. Dreer's garden book 1917. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. CENTAUREA (Hardheads, or Knapweed). Of easy culture, delighting in an open, sunny position, producing a wealth of bloom, which not only makes a fine display in the border, but is excellent for cutting. Hirta nigra variegata {Variegated Button Weed). Variegated green and gold foliage, and during July and August purple flowers; 2 feet. Dealbata. Distinct bright rose-colored flowers; July to September; 18 inches. fl
. Dreer's garden book 1917. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. CENTAUREA (Hardheads, or Knapweed). Of easy culture, delighting in an open, sunny position, producing a wealth of bloom, which not only makes a fine display in the border, but is excellent for cutting. Hirta nigra variegata {Variegated Button Weed). Variegated green and gold foliage, and during July and August purple flowers; 2 feet. Dealbata. Distinct bright rose-colored flowers; July to September; 18 inches. flacrocephala. Very large thistle-like golden-yellow flowers; useful for cutting and showy in the border; July and August; 3J feet. Montana (Perennial Com Flower). Grows 2 feet high, bearing large violet-blue flowers from July to September. — alba. Large white variety of the above. 20 cts. each; $ per doz. Set of 5 sorts, 85 cts. CEPHALARIA (Roundheads). Alpina. A tall-growing plant which, when fully established, attains a heightof 6 feet,bearing in Juneandjuly delicate sulphur-yellow flowers, not unlike the flowers of Scabiosa. 25 cts. each; $ per doz. CERASTIUM. (Snow in Summer.) Tomentosum. A desirable low- growing plant with silvery foil age and white flowers in June, suitable for the rockery, or for carpeting dry, sunny spots, or for covering graves; can also be used with good effect in carpet bedding. 20 cts. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100. Cliaiiiaelirium. Luteum. A useful plant for moist, shady positions, pro- ducing in June dense cylin- drical heads of small creamy- yellow blossoms. 25 cts. each; $ per doz. CHELONE. (Shell Flower.) Stately and handsome perennials, growing about 2 feet high, and bearing numerous spikes of large flower-heads during the summer and fall. Glabra Alba. Terminal spikes of creamy- white flowers. Lyoni. Heads of showy purplish-red flowers. (See cut.) 25 cts. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100. HARDY CHRYSANTHEMUMS. (Shasta D
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