. Dreer's garden book 1917. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. 220 HEHRYADREfR -PHILADELPtJIA^AQ HARDY PERENttlALPbANB- flffj. New Giant-flowering Marshmallow HIERACIIJM (Hawk-weed). Aurantiacum. A low-growiDg, rapid-spreading plant, adapted for dry, sandy spots, or for covering steep slopes. The bright, orange-red flowers are borne in flat heads. — Rtlbrum. A bright colored form of the above. 20 cts. each; $ per doz. HOUStOIlia (Bluets, Quaker Lady or Innocence). Serpyl
. Dreer's garden book 1917. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. 220 HEHRYADREfR -PHILADELPtJIA^AQ HARDY PERENttlALPbANB- flffj. New Giant-flowering Marshmallow HIERACIIJM (Hawk-weed). Aurantiacum. A low-growiDg, rapid-spreading plant, adapted for dry, sandy spots, or for covering steep slopes. The bright, orange-red flowers are borne in flat heads. — Rtlbrum. A bright colored form of the above. 20 cts. each; $ per doz. HOUStOIlia (Bluets, Quaker Lady or Innocence). Serpyllifolia. A low creeper, best adapted to grow on a rockery in moist situation, where it forms broad carpets of foliage, which in very early spring is hidden beneath a cloud of small but showy light-blue flowers. One of the earliest spring flowers. 25 cts. each; $ per doz. HYPERICUM (St. John's-wort). Adpressum, A native variety, growing in dense masses, which makes it useful as a ground cover, particularly in damp places; 6 to 8 inches. 25 cts. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100. Moserianum. A most desirable border plant, of free and graceful habit, producing long, slender, much-branched stems, leafy to the base and all drooping towards the ends, appar- ently from the weight of the flowers and buds, although the flowers face, so that none of their beauty is lost. It is marvellously free-flowering, of large size, measuring from 2 to 2j inches in diameter ; in color a rich golden-yellow, which is rendered still more effective by the numerous yellow stamens and crimson anthers, and blooms continuously the entire season; 2 feet. (See illustration on page 221.) Strong plants, 25: cts. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100. HEUCHERA (Alum Root, or Coral Bells). Most desirable dwarf, compact, busby plants of robust constitution and easy culture, growing 1J to 2 feet high, and bearing during July and August loose, graceful spikes of flowers in the greatest profusion; excellent su
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