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CHAS. FIORE NURSERIES, PRAIRIE VIEW, ILLINOIS 
SWEET WILLIAM 
SIDALCEA (Greek Mallow) 
Graceful, hardy perennials with Hollyhock-like flowers borne on slender 
spikes. Suitable for sunny borders. The Genus belongs to the Mal¬ 
low order. 
Rose Queen. 2 to 3 feet. July-August. Beautiful rose-pink flowers. 
each 20c; per 10 $1.80 
SILENE (Catchfly) 
A charming class of plants for the rock garden. They are closely allied 
to the Pink family and require much the same treament. They 
bloom nearly all Summer and are a very desirable addition to the 
rockery. 
Mixed. Rose, pink and white flowers, 4 to 6 inches. 
each 18c; per 10 $1.50 
Schafta. A charming border or rock plant, growing from 4 to 6 inches 
high with masses of bright pink flowers from July to October. 
each 20c; per 10 $1.80 
SPERGULA 
Pilifera. 4 inch. A hardy evergreen suitable for grass edging or rock- 
work. 
each 20c; per 10 $1.80 
SPIREA ASTILBE 
Hybrid varieties of very vigorous growth, producing many branched 
feathery heads of flowers in June and July. They prefer a half-shady 
moist position in any ordinary garden soil. 
Varieties for Forcing and Outdoor Planting 
America. Beautiful violet-blue. 
each 35c; per 10 $3.00 
Ceres. Red. 
each 35c; per 10 $3.00 
Davidii. Bright rose pink. 
each 35c; per 10 $3.00 
Sieboldii. Bright pink flowers. Aug. and Sept. 
each 20c; per 10 $1.80 
Spurium Coccineum. A beautiful rosy crimson flowered 
form. July and August. 6 inches. 
each 20c; per 10 $1.80 
Erect-Growing Varieties 
Maximum. Grows about 1J4 feet. 
each 20c; per 10 $1.80 
Spectabile. One of the prettiest erect-growing species, at¬ 
taining a height of two feet, with broad, light green 
foliage and immense heads of handsome, showy, rose 
colored flowers; indispensable as a late Fall-blooming 
plant. 
each 20c; per 10 $1.80 
Spectabile Brilliant. A rich colored form of the preceding, 
being a bright amaranth-red. 
each 20c; per 10 $1.80 
Gloria. Beautiful deep crimson. 
each 35c; per 10 $3.00 
Gladstone. 18 inches. June and July. A fine variety. Im¬ 
mense trusses of flowers are as white as snow, borne 
on erect, strong stalks; best white for forcing. 
each 35c; per 10 $3.00 
Peach Blossom. Is of a delicate light pink. 
each 35c; per 10 $3.00 
Queen Alexandra. Light pink; good for forcing. 
each 35c; per 10 $3.00 
SPIREA (Meadow Sweet) 
This is an elegant border plant, with feathery plumes of 
flowers and neat, attractive foliage; succeeds in all 
locations. 
Filipendula. Flora pleno White. 
each 35c; per 10 $3.00 
Ulmaria. The well-known double Meadow Sweet. Creamy 
white flowers. 
each 35c; per 10 $3.00 
SEMPERVIVUM (Hen and Chick) 
Sempervivums are mostly hardy perennials and stem¬ 
less, and increase by rosettes which are sent out from 
the parent plant, thereby suggesting the popular name 
“hen-and-chickens.” The leaves are thick, short, and suc¬ 
culent. The flowers, which are borne in panicled cymes, 
are mostly yellow, greenish yellow, or some shade of rose 
or purple, rarely white. The individual flowers are larger 
than those of sedum, but the clusters are less showy. 
Arachnoideum. Globiferum. 
Assimile. 
Colcareum. 
Fauconati. 
Fimbriatum. 
Old Fashioned. 
Potsi. 
Tectorum. 
each 18c; per 10 $1.50 
SENECIO (Groundsel) 
Clivcrum. Forms a neat tuft of foliage, from which spring up from 
July to October a' succession of 3-foot stems, with clusters of 
orange-yellow flowers. 
each 30c; per 10 $2.75 
ANEMONE 
