BRIDGEPORT, PENMA. 
HARDY PERENHIAL PLANTS 
Culture: Ordinary, light soil in sunny, well drained borders. Best grown in masses. Plant in 
autumn or spring, six inches apart. 
♦Chamaecyparissue. (L.)(Incanal. 
A sweet-smelling, dwarf, evergreen perennial, with delicate, silver-white foliage, useful as rock 
or border plants; also largely used for edging to flower beds or walks. 1 foot. 
SAPONARI A. Soapwort. 
Free-flowering and easily grown rock plants, suitable for sunny borders or rock gardens, compact 
in growth and produces a profusion of blooms throughout the spring. 
-Culture: Ocymoides and its varieties will succeed in good, ordinary soil or sandy loam on the 
margins of sunny borders or in the rock garden. 
♦Ocymoides. (S.L.) 
Pretty prostrate border and rockery plant; flowers rosy pink, produced in great quantities just 
above the foliage in late May and early June. 
SCABIOSA. Pin Cushion Flower. 
Pretty border plants with flowers 
similar to the annual pin cushion. 
Valuable as a cut flower lasting 
well in vases. They have a long 
blooming season from June to Sept. 
Culture: Scabiosa will thrive in 
well drained, good, ordinary soil, 
which is not heavy or damp. Cold 
and damp is fatal to these plants. 
An ideal soil for them is a sandy 
loam. A full sunny position is 
essential. The Japonica may be 
grown in ordinary soil in sunny 
borders. 
Caucasica. (L. MBlue Bonnet). 
Their lovely flowers are a soft 
and charming shade of lavender; 
commences to bloom in June, 
throwing stems IB to 24 inches 
high until Sept. 
Caucasica Goldingensis. (L.) 
A very fine strain of Caucasica, 
Large flowers of fine deep lav¬ 
ender on long stems. 
Columbaria. (L.) 
Handsome, rosy mauve flowers, 2 
to 2£ in. across, deeply lacin- 
iated decorative foliage. 
Any above 3 kinds 30 t ea.; $1.00 
per 4; $3.00 per dozen. 
Japonica. (L.) 
Lavender-blue flowers from July 
Scabiosa Goldingensis to Sept. 2 feet. This is a 
biennial variety, but very valu¬ 
able for its great quantity of blue flowers produced throughout the summer. 
SEDUM. (Stonecrop). 
A genus of plants which vary in habit from dwarf, creeping plants to those of larger growth, 
as Spectabile, which grows about two feet high. Some are evergreen and others of deciduous 
growth. The dwarf kinds do well as edgings to borders or in rock gardens. Others are suitable 
for grouping in the border. 
Culture: They are the easiest of all plants to grow. Ordinary soil and dry, sunny borders or 
rock garden will suit all. Spectabile will also thrive in shade, and where little else will 
thrive. 
♦Acre. (L.)(Golden Moss). 
Much used for covering graves; foliage green; flowers bright yellow; prostrate and slowly 
spreading. 
♦Alzoon. (L. ) 
Bright yellow flowers. 1 foot. July and August. 
♦Album. (L. ) 
Dwarf and spreading; thick, waxy round foliage, white flowers; good rock plant. 
♦Dasyphyl1 urn. (L. ) 
This is very dwarf and compact variety; the foliage of which is almost blue. White, or very 
light pink flowers in May and June. 2 to 3 inches. 
♦Eversi . (L.) 
A very nice variety of sub-trailing habit. Foliage is glaucous gray. In Oct. the plant is 
covered with rose colored flowers. 
♦Fosterianum. <L.) 
A distinct species forming small terminal rosettes. Flowers yellow in June and July. 
♦ Kamtschat icum. (L.) 
From Northern Asia, and a glory of orange yellow from June to August, seed heads turn to bright 
crimson. Foliage resembles Pachysandra. 
♦Lydium. (L. ) 
Evergreen Carpets, which, in dry and fully exposed positions and the stony and poor soil it 
prefers, turns to a lovely rich deep red. Flowers are pure white, tinged with pink. 
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