. Dreer's autumn catalogue. Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. 40 SELECT HARDY PERENNIAL PLANTS. Dwarf Alpine Asters Alpinus. Indispensable for the rockery or edge of hardy borders, grows 6 to 10 inches high, showy bluish-purple flowers in May and June. — Albus. Identical to the above, but with pure white flowers. Subcaeruleus. Forms a dense tuft of leaves, from which issue many leafless stems 12 inches high, bearing in June and July massive bluish-violet flowers 3 inches in diameter. 25 cts. each
. Dreer's autumn catalogue. Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. 40 SELECT HARDY PERENNIAL PLANTS. Dwarf Alpine Asters Alpinus. Indispensable for the rockery or edge of hardy borders, grows 6 to 10 inches high, showy bluish-purple flowers in May and June. — Albus. Identical to the above, but with pure white flowers. Subcaeruleus. Forms a dense tuft of leaves, from which issue many leafless stems 12 inches high, bearing in June and July massive bluish-violet flowers 3 inches in diameter. 25 cts. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100 Hardy Fall-flowering Aster Fall-flowering Hardy Asters ' (Michaelmas Daisies,- or Stairworts) Barr's Pink. This is of the Novae angliae tj'pe, a strong, vigorous grower forming shapely plants from four to five feet high; the finest bright pink. Blue Gem. One of the most decorative free-flowering rich blue varieties, probably the nearest approach to a true blue. 3 feet. Chaterham Gem. Feathery sprays of good sized Hght lavender- blue flowers; 3 feet. Ghent. Large soft lilac-mauve; 3 feet. Liege. Large, soft rosy pink; 2J feet. Mother of Pearl. Large flowers, mauve-pink at edges, shading to tinted white at center giving a pearly-mauve effect; 2 to 3 feet. Novae angliae. Bright violet-purple; 4 feet. Novi belgii Climax. One of the best and showiest, with large pyramidal spikes of large lavender-blue flowers; very free; 5 feet. October Dawn. Grows about 2 feet high in stout branching pyramid form and is covered with large attractive Klac-mauve flowers. Queen Mary. This is unquestionably the best of the Novi belgii type yet introduced, with graceful flowers 2J inches in diameter arranged loosely in branching panicles of a particularly pleasing blue tinted lavender. 31 feet high. Sam Banham. Large feathery pure white, one of the earliest, 3 feet. Tataricus. Distinct large blm'sh-violet; very late; 6 feet. Any of the above. 25 cts. each; $ per do
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