. Dreer's garden book : seventy-sixth annual edition 1914. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. Hardy Perennial Plants All orders, unless instructions are received to the contrary, are executed and forwarded upon receipt. Customers placing orders for stock to be reserved and sent later must distinctly specify this at time of ordering. NEYk^ VARIETIES OF ANCHUSA ITAEICA. (The Improved Italian Alkanet or Buglou.) (lur colored plate opposite conveys a good idea of these beautiful
. Dreer's garden book : seventy-sixth annual edition 1914. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. Hardy Perennial Plants All orders, unless instructions are received to the contrary, are executed and forwarded upon receipt. Customers placing orders for stock to be reserved and sent later must distinctly specify this at time of ordering. NEYk^ VARIETIES OF ANCHUSA ITAEICA. (The Improved Italian Alkanet or Buglou.) (lur colored plate opposite conveys a good idea of these beautiful and wonderfully improved Anchusas, which have proved to be most valuable additions to the limited list of blue-flowering hardy perennials, and particularly so as ihey flower from ^Iay lo July, i lime when this color is only sparingly represented in the hardy border. The habit of the plants, while strong and vigorous, is not at all coarse. They form much-branched specimens from 3 to 5 feet high, each branch terminated by a large, graceful, pyra- midal spike of blue flowers. Dropmore Variety (No. 2 on plate opposite). Rich gentian-blue. Opal (No. 1 on plate opposite). A splendid lustrous light blue. Perry's Variety, Rich deep blue. Price. Any of the above, strong plants, 25 cts. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100 GYPSOPHILA PANICITLATA FLORE PEENO. (Double-flowering Baby's Breath.) This valuable recent introduction, which is illustrated in connection with the Anchusas on the colored plate opposite, is already a firm favorite with many of the leading professional floral decorators, who quickly recognized ils value for use with other cut flowers. The pretty little double rosette-like flowers are produced during August and September in large branching panicles, three to three and a half feet high, and are not only valuable for cutting for immediate use. but can be cut and dried, retaining their beauty for months, and in addition to its great value for cutting it is a most desirab
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