poppies 
will be booked and shipped in August. 
Cannot be planted in spring. 
*PENTSTEMON 
BARBATUS HYBRIDS. Showy, tubular 
flowers in varying shades of rose, pink and 
lavender. Long, slender stems, fine for cut- 
ting. June. 
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*PHLOX SUBULATA 
GROUND PINKS or MOSS PINKS. Forms 
a dense, low growing mass of evergreen 
foliage bearing dainty little flowers, in 
spring. Suitable for planting on tops of 
graves, around bases of trees, ete. State 
color wanted: Lavender, Pink, or White. 
Shasta Daisies, Alaska 
SHASTA DAISY 
This great California daisy produces 
beautiful pure white flowers on tall stems. 
Very hardy and free flowering. 
ALASKA. The grand improved form of 
this big Shasta Daisy. Pure white, single 
flowers often measuring 4% to 5 inches 
across. 
SCABIOSA 
Or BLUE BONNET. The flowers are 4 
soft shade of lavender blue. Splendid for 
cutting. 2 feet. June to Sept. ; ab 
SWEET WILLIAM 
Bears a profusion of double flowers in 
May and June, excellent for cutting. 1% ft. 
Mixed colors only. Note: Order now for 
late summer delivery. 
in spring. 
SWEET PEA, PERENNIAL 
LATHYRUS. Vigorous climber 
clusters of pea-shaped flowers in white, 
pink or red. 6 to 8 ft. Mixed only. 
Cannot be supplied — 
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