IPhtarDu ^Herbaceous ^Perennials- Continued 
15 cents each, except as noted. 
Ranunculus 
(Buttercups) 
Herbaceous plants of easy culture and 
with attractive flowers. 
Culture: All require a moist, loamy soil. 
Grow in partial shade or full sun, in cob 
onies, planting a foot apart in autumn or 
early spring. Do not permit plants to 
spread beyond their allotted space. 
Acris flore pleno. A double yellow, upright 
growing Buttercup-like plant. Good for 
border in wet places; good cut flower. 
Rudbeckia - Coneflower 
Golden Glow. Masses of large, double, 
golden yellow flowers, shaped like a cac¬ 
tus Dahlia. Fine for screening and plant¬ 
ing near stone walls. 6 feet. August and 
September. 
Newmanni (Black-Eyed Susan). Orange- 
yellow flowers with purple cone, borne 
on stiff, wiry stems. 2 to 3 feet. July 
and August. 
Purpurea (Purple Coneflower). Large, 
drooping petals colored reddish purple 
with a remarkably large, cone-shaped cen¬ 
ter of brown, thickly set with golden tips 
in spiral lines. 2 to 3 feet. July and 
August. 
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 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, 10 inches 
apart; divide and replant every third year. 
Azurea. A Rocky Mountain species. Grows 
3 to 4 feet high, producing, during Au¬ 
gust and September, pretty sky-blue flow¬ 
ers in the greatest profusion. 
Pitcheri. Similar to Azurea, but of more 
branching habit; large flowers of a rich 
gentian-blue color, and one of the most 
admired plants by the many visitors to 
our nurseries during the early autumn. 
3 to 4 feet. 
Saponaria - Soapwort 
*Ocymoides. A branchy, trailing rock 
plant densely clothed with small round 
leaves from May to July, brightly span¬ 
gled with small pink flower umbels. Six 
inches. 
Saponaria Ocymoides 
Saxifraga - Megasea 
*Cordifolia. Will thrive in any kind of 
soil, growing about 1 foot high and are 
admirable for the front of the border or 
shrubbery, forming masses of handsome, 
broad, deep green foliage, which alone 
renders them useful; flowers appear very 
early in the spring. Fine among rocks 
or ledges. 
Scabiosa 
(Pincushion Flower) 
Caucasica (Blue Bonnet). Vigorous, hand¬ 
some border plant with large, soft, lilac- 
blue flowers, long stems, useful for cut¬ 
ting. 18 to 24 inches. August and Sep¬ 
tember. 
Giant Hybrids (Isaac House Strain). A 
great improvement over the Caucasica, 
being more vigorous with larger and 
longer stems and heavier petals, which 
are ruffled as well as slightly frilled on 
the edges. Colors range from white to 
darkest blue but delicate lilac and mauve 
predominate. 25c each. 
Japonica. Lavender-blue flowers from July 
to September. 18-24 inches. 
Rudbeckia, Golden Glow 
Sedum - Stonecrop 
A genus of plants which vary in habit 
from dwarf, creeping plants to those of 
larger growth, as Spectabile, which grows 
about 2 feet high. Some are evergreen and 
others of deciduous growth. The dwarf 
kinds do well as edgings to borders ot in 
rock gardens. Others are suitable for group¬ 
ing in the border. They are the easiest of 
all plants to grow. 
*Acre (Golden Moss). Minute foliage, very 
dense, like moss, dark green; flowers sim¬ 
ilar to leaves, an all-covering golden yel¬ 
low sheet. 2 to 3 inches. May to July. 
Used for ribboning, carpet bedding, cov¬ 
ering graves and filling between rocks and 
flagstones. 
* Album (White). Dwarf and spreading; 
thick, waxy round foliage, white flowers; 
good rock plant. 
*Eversi. A very nice variety of sub-trailing 
habit. Foliage is glaucous gray. In Oc¬ 
tober the plant is covered with rose- 
colored flowers. 
Scabiosa Caucasica 
*Glaucum. Excellent dwarf variety for rock¬ 
eries; prostrate and of slow growth; lovely 
blue-green foliage. 
:i: Kamtschaticum (Orange). Robust and vig¬ 
orous, prostrate, quickly spreading. The 
wide flat leaves are escalloped, arranged 
in partial rosettes, fresh green turning 
yellow in autumn. The V^-inch florets 
are perfect stars of orange-yellow drying 
to red, hovering in clusters close to the 
leaf-axils. Very showy. 
*Lydium. The smallest Sedum. 1 to 3 
inches. Close groups of little round balls 
made up of the tiniest green beads, the 
color changing to purplish bronze; pink¬ 
ish June flowers. 
*Sexangulare. Very dark green foliage; yel¬ 
low flowers; habit much like Acre. 
*SpectabiIe Brilliant. One of the prettiest; 
erect, broad, light green foliage and im¬ 
mense heads of handsome, showy, bright, 
amaranth-red flowers in flat clusters. 18 
inches. August and September. 
*Stoloniferum. Most desirable; evergreen 
leaves; flowers purplish pink. July and 
August. Excellent for rock garden. Six 
inches. 
Senecio - Ligularia 
Clivorum. Bright yellow flowers. Decora¬ 
tive large foliage. Prefers wet ground. 
3 to 4 feet. August and September. 
Sedum Spectabile, Brilliant 
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