Hardy Alpines and Other Rock Plants 
The rock garden offers a delightful medium of 
expression to the amateur. It kindles the imagina¬ 
tion with a flame that enriches our garden ex¬ 
periences. So subtle and yet powerful is its 
influence that once “touched,” we are zealots for¬ 
ever. With Nature showing the finest examples 
of rock garden design, our problem has been to 
assemble a distinguished collection of alpine 
plants, to furnish color over a long period. The 
following pages list plants of proved hardiness. 
They are rugged, permanent, and picturesque. 
Given reasonable care and proper soil conditions, 
they should increase in beauty with each passing 
year. 
Aethionema persicum. Evergreen bushlets 
with pink flowers. May and July. 4 to 6 in. 
Warley Rose. Very compact, with rose colored 
flowers like a miniature Daphne cneorum. 
$1.50 for 3, $5.00 per doz. 
Alyssum saxatile florepleno. A glorious dou¬ 
ble form. 
saxatile citrinum. A new variety with sul¬ 
phur yellow flowers. 
Androsace lanuginosa. Soft silvery leaves and 
umbels of rose colored. Primula-like heads. 
Spring and Fall blooming. $1.50 for 3, $5.00 
per doz. 
Aquilegia pyrenaica. Rich blue flowers of ex¬ 
quisite daintiness. A rare dwarf form. 8 in. 
June, July. $1.50 for 3, $5.00 per doz. 
Arabis, Rosabella. A true pink form with large 
flowers. 
Armeria caespitosa hybrida. Spiny little 
cushions of dense green with large, rose pink 
flowers in Spring and Fall. 
Aster subcaeruleus, Wartburg Star. Big 
violet flowers, with gold discs, from May 
until July. 1 ft. $1.50 for 3, $3.50 per doz. 
Astilbe simplicifolia. Spikes of pale pink flowers on 1-ft. 
stems. Summer-flowering. $1.50 for 3, $5.00 per doz. 
Campanula garganica. Cushions of glossy green foliage 
smothered with an avalanche of blue stars from June on. 
muralis. A dense tuft with bell-shaped flowers of purple 
blue from June until September. 4 to 6 in. 
Convolvulus mauritanicus. An exquisite subject to fill the 
Summer blooming period. In a sunny exposure it makes 
luxuriant mats overlaid with blue discs from June until 
October. 1]^ ft. spread. 
Coronilla cappadocica. Glaucous mat with coronets of 
golden yellow, pea-shaped flowers. A real prize during 
May and June. $1.50 for 3, $5.00 per doz. 
minima. Very diminutive form of the above, and very 
rare. $1.50 for 3, $5.00 per doz. 
Cyclamen hederaefolium. We have one of the finest stocks 
of this rare, hardy, dwarf Cyclamen. Small marbled leaves 
with beautiful winged flowers of cherry pink in July and 
August. Wants part shade. $1.50 for 3, $5.00 per doz. 
Dianthus roysi. A beautiful form of D. neglectus with a more 
robust constitution, covered with bright pink flowers 
during June. 
winteri. Large flowers of soft pink, with a brilliant carmine 
eye, from May on. 6 to 8 in. 
Draba olympica. A profusion of close heads of yellow flow¬ 
ers in very early Spring. 
Edraianthus dalmaticus. Tubular flowers of purplish blue 
on stems 4 to 6 in. high. Beautiful mats of grasslike 
foliage. 
Erigeron mucronatus. Beautiful trailer with small pink 
and white flowers blooming throughout the Summer, 
trifidus. Flat tufts of Daisylike flowers of pale lavender, on 
2 in. stems, from May until September. $1.50 for 3, 
$5.00 per doz. 
Erodium amanum. Ferny leaves of silvery gray with large, 
creamy white flowers. $1.50 for 3, $5.00 per doz. 
chamaedryoides roseum. A close-creeping mosaic 
studded with pink flowers throughout the Summer until 
late Fall. 
Gentiana acaulis. The beautiful alpine stemless Gentian, 
with glorious trumpets of deepest blue in Spring and Fall. 
$1.50 for 3, $5.00 per doz. 
purdomi. A species from Thibet, with trumpets of bright 
blue, during July and August. Easy and vigorous. $1.50 
for 3, $5.00 per doz. 
Prices of all Rock Plants in this list, except where otherwise quoted, $1.00 for 3, $3.00 per dozen 
Orders for less than 3 of one variety cannot be accepted 
-MAX SCHLING SEEDSMEN, INC. 
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