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CHAS. FIORE NURSERIES, PRAIRIE VIEW, ILLINOIS 
PULMONARIA—LUNGWORT 
SAXIFRAGA—MEGASEA—ROCK-FOIL 
Angustifolia Azurea —A lovely early blue Spring flower. 
Dwarf flowers. When the flowers are through blooming 
the plant has beautifully marked foliage. 
each 25c; per 10 $2.25 
Saccharata Maculata —A beautiful plant, rivaling in the 
markings of its foliage many of the choicest hot-house 
plants; of easy culture. Foliage deep green, handsomely 
mottled with a silvery grey, and terminal 1 foot high 
spikes of pink flowers, changing to blue. Bloom during 
May and June. each 25c; per 10 $2.25 
PYRETHRUM—PAINTED DAISY 
This grand old-fashioned Hardy Perennial is easy to 
grow in any good garden soil where there is good drainage 
and full exposure to the sun. They prefer to be left 
undisturbed for two or three years and if given an 
annual top dressing of well-rotted manure, flower gen¬ 
erously. Their main season of blooming is in June, but 
if the first crop of flowers is removed as soon as finished, 
they will give a fair sprinkling of flowers during the 
Summer and Autumn months. The fine fern-like foliage 
of the plants is attractive at all times. 
Atro-Sanguineum —Blood red. each 25c; per 10 $2.25 
Beauty of Stapleford —Single Hybrids. Rich pink. 2 ft. 
each 25c; 
per 
10 
$2.25 
Florence Shadley —Double pale 
pink. 
each 35c; 
per 
10 
$3.25 
General French —Single Hybrid. 
Rich red. 2 
ft. 
each 25c; 
per 
10 
$2.25 
Hybridum —Double mixed. 
each 25c; 
per 
10 
$2.25 
Lord Rosebury —Double crimson. each 25c; 
per 
10 
$2.25 
Ptarmicaflorum —Silvery white 
6". each 25c; 
per 
10 
$2.25 
Roseum —Rose. 
each 20c; 
per 
10 
$1.80 
Uliginosum —4 ft. Large giant. 
Daisy-like white 
flo 
wers 
in Fall. 
each 25c; 
per 
10 
$2.25 
Viscount Cardwell —Double pink. 
each 25c; 
per 
10 
$2.25 
RANUNCULUS—BUTTERCUP 
Cordifolia —These will thrive in any kind of soil and in any 
position. Grow about 1 foot high, and are admirable for 
the front of the border or shrubbery, forming masses of 
handsome, broad, deep green foliage, which aione renders 
them useful; flowers appear very early in the Spring. 
Fine among rocks or ledges. 
Cordifolia Splendens —Vivid rose. 
Crassifolia —A showy spreading plant with drooping masses 
of pink flowers, high above the clustered leaves. Fine 
rock plant. It blooms luxuriantly throughout the Spring 
months. April to June. 1 foot. 
Lingulata Leichtlini —30 inches. Bright red rock garden 
subject. 
Purpurea —30 inches. Purple flowers, very showy. 
each 20c; per 10 $1.80 
SCABIOSA—PINCUSHION 
Handsome border plants, succeeding in any ordinary soil 
if well drained and in a sunny location, and should be 
grown in every garden where cut flowers are wanted; 
they last a long time when picked and placed in water. 
Caucasica Perfecta —Light blue flowers fringed on long stem; 
fine for cutting. 18 inches. June to October. 
each 25c; per 10 $2.25 
Caucasica—Miss Wilmott. Largest white. 
each 35c; per 10 $3.25 
House’s New Giant Hybrids —18 inches. June-Oct. Shades 
of blue and lavender. each 25c; per 10 $2.25 
SCUTELLARIA—SKULL CAP 
Coelestina —Pretty blue Siberian Rock plant. 
each 20c; per 10 $1.80 
SEDUM—STONE CROP 
* Fine plants for the rock garden. A genus of plants with 
more or less fleshy leaves belonging to the Houseleek 
order. The species vary in habit from dwarf creeping 
plants to those of large growth as the Spectable, grows 
upwards of 2 feet high. Some, too, are of evergreen 
and others of deciduous growth. The dwarf kinds do 
well as edgings to borders and the others are suitable for 
grouping in the mixed border. They are the easiest of 
all plants to grow. 
Well-known double yellow buttercup, effective either as 
a cut flower or grouped in the hardy borders. 
Acris Flore Pleno —A double yellow, upright growing Butter¬ 
cup-like plant. Can be planted in wet places. Blooms 
in May and June. each 20c; per 10 $1.80 
RUDBECKIA—CONE FLOWER 
DWARF VARIETIES 
Acre (Golden Moss). Much used for covering graves; foli¬ 
age green; flowers bright yellow, each 18c; per 10 $1.50 
Acre Minus —A minute form of acre seldom over an inch 
high. Fine ground cover and wall plant. 
each 25c; per 10 $2.25 
Purpurea— Flowers about 4 inches across, of a peculiar red¬ 
dish purple with a remarkably large cone-shaped center 
of brown forms bushy plants 3 feet high, and blooms 
from July to October. each 20c; per 10 $1.80 
SALVIA—MEADOW SAGE 
Showy, hardy plants of medium growth and of easy 
cultivation in sunny borders. The flowers are borne in 
spikes, racemes or panicles, and very attractive during 
the Summer months. Belongs to the Sage oder. 
Argentea —3 feet. June. Silvery white foliage, pyramids 
of yellow flowers. each 20c; per 10 $1.80 
Azurea Grandiflora —4 feet. September and October. Stately 
willow-like growth, spikes of pale blue flowers in great 
profusion. each 20c; per 10 $1.80 
Pratensis —2 feet. A dark blue perennial variety. 
each 20c; per 10 $1.80 
SANTOLINA—LAVENDER COTTON 
Chamaecyparissus (Incana). A sweet-smelling, dwarf, ever¬ 
green perennial, with delicate, silver-white foliage, use¬ 
ful as rock or border plants; also largely used for edgings 
to flower beds or walks. 1 foot, each 25c; per 10 $2.25 
SAPONARIA 
Ocymoides Splendens —6 inches. A showy dwarf trailing 
plant, producing a sheet of vivid crimson flowers. June- 
August. each 20c; per 10 $1.80 
SCABIOSA 
