*POTENTI LLA, Cinquifoil. These useful plants suggest the 
strawberry in growth and flower. Cult: Hardy plants, 
standing drouth and rough treatment, yet to have their 
best, give sun or light shade, a good moist loam. PI., 
fall to spring. Prop., seeds. 
*Calabrica. The shimmering low masses of silvery foliage 
alone make this plant attractive and desirable. The 
small pretty flowers are white. 25 cts. each; 3 for 65 cts. 
*Miss Willmott. The upright habit and many branches carry¬ 
ing bright cerise strawberry-like flowers during the en¬ 
tire season and the 12-inch height make this a fine plant 
either for the rock garden or the border. 25 cts. each; 
3 for 65 cts. 
* Repens. The long strawberry-like runners and small finely 
cut leaves make a low lacey cover that drapes over rocks 
or walls beautifully. The flowers are bright yellow. 25 
cts. each; 3 for 60 cts. 
*PRIMULA or PRIMROSES. Primula acaulis is the English 
primrose and differs from the Polyanthus in having each 
flower on a separate stem and they continue to flower 
over a much longer season. They thrive in any situation 
in light or medium shade and in ordinary rich soil. Splen¬ 
did alike in shady border and rock garden. PI., fall or 
spring. I offer the following rare sorts: 
^Primrose Heavenly Blue. So rare and beautiful that they 
always attract. Of the Acaulis type with stems 6 to 8 
inches with flowers in varying shades of very deep blue. 
40 cts. each; 3 for $1. 
*Primrose “Double Lavender.” Of the acaulis type and very 
free flowering with very double deep lavender flowers. If 
you do not just love them on sight you will differ from 
every visitor to my gardens. 40 cts. each; 3 for $1. 
^Primrose “Double White to Pink.” Like last, excepting 
color and equally as dainty. They vary from white to 
pink and apparently the same plant may flower white or 
pink according to conditions and the season. 40 cts. each; 
3 for $1. 
**PRIMULA Jul iae has a neat tuft a half inch high and lovely 
deep claret colored flowers with a golden eye on 2-inch 
stems. A jewell among alpines. Give a cool, sunny situa¬ 
tion, light shade, and a good moist loam. PI., fall to 
spring. 35 cts. each; 3 for 90 cts. 
*PTEROCEPHALUS parnassi forms low dense clumps, gray¬ 
ish foliage and above this produces many lilac-pink, 
sacabiosa-like flowers through the summer. Cult: Sun. 
Soil. any. PI., fall to spring. Prop., div. 25 cts. each; 3 
for 65 cts. 
*PULMONARIA angustifolia. A lovely cousin of Mertensia 
with a tuft of rather large basal leaves and many 10-inch 
stems bearing sky blue flowers in early spring. PI., fall 
to spring, in cool or shady situation in a good loam. 25 
cts. each; 3 for 65 cts. 
*PYRETHRUM Tchitatchewii. With its dense carpet of deep 
green foliage and white daisy-like flowers on 4-inch 
stems throughout spring and summer, this is an ideal 
cover for dry places or for a pocket in the rock garden. 
Cult: Sun and any soil; stands heat and drouth. PI., 
fall to spring. 25 cts. each; 3 for 60 cts. 
*ROSA spithamea. Creeping by underground runners, this 
lovely native rose makes little scattered colonies. Never 
over 6 inches high and its large, bright pink blossoms are 
lovely. 50 cts. each. 
REDBUD. See page 38. 
ROMNEYA. See page 38. 
**ROCK ROSE. See Lewisias. 
RUDBECKIA, C one Flower. Hardy, free-flowering per¬ 
ennials somewhat like sun-flowers in habit and flower. 
Splendid plants for border in sun or partial shade and 
ordinary soil. PI., fall to spring. Divide every two years. 
Do best in good moist loam. 
Golden Glow. Four to 6 ft. with double golden yellow flow¬ 
ers. 
Newmanii. Two feet with deep orange-yellow flowers with 
purple all summer. The much loved “Black Eyed Susan.” 
Requires moderate moisture. 
Nitida Herbtsonne. Five to 7 ft. with deep, yellow single 
flowers. A splendid plant for background. Does well in 
shade. 
Purpurea. Attractive rosy-purple flowers from July to 
August. Last long as cut flowers and most showy in 
evening light. 
Rudbeckia prices: 25 cts. each; 3 for 65 cts.; $2.50 per doz. 
SALVIA in Bl ue. Many people ask for blue flowers and 
there are no finer blues than in these Salvias. Grace¬ 
fully branched woody plants with beautiful masses of 
flowers and very drouth resistant, except S. patens. Cult: 
Sun and any soil. PI., fall to spring. 
