RUDBECKIA - Coneflower 
Hardy, free-flowering and easily grown perennials, somewhat akin to the 
Sunflowers in habit. Excellent and showy plants for sunny or partially 
shaded borders, and for yielding flowers for cutting. 
Culture. Ordinary soil in sun, or shade. Can be grown singly or in groups. 
Plant in autumn or spring, 12 to 15 inches apart. Divide and replant 
every third year. 
Golden Glow Three $1.15, Doz. $3.75, 100 $18.00 
A popular hardy plant, grows six feet high, producing masses of large, 
double, golden yellow flowers shaped like a Dahlia, in late summer. 
Hirta Hybrids Three $1.45, Doz. $4.75, 100 $25.00 
Star-shaped flowers on much-branched plants about 21/4 feet high. The 
colors vary from pure yellow to bronze, either solid or with attractive 
halos and centers. Excellent for cutting or for the hardy border. Free 
from all insect pests. 
Maxima Three $1.25, Doz. $4.00, 100 $20.00 
A rare and attractive variety, growing 5 feet high, with large, glaucous 
green leaves and bright yellow flowers 5 to 6 inches across, with a cone 
2 inches high; flowers continuously from June to September. 
Newmanni Three $1.15, Doz. $3.75, 100 $18.00 
The perennial form of the ‘’Black-Eyed Susan.’’ Deep orange-yellow 
flowers with a dark purple cone; long, wiry stems 3 feet high; blooms 
all summer. 
Purpurea Three $1.15, Doz. $3.75, 100 $18.00 
(Giant Purple Coneflower.) Most attractive purple flowers, with a very 
large, brown, cone-shaped center. Blooms from July to October. 3 feet 
high; a splendid plant for the border. 
The King Three $1.50, Doz. $5.00, 100 $30.00 
It bears its large starlike, deep crimson-red flowers nobly on stiff stems. 
An established clump will produce from 10 to 20 fine spikes, never 
failing, no matter how hot or dry it may be. From half open buds to 
the orange-brown seed pod, the plant is always attractive. Insect free, Showy, hardy plants of medium growth and of easy cultivation in sunny 
not bothered by weather, easily grown, almost indestructible. Height borders. The flowers are borne in spikes, racemes or panicles; and are 
3 feet. very attractive during the summer and autumn months. 
Culture. Those listed will thrive in good, ordinary soil in sunny positions, 
SANTOLINA - Lavender Cotton; Ground Cypress 
are best grown in masses in the larger borders. Plant in autumn or 
early spring, 10 inches apart; divide and replant every third year. 
Shrubby perennials with aromatic foliage and small, yellow flowers borne 
in roundish heads, suitable for sunny, dry borders. Azurea 
Three $1.15, Doz. $3.75, 100 $18.00 
Culture. Ordinary, light soil in sunny, well drained borders. Best grown A Rocky Mountain species. Grows 3 to 4 feet high; producing, during 
in masses, Plant in autumn or spring, 6 inches apart. 
August and September, pretty sky-blue flowers in the greatest profusion. 
*Chamaecyparissus Three $1.25, Doz. $4.00, 100 $20.00 Pitcheri Three $1.25, Doz. $4.00, 100 $20.00 
(Incana). A sweet-smelling, dwarf, evergreen perennial, with delicate, 
Similar to Azurea, but of more branching habit; large flowers of a rich 
silver-white foliage, useful as rock or border plants; also largely used gentian-blue color, and one of the most admired plants by the many 
for edgings to flower beds or walks. 1 foot. 
visitors to our nurseries during the early autumn. 3 to 4 feet. 
Pratensis Three $1.25, Doz. $4.00, 100 $20.00 
SAPONARIA - Soapwort 
Free flowering and easily grown rock plants, suitable for sunny borders 
Lilac-blue flowers from June to September; grows about 2 feet high. 
or rock gardens, more or less tufted and compact in growth, and pro- 

Spiraea, Peach Blossom (See page 70) 
SALVIA - Meadow Sage or Clary 
Vatican Variety (Pink Turkestanica) 
Good border plant. 
duce a profusion of blooms throughout the spring. 
Culture. Ocymoides and its varieties will succeed in good, ordinary soil 
or sandy loam.on the margins of sunny borders or in the rock garden. 
Plant in autumn or spring, 6 inches apart. 
Three $1.25, Doz. $4.00, 100 $20.00 
This stately and beautiful Salvia came to us from the Vatican Gardens 
in Rome, where it is used in great masses for ’’cool’’ effects. The plants 
have woolly silvery green leaves of considerable beauty. The flower 
stalks are 3 feet tall and covered with showy whorls of blush-pink 
flowers which create a delightfully cool, yet colorful effect. In bloom 
all summer from mid-June until early October. 
*Ocymoides splendens Three $1.15, Doz. $3.75, 100 $18.00 
Pretty prostrate border and rockery plant; flowers rosy pink, produced 
in great quantities just above the foliage in late May and early June. 
*Ocymoides alba Three $1.15, Doz. $3.75, 100 $18.00 
A pure white form! of; the above. SAXIFRAGA - Rock-foil; Megasea 
A large genus of rock plants, only a few of which are suitable for culture 
in this country. The majority require to be grown on rockeries. The sorts 
suitable to grow as edgings to, or in masses on, the margins of borders 
are what are known as the Giant-leaved Saxifragas or Megaseas, with 
large, leathery leaves, which are also admirably suited for shady borders 
in city gardens. 
Culture. The mossy Saxifragas are best suited for shady borders or rock 
gardens, will do well in good, ordinary soil. Plant in March or early fall. 
The Megasea or large-leaved kinds will thrive in ordinary, good, rich 
soil in well drained borders, by the waterside, or in the rockery. May be 
grown in sun or shade. Should be watered freely in dry summer. McNab- 
lana is best grown in stony soil in the rockery in full sun. Plant early fall 
or spring, 8 inches apart. 
Double Pyrethrum (See page 67) 
**Decipiens Three $1.50, Doz. $5.00, 100 $30.00 
(Crimson Moss). Dwarf mossy plants bearing white flowers in May and 
June. The green foliage turns a bronzy crimson in winter. 4 inches high. 
Splendid rock plant; prefers light shade. 
**MlacNabiana Three $1.75, Doz. $5.50, 100 $35.00 
This plant is a splendid sort for wall garden or in crevices in the rock 
garden. Foliage is gray-green in form of a rosette and quite stiff, from’ 
the center comes a flower spike about 12 inches long covered with small, 
white blossoms speckled with pink. 
*Megasea cordifolia Three $1.50, Doz. $5.00, 100 $30.00 
These will thrive in ordinary soil in any position. Grow about one foot 
high, and are admirable for the front of the border or shrubbery, forming 
masses of handsome, broad deep green foliage which alone renders them 
erie flowers appear very early in the spring. Fine among rocks or 
edges. 
SENECIO - Ragwort; Groundsel 
Only a few species of this genus are worthy of cultivation. They are of 
vigorous growth. 
Culture. The one named will thrive in ordinary soil, in partial shade, in’ 
Gea woods or under trees. Plant in autumn or early spring, 12 inches 
apart. 
Clivorum Three $1.35, Doz. $4.50, 100 $22.50 
Forms a neat tuft of foliage, from which spring up from July to October 
a succession of 3-foot stems, with clusters of orange-yellow flowers. One 
of the few plants that flower profusely in shade. 
SHASTA DAISY (See Chrysanthemum Maximum) 
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