Dreer's garden book seventy-sixth Dreer's garden book : seventy-sixth annual edition 1914 dreersgardenbook1914henr Year: 1914 HfNRTA DRE[R:.fflllADELPHIAJ'A-^ HARDY PER^hlJIAL PLAHTJ 209 POLEMONIUM. PolemOnium (Jacob's Ladder). Useful border plants, about 12 inches high, succeeding best in a partially shaded position; deep green finely cut foliage and spikes of showy flowers. Richardsonii. Sky-blue flowers, with golden anthers; June-July; — Alba. A white-flowered form of the above. 15 cts. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100. PULrMON ARIA (Lungwort. Bethlehem Sage). Angustifolia Azurea
Dreer's garden book seventy-sixth Dreer's garden book : seventy-sixth annual edition 1914 dreersgardenbook1914henr Year: 1914 HfNRTA DRE[R:.fflllADELPHIAJ'A-^ HARDY PER^hlJIAL PLAHTJ 209 POLEMONIUM. PolemOnium (Jacob's Ladder). Useful border plants, about 12 inches high, succeeding best in a partially shaded position; deep green finely cut foliage and spikes of showy flowers. Richardsonii. Sky-blue flowers, with golden anthers; June-July; — Alba. A white-flowered form of the above. 15 cts. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100. PULrMON ARIA (Lungwort. Bethlehem Sage). Angustifolia Azurea {Blue Cowslip, or Lungwort). The prettiest of the blue Cowslips; grows about a foot high, and one of the first to bloom in early spring, bearing attractive funnel-shaped, deep gentian-blue flowers; very desir- able. 30 cts. each. Saccharata riaculata. A beautiful plant, rivaling in the markings of its foli- age many of the choicest hothouse plants; of easy culture, foliage deep green, handsomely mottled with silvery-grey, and terminal 1 foot high spikes of pink, changing to blue flowers during May and June. 25 cts. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100. Qrandiflora. A low-growing plant, suitable for a shady spot on the rockery or border. Round heads of purple flowers all summer. Incisa. Similar to the above, but with bright rosy-purple flowers. 25 cts. each; $ per doz. JAPANESE PRIMROSES (P. Cort. sieboidu). These arenotso wellknown as they deserve; they are of free growth, with dark green foliage, and throw up in the late spring innumerable stems of large flowers, varying in color from pure white to rich crimson. They succeed under the same conditions as the common hardy Primroses, and are also useful for forcing under glass, making beautiful pot plants. (See cut.) We offer four distinct col- ors, viz.: Pure white, Lilac, Light rose and Deep pink. 20 cts. each; $ per doz. One each of the 4 colors for 75 cts. HARDY PRIMROSES. We offer, in addition to the abo
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