. Dreer's autumn catalogue. Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. SELECT HARDY PERENNIAL PLANTS 47. Double Herbaceous Peony PentstemOn (Beard Tongue) Most useful perennials, either for the border or rockery. Barbatus Torreyii. Spikes of brilliant scarlet flowers; June and July; height, 3 to 4 feet. Pubescens. Bright rosy-purple; July and August; 18 inches. 25 cts. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100. PhySOStegia (False Dragon Head) One of the most beautiful of our midsummer flowering perennials, for
. Dreer's autumn catalogue. Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. SELECT HARDY PERENNIAL PLANTS 47. Double Herbaceous Peony PentstemOn (Beard Tongue) Most useful perennials, either for the border or rockery. Barbatus Torreyii. Spikes of brilliant scarlet flowers; June and July; height, 3 to 4 feet. Pubescens. Bright rosy-purple; July and August; 18 inches. 25 cts. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100. PhySOStegia (False Dragon Head) One of the most beautiful of our midsummer flowering perennials, forming dense bushes 4 to 6 feet high, bearing spikes of delicate tubular flowers not unlike a gigantic heather. Virginica. Bright but soft pink. — Alba. Pure white; very fine. — Grandiflora Vivid. A new variety growing from 18 to 24 inches high with flowers much larger than the type and of a bright violet mauve. 25 cts. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100. Plumbago (Lead Wort) Larpentae. Of dwarf-spreading habit, growing 4 to 6 inches high; useful as an edging plant or for the rockery; covered with beautiful deep blue flowers during the summer and fall months. 25 cts. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100. Priinula Veris {English Cowslip). Plants grown from a choice strain of seed in mixed colors. Vulgaris {English Primrose). An old favorite, and should be found in every garden; one of the earliest spring flowers; a bright canary-yellow; very fragrant. 30 cts. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100 Pyrethrum Hybridum Single. In choicest mixture. June and July. IJ to 2 feet. Uliginosum {Giant Daisy). Grows 3 to 4 feet high and is covered with large white Daisy-like flowers, 3 inches in diameter, from July to September. 25 cts. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100. Fifteen Extra Fine Double Herbaceous Peonies An important point to observe in the planting of Herbaceous Peonies is not to plant too deep. The roots should be placed so that the crowns are covered with two inches of so
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