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CURRIE BROTHERS CO. FARM AND GARDEN ANNUAL 



RUDBECKIA— Cone Flower. 



This class of plants is considered quite indispensable 



in the herbaceous or shrubbery border. All the varieties 



are very showy and exceedingly effective, either in 



<i|i8 a ''V^NE8>S masses or as single specimens. They are very easy of 



-^Wfi&^T* cultivation and art- absolutelj hardy. 



R. Fulgida — 3 feet, August and September. One of 

 the very best; showy and very useful for cutting. 

 Produces great quantities of orange-yellow flow- 

 ers with dark purple centers. Each 15c; per doz. ..$1.50 



"Golden Glow" — A superb variety, which has become very popular and 

 fully merits the praise bestowed upon it. The plant grows 6 to 7 feet 

 in height, is strong and self-supporting, and bears long, strong- 

 stemmed, very large and very double golden-yeltow flowers in great pro- 

 fusion through several weeks of midsummer. Each 10c; per doz $1.00 



Large clumps. Each 25c; per doz $2.50 



Purpurea — 4 feet, August. A remarkably showy, strong-growing plant, 

 producing abundantly its large reddish-purple flowers during the 

 months of August and September. Each 15c; per doz $1.50 



Speciosn — 3 feet, September. A very choice variety, producing im- 

 mense quantities of handsome yellow flowers with deep purple cen- 

 ters. Each 15c; per doz $i.50 



Sub-Tomentosa — 5 feet, September. This variety makes a very hand- 

 some ornament. It branches freely and produces an abundance of clear 

 lemon-yellow flowers with dark purple centers. Each 15c; per doz $1.50 



GOLDEN GLOW. 



SA3VTOM1VA — Lavender Cotton. 

 S. Ineana — A very pretty dwarf, 

 dense growing border plant, 

 having fine feathery foliage 

 of a soft and very pleasing 

 silvery gray color. It is par- 

 ticularly adapted for lines or 

 figures in carpet bedding or 

 for the edging of ordinary 

 flower beds. Perfectly hardy. 

 Each 10c; per doz $1.00 



SOLIDAGO — Golden Rod. 



Although the most of the Golden 

 Rods may be considered too coarse 

 and common for the garden, a few 

 varieties are really very desirable 

 and very effective among shrubbery. 

 The two we offer are excellent. 

 S. Rigida — 5 feet, September. Plant 



neat and upright; flowers bright 



yellow. 

 S. Sempervirens — 3 feet, September. 



A very handsome variety; large 



heads of bright yellow flowers. 

 Each 15c; per doz $1.50 



STACHYS — Woundwort. 



S. Lantana — 1 foot. A particularly val- 

 able plant for rock work or the edg- 

 ing of flower beds, its tufted, silvery- 

 white, woolly foliage and stems of the 

 same character rendering it highly or- 

 namental. It bears during the summer 

 a quantity of purplish flowers in short 

 spikes, but it is on account of the 

 handsome foliage it is especially 



prized. Each 15c; per doz $1.50 



STOKESIA — Stoke's Aster. 



S. Cyanea — 1 foot, August and Septem- 

 ber. One of the most useful perennial 

 plants in cultivation, either for the 

 herbaceous border or for planting 

 among shrubs, where it has a most 

 charming effect. It blooms at a time 

 too, when the majority of hardy plants 

 are past flowering, producing in great 

 abundance its large, showy Aster-like 

 deep blue flowers. Each 25c; per doz.. $2. 50 



RUDBiJCKIA PURPUREA. 



RANUNCULUS— Buttercup. 



Very attractive border plants of easy culture, 

 succeeding -well in any good garden soil. 

 R. Acris, Fl. PI. (Bachelor's Button) — 2 feet, 

 Hay. Foliage handsomely cut; flowers very- 

 double; color, a shining golden .yellow; 

 blooms very profusely. Each 15c; per doz. .$1.50 



S. 



SCABIOSA. 

 Caucasiea — 2 % 



RODBECKI4 SPECIOSA 



feet. This is one 

 of the most 

 handsome per- 

 ennials we pos- 

 sess, and one 

 which should be 

 grown in every 

 garden, if only 

 for cutting pur- 

 poses. Flowers , 

 are 1 o 

 stemmed and 

 last a long time 

 when placed in 

 water. The col- 

 or is a charm- 

 ing shade of 

 soft lilac blue. 

 Each 20c; per 

 doz $2.00 



RANUNCULUS. 



SEDUM — Stone Crop, 



r»v A very useful family of succulent plants which 



IT/VS withstand a degree of drought that most plants 



s i I //<S3 would succumb to. They are therefore useful 



**jl' \ P^fc {t'\'*7*r\ 'I 77 in dry situations, such as sunnv banks and other 



places where few plants will grow. 



SCABIOSA CAUCASICA. 



■u S. Acre — For rockwork, carpet bedding or for 



T«* shady places where grass will not grow, 



this very dwarf Sedum is excellent. Each 



10c; per doz $1.00 



S. Spectabile (Syn. Fabaria) — 1% feet, Sep- 

 tember. Rosy pink. A very desirable plant. 



Each 10c; per doz $1.00 



S. Sieboldii — 6 inches, September. A hand- 

 some variety of trailing habit. Foliage 

 glaucous, margined with pink, assuming- 

 shades of red and purple in autumn; flow- 

 ers bright pink, very pretty and showy. A 

 - splendid rock plant. Each 10c; per doz. i . .$1.00 



SPIRAEA — Goat's Beard. 



'•> IRARA. 



A genus of hardy border plants of the easiest culture, 

 growing freely in any good soil. The taller varieties are 

 very effective in the shrubbery border. 



S. Filllpendula — 3 feet, June. Foliage dark green, beau- 

 tifully cut and fern-like; flowers double, white, some- 

 times tinged with pink; very showy. This is a very 

 handsome plant. 



S. Uobata (Queen of the Prairie) — 5 feet, July. A hand- 

 some variety; bears feather plumes of rose-colored Pre- 

 grant flowers. 



S. Palinata (Crimson Meadow Sweet) — 3 feet, June. An 

 exceedingly handsome plant, one of the most attractive 

 in cultivation. The foliage is beautiful and the flowers 

 are a vivid crimson, borne in great heads or corymbs > . | . 

 in almost continuous succession. 



S. Ulmarla, Fl. n. (Double Meadow Sweet) — 3 feet, June. 

 A beautiful and very desirable variety, with double 

 white (lowers. 



i::i«l. ■.-.<•: per doz, $i.r.<>, 



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