. Dreer's garden book / Henry A. Nursery Catalogue. i HARDY PERENNIAL PIANTS / 179 DictamnUS (Gas Plant) Fraxinella Caucasicus. A very showy border perennial, forming a bush about 7\ feet in height, having fragrant foliage and spikes of rosy-pink flowers with deeper veins during June and July. Requires a heavy, strong soil, and an open, sunny position. It is not advisable to transplant often, as it improves with age, it being one of the most permanent features of the hardy herbaceous border. — Alba. The white flowered variety of above. 50 cts. each; $ per doz. Dielytra, or Dicentra
. Dreer's garden book / Henry A. Nursery Catalogue. i HARDY PERENNIAL PIANTS / 179 DictamnUS (Gas Plant) Fraxinella Caucasicus. A very showy border perennial, forming a bush about 7\ feet in height, having fragrant foliage and spikes of rosy-pink flowers with deeper veins during June and July. Requires a heavy, strong soil, and an open, sunny position. It is not advisable to transplant often, as it improves with age, it being one of the most permanent features of the hardy herbaceous border. — Alba. The white flowered variety of above. 50 cts. each; $ per doz. Dielytra, or Dicentra Spectabilis (Bleeding Heart, or Seal Flower). An old-fashioned favorite; its long racemes of graceful heart-shaped pink flowers in May or June are always attractive; it is used largely for forcing, and is perfectly at home in any part of the hardy border, and especially valuable for planting in the shade; 1 to 2 feet. Strong clumps, 50 cts. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100. Formosa (Plumy Bleeding Heart). A dwarfer-growing species, with finely-cut ornamental foliage, growing about 15 inches high and producing its showy pink flowers from April till October. 30 cts. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100. Digitalis (Foxglove) The Foxgloves, old-fashioned, dignified and stately, are wholesome company in any garden. The strong flower stalks rising from rich and luxuriant masses of leaves, always give an appearance of strength to the hardy border, and during their period of flowering in June, dominate the whole garden. Ambigua or Grandiflora. Showy flowers of pale yellow, veined brown; 2 to 3 feet. Giant Shirley. A magnificent strain of the Gloxinia-flowered type of vigorous habit attaining a height of from 5 to 7 feet with spikes of bloom 4 feet in length, closely set with flowers of unusual size ranging in color from purest white to deepest rose, handsomely spotted with crim- son-maroon. We offer them in mixture only. Lanata. A distinct species, producing dense spikes, 2 to 3
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