. Vinca Minor Aurea VERONICA ^Speedwell). Atnethystina. Amethyst-blue flowers in June and July; 2 feet. Incana. Bright silvery foliage, with spikes of amethyst-blue flowers; July and August; 1 foot. Loilgifolia Subsessilis. Mrs. Ely says of this fine 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 three-year-old plants produce eight or ten stalks, bearing a long spike of deep blue flowers. Begins to bloom in mid-July and continues flowering for a month. It requires only good garden soil and wateri
. Vinca Minor Aurea VERONICA ^Speedwell). Atnethystina. Amethyst-blue flowers in June and July; 2 feet. Incana. Bright silvery foliage, with spikes of amethyst-blue flowers; July and August; 1 foot. Loilgifolia Subsessilis. Mrs. Ely says of this fine 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 three-year-old plants produce eight or ten stalks, bearing a long spike of deep blue flowers. Begins to bloom in mid-July and continues flowering for a month. It requires only good garden soil and watering in dry weather; but if a little bonemeal is dug about the plants early in May, the spikes of bloom will be much finer, and if covered in late autumn with stable litter is quite ; Illustrated on the plate facing page 201 and included in our Quartette of Extra Choice Hardy Perennials. Maritima. Long spikes of blue flowers from July to September; 2 feet. Repens. A useful rock or carpeting plant, with light-blue flowers. Rupestris. A fine rock plant, growing three or four inches high, thickly matted deep green foliage, hidden in spring under a cloud of bright blue flowers. — Alba. A white-flowered variety of the above. Spicata. An elegant border plant, growing about TJ feet high, produc- ing long spikes of bright blue flowers in June and July. — Alba. A white-flowered form of the above. — Rosea. A pretty pink-flowered form. Virginica. Long spikes of white flowers in July and August; 3 to 4 feet. Price, 20 cts. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100. Dreer's Quartette of Extra Choice Hardy Perennials illustrated on plate facing page 201 are high-grade
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