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HARDY PERENNIALS AND ALPINE PLANTS—Continued 
*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. Per 10 
Alberti, color of leaves bronze, almost dull red at tip of leaves, 4"_$ 1.10 
Globiferum, color of leaves grey-green lightly tipped brown. Pale 
yellow flowers, 4" _ 1.10 
Tectorum, leaves have reddish-brown tips, flowers pale red- 1.10 
*SILENE, Catchfly or Campion 
Saxifraga, flowers white, in great profusion all summer. A choice 
Alpine of mossy growth . _ 1.20 
SOLIDAGO 
Goldenrod, a native of most parts of the Middle West and 
Eastern States. Golden yellow blooms. August, September, 4' 1.00 
*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_ 1.80 
*STACHYS, Woundwort 
Lanata, soft silvery foliage. Flowers useless, 4”_ $ 1.00 
*STATICE, Great Sea Lavender, August, 18” 
These plants have broad leathery leaves, producing candlebra- 
like heads. I cut in full bloom make very valuable winter 
bouquets. 
Latifolia, blue._ _ _ __ 1.20 
STOKESIA CYAN EA, Cornflower Aster or Stokes Aster 
Blue Flowers, lavender blue, centaurea-like blossoms, July to 
October, 18”_ 1.10 
White Flowers, same blooming characteristics_ 1.10 
* SWEET WILLIAM, See Dianthus Barbatus 
THALICTRUM, Meadow Rue 
Glaucum, yellow flowers, bluish-gray leaves, July, 3 to 4'_ 1.20 
*THYMUS, Thyme 
Serpyllum Coccineum, plants become completely covered with 
brilliant 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, Septem¬ 
ber, 30”. 
Pfitzeriana, this is the genuine Red Hot Poker and must be 
grown from divisions _ 1.50 
VERBENA, Hardy 
Lilac flowers from June to October, very good, 6” _ 1.50 
* VERONICA, Speedwell 
Elegantissim^, Dwarf, rose, very beautiful. Excellent rock garden 
flower _ 1.20 
Longifolia Subsessilis, this is the best of the Veronicas, produc¬ 
ing long spikes completely studded with beautiful blue flowers, 
July to September, 2' _ 1.80 
Pinnata, very dwarf grower, blooms white, borne on delicate 
hair-like foliage. August, September, 12” - 1.00 
Repens, trailer, has delicate white and blue flowers. One of the 
first to bloom. 6” _ 1.50 
Spicata, violet blue flowers, borne in masses, July, August, 18”___ 1.00 
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