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emapeg’s 
WONDER PLANTS 
for the Rockery 
Borders and Edging 
Build Today! 
ROCK GARDEN PLANTING 
Page Fourteen 
Building a rockery is one of the most fascinating of pastimes. It gives 
your artistic nature a chance to perform worth-while designs and orna- 
mental layouts. Through your own genius a perfectly glorious spot of 
natural beauty is transplanted right to your door. A PLEASING, RE- 
FRESHING HOBBY INEXPENSIVELY ACCOMPLISHED. 
This short list of rock plants is a supplement to the newer varieties to 
be found in the first pages of this catalog. Combine these old “STAND- 
BYS” with some of the novelties and you will have the most delightful 
rock garden your heart could desire. 
These rock plants cost you only 10c per plant, or 12 for $1.10, for 
strong, 2-year stock, worth many, many times as much. Also these plants 
are very easy to grow, requiring no special care or soil. YOU CAN BUILD 
QUITE A ROCK GARDEN WITH THESE PLANTS ALONE! BUILD 
of ODAY:! 
ALPINE ASTERS. Colorful plants attaining a height of 6 to 8 inches 

and covered with exquisite blue flowers of aster-like proportions. Blooms 
from late May to early July. Strong, 2-year plants, 10c each. 
ARABIS (Alpine Rock Cress). One of the earliest of the rock plants. 
About 8 inches and is covered with an abundance of white flowers to 
late April. Compact and pretty foliage. Strong, 2-year plants, 10c each. 
ARMERIA Laucheana. Compact tufts of bright green covered with rose- 
colored flowers. Blooms profusely in May and June and continues to 


flower throughout the summer. Six inches. Strong, 2-year plants, 10c 
each. 
CERASTIUM Tomentosum (Snow-in- 
Summer). An attractive silver-gray 
creeper with a mass of white bloom 
during June. Retains its colorful fo- 
liage during the winter. Cerastium 
will thrive under trees and grow with 
great success on top of roots, walls, 
etc. Where grass will not grow, this 
hardy rock plant will. About 6 
inches. Strong, 2-year plants, only 
10c each. 

DIANTHUS Caesius 
COLUMBINE (Aquilegia). Your rockery would be incomplete without sev 
eral long-spurred Columbines to grace its existence. This perennial is very 
suitable for rockwork and its beautiful foliage and handsome flowers make 
an inspiring sight. It comes in every shade imaginable. Grows about 114 
to 24 feet. Strong, 2-year plants, only 10c each. 
DIANTHUS Caesius (Rock Carnation). The true Cushion Pink. Little solid balls of spiky 
glaucous foliage. Pink flowers that attain a height of 6 to 8 inches. Very attractive. The 
flowers are clove-scented. Strong, 2-year plants, only 10c each. 
HELIANTHEMUM (Rock Rose). A dainty dwarf for the Alpine garden. Low-growing 
evergreen plant forming broad clumps covered with a mass of bloom in pastel colors from 
pink to clear orange. July to September. Will do well on dry locations. Strong, 2-year 
plants, 10c each. 
LYCHNIS Viscaria. Fine tufted plant covered with deep red flowers during the summer 
months. The deep green grasslike foliage is very showy in the rockery. About 12 inches. 
Strong, 2-year plants, only 10c each. 
NEPETA Mussini (Ground Ivy). A valuable everblooming dwarf rock plant producing light 
blue flowers; it creeps extensively. Has a pungent odor. Strong, 2-year plants, only 10c each. 
PHLOX Subulata (Ground or Moss Pink). Creeping or tufted species growing in broad mats 
on dry, rocky hills or sandy banks. An exclusive rock plant. It also does well in the border 
and can be used for edging or among larger plants, where it soon covers the ground. 
P. Rosea. Light pink. Strong, 2-year plants, only 10c each. 
SAPONARIA. A creeping or trailing hardy rock plant, producing from May until August 
masses of deep pink flowers widely used in the rockery and trailing from wall. About 8 
inches. Strong, 2-year plants, only 10c each. 
or ies (Sea Lavender). Unexcelled for rockery, producing all summer panicles of small 
owers. 
Ps Latifole: Heavy tufts of leathery foliage with large heads of pretty, small, purplish blue 
owers. 
S. Incana. Pinkish blue; dwarf. Grows about 10 to 12 inches. 
The above in strong, 2-year plants, only 10c each. 
TUNICA Saxifraga (Coat Flower). A dainty tufted plant with light pink flowers all summer. 
Forms a regular carpet. Invaluable for the rock garden. Strong, 2-year plants, only 10c each. 
SEDUM (Stonecrop). <A class of plants particularly adapted for carpeting very dry sandy 
or rocky places in the sun. An invaluable rock gem. 
S. Album. 4 to 6 inches high. Native of Northern Asia. Flowers white with red centers. 
Thick, waxy, round foliage. 
S. Acre. Miniature tufts of dull green. Small, golden flowers. 4 to 6 inches high. Like a 
moss. Fine for crevice work. 
Ss. Spee coccineum. A late bloomer. Reddish purple. Foliage turns red in fall. 6 to 
8 inches. 
All Sedums in strong, 2-year plants, only 10c each. No rockery can be built without them. 

