ROCK GARDEN PLANTS 
ARTHUR LEE NURSERIES 
RANUNCULUS. Buttercups. 
Well known double yellow Buttercup. Effec¬ 
tive either as a cut flower or grouped in 
the hardy border. 
Culture: Requires a moist, loamy soil; 
grows well in partial shade of full sun. 
Trim the plants about twice a year so they 
will not spread beyond their allotted space. 
Rudbeckia purpurea 
★Repens flore pleno. (S.L.) 
A pretty, double-flowering bright golden 
yellow Buttercup of creeping habit; flowers 
in May and June. 15<£ each; 40<£ per 3; $1.50 
per dozen. 
Couble Pyrethrum. 
RUDBECKIA. Coneflower. 
Hardy, free-flowering and easily grown per¬ 
ennials, somewhat akin to the sunflowers in 
habit. Excellent and showy plants for sunny 
or partially shaded borders, and for yield¬ 
ing flowers for cutting 
Culture: The plants thrive anywhere, but are especially adapted to sunny places. When many of 
the sorts are cut back after flowering, they will send up a second crop of flowers. 
Purpurea. (L.) 
Purple Ooneflower. Peculiar reddish brown flowers with a very high, large, cone-shaped center, 
on 2 to 3 foot stems. In bloom from July to October. A splendid border plant. 
SALVIA. Meadow Sage or Clary 
Showy, hardy plants of medium growth and of easy cultivation in sunny borders. The flowers are 
borne in spikes, racemes or panicles, and are very attractive during the summer and autumn 
months. 
Culture: Those listed will thrive in good, ordinary soil in sunny positions, and are best grown 
in masses in the larger borders. Plant in autumn or early spring. 
Azurea. (L.) 
A Rocky Mountain species. Grows 3 to 4 feet high, producing, during August and September, pretty 
sky-blue flowers in the greatest profusion. 
Pitcher i. (L. ) 
Similar to Azurea, but of more branching habit; large flowers of a rich gentian blue color, 3 to 
4 feet. 
Turkestanica. (S. ) 
Fxtremely decorative sweet scented, silvery foliage and showy whorls of white flowers surrounded 
by pale pink, all summer. 
SANTOLINA. Lavender Cotton. Ground Cypress. 
Shrubby perennials with aromatic foliage and small, yellow flowers borne in roundish heads, 
suitable for sunny, dry borders. 
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