Dreer's garden book 1919 (1919) Dreer's garden book 1919 dreersgardenbook1919henr Year: 1919 L,YCHNIS (Campion) All of the Lychnis are of the easiest culture, thriving in any soil, and this, in additioa to their brightness, has brought them into high favor with lovers of hardy plants. Perhaps no class of plants has more common or popular names, of which the following is but a partial list: Campion, Jerusalem Cross, Lamp Flower, Maltese Cross, Ragged Robin, etc Arkwrighti. A cross between L. Haageana and Chalcedonica, growing 2j feet high, with very large circular flowers varying in color thro
Dreer's garden book 1919 (1919) Dreer's garden book 1919 dreersgardenbook1919henr Year: 1919 L,YCHNIS (Campion) All of the Lychnis are of the easiest culture, thriving in any soil, and this, in additioa to their brightness, has brought them into high favor with lovers of hardy plants. Perhaps no class of plants has more common or popular names, of which the following is but a partial list: Campion, Jerusalem Cross, Lamp Flower, Maltese Cross, Ragged Robin, etc Arkwrighti. A cross between L. Haageana and Chalcedonica, growing 2j feet high, with very large circular flowers varying in color through crimson, scarlet, orange, salmoa and intermediate shades; in bloom all summer. 50 cts. each; $ per doz. Chalcedonica. A most desirable plant, heads of brilliant orange-scarlet in June and July; grows 2 to 3 feet high. (See cut.) Chalcedonica alba. A white-flowered form of above. Haageana. Brilliant orange-scarlet flowers in May and June; 12 inches. Viscaria, Double Red. Forms a dense tuft of evergreen foliage, and in June sends up spikes of handsome, double, deep red, fragrant flowers; 1 foot. Price, except where noted, 25 cts. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100. Set of 5 varieties for $ THREE JAPANESE LYCHNIS These attract much attention in our trial grounds during spring and early summer by their large, showy flowers, which are fully 1^ inches in diameter and produced very freely on plants 8 to 12 inches high. Qrandlflora. Large fringed apricot- colored flowers. Grandiflora alba. Pure white. Senno. Brilliant crimson. 50 cts. each. One each of the three sorts for Lychnis Chalcedonica LlATRIS I^AVANDULA (Lavender) Vera. This is the true Sweet Lavender; grows about 18 inches high; delightfully fragrant blue flowers in July and August. 25 cts. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100. LlATRIS (Blazing Star, or Gay Feather) Pycnostachya. Showy and attractive native plants, succeeding anywhere, producing large spikes of light rosy-purple flowers in July and Aug
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