Dreer's 1909 garden book (1909) Dreer's 1909 garden book dreers1909garden1909henr Year: 1909 Gypsophila Paniculata. minute pure white flowers, forming >N theMakgin of one of ouk Lily Ponds. GYPSOPHILA. (Baby's Breath.) The Gypsophilas will thrive in any soil in a sunny position, and on account of their gracefully arranged large pan- icles of minute flowers should be in every garden; the new variety Paniculata Fl. PL if cut and dried, will retain its beauty for many months, furnishing most attractive decorative material in this shape. Acutifolia. A strong-growing kind, . attaining a height
Dreer's 1909 garden book (1909) Dreer's 1909 garden book dreers1909garden1909henr Year: 1909 Gypsophila Paniculata. minute pure white flowers, forming >N theMakgin of one of ouk Lily Ponds. GYPSOPHILA. (Baby's Breath.) The Gypsophilas will thrive in any soil in a sunny position, and on account of their gracefully arranged large pan- icles of minute flowers should be in every garden; the new variety Paniculata Fl. PL if cut and dried, will retain its beauty for many months, furnishing most attractive decorative material in this shape. Acutifolia. A strong-growing kind, . attaining a height of 2 feet, with large panicles of small white flowersin July. Cerastioides. A most useful variety for the rockery, growing but 3 inches high, and producing from June to August small white flowers marked with pink. Paniculata. A beautiful old-fashioned plant, possessing a grace not found in any other perennial. When in bloom during August and September, it ' forms a symmetrical mass 2 to 3 feet in height, and as much through, of a beautiful gauze-like appearance. For cutting it is Helentum Plimilum M.' AGNIFICCM. exquisite, especially in combination with high-colored flowers. Paniculata Fl. PI. The new double-flowering variety. {For description see New and Rare Plants, pages 174 to 17S.) 25 cts. each; § per doz. Repens. An elegant trailing plant for the rockery, with clouds of small white flowers. — Rosea. A delicate pink-flowered form of the above. Price. Any of the above, except the new double sort, 15 cts. each; § per doz. Set of the 6 varieties for 85 cts. HELENIUM (Sneeze-wort). All of these are desirable border plants, succeeding in any soil in a sunny location with broad-spreading heads of flowers, useful for cutting, each species covering a long bloom- ing season. Autumnale Superbum. Grows from 5 to 6 feet high, with broad heads of deep golden-yellow flowers during the late summer and fall months. Bigelowi. Rich yellow flowers 2 inches across; July and Augus
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