

TUNICA - Coat Flower 
Slender, graceful perennials with almost hairlike stems covered all sum- 
mer with small Baby’s Breath-like flowers. Excellent for rock garden, 
rock wall or in front in sunny borders. 
Culture. Ordinary well-drained garden soil not too rich suits them best. 
Grow in rock garden, rock wall or border in full sun. Plant in fall or 
spring, 4 inches apart. 
*Saxifraga Three $0.95, Doz. $3.00, 100 $18.00 
A pretty tufted plant with light pink flowers, produced all summer, 
about 6 inches high; for the rockery or border. 
*Saxifraga rosea flore pleno Three $1.40, Doz. $4.00, 100 $25.00 
Is a lovely double, pink variety. The rose-pink flowers are produced 
all spring and summer in great quantities which makes it a most valu- 
able plant for the rock garden. We have a limited number of strong 
plants in pots ready to bloom. 
VALERIANA - Centranthus; Garden Heliotrope 
Hardy, old-fashioned perennials. Showy plants for dry, sunny borders, 
banks, or old walls. Flowers are borne in panicles. A great favorite in 
old-fashioned gardens, especially where soil abounds with lime. 
Culture. Ordinary soil and sunny borders. Planted in the chinks of old 
walls will speedily root and make dense bushes. Plant in spring or fall, 
12 inches apart. 
*Coccinea Three $1.10, Doz. $3.30, 100 $20.00 
Showy heads of old rose flowers in umbels on 12-inch stems just above 
the rich green foliage, are produced from June until October. A splendid 
plant for bold effects in the wall or rock garden; plants, if too large, 
may be severely cut back without damage. Total height about 2 feet. 
*Coccinea alba Three $1.10, Doz. $3.30, 100 $20.00 
White form of the above. 
Officinalis Three $1.10, Doz. $3.30, 100 $20.00 
(Hardy Garden Heliotrope.) Produces showy heads of rose-tinted white 
flowers during June and July, with delicious strong heliotrope odor. 3 to 
4 feet high, loves a moist spot. 
VERBASCUM - Mullein 
Hardy biennial and perennial plants. of stateiy growth, suitable for 
borders or rock gardens. The leaves are more or less woolly, and the 
flowers are borne in branched spikes. There are now several beautiful 
hybrids in cultivation which are superior to the species. 
Culture. Mulleins require a light or medium, well-drained soil. Plant 
in autumn or early spring, about 4 to 8 inches apart. Once a colony 
of these plants is established they will reproduce themselves freely from 
seed each year. 
Cotswold Gem Three $1.50, Doz. $4.50, 100 $30.00 
This Verbascum received an Award of Merit when introduced a few years 
ago in Europe. Here it has proven to be an outstanding and beautiful 
plant for the border, blooming from July until the end of September. 
Its numerous flower spikes rise to a height of four feet and are covered 
with soft amber-colored flowers with sparkling purple centers. Do splen- 
didly in poor soil and do not seem to mind hot, dry weather, although 
a colorful plant, splendidly adapted for our hot, dry summers. 
Cotswold Queen Three $1.50, Doz. $4.50, 100 $30.00 
Has the same habit of growth as Cotswold Gem. Its flowers are deli- 
cately shaded old rose or perhaps a buff-pink. Makes a fine specimen 
in the border. Does well in hot dry locations and poor soil. 
Olympicum Three $1.10, Doz. $3.30, 100 $20.00 
(Greek Mullein.) The showiest of the entire family of more than thirty 
varieties. The foliage is silvery white, with leaves often 3 feet long. 
Flowers yellow, produced in quantity for about three weeks in midsum- 
mer. Succeeds best in a dry situation. 3 to 5 feet. 
*Phoeniceum, Wayside Gardens Hybrids 
Three $1.40, Doz. $4.00, 100 $25.00 
An excellent strain produced from a very superior grade of English 
Hybrids. Colors are most interesting, ranging from white, pink, rose, 
purple and bronze to brown; they grow about 18 inches high. 

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Veronica Spicata Rubra (See page 80) 
VERBENA 
The popular Verbena, grown so extensively for summer bedding, is a 
tender plant, which will not survive the winter. There is, however, a 
hardy herbaceous species named below which will survive the winter, 
and annually produce a wealth of bluish or lilac flowers from June to 
October, and which may be permanently grown outdoors in well-drained 
soils. It is of spreading habit. , 
Culture. Any good, ordinary, light or medium, well-drained soil will suit 
this plant. It should be grown in masses on the rockery by itself, or in 
masses in warm borders. Plant in spring, 6 inches apart. In autumn 
mulch with straw as a protection against injury by frost. 
*Canadensis Three $1.10, Doz. $3.30, 100 $20.00 
A creeping plant in bloom all summer. The flowers are purplish blue 
and always plentiful. Good for rock garden in warm, sunny place. 
*Canadensis, Brilliant Three $1.50, Doz. $4.50, 100 $30.00 
Of trailing and spreading habit, but producing a continuous supply of 
dazzling brilliant cerise flowers of most pleasing shade. Excellent in hot 
dry place and invaluable for constant summer bloom in the rock garden. 
*Chamaedryfolia Three $1.50, Doz. $4.50 
A magnificent plant for sunny places in the border or rock garden. 
It is in bloom all summer and fall covered with dazzling scarlet flowers 
of a brilliancy rarely seen in flowers. Height about 3 inches. Received 
an Award of Merit from The R. H. S. in England. Not winter hardy but 
worth growing regardless. 

Valeriana Coccinea 