Azurea. With many stout and wiry stems this makes a 
bush-like mass with flowers of clear azure-blue after 
midsummer. 25 cts. each; 3 for 65 cts.; $2.50 per doz. 
Bracteata Rosea makes a much branched plant, 3 to 4 ft. in 
height with heavy bluish basal leaves. On the branches 
are many lavender bracts which give the effect of flow¬ 
ers in June and July. Striking and a favorite with visitors 
here. 25 cts. each; 3 for 65 cts. 
Farinacea. A splendid sort, effective in almost any situation 
in the border and as a complement to most plants. Two 
to 3 ft. high with slender stems and flowers, an intense 
lavender blue throughout the summer. 25 cts. each; 3 
for 75 cts.; $2.50 per doz. 
Patens is quite different. Grows to 18 inches high with soft 
foliage and spikes of large flowers of deep indigo blue 
throughout the summer. The finest blue I know. Must 
have a rich, moist soil. Tender in East and must be 
taken up and stored like Dahlias. 30 cts each; 3 for 75 cts. 
Pitcheri, like azurea, but the splendid flowers are an in¬ 
tense deep blue. It blooms from August to frost. One 
of the best late fall flowers. 30 cts. each; 3 for 75 cts. 
*SAPONARIA Ocymoides splendens is a most useful plant. 
Makes a broad carpet, even to 3 ft. across, on the level, 
and, planted at top of walls will drape as much as ten 
feet in a year. The foliage is good and the show of pink 
flowers in spring very attractive. Splendid for dry 
banks. Cult: Sun or light shade. Soil, any, to poorest. 
PI., fall to spring. 25 cts. each; 3 for 65 cts. 
*SATUREIA alpina. Calamintha. A splendid plant for sunny 
situations, 4 inches high with spreading mats of rounded 
leaves and deep blue, white tipped flowers from May 
to August. Cult: Sun and any soil. PI., fall to spring. 
25 cts. each; 3 for 65 cts. 
*SATU REIA pygmaea. Like a tiny erect shrub, 8 to 12 inches 
high, with narrow leaves of softest green and dainty 
flowers of shimmering clear pink in August and Septem¬ 
ber. Cult: Sun and any soil to very poor. Most delightful. 
40 cts. each. 
SAXIFRAGA. An immense group with widely varying sec¬ 
tions, some the tiniest of plants like moss, one a giant 
wdth leaves a foot across. The English give much atten¬ 
tion to them and their many garden varieties, but we 
Americans use comparatively few. Their great beauty 
is in the foliage, yet a colony of the mossy ones is a de¬ 
light in flower, and a well flowered plant of the encrusted 
group is fine. The following are good representatives 
of some of the sections: 
Encrusted Saxifragas have close rosettes of nice, rather stiff 
evergreen foliage that look as if covered with hoar frost, 
and bloom in June. 
**Aizoon alba. A close, small tuft with white flowers. 25 cts. 
each. 
**Aizoon Lagaveana. Like last with creamy flowers. 40 cts. 
each. 
**Cotyledon. Broad rosettes and 2 ft. panicles of white flow¬ 
ers. 50 cts. each. 
**Hostii. Large, open rosette and white flowers. 50 cts. each. 
**Longifolia hybrids. Large, heavily encrusted rosettes and 
broad panicles of white on 2 ft. stems. 30 cts. each; 3 
for 75 cts. 
**MacNabiana. Medium rosettes and large panicles of white 
flowers, speckled crimson. 35 cts. each. 
Kabschia Group. Lovely dwarf species which must have a 
good loam and always be moist. I have but two: 
**Apiculata. A nice plant with dark green, almost mossy 
foliage and primrose yellow flowers in early spring. 35 
cts. each. 
**Apiculata alba. Identical but with white flowers. 35 cts. 
each. 
Mossy Saxifragas 
**Decipiens is one of the nicest of mossy sorts. Tight little 
cushions of deep green with many bright starry white 
flowers in early spring. With a happy colony of this you 
will experience one of the real, delights of moraine 
gardening. Only in a soil rich in humus and always moist 
or in a moraine it is at its best. 30 cts. each; 3 for 75 cts. 
**Decipiens. Of the same lovely character, but with bright, 
rosy flowers. 30 cts. each; 3 for 75 cts. 
Culture of Above Saxifragas: Encrusted, a cool situation, 
sun or light shade. Others must have shade. Soil, good 
loam, rich in humus and with constant moisture. PI., 
fall to spring. 
The above prices are postpaid to your door. 
* Indicates plants well suited to rock gardens. 
** Indicates plants suited to the rock garden only. 
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