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CURRIE BROTHERS COMPANY, MILWAUKEE, WIS. 



SCABIOSA. 

 S. Caucaslca — 2% feet. This is one of the most handsome perennials we possess. Flowers are long-stemmed and last a 



long- time when placed in water. The color is a charming shade of soft lilac blue. Each 30c; per doz $3.00 



SEDUM — Stone Crop. 

 S. Acre — For rock work, carpet bedding or for shady places where grass will not grow, this very dwarf Sedum is excel- 

 lent. Each 25c; per doz $2 50 



S. Spectabile (Syn. Fabaria) — 1% feet, September. Rosy pink. A very desirable plant. Each 25c; per doz $2.50 



S. Sieboldii — 6 inches, September. A handsome variety of trailing habit. Foliage glaucous; flowers bright pink, very 



pretty and showy. A splendid rock plant. Each 25c; per doz ' $2.50 



SPIRAEA — Goat's Beard. 

 S. Fillipendula — 3 feet, June, Foliage dark green, beautifully cut and fern-line; 



flowers double, white, sometimes tinged with pink; very showy. 

 S. Lobata (Queen of the Prairie) — 5 feet, July. A handsome variety; bears feather 



plumes of rose-colored fragrant flowers. 

 S. Palmata (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. 

 S. Ulmaria, fl. pi. (Double Meadow Sweet) — 3 feet, June. A beautiful and 



very desirable variety, with double white flowers. 

 Each 25c; per doz. $2.50. 



STACHYS — Woundwort. 



S. Lantana — 1 foot. A particularly valuable plant for rock work or the edg- 

 ing of flower beds, its tufted, silvery-white, woolly foliage rendering it 

 highly ornamental. It bears during the summer a quantity of purplish 



flowers in short spikes. Each 25c; per doz $2.50 



STOKESIA — Stoke's Aster. 



S. Cyanea — 1 foot, August and September. One of the most useful perennial 

 plants in cultivation, either for the herbaceous border or for planting 

 among shrubs. It blooms when the majority of hardy plants are past flower- 

 ing, producing in great abundance large, showy, Aster-like, deep blue flow- 

 ers. Each 30c; per doz $3.00 



SOLIDAGO — Golden Rod. 



Although the most of the Golden Rods may be considered too coarse and 

 common for the garden, the two we offer are excellent. 



S. Rigida — 5 feet, September. Plant neat and upright; flowers bright yellow. 

 S. SempervJrens — 3 feet, September. A very handsome variety; large heads of 



bright yellow flowers. Each 25c; per doz $2.50 



THALICTRUM — 3Ieadow Rue. 

 Very attractive plants with graceful, finely cut foliage; perfectly hardy. 

 T. Aquilegifolium — 2 feet, May and June. A very profuse bloomer; flowers light purple; very handsome. Each 25c; per doz.$2.50 



THERMOPSIS. 

 T. Caroliniana — 3 feet, June and July. An exceedingly showy plant, producing long spikes of yellow flowers; very desir- 

 able. Each 25c; per doz $2.50 



TRITOMA — Red-Hot Poker. 

 T. Uvaria — 2 feet, August to October. Flowers borne in great dense terminal spikes about a foot long on stems from 3 to 

 4 feet in length; color, orange-red; very striking, not inaptly suggesting the familiar name Red-Hot Poker. Each 30c; 



$3.00 



TRITOMA UVARIA. 



per doz. 



T. Vlrginica- 



feet. 



per doz $2.50 



TRADESCANTIA— Spiderwort. 



Violet purple flowers; a very fine bloomer. Each 25c; 



THYMUS — Thyme. 

 T. Vulgaris (Common Thyme) — A very popular sweet-scented little plant, valuable for culinary purposes. 

 T. Vulgaris Variegatus — A pretty variety with silvery variegated foliage, much used in carpet bedding; sweet scented. 

 T. Citridorus Aureus (Golden Thyme) — A very aromatic, handsome variety with golden variegated foliage. 



Eacb 25c; per doz. $2.50. 

 VERONICA — Speedwell. 

 A very popular and exceedingly handsome family of perfectly hardy plants. The dwarf sorts make splendid rock plants, 

 and the tall varieties are very effective in the herbaceous or shrubbery border. All are very free bloomers. 



V. Amaethystina — 1 foot, June. Color a beautiful amethyst blue. Each 25c; per doz .$2.50 



V. Longifolia Subsessilis — 2 feet, August. A splendid variety. The flowers "are borne on long handsome spikes 4 to 5 



inches in circumference; color, deep rich blue. Each 25c; per doz $2.50 



V. Rnpestris — 4 inches, May. An excellent rock plant of creeping habit. Flowers blue in dense spikes. Each 25c; per doz. $2. 50 



V. Spicata — 2 feet, June to August. One of the best; blooms very profusely; flowers bright blue. Each 25c; per doz $2.50 



VALERIANA — Garden Heliotrope. 

 V. Officinalis — 3 feet, June. Also known as St. George's Herb: flowers blush white; freely produced in large trusses; very 



showy. Each 30c; per doz $3.0 j 



VINCA — Periwinkle. 

 V. Minor — A well-known evergreen trailing plant, extensively used in the cemetery for covering grave mounds. It is also 

 very valuable for carpeting under trees and in shady places, being an excellent substitute for grass. Each 25c; per doz.$2.o0 



VIOI.A — Violet. 

 V. Pedata — The most attractive of all our native Violets, having large, deep blue flowers. 

 V. Pedata Bicolor — A very pretty variety of the preceding with large showy flowers, the color of the two upper petals being 



a royal purple of a velvety texture, the lower ones almost pure -white. 

 V. Californian — A single variety with large purple flowers, about the size of a silver half dollar; very free-flowering and 



deliciously fragrant. 

 V. Marie Louise — Dark blue and very double. This is the variety so extensively grown and so very popular. 



Each 25c; per doz. $2.50. 

 YUCCA — Adam's Needle, or Spanish Bayonet. 

 Y. Fillmentosa — 4 feet. A very attractive lawn plant; flowers creamy white. Each 35c; per doz. $3.50, 



