. Dreer's garden calendar : 1903. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. Platycodon Japonicus Fl Pl. PENTSTEMON (Beard-tongue). Most useful hardy perennials, the border or rockery. They bear attractive and showy flowers. Barbatus Torreyii. Spikes of brilliant scarlet flowers; height, 3 to 4 feet; June to August; very effective. Digitalis. Large spikes of long, purple-white flowers, with purple throats, during June and July; 2 to 3 feet. \ (ientianoides. Produces large


. Dreer's garden calendar : 1903. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. Platycodon Japonicus Fl Pl. PENTSTEMON (Beard-tongue). Most useful hardy perennials, the border or rockery. They bear attractive and showy flowers. Barbatus Torreyii. Spikes of brilliant scarlet flowers; height, 3 to 4 feet; June to August; very effective. Digitalis. Large spikes of long, purple-white flowers, with purple throats, during June and July; 2 to 3 feet. \ (ientianoides. Produces large, pyramidal spikes of Gloxinia-like flowers from early in August until late in fall, ranging in color from creamy white to the deepest crimson. We offer choice mixed seedlings; \\ to 2 feet high. They require protection in winter. (See cut.) Pubescens. Bright rosy purple flowers; July and August; 1 \ feet. PtlichelluS. Produces its attractive purplish flowers in June on stems 2 feet high. 4*-"^- Scouleii. An evergreen shrubby variety; grows 3 feet high, with large lilac- blue flowers in June and July. 15 cts. each ; $ per doz. Set of 6 varieties, 75 cts. HARDY GARDEN PINKS. Old favorites, bearing their sweet, clove-scented flowers in> the greatest profusion during May and June; 1 foot. Alice Lee. Large, creamy- white; fine for cutting. Diamond. A fine extra early- flowering, fringed white. Her Majesty. Flowers of large size and of the purest white. Homer. Rich rosy red, with dark centre. Juliette. White, laced crim- son. Laura Wilmer. White, pur- plish-maroon centre. Stanislaus. Rose, with crim- son centre. 15 cts. each; $ per doz. Set of 7 for 90 cts. We offer some fine New Hardy Pinks. For descrip- Physostegia Virginica. tions and prices see New and Rare Plants, pages 99 to ]04. PLATYCODON. (Balloon Flower, or Japanese Bell- flower.) The Platycodons are closely allied to the Campanulas, and form neat, branched bushes of upright habit, which bear a con- tinual


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