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HARDY PERENNIALS AND ALPINE PLANTS—(Continued) 
*PYRETHRUM, Painted Daisy Per 10 Per 100 
Aureum, (Golden Feather) produces multitudes of tiny yellow 
flowers, throughout July and August, 12"_$ 1.00 $ 8.00 
Hybridum Roseum, one of the earliest and latest flowers to bloom 
producing an abundance of blooms in a wide range of color, good 
cut flower, June to October, 18"_ 1.10 9.00 
Hybridum Roseum Atrosanguineum, same as Roseum only the 
blooms as a rule are darker shades, 18"_ 1.20 10.00 
Roseum Carneum, flesh colored, very new, 18"_ 1.50 12.00 
* RANUNCULUS , Buttercup 
Repens, FI. PL, very pretty double flowering yellow butter-cup. 
Flowers of bright yellow. May, June, 6"_ 1.00 8.00 
RUDBECKIA, Coneflower 
Golden Glow, one of the old fashioned hardy plants. Produces 
masses of large golden double yellow flowers, July, August, 6'__ 1.00 8.00 
Purpurea, reddish purple flowers with very large black cone for 
center, July to October, 2' - 1.00 8.00 
SALVIA, Meadow Sage 
Argentea, white flowers, large, ornamental silver foliage, 24"_ 1.00 8.00 
Azurea Grandiflora, large flowered azure, August, Sept., 5'_ 1.00 8.00 
Old Fashioned Sage, leaves valuable for seasoning, 3'_ 1.00 8.00 
SAPONARIA, Soap wort 
*Ocymoides Splendens, pretty prostrate border and rockery plant. 
Flowers rosy pink, produced in great quantities just about the 
foliage. May, June, 2' _ 1.00 8.00 
* SAXIFRAGE 
Cordifolia, admirable for the front of the border or shrubbery 
Forming masses of handsome broad deep green foliage. Flowers 
early in the spring. Fine among rocks and ledges, 1'_ 1.50 12.00 
SCABIOSA, Pin Cushion Flower 
Caucasica, (Blue Bonnet) soft shade of lavender, June to Septem¬ 
ber, 18" _ 1.20 10.00 
Caucasica Alba, white, June to September, 18"_ 1.50 12.00 
SCUTELLARIA, Skullcap 
*Baicalensis Coelestina, short wiry stems clothed with clear blue 
Snap-dragon-shaped flowers, July and August, V _ 1.20 10.00 
*SEDUM, Stone Crop or Live Forever, America’s Greatest Rock Plant 
Album, dwarf and spreading, thick waxy round foliage, white- 
flowers, good rock plant, 6"_ 1.00 8.00 
Kamtschaticum, (Orange Stonecrop) yellow, July, 10"_ 1.00 8.00 
Lydium Glaucum, very fine rock plant, 6"_1.00 8.00 
Oppositifolium, July, 4"_ 1.00 8.00 
Sexangulare, very dark green foliage, 4"_ 1.00 8.00 
Spectabile Brilliant, red, August, September, 18"_ 1.00 8.00 
Rose, August, September, 18"_ 1.00 8.00 
Spurium Roseum, purplish-red, July, August, 6”_ 1.00 8.00 
Stolonifera, purplish-pink, July and August, 6"_ 1.00 8.00 
*SEMPERVIVUM, Houseleek 
Sometimes known as Hen and Chicken. Plants especially good 
for rock garden. Their rosette-like, thick leaves are fleshy and 
pointed. The small clumps slowly spread, filling pockets and 
crevices between the rocks. 
Alberti, color of leaves bronze, almost dull red at tip of leaves, 4" 1.10 9.00 
Globiferum, color of leaves grey-green lightly tipped brown. Pale 
yellow flowers, 4"_ 1.10 9.00 
Tectorum, leaves have reddish-brown tips, flowers pale red_ 1.10 9.00 
