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BROWN BROTHERS COMPANY 
Sempervivum - House Leek 
Sometimes called “Hen and Chickens.” An unusually attractive plant for the 
rock garden, with thick, waxy leaves forming very charming rosettes among the 
rocks or along the border. Pale red flowers. 
Silene Schafta - Catchfly 
A lovely border or rock plant, growing from 4 to 6 inches high, with a wealth 
of bright pink flowers from July to October. 
♦SPURGE, JAPANESE. See Pachysandra. 
Spiraea Filipendula - Dropwort 
Numerous corymbs of white flowers on stems 15 inches high. June and July, 
pretty fernlike foliage. 
Statice - Great Sea Lavender 
♦Latifolia. Tufts or clumps of thick, leathery foliage and immense panicles of 
delicate blue flowers. Individual flowers every minute, similar in form to the 
Forget-me-not, but made in heads 18 inches or more across. 18 inches. 
STOKESIA. See Aster, Cornflower. 
Sweet William - Dianthus Barbatus 
Salvia Azurea. 
PINKS. See Dianthus. 
Platycodon 
(Balloon Flower) 
Blooms constantly from July 
until late September; flowers 
large, bell-shaped, in numerous 
loose racemes. Color blue. Good 
for rockery or border. 
Pyrethrum 
(Painted Daisy) 
Planted in spring. The Pyre- 
thrums are closely related to the 
hardy Chrysanthemum family and 
are often referred to as spring 
flowering Chrysanthemums. Excel¬ 
lent for cut flower decoration ow¬ 
ing to their lasting qualities in 
water. May and June. 
Sedum Spurium Coccineum. 
We guarantee our plants to 
grow or replace free. 
One of the most popular old garden favorites; grows 12 to 18 inches in height. 
Blossoms in May, June, July, and intermittently thereafter; the flowers being in 
large flat clusters in all shades of 
pink, white, and red; a cheerful, 
fragrant and showy perenn’al. 
Tradescantia 
(Spiderwort) 
Virginica. Produces a succes¬ 
sion of blue flowers all summer. 
2 feet. 
'' Trollius 
(Globe Flower) 
Very showy flowers of globular 
shape, resembling giant Butter- 
cups. They are splendid for mass¬ 
ing along water courses for dis¬ 
play, and are equally good in the 
garden for cut flowers. 
Ranunculus - Buttercups 
Acris flore pleno. A double yellow, upright growing buttercup-like plant. Good for 
border in wet places. Also good cut flower. 2 feet. 
ROCK CRESS. See Arabis. 
RUDBECKIA. See Golden Glow. 
Salvia - Meadow Sage 
AZUREA. A Rocky Mountain species. Plants of shrubby habit, with beautiful light blue 
flowers in long, slender spikes. 3 to 4 feet. August and September. 
Scabiosa - Pincushion Flower 
Caucasica (Blue Bonnet). Vigorous, handsome border plant, with large, soft, lilac-blue 
flowers, long stems, useful for cutting. 18 to 24 inches. August and September. 
Sedum - Stonecrop 
*Acre (Golden Moss). Useful plant for rockery and for edging borders. Flowers bright 
yellow. 9 inches. June and July. 
*Album (White Stonecrop). Very pretty creeping variety, with small foliage and tiny 
white flowers on pinkish stems; good rock plants. 1 foot. July and August. 
*Glaucum. Excellent dwarf variety for rockeries or borders. 
*Sarmentosum. Excellent dwarf variety for rockeries or border edgings. The best 
Sedum for filling seams between rocks in wall garden; rapid grower. 
*Sieboldi. Round heads of rose-pink flowers; prettily tinted foliage. 1 foot. 
*Spectabile. Erect growing mass of rose-colored flowers. 18 inches. August and Sep¬ 
tember. 
*Spectabile, Brilliant. One of the prettiest; erect, broad, light green foliage and 
immense heads of handsome, showy, bright amaranth-red flowers in flat clusters. 
18 inches. August and September. 
*Spurium coccineum. A beautiful rosy crimson-flowered form. July and August. 
6 inches. 
T rollius. 
