HERBACEOUS PERENNIALS, BASIC DOZEN, continued 
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Garden Phlox 
GARDEN PHLOX (Phloz decussata). 
Phlox is easy to grow, generous with colorful panicles 
of bloom for a long period in midsummer and adapts 
itself to almost any sunny location. 60c each; 3 to 9 
of the same variety at 55c; 10 to 24 at 50c; 25 or 
more at 45c,. 
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Caroline Vandenberg. Lavender-blue with large 
individual florets. Comes closest to a true blue in 
phlox. 
Fuchsia. New, deep wine-red. Outstanding. 
Leo Schlageter. Very brilliant scarlet; full rich heads 
of bloom. 
Mary Louise. Pure white, unusually large flowers. 
Pink Charm. Clear, vivid pink. 
Purple Heart. A rich purple, new in Phlox. Visitors 
to our gardens last summer invariably exclaimed 
over it. 
HARDY CHRYSANTHEMUMS 
These hardy garden Mums in their great range of 
bright colors make the “sunset of the garden’ an en- 
joyable climax to the year’s succession of bloom. The 
following are spring prices. 55c each; 3 to 9 of the 
same variety at 50c; 10 to 24 at 45c; 25 or more 
at 40c, 
TALL VARIETIES WITH DOUBLE FLOWERS 
Alert. Glowing claret-purple. Early. 21-inch blooms 
on 2-foot stems. 
Algonquin. Most popular yellow. Very hardy and 
early. 18 in. 
Betty. Best pink. A real patrician with 3-inch blooms 
of warm salmon-pink. Early October. 2 ft. 
Burgundy. Popular deep wine-red; hardy and re- 
liable. Late September. 18 in. 
Charles Nye. 3-inch flowers of rich, deep yellow, 
creating a “heap o’gold” in late September. 2 ft. 
Dawn Rose. Perfect 3-inch blooms of tapestry-pink. 
Early October. 2 ft. 
Joan Helen. A crimson-purple, endearing little witch. 
Very early. 18 in. Don’t pass up this one. 
Lavender Lady. Fittingly called ‘‘Queen of the 
Mums.” 3-inch blooms of smooth, clear lavender 
assuming a silvery tone as they mature. Late Sep- 
tember. 21% ft. 
Lee Powell. Extra-big flowers in an unusual blend of 
Chinese yellow and old-gold. Late September. 
2) ft. 
Mellow Glow. Peach and soft orange-buff tones on a 
bronze base. 3-inch blooms on 2-foot stems. Early 
October. 
Olive Longland. Gorgeous blend of bright salmon 
over apricot-bronze. Unusual. Very early. 2 ft. 
Red Velvet. Blazing velvety red flowers on 2-foot 
stems in early October. Very hardy, very showy. 
White Avalanche. Large-flowered, early and free- 
flowering. Snow-white, 3!4-inch blooms from early 
September on. 18 in. 
Yellow Avalanche. Same as above except that flow- 
ers are soft yellow with deeper yellow centers. 
CUSHION CHRYSANTHEMUMS. These _low- 
growing mounds of beauty are in bloom from late 
August or early September until after hard frosts. 
Bowl o’Gold. NEW yellow. So new we have not yet 
seen it in bloom. But its introducer, who surely 
ought to know, calls it “splendid.” 
Bronze Mound. Beautifully molded bronze favorite 
in glowing tints. 
Major Cushion. Most popular cushion covered with 
salmon-rose pompons. 
Powder Puff. Best white. A miniature snowbank in 
September. 
Red Cloud. Showy scarlet flowers to 214 inches across 
from mid-September on. 
GOLDEN CARPET MUM. A glorious yellow, 
ground-hugging Chrysanthemum. mass of 
golden globes on creeping plants. Something 
new in Mums, and just the plant for use at the 
top or base of a rock wall or the front of the 
border, among evergreens, etc. Began to bloom 
for us last fall in late September and continued 
longer than any other. 75c each; 3 to 9 at 70e; 
10 or more at 65c, 
Hardy Chrysanthemums 
Note: We carry a great many Perennials, Wildflowers, Trees, Shrubs and Houseplants too numerous to 
mention in this catalog. 
We have many specimen and unusual plants. you do 
please feel free to write us and the chances are we carry the plant without listing it. 
If you don’t find it listed in the catalog, 
For your landscaping needs 
we move most plants all summer with a ball of earth and the use of a new transparent plastic spray called Wilt- 
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