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(5) HARDY DERENNIAL PLANTS~ |[//] 
SCABIOSA 
Handsome border plants, succeeding in any ordinary soil if well 
drained and in a sunny location, and should be grown in every garden 
where cut flowers are wanted; they last a long time when picked and 
placed in water. 
Caucasica (Blue Bonnet). A soft and charming shade of lavender, 
and commences to bloom in June, throwing stems 18 to 24 inches high 
until September. (See cut.) 
— Alba. A pure white variety. 
Japonica. Lavender-blue flowers, in bloom from July to September; 
2 feet. 
25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $15.00 per 100. 
SEDUM (Stone-crop) 
DWARF VARIETIES 
Suitable for the rockery, carpet bedding, covering of graves, etc. 
Acre (Golden Moss). Much used for covering graves; foliage green; 
flowers bright yellow. 
Album. Green foliage, white flowers. 
Ewersi. Pink flowers; August and September. 
Kamtschaticum. Deep green foliage; yellow flowers in June; 8 
inches. t 
Middendorfianum. Narrow green foliage, sulphur-yellow flowers in 
summer. 
Sexangulare. Dark green foli- 
age, yellow flowers. : 
Sieboldi. Round, succulent, 
glaucous foliage; bright pink 
flowers in August and Sep- 
tember. 
Stahli. Compact species, with 
crimson-tinted foliage in au- 
ScapiosA CAUCASICA 
SEDUMI (Stone-crop) 
ERECT OR TALL=GROWING VARIETIES 
Useful and pretty plants for the border, producing - 
their interesting flowers during late summer and fall. 
Japonicum Macrophyllum. Forms compact 
bushes 15 inches high, with pleasing waxy-white 
tumn. 
Stolonifera. One of the most 
desirable; flat succulent leaves; 
flowers purplish-pink; July and 
August; 6 inches. 
Spurium. Attractive pink flow- 
ers; 6 inches. west 
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— Coccinum. A beautiful crim- WW 
son-flowered form. Spectabile. One of the prettiest erect-growing 
25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; species, attaining a height of 18 inches, with 
$15.00 per 100. SENECO PE MECSEE broad light green foliage and immense heads of 
handsome showy rose-colored flowers; indispensable as a late 
fall-blooming plant. 
— ‘Brilliant.’’ A rich colored form of the preceding, being 
a bright amaranth-red. 
Price, 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $15.00 per 100. 
SEMPERVWVIVUM (House Leek) 
Peculiarly interesting plant for the rockery or for any exposed, 
well-drained position,. We can furnish six distinct varieties at 20 
cts. each; $2.00 per doz.; $10.00 per 100. Set of 6 for $1.00. 
SENECIO (Groundsel) 
Pulcher. Forms a neat tuft of foliage, from which springs up 
from July to October a succession of 2-feet high stems, with 
clusters of brilliant rosy purple flowers, of good size, 25 cts. 
each; $2.50 per dcz. 
SILPHIUM (cup Plant) 
Perfoliatum. A stately perennial, also known as the Compass 
Plant, on account of the leaves being amanged at right angles 
to the stem; grows 5 tc 7 feet high, with large single yellow 
sunflower-like blooms from July to September. 25 cts. each; 
Sspum SP&CTABILE $2.50 per doz. 
flowers, with light pink centres. 
