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latifolia. The flowers are a fine deep lavender, 
and they are excellent for use in bouquets, 
towards the end of summer. 
STELLARIA. Tiny plants, useful in the 
rockery, and found all over the world. Be- 
longing to the Carnation family, they like a 
moderately limy soil, but are of easy culture 
in a well drained loam. 
laeta. Not listed in Hortus. This had grey 
blue foliage, in a creeping mat, and is starred 
with tiny white flowers, in June. 
STOKESIA. An American plant, native to 
well drained sandy soil, from Carolina, south. 
It thrives in any deep loam, and is a beauti- 
ful cut flower, as well as an excellent plant 
for the front of the border. 
cyanea. Stokes Aster. The large lavender 
blue flowers are often 4 inches across on 
stems a foot or more in length, with several 
buds in the cluster. The foliage is tufted 
at the base, dark green and attractive. Blos- 
soms from July to October. 
SYMPHYANDRA. Closely related to the Can- 
terbury Bells, these plants differ only slightly 
in structure of the flowers. The culture is the 
same, but the plant is more perennial. Useful 
in the front of the border. 
pendula. Grows about 1 foot high, with rough 
light green leaves, and large pendant yellow 
white bells. 35 cts. each; 10 for $3.00. 
TALINUM. Fame-Flower. Tiny plants, related 
to the Portulacas, and like them delighting 
in a hot dry sunny location. Ideal for 
naturalizing in the rockery. 
calycinum. Comes from Arkansas and south- 
ward, but is moderately hardy on dry soils. 
The plant seeds itself, and seedlings flower the 
first season, so it is rarely lost, yet it is not 
a pest. The foliage is slender dark green, and 
the rosy purple flowers, with a yellow center 
are on 12-inch stems, slender and wiry, which 
sway in the wind. The flowers open only in 
the afternoon. 
TANACETUM. Tansy. An old time, medicinal 
herb, the common Tansy has escaped to our 
roadsides, and is now seldom grown in gar- 
dens. Of easy culture, in any dry soil, the 
plant has possibilities. However, the sort we 
offer is for the rockery. 
capitatum. Not listed in Hortus. This grows 
but a few inches high, with strongly scented 
grey foliage, very finely divided. It has not 
flowered here. 
TEUCRIUM. Germander. Mints, from North 
America, and Europe, some shrubby. In 
culture like Lavender, in that a well drained 
soil is best, yet often they grow well where 
least expected. In mild climates they may 
be evergreen, and it is in their use to make 
compact formal edgings, that they are most 
popular. However, they are attractive speci- 
mens for the rockery. 
chamaedrys. A tiny shrub, to 1 foot high, with 
glistening dark green leaves much like Box- 
wood, and used like that shrub, for edging. 
The flowers are red-purple, in loose spikes, in 
August. 
THALICTRUM. Meadow-Rue. Natives of the 
north temperate zone, these vary from tiny 
prostrate plants to giants 8 feet high. They 
are alike in having divided leaves, and tiny 
foamy flowers. Related to Anemones and 
Buttercups, they like a deep rich cool loam, 
and are at home in the wild garden. How- 
ever, they will thrive in any good garden soil, 
and are attractive background plants, at all 
times. 
aquilegifolium. From 3 feet to 5 feet tall, with 
good foliage to about 2 feet, and the tall 
ser of foamy purple flowers, above. 35 cts. 
each. 
kyusianum. A tiny gem, and one of the most 
beautiful plants in the shaded rockery, that 
we know. It grows perhaps 8 inches high at 
most with finely divided foliage, dark green, 
and filmy lavender flowers above the foliage, 
for a long period in summer. The plant 
spreads fairly quickly to make good clumps, 
and has been entirely hardy here. $1.00 each. 
polygamum. A tall native, flowering in late 
_summer, with great waving plumes of filmy 
white flowers. 35 cts. each. 
THERMOPSIS. Plants of the Clover family, 
mostly North American. They like deep well 
drained soils, and are useful for moderate 
height background plants in the border, or 
for specimen clumps, before shrubs. 
caroliniana. May grow 5 feet high, with typical 
clover foliage, along the stem, and a close 
spike of yellow, pea-like blossoms, perhaps 
18 inches long, during June and July. Much 
like a yellow lupine. 
THYMUS. Thyme. A large group of plants, 
in the Mint family, ranging from prostrate 
sorts suitable for the rockery, to erect sub- 
shrubs, useful for edgings. Used also for 
flavorings. easy culture in quite dry 
soil, but disliking standing moisture. 
balticus. Erect stems, to about 3 inches, rather 
woolly, and with pink flowers at the tips, 4 
inch across. good carpeting sort for the 
rockery, or for use in little used paths. Re- 
sists heat. 
herba-baronna. Sprawling sub-shrub, to 5 
inches high, with purplish flowers. Makes 
a strong carpet of fragrant foliage, smelling 
like caraway. 
The Creeping Thyme, has 
of which this is the white 
flowered one. The foliage is very prostrate, 
an inch or two high, bright green and 
fragrant. Fine for walks, or for carpeting. 
serp. Annie Hall. Similar to the preceding, 
the flowers a very pale pink. 
serpyllum albus. 
many forms, 
serp. aureus. A rather taller sort, with more 
rounded leaves, which are yellow variegated. 
It is prostrate however. 
serp. citriodorus aureus. Distinct Lemon 
Verbena fragrance, and a yellow variegation 
on the foliage. It is taller than the others, 
making a mound sometimes 6 inches high. 
serp. coccineus. This is the very prostrate 
form, with reddish green foliage and bright 
pink or red flowers. 
All Perennial Plants 25 cts. each, $2 for 10, $18 per 100: unless otherwise noted, 
POSTPAID east of the Mississippi; add 5 PERCENT WEST. Five 
of one kind or variety exactly alike at 10 rate, 25 at 100 rate. 
