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TREES, SHRUBS AND PLANTS FOR AMERICAN HOMES 
Sempervivum - House Leek 
Sometimes called “Hen and Chickens.” An unusually attractive plant for the 
rock garden, with thick, waxy leaves forming very charming rosettes among the 
rocks or along the border. Pale red flowers. 
SPURGE. See Pachysandra. 
Statice - Great Sea Lavender 
*Latifolia. Tufts or clumps of thick, leathery foliage and immense panicles of 
delicate blue flowers. Individual flower- very minute, similar in form to the 
Forget-me-not, but made in heads 18 inches or more across. 18 inches. 
STOKESIA. See Aster, Cornflower. 
Sweet William - Dianthus Barbatus 
One of the most popular old garden favorites; grows 12 to 18 inches in height. 
Blossoms in May, June, July, and intermittently thereafter; the flowers being in 
large flat clusters in all shades of pink, white, and red; a cheerful, fragrant and 
showy perennial. 
Thalictrum - Meadow Rue 
Salvia Azurea 
PINKS. See Dianthus. 
Platycodon 
(Balloon Flower) 
Blooms constantly from July 
until late September; flowers 
large, bell-shaped, in numerous 
loose racemes. Color blue. Good 
for rockery or border. 
Pyrethrum 
(Painted Daisy) 
Planted in spring. The Pyre- 
thrums are closely related to the 
hardy Chrysanthemum family and 
are often referred to as spring 
flowering Chrysanthemums. Excel¬ 
lent for cut flower decoration ow¬ 
ing to their lasting qualities in 
water. May and June. 
Dipterocarpum. A pretty and distinct species 
Sedum Spurium Coccineum 
Flowers lilac-mauve, brightened 
by a bunch of lemon-yellow 
stamens and anthers. 4 feet. 
August-September. 
Tunica - Coal-Flower 
Saxifraga. A pretty tufted plant 
with light pink flowers, produc¬ 
ed all summer; useful either 
for the rockery or the border. 
Trollius 
(Globe Flower) 
Very showy flowers of globular 
shape, resembling giant Butter¬ 
cups. They are splendid for mass¬ 
ing along water courses for dis¬ 
play, and are equally good in the 
garden for cut flowers. 
Ranunculus - Buttercups 
Acris flore pleno. A double yellow, upright growing buttercup-like plant. Good for 
border in wet places. Also good cut flower. 2 feet. 
ROCK CRESS. See Arabis. 
RUDBECKIA. See Golden Glow. 
Rudbeckia Purpurea 
Flowers about 4 inches across, of a peculiar reddish purple with a remarkably large 
cone-shaped center of brown. Forms bushy plants, 3 feet high and blooms from June 
to October. 
Saponaria - Soapwort 
Ocymoides Splendens. Flowers rosy pink. A grand plant for the rockery. 
Saxifrage 
Grassifolia. Showy and spreading, drooping masses of pink flowers high above the 
large clustered leaves. A fine rockery plant, 12 to 15 inches. April-June. 
Sedum - Stonecrop 
*Acre (Golden Moss). Useful plant for rockery and for edging borders. Flowers bright 
yellow. 9 inches. June and July. 
Dark Red. 
Pink. Rose-colored flowers. 
Variegated. Variegated foliage. 
*Spectabile. Erect growing mass of rose-colored flowers. 18 inches. August and Sep¬ 
tember. 
*Spectabile, Brilliant. One of the prettiest; erect, broad, light green foliage and 
immense heads of handsome, showy, bright amaranth-red flowers in flat clusters. 
18 inches. August and September. 
*Spurium coccineum. A beautiful rosy crimson-flowered form. July and August. 
6 inches. 
T rollius 
