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For the Rockery - Low Border - Edging the Perennial Planting 
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 catlog. 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 
ROT ROCK GARDEN WITH THESE PLANTS ALONE! BUILD 
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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 
foliage during the winter. Cerastium will thrive under trees and grow 
with great success on top of roofs, walls, etc. Where grass will not 
grow, this hardy rock plant will. About 6 inches. Strong, 2-year plants, 
only 10c each. 
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COLUMBINE (Aqguilegia). Your rockery 
would be incomplete without several 
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 imagin- 
able. Grows about 114% to 21% 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 valu- 
able everblooming dwarf rock plant pro- 
ducing light blue flowers; it creeps ex- 
tensively. Has a pungent odor. Strong, 
2-year plants, only 10c each. 
SAPONARIA. A creeping or trailing 
hardy rock plant, producing from May 
until August masses of deep pink flow- 
ers widely used in the rockery and trail- 
ing from wails. About 8 inches. Strong, 
2-year plants, only 10c each. 
STATICE (Sea Lavender). Unexcelled 
for rockery, producing all summer pan- 
icles of small flowers. 
S. Latifolia. Heavy tufts of leathery foli- 
age with large heads of pretty, small 
purplish blue flowers. 
S. Incana. Pinkish blue; dwarf. 
about 10 to 12 inches. 
The above in strong, 2-year plants, 
only 10c each, 
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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. 
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flowers. 
Miniature tufts of dull green. 
4 to 6 inches high. Like a moss. 
crevice work. 
. Spurium 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. 
Small, golden 
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