. Dreer's garden book 1916. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. 227 LYTHRUM. Alatum. An uncommon species, grows about 2 feet high, with crimson-purple flowers from June to September. 25 cts. each; $ per doz. Roseum Superbum (Rose Loose-strife). A strong-growing plant, 3 to 4 feet high, thriving in almost any position, producing large spikes of ro^e-colored flow- ers from July to September. 15 cts, each; $ per doz.; $ per 100. Roseum, Perry's Variety. A splendid i
. Dreer's garden book 1916. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. 227 LYTHRUM. Alatum. An uncommon species, grows about 2 feet high, with crimson-purple flowers from June to September. 25 cts. each; $ per doz. Roseum Superbum (Rose Loose-strife). A strong-growing plant, 3 to 4 feet high, thriving in almost any position, producing large spikes of ro^e-colored flow- ers from July to September. 15 cts, each; $ per doz.; $ per 100. Roseum, Perry's Variety. A splendid improvement, with much larger flowers and longer spikes than the type, and of a glistening cherry-red color. 25 cts. each; $ per doz. Virgatum. Soft rosy-purple flowers. 25 cts. each. $ per doz. MARSHALLIA. Trinervis. A useful plant for a shady, damp spot, of neat habit, about 15 inches high, bearing freely from June to August heads of white flowers, tinted flesh. 25 cts. each; $ per doz. MERTENSIA (Blue Bells). Virginica. An early spring-flowering plant, growing about 1 to Ik feet high, with drooping panicles of handsome light blue flowers, fading to clear pink; one of the most interesting of our native spring flowers; May and June. 15 cts. each; $ per doz. < MOISARDA (Bergamot). Showy plants growing from 2 to 3 feet high, succeeding in any soil or position, with aromatic foliage, and producing their bright flowers during July and August. Didyma Cambridge Scarlet ( Oswego Tea). Brilliant crimson-scarlet. —Rosea (Bee Balm). A pretty rose-colored form. —Salmonea. Salmon-rose color, very distinct. —Violacea. Bright amaranth-red. Fistuiosa Alba ( Wild Bergamot). A white- flowered variety. 15 cts. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100. The set of 5 varieties, 65 cts. MYOSOTIS (Forget-Me-Not). Palustris Semperflorens. A variety that is hardly ever out of flower; useful in a shady spot in the border and for forcing for cut flowers in the winter. Alpestris robust
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