SCABIOSA - Scabious or Pincushion Flower 
Charming perennials for border culture and for cut flowers. The Scabiosa 
caucasica are particularly valuoble for the latter purpose, as its large, 
showy, blue or white flowers are borne on long stems. The species are 
of easy culture, and desirable to grow in sunny borders. 
Culture. All 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. Plant in early autumn or early spring. The plants 
are best in groups of three or more. Plant about 8 inches apart. A full 
sunny position is essential. 
Caucasica Three $1.40, Doz. $4.00, 100 $25.00 
(Blue Bonnet). Their lovely flowers are a soft and charming shade of 
lavender; commences to bloom in June, throwing stems 18 to 24 inches 
high until September. 
Caucasica alba Three $1.40, Doz. $4.00, 100 $25.00 
(White Bonnet). The white form of the preceding. 
Japonica Three $1.10, Doz. $3.30, 100 $20.00 
Lavender-blue flowers from July to September. 2 feet. This is a biennial 
variety, but very valuable for its great quantity of blue flowers pro¬ 
duced throughout the summer. 
Pennsylvanica Three $1.10, Doz. $3.30, 100 $20.00 
(Cephalaria tatarica). Large golden yellow flowers, similar to the true 
Scabiosa in form, but 5 feet tall; excellent plant for back in the border 
or in front of shrubs. 
SEMPERVIVUM - House Leek 
Most attractive, hardy, succulent plants for the rock garden and rock 
wall. Their rosette-like, thick leaves are fleshy and pointed. The small 
clumps slowly spread, filling pockets and crevices between the rocks. 
Culture. All require a rich, sandy and perfectly drained soil in full sun. 
Planting may be done in fall or spring, 3 to 4 inches apart. It takes a 
few months for them to get well established. Do not disturb when once 
planted. All flower in June and July. 
**Arachnoideum fimbriatum Three $1.10, Doz. $3.30, 100 $20.00 
A fine cobweb rosette about one inch long at the end of which appear 
the young plants giving a lovely star-like effect. 
^Arachnoideum Laggeri Three $1.10, Doz. $3.30, 100 $20.00 
Similar in growth to Minus except that the rosettes are twice as large 
and produced in greater abundance. A fine cobweb variety. 
**Atroviolaceum Three $2.00, Doz. $6.00, 100 $40.00 
The largest of the entire collection. Forms a beautiful rosette, almost 
4 inches in diameter when fully grown, of deep reddish purple leaves. 
Should be in every rockery. 8 inches. 
**Brauni Three $0.95, Doz. $3.00, 100 $18.00 
A very attractive rosette-like plant. Color of leaves is bronze, almost a 
dull red at tip of leaves. At the base a dull green. 6 inches. 
**Doellianum Three $0.95, Doz. $3.00, 100 $18.00 
Small, hairy rosettes of pale green leaves, tinted red at tips. Panicles of 
bright red flowers 4 to 6 inches high. Effective grown in large masses. 
**Fauconette Three $1.10, Doz., $3.30, 100 $20.00 
Very similar to Brauni. The general makeup of the plant, however, is a 
little finer and more delicate. 6 inches. 
**Funcki Three $0.95, Doz. $3.00, 100 $18.00 
Green tipped brownish rosettes produced rapidly in great numbers. A 
very fine sort to use where a brownish color is desired. 6 inches. 
**Globiferum Three $0.95, Doz. $3.00, 100 $18.00 
Flattened rosettes, 2 to 3 inches in diameter, of gray-green leaves, 
lightly tipped brown. Pale yellow flowers, three-fourths to one inch in 
diameter, in densely hairy panicles. 1 foot h,gh. 
*Tectorum Three $0.95, Doz. $3.00, 100 $18.00 
Broad rosettes, the leaves having reddish brown tips; flowers pale red. 
1 foot. This is the common House Leek of our grandmother's garden. 
All Sempervivum are offered in good size clumps consisting ot many 
big and little plants. 
Potentilla IFarrensi 
Sempervivum 
Saponaria Ocymoides 
Santolina Chamaecyparissus 
Saxifraga Decipiens 
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