24 TREES, SHRUBS AND PLANTS FOR THE HOME 

SPURGE. See Pachysandra. 
STOKESIA. See Aster, Cornflower. 
showy perennial. 

Salvia Azurea 
PINKS. See Dianthus. 
*Platycodon 
(Balloon Flower) 
Blooms constantly from July 
until late September; flowers 
large, bell-shaped, in numerous 
loose racemes. Color blue. Good 
for rockery or border. 
Pyrethrum 
(Painted Daisy) 
Planted in spring. The Pyre- 
thrums are closely related to the 
hardy Chrysanthemum family and 
are often referred to as spring 
flowering Chrysanthemums. Excel- 
lent for cut flower decoration ow- 
ing to their lasting qualities in 
water. May and June. 
Ranunculus - Buttercups 
Acris flore pleno. A double yellow, upright growing buttercup-like plant. Good for 
border in wet places. Also good cut flower. 2 feet. 
ROCK CRESS. See Arabis. 
RUDBECKIA. See Golden Glow. 
Rudbeckia Purpurea 
Flowers about 4 inches across, of a peculiar reddish purple with a remarkably large 
cone-shaped center of brown. Forms bushy plants, 3 feet high and blooms from June 
to October. 
Saponaria - Soapwort 
Ocymoides Splendens. Flowers rosy pink. A grand plant for the rockery. 
Saxifraga 
Crassifolia. Showy and spreading, drooping masses of pink flowers high above the 
large clustered leaves. A fine rockery plant, 12 to 15 inches. April-June. 
Sedum - Stonecrop 
*Acre (Golden Moss). Useful plant for rockery and for edging borders. Flowers bright 
yellow. 9 inches. June and July. 
Dark Red. 
Pink. Rose-colored flowers. 
Variegated. Variegated foliage. 
*Spectabile. Erect growing mass of rose-colored flowers. 18 inches. August and Sep- 
tember. 
*Spectabile, Brilliant. One of the prettiest; erect, broad, light green foliage and 
immense heads of handsome, showy, bright amaranth-red flowers in flat clusters. 
18 inches. August and September. 
*Spurium coccineum. <A _ beautiful rosy crimson-flowered form. July and August. 
6 inches. 
Sometimes called ‘‘Hen and Chickens.” 
rock garden, with thick, waxy leaves forming very charming rosettes among the 
rocks or along the border. Pale red flowers. 



“Sempervivum - House Leek 
An unusually attractive plant for the 
Statice - Great Sea Lavender 
*Latifolia. Tufts or clumps of thick, leathery foliage and immense panicles of 
delicate blue flowers. Individual flowers very minute, similar in form to the 
Forget-me-not, but made in heads 18 inches or more across. 18 inches. 
Sweet William - Dianthus Barbatus 
One of the most popular old garden favorites; grows 12 to 18 inches in height. 
Blossoms in May, June, July, and intermittently thereafter; the flowers being in 
large flat clusters in all shades of pink, white, and red; a cheerful, fragrant and 
Thalictrum - Meadow Rue 
Dipterocarpum. A pretty and distinct species. Flowers lilac-mauve, brightened 
by a bunch of lemon-yellow 
stamens and anthers. 4 feet. 
August-September. 
Tunica - Coat-Flower 
Saxifraga. A pretty tufted plant 
with light pink flowers, produc- 
ed all summer; useful either 
for the rockery or the border. 
*Trollius 
(Globe Flower) 
Very showy flowers of globular 
shape, resembling giant Butter- 
cups. They are splendid for mass- 
ing along water courses for dis- 
play, and are equally good in the 
garden for cut flowers. 

Trollius 
