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MOUNT ARBOR NURSERIES, SHENANDOAH, IOWA 
HARDY PERENNIALS AND ALPINE PLANTS—Continued 
RUDBECKIA^ Coneflower Per 10 Per 100 
Golden Olow^, 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, Soapwort 
*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 
C,aucasica, (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, 1'_ 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 Glaucuni, 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 
Spuriiun 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 
*SILENE, Catchfly or Campion 
Saxifraga, flowers white, in great profusion all summer. A choice 
Alpine of mossy growths._ 1.20 10.00 
Schafta, purplish-rose, very beautiful_ 1.00 8.00 
SOLIDAGO 
Goldenrod, a native of most parts of the Middle West and 
Eastern States. Golden yellow blooms. August, September, 4' 1.00 8.00 
*SPERGULA 
Pilifera, a hardy, evergreen suitable for grass edging or rock 
work, 4”_ 1.50 12.00 
SPIRE A, Goat’s Beard, Meadow Sweet 
Filipendula, (Dropwort). Numerous corymbs of white flowers on 
stems 15” high. Fern-like foliage, June and July- 1.80 15.00 
