. Dreer's garden book 1924. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. Physostegia PENTSTEMON (Beard Tongue) Most useful showy perennials, either for the border or rockery. With the exception of "Sensation," which requires protection, they are perfectly hardy. Gloxinioides "; A beautiful strain, bearing spikes of large Gloxinia-like flowers in a great variety of bright colors, including rose, cherry, crimson, purple, lilac, etc. The plants grow 2 feet h
. Dreer's garden book 1924. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. Physostegia PENTSTEMON (Beard Tongue) Most useful showy perennials, either for the border or rockery. With the exception of "Sensation," which requires protection, they are perfectly hardy. Gloxinioides "; A beautiful strain, bearing spikes of large Gloxinia-like flowers in a great variety of bright colors, including rose, cherry, crimson, purple, lilac, etc. The plants grow 2 feet high, and bloom from early summer till frost. Barbatus Torreyi. Spikes of brilliant scarlet flowers; height, 3 to 4 feet; June to August. — — Coral Gem. Dense showy spikes of brilliant coral-red flowers, June and July; 2| feet. Digitalis. Large spikes of long, purple-white flowers with purple throats during June and July; 2 to 3 feet. Pubescens. Bright rosy-purple; July and August; li fqel. Smalli. Rosy-carmine flowers in early summer; 1 foot. Price. 30cts. each; $ doz.; 100. One each of the 6 sorts for $ PHYSALIS (Chinese Lantern Plant) Prancheti. An ornamental variety of the Winter Cherry, forming dense bushes, about 2 feet high, producing freely its bright orange scarlet lantern- like fruits; highly interesting. 25 cts. each; per doz. PHYSOSTEGIA (False Dragon-Head) One of the most beautiful of our midsummer flowei'ing perennials, forming dense bushes 4 to 6 feet high, bearing spikes of delicate tubular flowers not unlike a gigantic heather. (See cut.) Virginica. Bright but soft pink. — alba. Pure white; very fine. 25 cts. each; per doz.; § per 100. VARIOUS PHLOXES Amoena. A useful variety for carpeting the ground, the rockery, or the border; it grows but 4 inches high, and in spring is a sheet of rich bright pink flowers. 25 cts. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100. Divaricata Canadensis. One of our native species, which is wort
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