28 HENRY A. DREER, PHILADELPHIA—HARDY PERENNIAL PLANTS 
SCABIOSA. 
Japonica. Lavender-blue flowers, in bloom frem July to Sep- 
tember; 2 feet. 26 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $15.00 per 100. 
SILENE (Catchfly). 
Alpestris. A good rock-work plant, grows about 4 inches 
high, with glistening white flowers in July and August. 
Schafta (Autumn Catchfly). A charming border or rock 
plant, grewing from 4 to 6 inches high, with masses of bright 
pink flowers from July to October. 
15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz.; $10.@0 per 100. 
SILPHIUM (Cup Plant). 
Perfoliatum. A tall growing perennial 6 to 8 feet high, 
bearing large yellow single flowers during August and Sep- 
tember; a good subject for the shrub-border. 25 cts. each; 
$2:50 per doz. é 
SEDUM (Stone-crop). 
DWARF VARIETIES. 
Suitable fer the rockery, carpet bedding, covering of graves, 
etc. 
Acre (Golden Moss). Much used for covering graves; foliage 
green, flowers bright yellow. 
Album. 
Sexangulare. 
Stahli. Compact species with crimson-tinted foliage in autumn. 
Spurium. Attractive pink flowers; 6 inches. 
— Coccinum. A beautiful crimson-fiowered form. 
15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz.; $10.00 per 100. 
ERECT, OR TALL=GROWING VARIETIES. 
Useful and pretty plants for the border, producing their in- 
teresting flowers during late summer and fall. 
Japonicum Macrophyllum. Forms compact bushes, 15 
inches high, with pleasing waxy-white flowers, with light 
pink centres. 
Maximum Atropurpureum. Interesting on account of its 
dark bronzy-purple foliage; 15 inches. 
Spectabile. One of the prettiest erect-growing species, at- 
taining a height of 18 inches, with 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. 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz. 
Price, except where noted, 15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz.; 
$10.00 per 100. One each of the four sorts for 50 cts. 
Green foliage, white flowers. 
Dark green foliage, yellow flowers. 
SeEpuM SPECTABILE 
Stoxesia Cyanga (Cormflower Aster) 
SPIR ZEA (Goat's Beard, Meadow Sweet). 
Elegant border plants with feathery plumes of flowers and 
neat, attractive foliage; succeed best in a half-shaded location 
in rich, moist soil. 
Chinensis. A handsome species, with large heads of silvery- 
pink flowers in June and July; 2 feet. 25 cts. each; $2.50 
er doz. 
Filipendula FI. Pl. (Double-flowered Drop-wo7rt). Numer- 
ous corymbs of double white flowers on stems 15 inches high, 
during June and July, and pretty fern-like foliage. 
Palmata (Crimson Meadow Sweet). One of the most beau- 
tiful hardy plants, the deep purple-red of the stems and 
branches passing into the crimson-purple of the broad corymbs 
of flowers, which are produced very freely during June and 
July; 3 feet. 
—Elegans. A free-flowering pure white with protruding 
pink anthers. 
Venusta. A showy, red-flowering species; very fragrant; 4 
to 5 feet; June. 
Venusta Magnifica. A new variety and a decided improve- 
ment on S. Venusta, with richer and more intense rosy-red, 
fragrant flowers, blooming during June and July; a splendid 
plant for low, wet ground; 4 to 5 feet. 50 cts. each; $6.00 
per doz. 
Price, except where noted, 15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz. 
STATICE (Great Sea Lavender). 
Latifolia. A most valuable plant either for the border or 
rockery, with tufts of leathery leaves and immense candelabra- 
like heads, frequently 14 feet high and 2 feet across, of pur- 
plish-blue minute flowers from June to September; these, if 
cut and dried, last in perfect condition for months. 16 cts. 
each; $1.50 per doz. 
STOKESIA (Cornflower Aster). 
Cyanea. A beautiful native plant growing 18 inches high, 
bearing freely from early in June until September its hand- 
some lavender-blue Cornflower-like blossoms, which measure 
from 4 to 5 inches across, It is of the easiest culture, suc- 
ceeding in any open, sunny position, and not only is it desir- 
able as a single plant in the hardy border, but it can also be 
used with fine effect in masses or beds of any size. 
Cyanea alba. Pure white variety of above, 
15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz.; $10.00 per 100. 
