. Dreer's garden book 1917. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. 240 SPIRAEA (Goat's Beard, Meadow Sweet). Elegant border plants with feathery plumes of flowers and neat, attractive foliage; succeed best in a half-shaded location in rich, moist soil. Aruncus. A noble variety, 3 to 5 feet high, producing in June and July long, feathery panicles of white flowers. Chinensis. A handsome species, with large heads of silvery- pink flowers in June and July; 2 feet. Filipendula Fl. PI
. Dreer's garden book 1917. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. 240 SPIRAEA (Goat's Beard, Meadow Sweet). Elegant border plants with feathery plumes of flowers and neat, attractive foliage; succeed best in a half-shaded location in rich, moist soil. Aruncus. A noble variety, 3 to 5 feet high, producing in June and July long, feathery panicles of white flowers. Chinensis. A handsome species, with large heads of silvery- pink flowers in June and July; 2 feet. Filipendula Fl. PI. {Double-flowered Drop-wort) Numer- ous corymbs of double white flowers on stems 15 inches high, during June and July, and pretty fern-like foliage. Palmata {Crimson Meadow Sweet). One of the most beautiful hardy plants, the deep purple-red of the stems and branches passing into the crimson-purple of the broad corymbs of flowers, which are produced very freely during June and July; 3 feet. — Elegans. A free-flowering pure white with protruding pink anthers. Ulmaria PI. PI. {Meadow Sweet). Grows about 3 feet high, and produces its large double white flowers during June and July. (See cut on page 239). Venusta. A showy, red-flowering species; very fragrant; 4 to 5 feet; June. Venusta Magnifica. A decided improvement on S. Venusta, with richer and more intensely rosy-red, fragrant flowers, blooming during June and July; a splendid plant for low, wet ground; 4 to 5 feet. 35 cts. each; $3-50 per doz. Price, except where noted, 25 cts. each; $ per doz. • $ per 100. One each of the above 8 varieties for $ STACHYS (Woundwort). Betonica Grandiflora (Betony). Large flowers of purplish- rose; June and July; 15 inches. — Rosea. Soft rose color; June and July; 15 inches. Lanata. Forms a densely leaved mass of bright, silvery-white woolly foliage and inconspicuous clusters of light purple flowers. As a plant for edging or for clumps in the border, or wherever intense col
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