Dreer's autumn catalogue 1917 (1917) Dreer's autumn catalogue 1917 dreersautumncata1917henr Year: 1917 Veronica Longifolia Subsessilis THAI^ICTRUM (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. Adiantifolium. A beautiful variety, with foliage like the Maidenhair Fern and miniature white flowers in June and July; IJ to 2 feet. Aquilegifolium atropurpureum. Elegant, graceful foli- age and masses of rosy-purple flowers; May to July; 2 to 3 feet. —
Dreer's autumn catalogue 1917 (1917) Dreer's autumn catalogue 1917 dreersautumncata1917henr Year: 1917 Veronica Longifolia Subsessilis THAI^ICTRUM (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. Adiantifolium. A beautiful variety, with foliage like the Maidenhair Fern and miniature white flowers in June and July; IJ to 2 feet. Aquilegifolium atropurpureum. Elegant, graceful foli- age and masses of rosy-purple flowers; May to July; 2 to 3 feet. — Album. Pure white floweis. QIaucum. Fine-cut foliage; bronzy-yellow flowers in June; 2 feet. 25 cts. each; | per doz.; $ per 100. THERMOPSIS. Carollniana. A showy, tall-growing plant, attaining a height of 3 feet, producing long spikes of yellow flowers in June and July. 25 cts. each; $ per doz. THYMUS (Thyme) Citriodorus. Lemon-scented foliage, of bushy habit. Lanuginosus (Woolly-leaved Thyme). A trailing variety with grayish foliage. Serpyllum (White Mountain Thyme). A pretty subject for the rockery, forming dense mats of dark dreen foliage and clouds of white flowers. — Coccinea (Scarlet Thyme). Dark-green foliage and clouds of bright-red flowers. — Splendens. Bright purplish-red flowers. 20 cts. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100. TRADESCA3VTIA (Spider Wort) Virginica. Produces a succession of purple flowers all summer. 20 cts. each; $ per doz. TROLI^IUS (Globe Flower) Popular hardy perennials, flowering freely from May until August; 2 to 2i feet. Caucasicus 'Orange Globe.' Large, deep-orange. Europasus. Large, bright yellow, globular flowers. Japonicus 'Excelsior.' Very deep orange flowers. Lichtbail. Large orange yellow. 25 cts. each; $ per doz. Set of 4 sorts, 85 cts. TUNICA Saxifraga. A pretty tufted plant with light pink flowers; produced all summer; useful either for rockery or the border. 25 cts. each; $ per doz. (Valerian
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