. Dreer's mid-summer list 1917. Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. 24 HENRY A. DREER, PHILADELPHIAâHARDY PERENNIAL PLANTS. Stokesia Cyanka (Cornflower Aster). STOKESIA (Cornflower Aster). Cyanea. A beautiful native plant growing 18 inches high, bearing freely from early in June until September its handsome lavender-blue Cornflower-like blossoms, which measure from 4 to 5 inches across. It is of the easiest culture, succeeding in any open, sunny position, and not only is it desira
. Dreer's mid-summer list 1917. Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. 24 HENRY A. DREER, PHILADELPHIAâHARDY PERENNIAL PLANTS. Stokesia Cyanka (Cornflower Aster). STOKESIA (Cornflower Aster). Cyanea. A beautiful native plant growing 18 inches high, bearing freely from early in June until September its handsome lavender-blue Cornflower-like blossoms, which measure from 4 to 5 inches across. It is of the easiest culture, succeeding in any open, sunny position, and not only is it desirable as a single plant in the hardy border, but it can also be used with fine effect in masses or beds of any size. Cyanea alba. A pretty pure vchite variety of above. 20 cts. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100. THALICTRUM (Meadow Rue). Very graceful, pretty-flowered plants, with finely cut foliage; great favorites for planting in the hardy border; the dwarfer varieties also being effective and useful in the rockery. Aquilegifolium atropurpureum. Elegant, graceful foli- age and masses of rosy-purple flowers; May to July, 2 to 3 feet. âAlbum. Pure white flowers. QIaucum. Fine-cut foliage; bronzy-yellow flowers in June; 2 feet. 25 cts. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100. THYMUS (Thyme). Citriodorus. Lemon-scented foliage, of bushy habit. Lanuginosiis ( Woolly-leaved Thyme). A trailing variety, with grayish foliage. Serpyilum ( WJdte Mountain Thyme). A pretty subject for the rockery, forming dense mats of dark green foliage and clouds of white flowers. âCoccinea {Scarlet Tliyine). Dark green foliage and clouds of bright red flowers. âSplendens, Bright purplish-red flowers. 20 cts. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100. TIAREL-IvA (Foam Hower). Purpurea major. An altractive variety, forming a neat, com- pact clump; the foliage unusually bright as it expands in the spring; bears long spikes of salmon-red flowers. 20 cts. each; $ per doz. TRADESCANXIA. (Spider Wort.) Virgin
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