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SAXIFRAGA COTYLEDON 
Flowers white in large panicles, irresistibly appealing 10 
flower lovers during May and June. Fine pot and rock plant. 
Hardy perennial. Height 1 ft. 
SAXIFRAGA UMBROSA—Profuse bloomer, color bright 
rose, will thrive in shady positions. Perfectly hardy. Height 
15 in. T. pkt. 15c; x: oz. 25c. 
AS ROCK PLANTS, SAXIFRAGAS stand very high. They 
can be easily and quickly propagated by divisions. The plants 
sell fast. Easily raised from seed, thriving in any good soil 
in sun or shade. Perfectly hardy. 
A most desirable annua! for pot 
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Cc izant us and garden culture and one of the 
daintiest of cut flowers. Compact and bushy, lasting in bloom for 
months. A highly paying plant for florists. For spring trade sow 
in a eool house in October, pot off when large enough and shift as 
soon as needed. Schizanthus must never be allowed to become pot 
bound. For summer blooming sow when danger of frost is past, 
eter transplant to stand a foot apart. Make several successive sow- 
ngs. 
If a crop of flowers is desired during December and January sow 
in September, allow the plants to bud in 4 in. pots, grow cool (48 
deg. house). You will find it about the easiest flower to bring into 
bloom and the most readily saleable. To get bushy plants you must 
pinch and keep on pinching the plants. 
SCHIZANTHUS HYBRIDUS 
DR. BADGER’S IMPROVED GIANT FLOWERED HYBRIDS. 
Large flowers, brilliant range of colors, from light pink 
through rose to deep purple, each flower with a large golden 
blotch. Contains no white flowers. Plants compact 12 to 
14 in. tall. Very outstanding strain for the Florist. T.. pkt. 
15c; vs oz. 30c; % oz. 55c; oz. $4.00. 
SCHIZANTHUS DWARF GEM Ideal for pots. Of 
compact growth, 
only 10 inches high. The range of colors is wide and the 
colors are bright and pronounced. MIXED. T. pkt. 20c; 
sy oz. 30c. 
SEMPERVIVUM MIXED 
Our mixture contains the best hardy perennial varieties. Sem- 
pervivum or House Leeks, are interesting and attractive plants, form- 
ing rosettes of fleshy leaves in many colors such as, pinkish brown, 
silvery white, bluish green, etc. Flowers in red, yellow and white. 
Sempervivum will grow where nothing else would, on dry banks, on 
top of walls, they are exceJlent rock plants and indispensible in 
carpet bedding. Height 3 to 6 in. 
SENECIO-JACOBEA ELEGANS 
DOUBLE MIXED—An annual, bearing very double flowers in large 
heads from June to October, excellent for cutting and as a bedding 
plant. The flowers are many colored, white, red, bronze, brown and 
shades rarely seen. Foliage feather-like, beautiful. Start the seed 
in March, plant out in May or sow outdoors in May. Height 2 ft. 
T. pkt. 10c; % oz. 30c. 
SCABIOSA WEBBIANA—Plants of neat compact growth, flowers 
creamy white, produced in unbelievable quantities from June to 
October. Good for cutting and rockery. Hardy perennial. Height 
20 inches. T. pkt. 15c. eee ny 
DE GIORGI BROTHERS CO. 

Large Flowered Scabiosa 
Scabiosa Mourning Bride 
One ot the handsomest summer border plants, producing in great 
profusion splendid double flowers for table bouquets, etc. They 
grow about 30 inches high and come into bloom early in July and 
continue in never-ceasiug succession till frost. Hardy annual. The 
seed of annual varieties germinates in 2 to 3 weeks, the perennial 
from 3 to 6 weeks. Sow in a flat cover, the seed about half inch 
and apply water ONLY when needed to get a full stand and to avoid 
loss from damping off. 
SCABIOSA GIANT LOVELINESS—Flowers very large on Jong stiff 
stems, color, shades of delicate salmon-rose. 
tes aah peilin ago tr orchid shade of rich rosy lilac. Flowers of 
great size. 
SALMON—Pure salmon. 
AZURE FAIRY—Blue; BLACK PRINCE—Black Purple; CRIMSON— 
FIREBALL—Scarlet; YELLOW—SHASTA—Pure white, very large 
and double; PEACH BLOSSOM—Flesh pink, extra large and double; 
BLUE COCKADE, deeper blue than Azure Fairy. 
MIXED. Any of the above: T. pkt. 10c; oz. 45c; Ib. $4.20. 
A new highly im- 
SCABIOSA GIANT HYBRIDS provea annual 
Scabiosa producing flowers of gigantic proportions in many 
colors. MIXED. T. pkt. 10c; oz. 80c. 
PERENNIAL SCABIOSAS 
CAUCASICA ISAAC HOUSE—Giant flowered hybrids in shades of 
blue and lavender fringed and ruffled. First rate cut flower in 
ploom from date: in Moy Ae et ie Long lived perennial. Height 
n. oroughy cleaned an ump seed. T. pkt. 15c; Oz. ’ 
oz. $2.00; Ib. $22.00. . Z a on 
CAUCASICA ALBA—Pure white. T. pkt. 20c; % oz. 40; os. $8.00. 
JAPONICA—This is a perennial variety of great beauty and elegance. 
The beautiful artistic lavender blue flowers are borne: on lonpawies 
stems and are 2 to 3 inches across. Very floriferous. A fine cut 
flower. Height 3 ft. T. pkt. 10; os. 45c. 
SCABIOSA COLUMBARIA—Hardy perennial but not hardy in Iowa. 
viowers “ro inches TALS short compact petals. Height 2 ft. 
n bloom May-June. nk and lavender colors. MIXED. T. pkt. 
15e; % oz. 30c; oz. $2.00. ; 
SCABIOSA FISCHERI > 
Hardy perennial of vigorous growth producing a sea of 
very dark bright blue, double flowers over an inch across 
during July and August. Fine for cutting and as a border 
plant. Height 3% ft. Different from S. Japonica. T. pkt. 15c; 
0Z. $1.20; Ib. $16.00. . y 
SCABIOSA SPECIOSA 
Hardy perennial of compact bushy growth, producing 
quantities of bright mauve double flowers two inches across, 
on long stiff stems throughout summer. Fine for permanent: 
beds and borders and first class cut-flowers. Height 2 feet. 
