BULLETIN NUMBER 2 
FEBRUARY 28, 1936 
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HARDY PERENNIALS AND ALPINE PLANTS—continued 
♦SEMPERVIVUM, Houseleek 
Sometimes known as Hen and Chicken. Plants especially 
good for rock garden. Their rosette-like, thick leaves are 
fleshy and pointed. The small clumps slowly spread, filling 
pockets and crevices between the rocks. Perio Per 100 
Alberti, color of leaves bronze, almost dull red at tip of leaves. 
4" . $ .70 $6.00 
Globiferum, color of leaves grey-green lightly tipped brown. 
Pale yellow flowers, 4". .70 6.00 
Tectorum, leaves have reddish-brown tips, flowers pale red. ... .70 6.00 
*SILENE, Catchfly or Campion 
Schafta, purplish-rose, very beautiful. .95 8.00 
SOLIDAGO 
Goldenrod, a native of most parts of the Middle-West and 
Eastern States. Golden yellow blooms. August, Sept., 4' .85 7.00 
SPIREA, Goat’s Beard, Meadow Sweet 
Filipendula, (Dropwort). Numerous corymbs of white flowers 
on stems 15" high. Fern-like foliage, June and July. 1.80 15.00 
♦STACHYS, Woundwort 
Lanata, soft silvery foliage. Flowers useless, 4" . .85 7.00 
♦STATICE, Great Sea Lavender, August, 18" 
These plants have broad leathery leaves, producing candle- 
bra-like heads. If cut in full bloom make very valuable 
winter bouquets. 
Latifolia, blue . .95 
STOKESIA CYANEA, Cornflower Aster or Stokes Aster 
Blue Flowers, lavender blue, centaurea-like blossoms, July to 
October, 18" . 1.10 
White Flowers, same blooming characteristics. 1.10 
♦SWEET WILLIAM, (See Dianthus Barbatus) 
THALICTRUM, Meadow Rue 
Adiantifolium, a beautiful variety, with foliage like the Maiden¬ 
hair Fern and miniature white flowers in June. Grows 2 
feet high . 1.45 
Glaucum, yellow flowers,bluish-gray leaves, July, 3 to 4'.95 
♦THYMUS, Thyme 
Serpyllum Coccineum, plants become completely covered with 
brilliant scarlet flowers, 18".95 
TRITOMA—Kniphofia—Red Hot Poker 
This perennial is not truly hardy in Northern latitudes and 
must be taken up and stored through the winter. Foliage 
grass-like. Blooms range from orange to deep coral. August, 
September, 30". 
Deinersrufa Hybrid. Graceful, small loose flower spikes of 
yellow. Bloom all summer and autumn. Valuable for the 
border. May be forced in the conservatory and is not dif¬ 
ficult as a winter house plant. 2.40 20.00 
Pfitzeriana, this is the genuine Red Hot Poker and must be 
grown from divisions . 1.20 10.00 
VERBENA, Hardy 
Lilac flowers from June to October, very good, 6". 1.20 10.00 
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