J. T. LOVETT. LITTLE SILVER, N. J. 



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SALVIA AZUREA GRANDIFLORA. 



California Elte Sage. 



Strong growing ar.u branching, attains a height of 

 three to four feet and during August and September I'a 

 season when there is usually a dearth of bloom in the 

 hardy border) the plants are entirely covered with pani- 

 cles of the most charming celestial blue imaginable. A 

 mass of it is so striking as to arrest the eye at a dis- 

 tance of several hundred yards and its beauties become 

 more manifest the nearer it is approached. Each, 12c; 

 doz., $1.25; 100, $8.00. 



SEDUM. 



Stoxecrop. 



ACRE. GoLDEX Moss OE Wael Pepper. (4 inches.) 

 — Pretty light green, evergreen foliage with clouds of 

 small bright yellow flowers in June and July. Largely 

 used for covering graves and in carpet bedding. 



Sedum spectabilis. 

 ALBUM. ('6 inches.) — Clear green foliage in tufts 

 and showy heads of white flowers from June to August. 



MAXIMUM VARIEGATUM.— Of strong erect 



growth with large oval, smooth, glaucous leaves, broadly 



marked and blotched with creamy white. Especially val- 

 uable for rock planting. 



SIEBOLDII. (6 to 9 mches.) — An invaluable va- 

 riety of semi-trailing habit and evergreen foliage. From 

 August until late October it produces large heads of 

 bright rosy-purple flowers very freely and its red stems 

 and round bluish green leaves, margined with pink, 

 which are tinged with red and purple during winter, 

 render it a remarkably neat and attractive plant through- 

 out the year. Splendid for rock planting also. 



SPECTABILIS. Showy Sedum. (18 inches.)— Of 

 erect habit and the finest of the Sedums. Large oval, 

 light green, succulent leaves and a profusion of broad 

 heads of showy rosy pink flowers in late summer and 

 autumn. One of the few plants of dwarf habit that 

 flowers late in the season. See cut. 



Each, 12c; doz., $1.25; 100, $8.00. 



SOLIDAGO. ^^-^i-DEX Rod. 



SEMPERVIRENS. Seaside Goldex Rod.— A very 

 distinct species. It has large, long smooth leaves and 

 is a strong sturdy growing plant. In August and Sep- 

 tember it produces numerous large stems two to three 

 feet tall, which are surmounted with very large graceful 

 panicles of exceedingly bright and pleasing light yellow 

 flowers. Succeeds everywhere, even in sea-sand. 



TENUI FOLIA. — There are a great many species and 

 varieties of the Golden Rod, which are a good deal alike. 

 As S. tenuifolia is much the best, I have discarded the 

 others. It attains a height of two to three feet with 

 spreading branches; stems slender with narrow ieav*:s, 

 and surmounted with long, graceful flower heads ot 

 bright golden-yellow — both airy and graceful — during 

 August and September. Succeeds ever>-where. 



Each, 12c; doz., $1.23; 100, $8.00. 



