Houstonia Millard’s var. A delicate tracery of small thin leaves over 
which is an abundance of bright sky-blue 4-petaled flowers on 3 in. 
stems. Likes a cool shady place; should be shorn after blooming. 35c. 
* Mitchella repens. An evergreen ground cover of small oval marbeled 
leaves; bell-like flowers and persistent fruit. 35c. 
RUTACEAE 
Skimmia Fortunei. A low evergreen shrub; leaves smooth and pointed at 
both ends; flowers fragrant; abundant scarlet fruit throughout fall 
and winter. 50c. 
SALICACEAE 
Salix Peasei. A rare natural hybrid between S. herbacea and S. uva- 
ursi and found only in one small area on one mountain in New Eng- 
land. $1.00. 
* S. reticulata. Prostrate and creeping; woody branches closely set with 
round shiny slightly puckered leaves; tiny rose-colored catkins. $1.50. 
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* S. uva-ursi. A small depressed arctic-alpine shrub; very leafy, the 
leaves ovate-lanceolate. 75c. 
SAXIFRAGACEAE 
Astilbe chinensis pumila. Compound basal leaves and fat spikes of rosy- 
mauve flowers. All astilbes like a deep cool soil, late summer and fall 
bloomers. 30c. 
A. crispa Gnome. Crinkled purple-green leaves, very decorative; panicles 
of rose flowers. $1.00. 
A. c. Lilliput. Smaller in its parts; pink flowers. $1.00. 
A. simplicifolia rosea, Glossy toothed leaves with feathery panicles of 
creamy flowers flushed with pink; reddish stems. A very pretty small 
thing. 40c. 
Tanakaea radicans. Thread-like creeping stems settle down and grow 
into a loose clump of thick dark pointed leaves; loose panicles of 
small creamy flowers in the way of Astilbe simplicifolia. A very good 
plant for shade. 75c. 
SCROPHULARIACEAE 
Paederota bonarota. Limestone of E. Europe. Toothed glossy leaves; 
clusters of soft blue flowers with projecting stamens. Likes sun and 
scree or crevice. 50c. 
Penstemon. The penstemons like deep loose well drained soil and a place 
in the sun. They have the bad habit of blooming themselves into a 
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