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RUDBECKIA (Cone-Hower) 



Indispensable plants for the hardy border; grow and thrive anywhere, 



giving a wealth of bloom, which are well suited for cutting. 



"Qolden Glow." A well-known popular plant, a strong robust grower, 

 attaining a height of 5 to 6 feet, and produces masses of double golden- 

 yellow Cactus Dahlia-like flowers from July to September. 



Maxima. A rare and attractive variety, growing 5 feet high, with large 

 glaucous green leaves and bright yellow flowers 5 to 6 inches across, with 

 a cone 2 inches high; flowers continuously from June to September. 



Newmani. Dark orange-yellow flowers, with deep purple cone, borne on 

 stiff, wiry stems 3 feet high; flowers from July to September. 



Nitida "Autumn Sun." An attractive single-floweriag variety, grow- 

 ing 5 to 6 feet high, with long, broad petals of bright primrose-yellow; 

 August to October. 



Purpurea ( Giant Purple Cone-flower). Flowers about 4 inches across, 

 of a peculiar reddish-purple with a remarkably large cone-shaped centre 

 of brown- forms bushy plants 3 feet high, and blooms from July to 

 October. 



Subtomentosa. A pyramidal densely branched plant, 2^ feet high, 

 which is completely enveloped in a mass of brilliant lemon-yellow flowers 

 with dark purple centres in summer. 



Price. 30 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $18.00 per 100. Set of 6 sorts 

 for $1.25. 



RuDBECKiA Purpurea 

 (Giant Purple Cone Flower) 



SAI.VIA 



(Meadow Sage) 



Azurea. A Rocky Mountain 

 species; grows 3 to 4 feet high, 

 producing during August and 

 September pretty sky-blue flow- 

 ers in the greatest profusion. 



Pitcheri. Similar to the above, 

 but of more branching habit 

 and larger flowers of a rich 

 gentian blue color, and one of 

 the most admired plants by the 

 many visitors to our nurseries 

 during the early autumn; 3 to 

 4 feet. 



30 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; 

 $18.00 per 100. 



Group of Saxipragas (Mega^ea^) 



SANTOLINA (Lavender Cotton) 

 Chamsecyparissus Incana. A dwarf evergreen perennial with attractive, 

 silvery-white foliage; useful as a rock or border plant, and largely used for 

 carpet 1)edding; prefers a light soil and rather dry position. 20 cts. each; 

 $2.00 per doz.; $12.00 per 100. 



SAXIFRAGA (Me^asea) 

 These will thrive in any kind of soil and in any position; grow about 1 foot 

 high and are admirable for the front of the border or shrubbery, forming masses 

 of handsome, broad, deep green foliage, which alone renders them useful, while 

 the pretty Tose-pink flowers, which appear very early in the spring, some almost 

 as soon as the frost is out of the ground, make them doubly effective. We offer 

 six choice varieties, 30 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $18.00 per 100. 



Salvia Pitchbri 



