TREE 
PEONIES 
$5.50 ea. 
postpaid 
Wild Flowers 
Success with wild flowers is simply a matter of putting them 
in the soil, exposure and general climate to which they are 
accustomed. It is important to 
sociated plants are grouped, rather than try to make artificial 
Because of their novelty and great beauty, Tree 
Peonies are rapidly becoming one of the most de- 
sired plants. They bloom earlier than ordinary 
Chinese Peonies and their flowers are of immense 
size. These plants are established in 5 inch pots 
and can be moved safely at any time. 
Mme. de Vatry. Double satiny pink. 
Athlete. Double glazed mauve, shaded rose. 
Bareness d’Ales. Vivid salmon-pink, deeper in center. 
Jules Pirlet. Satiny-pink, flushed carmine. 
Reine Elizabeth. Brilliant salmon-rose. 
Souv. de Ducher. Reddish-violet with silvery reflex. 
Tr. de Vandermaelen. Clear rosy purple. 
Lady-Slippers, ‘Trillium 
Bloodroot, Jack-in-Pulpit, 
Blue-Bells, and early 
spring bloomers can he 
shipped only in fall. 
arrange gardens where as- 
differences of soil in the same bed. Coddling is apt to do 
more harm than good. 
Columbine 
Aquilegia canadensis—2 ft. Red and yellow 
in late spring. Well-drained, sua or part 
shade. 3 for $1.35, 6 for $2.50 postpaid. 
Butterflyweed 
Asclepias tnberosa—18 inch. Orange in 
June-July. Sunny, well-drained. 3 for a 35, 
6 for $2.50 postpaid. 
Poppy Mallow 
Callirhee invetucrata—Prostrate, trailing 
plant. Large rosy crimson flowers all sum- 
mer and early fall. Dry, sunmy. 3 for 
$1.35, 6 for $2.50 postpaid. 
White Bugbane 
Cimifuga racemosa—4 ft. Spikes of white, 
July-August. Stands shade. 3 for $1.35, 
6 for $2.50 postpaid. 
Plumy Bleeding-heart 
Dicentra exemia—12 inch. Rose pink 
throughout summer. Handsome cut foli- 
age. Sun or shade. 3 for $1.75, 6 for 
$3.00 postpaid. 
Shooting Star 
Dedecatheen media—i2 inch. Pink, April 
to May. Rosettes of large green leaves. 
Light moist soil, some shade. 3 for $1.35, 
6 for $2.50 postpaid. 
Flowering Spurge 
Euphorbia cerollatra—18 inch. Large heads 
of little white flowers in summer. Good 
cut flower. Any garden soil. 3 for $1.35, 
6 for $2.50 postpaid. 
Argosy—the clear yel- 
low tree peony. $6.50 
each postpaid. 
(Herbaceous Peonies 
are seldom successful 
when spring planted. 
We will have them in 
our Fall _ price-list, 
mailed in August.) 
Cardinal Flower 
Lohelia cardinalis—4 ft. 
most brilliant scarlet in August. Rich, 
moist soil. 
Tall spikes of 
3 for $1.35, 6 for $2.50 post- 
Liverleaf Hepatica 
Blind Gentian 
Hepatica trilokha—6_ inch. 
Flowers vary 
Gentiana Andrewsi—12 inch. Bright blue 
large flowers in clusters, August-Septem- 
ber, that never open. Handsome, rare, 
mols soil. 3 for $1.35, 6 for $2.50 post- 
paid. 
Coral Bells 
Native to the West and South-West, hand 
some low leaves, with tall panicles of 
bloom nearly all summer. Ordinary soil. 
Any one kind, 3 for $1.75, 6 for $3.00 
postpaid. 
Heuchera brizoides (lithephila)—2 ft., pale 
rose pink. Strong grower. 
—sanguinea—15 inch. Bright coral red. 
—Pluie de Fen—12 inch, bright scarlet. 
April to June. 10 inch. 3 for $1.35, 
6 for $2.50. 
Heuchera Perry’s White—from June on. 
Native Phlox 
Phlox divaricata—masses of lavender blue, 
April to June. 10 inch. 3 for $1.35, 
6 for $2.50. 
Blazing Star 
Liatris pysnotachya—5 ft. Tall spikes of 
rich purple in August-September. Unusual 
and attractive. Well-drained soil. 3 for 
$1.35, 6 for $2.50 postpaid. 
from pink to blue-white, early spring. Acid, 
shade. 3 for $1.35, 6 for $2.50 postpaid. 
Evening Primrose 
Ceonthera missouriensis—dwarf, covered 
with yellow blooms all summer. 3 for $1.75, 
6 for $3.00. 
Great Solomons Seal 
Polygonatum commutatum—30 inches. White 
flowers in May. Handsome leaf. Peat, 
light shade. 3 for $1.35, 6 for $2.50 
postpaid. 
Carolina Lupine 
Thermopsis caroliniana—3 feet. Spikes of 
yellow pea-flowers in June-July. 3 for $1.35, 
6 for $2.50 postpaid. 
Bitter-root 
Lewisia rediviva grows a dense low rosette 
of leaves in fall. Large pink flowers in 
May. Then disappears until fall. 5 for $1.25. 
Spiderwort 
Tradescantia virginica has many blue 
blooms that follow all summer. 2 ft. 
Sun or shade. 3 for $1.35, 6 for $2.50. 
Birds Foot Violet 
Viela pedata bicolor—4 inch. Violet and 
white May and June. Most attractive. Acid 
soil, not too rich. 3 for $1.35, 6 for 
$2.50 postpaid. 
