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HARDY PERENNIALS—Continued 
Per 10 
♦SEDUM, Stone Crop or Live Forever, America’s Greatest Rock Plant 
Acre, (Goldmoss Stonecrop) bright yellow, July, 4”_: -$ .90 
Album, dwarf and spreading, thick waxy round foliage, white- 
flowers, good rock plant, 6"_ .90 
Aureum, yellow, July, 4"_ .90 
Kamtschaticum, (Orange Stonecrop) yellow, July, 10”_ .90 
Lydium Glaucum, very fine rock plant, 6”--- .90 
Oppositifolium, July, 4”_ .90 
Sexangulare, very dark green foliage, 4”_ .90 
Spectabile Brilliant, red, August, September, 18”_ .90 
” Rose, August, September, 18”_ .90 
Spurium Roseum, purplish-red, July, August, 6”- .90 
Stolonifera, purplish-pink, July and August, 6”_ .90 
* SEMPER VIVUM, 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”.. .80 
Globiferum, color of leaves grey-green lightly tipped brown. Pale 
yellow flowers, 4” _ .80 
Tectorum, leaves have reddish-brown tips, flowers pale red _ .80 
*SLLENE, Catchfly or Campion 
Saxifraga, flowers white, in great profusion all summer. A choice 
Alpine of mossy growth. _ 1.20 
Schafta, purplish-rose, very beautiful _ 1.00 
SOLIDAGO 
Goldenrod, a native of most parts of the Middle West and Eastern 
States. Golden yellow blooms.August, September, 4'_ .80 
•SPERGULA 
Pilifera, a hardy, evergreen suitable for grass edging or rock 
work, 4” _ $ 1.50 
SPIREA, Goat’s Beard, Meadow Sweet 
Filipendula, (Dropwort). Numerous corymbs of white flowers on 
stems 15” high. Fern-like foliage, June and July _ 1.50 
•STACHYS, Woundwort 
Lanata, soft silvery foliage, Flowers useless, 4” __ .90 
*STATICE, Great Sea Lavender, August, 18” 
All these plants have broad leathery leaves, producing candle- 
bra-like heads. If cut in full bloom make very valuable winter 
bouquets. 
Latif olia, blue _ 1.00 
STOKESIA CYANEA, Cornflower Aster or Stokes Aster 
Blue Flowers, lavender blue, centaurea-like blossoms, July to 
October, 18” _ 1.00 
White Flowers, same blooming characteristics _ 1.00 
* SWEET WILLIAM, See Dianthus Barbatus 
THALICTRUM, Meadow Rue 
Adiantifolium, white flowers, fern-like foliage, 15” _ 1.20 
Glaucum, yellow flowers, bluish-gray leaves, July, 3 to 4' _ 1.00 
♦THYMUS, Thyne 
Serpyllum Coccineum, plants become completely covered with bril¬ 
liant scarlet flowers, 18” _________ 1.20 
TRITOMA, Kniphofia—Red Hot Poker 
This perennial is not truly hardy in Northern latitudes and must 
be taken up and stored through the winter. Foliage grass-like. 
Blooms range from orange to deep coral. August, September, 30”. 
Pfitzeriana, this is the genuine Red Hot Poker and must be grown 
from divisions __ 1.50 
VALERIANA, Valerian, Garden Heliotrope 
Officinalis, flowers rose tinted white, June and July, 3 to 4' _ 1.20 
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