. Dreer's 1909 garden book. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. 216 nTJT~HEMRYADRKR -PHILADELPHIA fiA7^^^ HARDY PERENHIAL PLANTS. Vi:ronica Lf NGIFOL1A SUBSESSILIS. VINCA (Periwinkle, or Trailing Myrtle). Minor. An excellent dwarf evergreen trailing plant that is used extensively for carpeting the ground under shrubs and trees, or on graves where it is too shady for other plants to thrive. 10 cts. each; § per doz.; per 100. VERBASCEJI Mullein, Panosum. Long spikes o
. Dreer's 1909 garden book. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. 216 nTJT~HEMRYADRKR -PHILADELPHIA fiA7^^^ HARDY PERENHIAL PLANTS. Vi:ronica Lf NGIFOL1A SUBSESSILIS. VINCA (Periwinkle, or Trailing Myrtle). Minor. An excellent dwarf evergreen trailing plant that is used extensively for carpeting the ground under shrubs and trees, or on graves where it is too shady for other plants to thrive. 10 cts. each; § per doz.; per 100. VERBASCEJI Mullein, Panosum. Long spikes of sulphur-yellow flowers; July-Sept.; 6 feet. Phoeniceum. Purplish flowers on spikes 1A feet high; very pretty. May-June. 15 cts. each; $ per doz. VER1SOISIA (Iron Weed). Arkansana. A strong growing perennial, 5 feet high, suitable for the back of the border, or for planting among shrubs, producing large heads of purple flowers; August to October; 15 cts. each; per doz. VERONICA (Speedwell-. Amethystina. Amethyst-blue flowers in July and August; 2 feet. Incana. Bright silvery foliage, with spikes of amethyst-blue flowers; July and August; 1 foot. Longifolia Subsessilis. Mrs. H. Rutherfurd Ely says of this fine blue variety: " Should be set out in the spring, so that it may become well established before winter. This plant grows about three feet high, and threvyear-old plants produce eight or ten stalks, bearing a long spike of deep blue flowers. Veronica Longi- folia Subsessilis begins to bloom in mid- July and continues flowering for a month. It requires only good garden soi> and watering in dry weather; but if a little Lone meal is dug about the plants early in May, the spikes of bloom will be much finer. Veronica is perfectly healthy, and if covered in late autumn with stable litter is quite ; Maritima. Long spikes of blue flowers from July to September; '1 feet. Pectinata. Fine for the rockery; masses of .blue flowers in May. Prostrata. Dwarf a
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