PERENNIALS AND CALIFORNIA BULBS 37 
SALVIAS. As a class they are very useful for hot, sunny situations in cool climates 
and for hot climates. While they respond liberally to excellent soil and conditions, they 
will give much beauty in rather poor soil, with heat. I do not carry the common bedding 
Salvias but can supply them in spring on application. 
S. azurea is very much to be recommended and especially for hot, dry places or 
hot climates. Many slender but wiry stems are produced from a woody base and grow 
to from 3 to 4 feet in height and in late summer produce graceful, airy panicles of ex- 
quisite light blue flowers. Its flowering season is late summer when flowers arc not too 
plentiful, and it makes very fine masses. I think very highly of it. 25 cts. each. 
S. Pitcheri is exactly like it, but has intense gentian-blue flowers (deep blue) and 
blooms from late summer until very cold weather. One of the best late fall flowers. 
25 cts. each. 
S. leucantha is a shrub l}4 to 2 feet high. Its many branches are terminated by 
slender racemes of small flowers which with their calyxes give a soft lavender effect. 
Very pretty in general effect and very hardy. Pot plants 35" cts. 
S. turkestanica is a striking plant growing 3 to 4 feet high. The large lower leaves 
are velvety and handsome. The many branches produce white flowers with large bracts 
which arc white, tinted purple. The bracts give the impression of a mass of white 
flowers. Cult., as last, but any garden soil. Well cared for, it makes a most striking mid- 
summer plant. 25 cts. each. 
SAXIFRAGAS are a most diverse genus. One group has leaves as large as a cabbage 
while others are little tufted rock-plants. Of the large sorts I can offer Saxifraga crassi- 
folia with large leaves and pretty rose-colored flowers which in California appear in 
the winter. One of the good winter-flowering plants. 25 cts. each. 
S. umbrosa is the London Pride, and a most delightful plant with erect flower- 
stems about a foot high and many small white flowers. The foliage is pretty and tufted, 
and it spreads to form a fine colony. 25 cts. each. 
SCABIOSA atropurpurea, the Mourning Bride, or Old Ladies Pin-Cushion of our 
mother's gardens has been evolved into one of the finest and most useful of garden flowers. 
From a broad basal tuft of foliage many slender stems arise to a foot or two, with large 
flowers in many colors. In California this Scabiosa becomes perennial, but it is better 
to treat it as an annual. Sit., sun. Soil, any garden soil. Prop., seedlings. PL, October 
to June. Annual Scabiosas can be planted at any time from October until May and can 
be so used as to always have an abundance of flowers coming on. Good plants at 60 cts. 
per doz., in Lavender-Blue, Crimson, Flesh-Pink, Black-Purple, Rose, White, and 
Mixed. 
S. caucasica is one of the best plants that I have. In color it is a very fine light blue, 
and the flowers are borne on stems a foot to 18 inches high and are excellent for cutting. 
There has not been a day in a year and a half that a bed in my garden has been without 
flowers, and during that time the temperature went below twenty degrees for many days. 
It only asks a garden soil in the sun and good tillage. 25 cts. each. 
S. lutea is the giant of its tribe. My plants stand about 7 feet high and spread widely. 
The flowers are light yellow. 25 cts. each. 
SEDUMS are a most interesting class of very hardy and drought-resisting, fleshy- 
leaved plants. The low, creeping, mossy sorts are among the best plants for dry and hot 
rockwork or for the tops of walls or crevices in walls or in rockwork. Also good for 
carpeting in cemeteries. The larger sorts number some very handsome garden plants. 
They are all hardy throughout the eastern and northeasterly portions of the United 
States. The names of the smaller Sedums are rather confused. In low mossy forms I 
have the following: 
S. acre is never over an inch in height and creeps to make solid mossy mats. I have 
four forms, one exceedingly small. All are pretty. Small clumps. 
S. album, a little taller than 5. acre is still under 2 inches, with flowering stems a 
little higher. White flowers. 
S. dasyphyllum is a very small-leaved sort, seldom over 2 inches in height. The 
leaves are round and make a close mat; rather glaucous. 
S. stoloniferum. Leaves obovate, cuncate, trailing, and rooting at the joints. Flow- 
ering stems 6 inches high, with pink flowers. A showy species and a good rockwork plant. 
These four varieties, 10 cts. each, $1 per doz. 
S. spectabile, or Showy Sedum, has handsome foliage and stems \ }4 to 2 feet high, 
with rose flowers. A most excellent pot plant and good for rockwork. It thrives best 
in a good clay loam. Strong plants, 25 cts. each. 
S. spectabile purpureum differs only in having purplish flowers. Price same. 
