CULINARY & AROMATIC HERBS 
Plus a few used only for Ornament in Modern Gardens 
All varieties 50¢ each. 10 or more at 40¢ each. 
Allium schoenoprasum — Chives. 
For salads and cottage cheese, to impart a mild 
onion flavor. Rosy purple flowers make it popular 
for edging beds of other herbs. 
Artemisia abrotanum — Old Man. Southernwood. 
“Nose herb,” grown for its gray, scented foliage. 
Also called ‘‘Lad’s Love.”’ 
A. dracunculus — Tarragon. 
Pungent leaves used with scrambled eggs, green 
peas, and for making Tarragon vinegar. 
A. stelleriana — Old Woman. Beach Wormwood. 
Dusty Miller. 
Aromatic, silvery gray foliage. Used for edgings 
and as a companion for Old Man. 
Hyssopus officinalis — Hyssop. 
Leaves and tips used for Hyssop Tea. Often grown 
in pots. 
Lavandula officinalis — Lavender. 
For fragrant dried leaves to be used in sachets or 
placed in linen closets. Low shrub. 
Marrubium vulgare — Hoarhound. 
For candy and cough remedies. Grows best in dry 
soil. 
Mentha piperita — Peppermint. 
Its uses are too many and well known to list. 
Grows 2 to 3 feet high with purple and white 
flowers. 
M. piperita citrata — Orange Mint. 
Deliciously sweet; used in beverages. Would make 
a good ground cover. 
M. spicata — Spearmint. 
For mint jelly, iced tea and other beverages, candy 
and icings. 
Nepeta cataria — Catnip. 
Principally grown for feline pleasure but also made 
into a tea for human headaches. 3 feet high, with 
pale, downy foliage and pale purple flowers. 
Ruta graveolens — Rue. Herb of Grace. 
Tender young leaves used in sandwiches. 
: Gray 
foliage and yellow flowers. 
Salvia officinalis — Sage. 
hort. var. Holt’s Mammoth. This variety produces 
much larger leaves of superior quality to ordinary 
Sage. It does not produce seed. 
Thymus serpyllum — Mother-of-Thyme. 
Very low, creeping sub-shrub used for carpeting 
ground in herb’ gardens, between stepping 
Stones, etc: 
T. serpyllum lanuginosus, var. albus. — White 
Mountain Thyme. 
Light green foliage on ground-hugging plants with 
white flowers. Best variety to plant between flag- 
stones on terraces. 
T. serpyllum lanuginosus var. citriodorus — Lemon 
Thyme. 
Foliage smells and tastes like lemon. 
T. serpyllum lanuginosus, var. splendens — Scarlet 
Thyme. Firefly Thyme. 
Dark green, prostrate foliage with bright rosy red 
blooms. 
T. vulgaris — Common Thyme. 
Used like other varieties in gardens and for season- 
ing soups, cheese dishes and salads in the culinary 
department. 
PUTNEY’S SPECIAL ROSES 
We are offering a few outstanding old fashioned bush roses and climbers this year. We shall 
have our usual Fine Selection of Potted Floribundas and Hybrid Teas for our customers calling 
at the Nursery. 
BUSH ROSES 
Austrian Copper. 
A rare and very striking rose. Vivid flame and 
gold single flowers. Very showy. $1.75 each. 
Cecile Brunner. Sweetheart Rose. 
A cherished little Polyantha Rose for boutonnieres, 
corsages, nosegays or just to admire. Dainty, blush- 
pink buds open into exquisite, small flowers of light 
pink with yellow bases. Plants grow 15 to 18 
inches high. $1.50 each. 
Champion of the World. Double, pure pink flowers 
of medium size in abundance. Its fairly dwarf 
compact habit adapts it to pot culture indoors. 
$1.50 each. 
Father Hugo’s Rose. Golden Rose of China. 
Single yellow flowers in long, arching sprays. 
Perfectly hardy. Makes a large shapely shrub to 
6 feet in height and blossoms in late May with 
Spiraea vanhouttei. $1.50 each. 
Harrison’s Yellow. 
Showy, semi-double yellow flowers. $1.25 each. 
Sweetbrier. 
“Eglantine” of old books. Lovely single pink, 
clustered flowers on tall, erect shrubs with scented 
young leaves. A choice shrub that grows practi- 
cally anywhere. $1.75 each. 
