Flowering Flax (Linum). 
Delightful surprise 
flowers; they seem to be 
all through blooming 
and then are loaded 
with bloom the very 
next day. Bloom May 
to August. 
Blue Flax (Linum per- 
enne). (Picture below). 
2 feet high. Feathery 
bluish foliage; blue 
flowers. 
Golden Flax (Linum fla- 
vum). Golden yellow 
flowers. 
Blue Flax. 
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Moss Pink (Phlox subulata). (Picture at left). Makes the 
daintiest of fairy carpets . Delicate mauve-pink blossoms 
crowd upon one another thickly. Pretty feathery, ferndike 
foliage 3 to 4 inches tall. Evergreen. Spreads rapidly. 
Can be had in white also. 
Bugle Plant (Ajuga reptans). (Not shown). Fine fast'spread- 
ing plant for carpeting shady positions. Very dense foliage. 
Rich blue flowers in May and June. 
Moss Pink. 
Mountain Thyme (Thymus serpyllum). (Not shown). 
Ideal carpeting plant 
with small lilac' 
purple blooms. Can 
be walked upon 
without injury. 
Grows anywhere. 
Plumbago lar- 
pentae. (Not 
shown). A low 
spreading plant 
with pretty blue 
onednch flowers. 
6 to 8 inches 
high. It will make 
your rock garden 
different. 
Ground Ivy. 
Kenilworth Ivy. 
Ground Ivy (Nepeta Mussini). (Picture above). Silvery 
gray creeping foliage with myriads of lavender'blue 
flowers all spring. Blooms occasionally during the sum' 
mer. 
Creeping Baby’s Breath. 
Kenilworth Ivy (Linaria cymbalaria). (Pic' 
ture above). The Tiny Tim of trailing 
vines. A wonder for endurance of bloom, 
has minute lavender'pink flowers all sum' 
mer. Beautiful foliage. 
Baby’s Breath. Fine where a mistdike effect is 
wanted. Two varieties are recommended, 
both low'growing trailers. Flowers small 
and produced in great numbers during 
July and August. 
Gypsophila repens. White flowers. (Picture 
at left). 
Gypsophila repens rosea. Pink flowers. 
The Speedwells (Veronica). ( Not shown). 
Fine plants where a thick low mat of foliage 
is wanted. The following are best for your 
rock garden. All are hardy, showy, free 
flowering. Succeed in any good garden soil 
in a sunny situation. 
Veronica rupestris. Grows about 4 inches tall. 
Pretty pale blue flowers, June. 
Veronica repens. 1 to 2 inches tall. Light 
blue flowers, May and June. 
Veronica amethystina. 8 to 12 inches tall. 
Amethyst'blue flowers, May and June. 
Veronica teucrium. 6 to 12 inches high. 
Bright blue flowers, May and June. 
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