MONARDA .- Bee-balm; Bergamot 
The flowers are borne in close heads or whorls on stems about 2 to 3 
feet high, surrounded by colored bracts, and the leaves are more or less 
fragrant. Attractive plants for the semi-shady or sunny border, the wild 
garden, or for the city gardens. 
Culture. Grow in ordinary soil in sunny borders or in light shade, All 
may be natualized in the wild garden. Plant in bold groups in autumn 
or spring, 10 inches apart. Divide and replant every third year. 
Didyma alba Each 80c, Three $2.15, Doz. $7.00 
The white Monarda is similar in habit of growth to Cambridge Scarlet. 
Excellent in light shade or full sun. 
Didyma, Cambridge Scarlet Each 80c, Three $2.15, Doz. $7.00 
Brilliant crimson-scarlet flowers are produced freely from June until 
August. A good plant for wild garden as well as border or garden in 
the city where other flowers don’t grow well. 
Didyma, Croftway Pink Each 80c, Three $2.15, Doz. $7.00 
Not many new plants arrived from England in wartime but this is one 
of them, and it’s a valuable acquisition. A most appealing rich rose-pink. 
Hardy and free blooming. Like other Bergamots, it presents an irre- 
sistible attraction for hummingbirds. Does well in shady gardens and is 
excellent for cutting. It replaces the old variety Salmon Queen which 
we have discontinued. 
Mahogany Each $1.00, Three $2.70, Doz. $8.75 
Presenting a vivid new color nuance in an old, greatly loved family— 
the Beebalm or Oswego Tea. Striking, clustery heads of fragrant, 
whorling flowers of deep Indian lake red, like Currant jelly. Fine for 
midsummer bouquets. Distinctly perfumed leaves and blooms. Height 
315 feet. A handsome, long flowering, easily grown, trouble free plant. 
What more could be asked. 
MYOSOTIS - Forget-me-not 
Their dainty blue or pink flowers are produced freely and are always 
pleasing to the eye, whether massed in beds or on the margins of borders 
or ponds. 
Culture. Most at home in damp positions, as the margins of water, but 
will thrive in moist, shady borders. Plant in autumn or spring about 6 
inches apart. 
*Palustris semperflorens Each 70c, Three $1.90, Doz. $6.00 
Large, rich blue flowers with yellow eye; a charming plant for damp 
places and a more profuse bloomer than the alpestris, which also is in- 
clined to be biennial in habit. 
Monarda Didyma, Cambridge Scarlet 
MATRICARIA - Double Mayweed; Feverfew {66} Lythrum Superbum, Dropmore Purple (See page 65) 
Attractive, low-growing plants for the border. It has finely divided 
leaves and double flowers on stems about 114 feet in height, which make 
an effective display throughout the entire summer. 
Culture. Will grow freely in ordinary well-drained soil in a sunny border. 
Plant one foot apart in autumn or early spring. 
Silver Ball Each 70c, Three $1.90, Doz. $6.00, 100 $32.50 
A most useful border plant and valuable summer cut flower, with 
large, double, white flowers. June until October. 18 to 24 inches. 
MERTENSIA - Virginia Cowslip; Blue Bells 
Ail are of medium growth, and well suited for shady or partially shaded 
borders. Mostly blue- or white-flowered. The only one we really recom- 
mend is Mertensia virginica. 
| Culture. All will succeed in ordinary soil. A shady or partially shady 
I position is desirable; lovely planted in open woodlands together with Daf- 
fodils. Plant in autumn or very early spring, 6 to 8 inches apart. 
Virginica Three $1.40, Doz. $4.25, 109 $18.00 
; An early spring-flowering plant, growing about 1 to 11% feet high with 
blue flowers fading to pink; one of the most interesting of our native 
spring flowers. 
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