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SPIRAEA UctMmaria FL. PL. 
Saxifraga (Megasea) 
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 rose-pink flowers, 
which appear very early in the spring, make them doubly effective. 
Decipiens (Crimson Moss). Dwarf mossy plants with white 
flowers in May and June. The green foliage turns a bright 
crimson in winter, splendid rock plant. 
Cordifolia. Light pink. Crassifolia. Rosy-pink. 
35 cts. each; $3.50 per doz.; $25.00 per 100. 
Sedum or Stone-Crop, Dwarf Sorts 
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. 
Lydium. Bronzy green foliage, pink flowers. 
Pruinatum Forsterianum. Glaucous bluish-green leaves, 
golden yellow flowers. 
Sarmentosum. Strong spreading habit with yellow flowers. 
Sexangulare. Very dark green foliage; yellow flowers. 
Sieboldi:~ Round succulent glaucous foliage, bright pink flowers; 
August and September. 
Stolonifera. One of the most desirable; flat succulent leaves; 
flowers purplish-pink; July and August; 6 inches. 
Spurium Coccineum. A beautiful rosy-crimson-flowered 
‘ form; July and August; 6 inches. 
* 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $20.00 per 100. Set of 9 sorts, $2.00. 
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Sedum, Erect Growing Varieties 
Useful and pretty plants for the border, producing their interest- 
ing flowers during late summer and fall. 
Spectabile. One of the prettiest erect growing species, attaining 
* 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.; $20.00 per 100. 
Senecio (Groundsel) 
Pulcher. Forms a neat tuft of foliage, from which spring up from 
July to October, a succession of 2-feet high stems, with clusters 
of brilliant rosy-purple flowers, of good size. 30 cts. each; $2.50 
per doz.; $18.00 per 100. 
Solidago (Golden Rod) 
The varieties offered below are the most desirable of our native 
Golden Rods. 
Altissima. The giant of the family, attaining a height of 10 to 
12 feet; the large heads of golden-yellow flowers reach perfection 
late in October. 
Golden Wings. The finest of all; 4 feet high, with immense panicles 
of bright golden-yellow flowers from July to September. 
Shorti. Golden-yellow flowers in July and August. 3 feet. 
Price. 25 cts. each; $2.50 per doz.; $15.00 per 100. Set of 3 sorts 
75 cts. 
Spiraea (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. : 
Filipendula (Dropwort). Numerous corymbs of white flowers on 
stems 15 inches high, during June and July, and pretty fern-like 
foliage. 
Filipendula flore plena. Identical to the above, excepting that 
the flowers are double. 
Palmata Elegans (Pink Meadow Sweet). One of the most useful 
hardy plants, with dark green foliage and purple-red stems and 
branches passing into the silvery pink of the broad corymbs of 
flowers, which are produced very free during June and July. 
Ulmaria, Fl. Pl. (Weadow Sweet). Grows about 3 feet high, and 
produces its double white flowers during June and July. 
Price. 35 cts. each; $3.50 per doz.; $25.00 per 100. One each of 
the above 4 varieties, $1.25. 
STATICE LATIFOLIA ELEGANTISSIMA 
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