. Dreer's 1908 autumn catalogue. Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs. 11lmADRE[R fflllADPH^J^A-lifHARDY PEREhhIAL Mm 53 PENTSTEMON (Ueard Tongue). Most useful perennials, either for the border or rockery. AcuminatUS, Forms a dense plant a foot high, flowers lilac changing to violet. Barbatus Torreyii. Spikes of brilliant scarlet flowers; height 3 to 4 feet. Diffusus. Violet-blue flowers; June and July ; 2 feet. Digitalis. Large spikes of long, purple-white
. Dreer's 1908 autumn catalogue. Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs. 11lmADRE[R fflllADPH^J^A-lifHARDY PEREhhIAL Mm 53 PENTSTEMON (Ueard Tongue). Most useful perennials, either for the border or rockery. AcuminatUS, Forms a dense plant a foot high, flowers lilac changing to violet. Barbatus Torreyii. Spikes of brilliant scarlet flowers; height 3 to 4 feet. Diffusus. Violet-blue 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. Glaber. A trailing species, about a foot high, bearing in early summer showy flowers, varying from light to dark blue. Grandiflorum. Large bright purplish-blue flowers in spring ; 2^ feel. Heterophyilus. Lovely azure-blue flowers in summer ; 2 feet. Ovatus. Bright blue shaded purple flowers; July to September; 2 feet. Pubescens. Bright rosy-purple , July and August ; 1^ feet. Smalli. Rosy-carmine flowers in early summer; 1 foot. Spectabilis. A pretty rosy-purple ; very attractive ; June and July ; 2 to 3 feet. PETASITES. Fragrans ( ll^inler Heliotrope). Grows about 1 foot high, and produces, frequently as early as the middle of March, numerous spikes of strongly lieliotrope-scented flowers. An excellent plant for low, moist ground. PHYSOSTEGIA (FaUe Dagon-Head). One of the most beautiful of our mid-summer flowermg perennials, forming dense bushes 3 to 4 feet high, bearing spikes of delicate tubular flowers. (See cut.) Virgioica. Bright but soft pink. — alba. Pure wliite ; very fine. — Speciosa. Very delicate pink. HAROY GARDEN PINKS. Old favorites, bearing their sweet clover-scented flowers in the greatest profusion during May and June ; 1 foot. Delicata, Soft delicate rose ; very free. Diamond. A fine extra early-flowering fringed white. Elsie. Bright rose with maroon centre. Her Majesty, Flowers of large siz
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