
SCABIOSA - Scabious or Pincushion Flower 
Charming perennials for border culture and for cut flowers. The Scabiosa — 
caucasica are particularly valuable for the latter purpose, as its large, 
showy, blue or white flowers are borne on long stems. The species are of 
easy culture, and desirable to grow in sunny borders. 
Culture. All will thrive in well drained, good, ordinary soil, which is not 
heavy or damp. Cold and damp is fatal to these plants. An ideal soil for 
them is a sandy loam. Plant in early autumn or early spring. The plants 
are best in groups of three or more. Plant about 8 inches apart. A full 
sunny position is essential 
Caucasica (Isaac House Hybrids) Three $1.50, Doz. $5.00, 100 $30.00 
(Blue Bonnet). Their lovely flowers are a soft and charming shade of 
lavender; commences to bloom in June, throwing stems 18 to 24 inches 
high until September. 
Caucasica alba Three $1.50, Doz. $5.00, 100 $30.00 
(White Bonnet). The white torm of the preceding. 
SEMPERVIVUM - House Leek 
Most attractive, hardy, succulent plants for the rock garden and rock 
wall. Their rosette-like, thick leaves are fleshy and pointed. The small 
clumps slowly spread, filling pockets and crevices between the rocks. 
Culture. All require a rich, sandy and perfectly drained soil in full sun. 
Planting may be done in fall or spring, 3 to 4 inches apart. It takes a 
few months for them to get well established. Do not disturb when once 
planted. All flower in June and July. , eae 
*% A troviolaceum Three $2.00, Doz. $6.00, 100..$40.00 
The largest of the entire collection. Forms a beautiful rosette, almost 
4 inches in diameter when fully grown, of déep reddish purple leaves. 
Should be in every rockery. 8 inches. 
#3 Brauni Three $0.95, Doz. $3.00, 100 $18.00 
A very attractive rosette-like plant. Color of ieaves is bronze ,almost a 
dull red at tip of leaves. At the base a dull green. 6 inches. 
*°Doellianum Three $0.95, Doz. $3.00, 100 $18.00 
Small, hairy rosettes 8f:pale green leaves, tinted red at tips. Panicles of 
bright red flowers 4 to’6 ‘inches high. Effective grown in large masses. 
*Funcki Three $0.95, Doz. $3.00, 100 $18.00 
Green tipped brownish rosettes produced rapidly in great numbers. A 
very fine sort to use where a brownish color is desired. 6 inches. 
*Globiferum Three $0.95, Doz. $3.00, 100 $18.00 
Flattened rosettes, 2 to 3 inches in diameter, of gray-green leaves, 
lightly tipped brown. Pale yellow flowers, three-fourths to one inch in 
diameter, in densely hairy panicles. 1 foot high. 
*Tectorum Three $0.95, Doz. $3.00, 100 $18.00 
Bread rosettes, the leaves having reddish-brown tips, flowers pale red. 
1 foot. This is the common House Leek of*our grandmother’s garden. 
All Sempervivum are offered in good size clumps consisting of many big 
and little plants. 
SHASTA DAISY (See Chrysanthemum Maximum) 
SIDALCEA - Greek-Mallow 
Graceful, hardy perennials with small, Hollyhock-like flowers borne on 
slender spikes. Suitable for sunny borders. 
Culture. Grow in good, ordinary soil in sunny borders. Plant in autumn or 
early spring, 8 inches apart. 

Rosy Gem Three $1.45, Doz. $4.75, 100 $25.00 
Erect growing, more or less branching plants, 2 to 3 feet in height, pro- 
ducing their showy bright rose colored flowers during June and July. 
They will succeed in any garden soil in a sunny position. 
Scabiosa Caucasica, Isaac House Hybrids 



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SEDUM - Stonecrop 
A genus of plants which vary in habit from dwarf, creeping plants to 
those of larger growth, as Spectabile, which grows about 2 feet high. 
Some are evergreen and others of deciduous growth. The dwarf kinds do 
well as-edgings to borders or in rock gardens. Others are suitable for 
grouping in the border. 
Culture. Ordinary soil and dry, sunny borders or dry sunny places in the 
rock garden will suit all. Spectabile, indeed, will also thrive in shade. 
Plant in autumn or spring, 4 to 8 inches apart. 
A cre Three $1.45, Doz. $4.75, 100 $25.00 
(Golden Moss.) Much used for covering graves; foliage green, flowers 
bright yellow; prostrate and slowly spreading. 
*%* Album Three $1.45, Doz. $4.75, 100 $25.00 
Dwarf and spreading; thick, waxy round foliage, white flowers; good 
rock plant. \ 
*Glaucum Three $1.45, Doz. $4.75, 100 $25.00 
Excellent dwarf variety for rockeries; prostrate, and of slow growth; 
lovely blue-green foliage. 
*Kamtschaticum Three $1.45, Doz. $4.75, 100 $25.00 
Orange-yellow flowers, With prostrate, green foliage, golden in autumn. 
*Kamtschaticum Variegated Three $1.45, Doz. $4.75, 100 $25.00 
One of the best, because of its handsome golden variegated foliage 
which blends marvelously with the orange-yellow flowers, which are 
profusely produced in midsummer. 
*Maximum atropurpureum Three $1.45, Doz. $4.75; 100 $25.00 
Of upright, open growth, about 18 inches high, foliage rich mahogany- 
brown, flowers in sprays of somewhat lighter color. An outstanding 
variety, fine for foliage color effect in the border. 
*Rupestre Three $1.45, Doz. $4.75, 100 $25.00 
Glaucous, blue-green leaves. Stems have trailing habit with golden yei- 
low flowers. Not over 3 inches high. 
*Sieboldi Three $1.45, Doz. $4.75, 100 $25.00 
Round, succulent, glaucous foliage; bright pink flowers in September. 
The loveliest of all the Sedums. 




*Spurium, Dragon’s Blood Three $1.50, Doz. $5.00 
A new Sedum which will surely become popular. The buds and stems 
are bronzy red, deep bright carmine-red in flower and dark crimson 
when finished. The plants are completely covered with blooms dur- 
ing July, August and September. The general effect and contrasts 
created by this Sedum are outstanding. A fine novelty that should 
go into all rock and wall gardens. 


; Three $1.45, Doz. $4.75, 100 $25.00 
One of the prettiest erect-growing species, attaining a height of 18 
inches, with broad, light green foliage and immense heads of handsome, 
showy, rose-colored flowers; indispensable as a late fall-bloomer. 
Spectabile 
Spectabile “Brilliant” Three $1.45, Doz. $4.75, 100 $25.00 
A richly colored form of the preceding, being a bright amaranth-red. 
STATICE - Great Sea-Lavender 
The leathery, dark. green leaves spring directly from the root stock 
and the flower stems are more or less twiggy, bearing their small flow- 
ers in much-branched panicles. The flowers are useful for cutting for 
indoor decoration, also for drying for winter use. y 
Culture. A sandy loam is essential to grow these plants well. A sunny 
position, too, is indispensable. Plant in autumn or spring, 6 inches apart. 
in They show to the best advantage grown towards the front of the border. 
*Latifolia Three $1.45, Doz. $4.75, 100 $25.00 
A valuable plant either for the border or rockery; immense heads, fre- 
quently 1\4 feet high and 2 feet across, of purplish blue, minute flow- 
ers during July and August. These, if cut and dried, last in perfect 
condition for months. 
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