Stoloniferum (B) A woody sedum, about six inches in height 
with evergreen foliage and purple flowers in July. Good 
rockery piece. 
SEMPERVIVUM (House leek) 
Tectorum —Hen and Chickens (C) 
The common house leek of old fashioned gardens. Lovely 
rosettes, of antique bronzy green. Flowers, a pallid red, in a 
single stalk about nine inches in height. 
SHASTA DAISY—See Chrysanthemum Maximum. (C) 
SILENE (Catchfly) 
Alpestris —(E) A dwarf rockery item with white florets early 
in June. 
Schafta (D) An excellent rock plant, since it furnishes its 
plenteous bloom in August and September, when the rocks 
need color. 4 to 6 inches high, with pink blossoms. 
SOUTHERNWOOD—See Artemesia. 
SPIRE A—( Goat's Beard) (C) 
Filipendula Flore Fleno —Fernlike foliage of exceeding grace, 
bearing feathery panicles of double white flowers on stiff wiry 
stems about one foot in height. 
STOKESIA (Cornflower Aster) 
Cyania Coerulea (E) August, in the cutting garden, would 
have a void of blues, but for Stokesia, with its pale blue 
flowers abundant on graceful stems. 18 inches high. Good 
border plant. 
THALICTRUM (Meadow-Rue) (D) 
Adiantifolium—A hardy perennial with the foliage of the 
maidenhair fern and the flowers of a diminished Bocconia. 
Easy culture in the sun or partial shade. 
THYMUS (Thyme) (C) 
Aren’t you a bit weary of those rock plants with striking 
bloom? Don<’t you long for cool green and sober grey? Why 
not Thyme? 
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