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.'S SEED CATALOGUE 
No. 
841. 
842. 
843. 
844. 
Pkt. ote 
RUDBECKIA, Fulgida Variabilis — New. A new 
hardy perennial of remarkable beauty. Plants 
trow 3 feet in heiglit, are of bushy habit with long 
ower stems, and are literally covered with flowers 
of the most varied and unique markings. Blooms 
vary in size from 2 to 34 inches in diameter. 
Ground color is yellow or bronze, some being 
striped with purplish-brown, while in others the 
petals are brown half way , then yellow, finally again 
merging into brown. Keeps in flower all summer. 
SAPONARIA, Ocymoides Splendens— Valuable early 
summer plant for rockwork, producing sheets of 
vivid crimson flowers, 2^ feet. May-August. . . . 
SAXIFRAGA, Umbrosa— 1 foot. Rose. June-July 
SAXIFRAGA, Mixed Varieties— 15 inches. May- 
June 
S. Umbrosa under the name of " London Pride, 
or " None-so-pretty," is an old country favorite^' 
hardy liorder perennial. Very praoeful. 
No. 
826. 
827. 
828. 
829. 
830. 
831. 
832. 
833. 
834. 
835. 
836. 
837. 
838. 
839. 
840. 
Single Iceland Poppy Pkt. cts. 
PRIMULA, Cortusoides — 9 inches. Deep rose. May- 
June 10 
PRIMULA, Hybrida — Large flowering hardy var- 
iety 25 
PRIMROSE — i inches. Yellow. May-June 10 
PRIMROSE, Irish — In many colors. 4 inches. 
May-June 25 
PRIMROSE, New Hybrids— Blue. June 25 
The blooms of the latter (carried well above 
the foliage) are of many beautiful shades of blue, 
from pale lavender to deep violet. 
PRUNELLA, Grandiflora — 6 inches. Violet. Sum- 
mer 5 
PYRETHRUM, Single Mixed Hybrids— 2 feet 10 
^PYRETHRUM, Double Mixed Hybrids— 2 feet. 
June-August 25 
PYRETHRUM, Roseum Hybridum Grandiflorum- 
A grand strain of this fine hardy perennial, pro- 
ducing blooms 3 inches in diameter, and includes 
aU the beautiful colors, ranging from richest 
carmine to delicate light rose 30 
Pyrethrums are quite hardy, and few herba- 
ceous plants surpass them for effect in the mixed 
border or for cut flowers. 
ROCKET, Sweet — 2 feet. Sweet-scented. All sum- 
mer. Mixed colors 5 
ROMNEYA, Coulteri— The Giant White Cali- 
fornian Poppy. Produces in summer large snowy 
white crinkled flowers, 4 to 5 inches in diameter 
with golden yellow stamens, of delicate perfume; 
glaucous deeply cut foUage. 3 feet .- 15 
RUDBECKIA, Neumanni — 3 feet. Golden yellow 
with black centre. August-September 20 
RUDBECKIA, Califomica — 5 feet. Yellow with 
brown centre. September 10 
RUDBECKIA, Bicolor Superba Semi-Plena — 
A splendid semi-double variety with neat yellow 
flowers spotted with brown 25 
BICOLOR SUPERBA— H. h. a., 2 feet. Branch- 
ing habit, producing an abundance of blooms on 
long stems, with brown discs, while the ray florets 
are yellow, with velvety spots at the base 15 
845. 
846. 
847. 
848. 
849. 
850. 
851. 
852. 
853; 
30 
6 
25 
10 
Scabiosa Caucasica 
SCABIOSA, Caucasica — 1 foot. Lai'ge flowers of 
soft lilac-blue. A lovely hardy perennial. July-pi 
September 10 
SCABIOSA, Caucasica Perfecta — A fine showy, 
hardy perennial, the handsome flowers bearing 
3 to 4 rows of finely fringed ray florets, the colors 
being various shades of lilac 30 
SCABIOSA JAPONICA— New. A hardy perennial 
from Japan, forming bushy plants 2| to 3 feet 
in height, bearing on long, wiry stems beautiful 
lavender-blue flowers 2 to 2i inches across, and 
blooming from the end of June until late in 
autumn. Fine for cutting 30 
SCUTELLARIA, Alpina — 1 foot. Purple, lower 
lip yellow. August 6 
SEDUM, Aizoon — 4 inches. Yellow. June 10 
SIDALCEA, Candida— 3 feet. Large pun; white 
flowers. July-August 10 
SIDALCEA, Listeri — Tall graceful spikes of delicate 
pink flowers, beautifully fringed. 3 feet 30 
SILENE, Alpestris— 6 inches. Sheets of glistening 
white flowers. A fine rock plant. July-August.. 10 
STACHYS, Lanata— 2 feet. Silvery foliage; 
white flowers. July. Fine perennial 5 
