5] HARDY PERENNIAL PLANTS~ | [TT 
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) 
DWAREF 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. 
Sexangulare. Dark green 
foliage, yellow flowers. 
Sieboldi. Round, succu- 
lent, glaucous foliage; 
bright pink flowers in Au- 
gust and September. 
Stahli. Compact species, 
with crimson-tinted foliage 
Scapiosa CaAUCASICA 
$ SEDUM (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 flowers, with 
light pink centres. 
Maximum Atropurpureum, Interesting on account 
ope a ce ee of its dark bronzy-purple foliage; 15 inches. 
25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; Spectabile. One of the prettiest erect-growing species, 
$15.00 per 100. attaining a height of 18 inches, with broad light green 
foliage and immense heads of handsome showy rose-colored flow- 
ers; 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. One each 
of the 4 sorts for 75 cts. 
SEMPERVWIWVUM. (House Leek) 
Peculiarly interesting plant for the rockery or for any exposed, 
well-drained position, We can furnish six distinct varieties at 15 
cts. each; $1.50 per doz.; $10.00 per 100. Set of 6 for 75 cts. 
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. 265 cts. each; $2.50 
per doz. 
in autumn. 
Stolonifera. One of the 
most desirable; flat succu- 
lent leaves; flowers purp- 
lish-pink; July and Au- 
gust; 6 inches. 
Spurium. Attractive pink 
flowers; 6 inches. 
— Coccinum. A beautiful 
SHORTIA 
Galacifolia. A rare and handsome dwarf evergreen, with bronzy- 
green foliage. Requires a shady position and a soil made up 
mostly of leaf-mould. The flowers are pure white, about an inch 
across, each ona stiff, wiry stem, and turn pink with age. 25 
Szpum SPFCTABILE cts. each. 
