. Dreer's garden book / Henry A. Nursery Catalogue. I HARDY PERENNIAL PIANTS / "PHILTOPHIAPi. Yucca Tunica Saxifraga. A charming little spreading plant growing from 6 to 8 inches high, with minute dark green foliage producing quanti- ties of tiny flowers varying from pale to dark pink. Attractive in the rockery or on the edge of the border. June to August. 25 cts. each; $ per doz. — Flore Plena Rosea. A pretty new double flowering form of the above in which the flowers, besides being double, are also considerably larger than in the type and of a deeper color, as well as being
. Dreer's garden book / Henry A. Nursery Catalogue. I HARDY PERENNIAL PIANTS / "PHILTOPHIAPi. Yucca Tunica Saxifraga. A charming little spreading plant growing from 6 to 8 inches high, with minute dark green foliage producing quanti- ties of tiny flowers varying from pale to dark pink. Attractive in the rockery or on the edge of the border. June to August. 25 cts. each; $ per doz. — Flore Plena Rosea. A pretty new double flowering form of the above in which the flowers, besides being double, are also considerably larger than in the type and of a deeper color, as well as being perpetual flowering; it begins to flower in June and continues until late in the fall. 50 cts. each; $ per doz. Valeriana (Valerian) Coccinea. Showy heads of reddish flowers; June to October; 2 feet. — Alba. A white-flowered form. Officinalis {Hardy Garden Heliotrope). Produces showy heads of rose- tinted white flowers during June and July, with delicious, strong helio- trope odor; 3 to 4 feet. 25 cts. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100. Vinca (Periwinkle, or Trailing Myrtle) Minor. An excellent dwarf evergreen trailing plant that is used ex- tensively for carpeting the ground under shrubs and trees, or on graves where it is too shady for other plants to thrive. 15 cts. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100; $ per 1000. Veronica (Speedwell) Amethystina Royal Blue. Rich gentian blue; June and July; 2 feet. — True Blue. A splendid rich dark blue; June and July; 2 feet. Filiformis. Prostrate rock plant with masses of blue flowers in May. Incana. Bright silvery foliage, blue flowers; July and August; 1 foot. Longifolia Subsessilis (JapaneseSpeedwell). The showiest and best of the Speedwells; forms a bushy plant 2 to 3 feet high, with long dense spikes of deep blue flowers from the middle of July to early in September. Pectinata. A pretty prostrate rock plant with long, many-flowered racemes of deep blue in May and June. Repens. A useful rock or carpeting plant, with
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