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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 
Each 80c, Three $2.09, Doz. $5.75, 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, Miss Willmott Each 95c, Three $2.35, Doz. $7.00 
Large and beautifully formed snow-white flowers from July to October. 
Grows to a height of 2 feet. It is a beautiful variety for cutting and 
an exceptionally fine garden plant. One of the favorite white flowers 
of English gardens. 
SHASTA DAISY (See Chrysanthemum Maximum) 
SPIRAEA .- Astilbe 
Deutschland Each $1.00, Three $2.55, Doz. $7.25 
A lovely pure white variety of strong growth and very free flowering 
2-foot spikes. The best white grown. 
Europa Each $1.00, Three $2.55, Doz. $7.25 
Early, compact, feathery plumes of pure, pale pink flowers. As many 
as 15 to 20 spikes on a plant. For foreground planting in moist 
places, it is an excellent garden subject, easily grown and very hardy. 
Fanal Each $1.00, Three $2.55, Doz. $7.25 
This brilliantly colored new Spiraea not only develops plants that are 
delightfully decorative, with their bronzy, divided foliage all season, 
but the flowers are the darkest in color of the family. Height of both 
plant and bloom spike is about 2 feet, at least a foot of which is a 
feathery spike of rich deep garnet which appears to be lightly dusted 
with tiny frost crystals. Bloom lasts over a long period during early 
i color in the border. 
summer, providing a vivid splash of unusual 
Rheinland Each $1.00, Three $2.55, Doz. $7.25 
Conspicuously beautiful with dense, feathery plumes of brilliant pink. 
Rubin Each $1.00, Three $2.55, Doz. $7.25 
A fine, compact plant, good foliage and very free blooming. From 
10 to 15 flower spikes about 24 inches high of soft crimson-red. Hardy 
and easily grown. 
SPIRAEA - Goat’s Beard; Meadow Sweet 
Very handsome herbaceous perennials. The species named below have 
handsomely divided leaves and flowers borne in graceful, feathery plumes. 
Culture. The Spiraeas require a deep, rich and moist soil. Plenty of leaf 
mold and well-decayed manure must be incorporated with it before 
planting. They will thrive in shady, moist borders, or they may be grown 
by the waterside. Filipendula flore-pleno, being small, should be grown 
in groups of three or six plants. Plant in autumn, or early spring, 12 
inches apart. 
Filipendula flore-pleno Each 90c, Three $2.25, Doz. $6.50 
lovely fernlike foliage. A very 
Double white flowers on 12-inch stems; / 
neat plant and excellent for edging beds or walks. Flowers are fine for 
cutting, lasting well in water. 
Venusta Each 90c, Three $2.25, Doz. $6.50 
(Martha Washington Plume.) A noble plant growing about four feet 
high, producing in July and August handsome, rosy carmine flowers 
which are delightfully fragrant. A desirable subject for the border or 
along a small brook or pond. Superb for wet ground. 
Prof. van der Wielen Each 90c, Three $2.25, Doz. $6.50 
This hybrid Spiraea makes a very fine and graceful effect in the 
garden. Foliage is soft green and profuse flower spikes are about 3 
feet tall with feathery clusters and spikes of white flowers which are 
excellent for cutting as well as garden decoration. Hardy as an Oak and 
easily grown. 
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. 
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. 
They show to the best advantage grown towards the front of the border. 
*Latifolia Each 75c, Three $1.89, Doz. $5.69, 100 $28.00 
A valuable plant either for the border or rockery; immense heads, fre- 
quently 114 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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STOKESIA - Cornflower Aster; Stokes’ Aster 
A very handsome perennial, with China-Aster-like flowers, that appear 
late in the season, about September. It prefers a warm, sheltered loca- 
tion. Should certainly be grown in all gardens since its flowers are most 
beautiful in form and color. 
Culture. Grow in a sunny, well-drained border in sandy loam, 6 inches 
apart. Plant in March or early autumn. 
Blue Moon Each 80c, Three $2.00, Doz. $5.75, 100 $30.00 
The immense light blue disc-like flowers are 5 to 6 inches in diameter, 
growing on stiff 12- to 18-inch stems. In the foreground of the bor- 
der they make a picture not easily duplicated. Stokesia, Blue Moon, 
is a vigorous-growing and free-flowering variety of exceptional merit 
and distinction. It is perfectly hardy and has no insects bothering it. 
It is of easy culture and flowers throughout the summer and autumn 
until stopped by hard frosts. A most worth-while addition to the 
hardy plant garden. 
SWEET WILLIAM (See Dianthus Barbatus) . 
TEUCRIUM - Germander 
Shrublike plants of moderate growth. Chamaedrys has shrublike, shiny, 
dark leaves. 
Culture. A well-drained, good garden soil is all that is required to grow 
them to perfection. Plant in fall or early spring, 6 inches apart in full 
sun, in rock garden or border. Chamaedrys may also be used as an 
edging to flower beds or garden plants in the small formal garden. 
*Chamaedrys Each 75c, Three $1.80, Doz: $5.65, 100 $28.00 
Glossy green foliage resembling dwarf Boxwood, may be used in place 
of Boxwood where the latter is not hardy; can be clipped to suit any 
height up to 12 inches. 
THALICTRUM - Meadow-Rue 
Hardy perennials, with elegant, finely divided, Columbine or Maiden- 
hair-like foliage, which is most useful for cutting for mixing with cut 
flowers. Flowers are borne in feathery clusters or panicles, and they add 
considerably to the beauty of the plants. They are of easy cultivation 
in sun or shade. 
Culture. They will thrive in any good, ordinary, well-drained soil. May 
be grown in sunny or partially shaded borders, are most effective when 
grown as single specimens in the front of shrubbery borders, or in the 
wild garden. Plant in autumn or spring, 8 to 12 inches apart. 
Aquilegifolium Each 75c, Three $1.80, Doz. $5.65, 100 $28.00 
Graceful foliage like that of Columbine, and rosy purple flowers from 
June to July on 2- to 3-foot tall spikes; lovely planted together with 
Poppy Wm. Perry. 
Glaucum Each 80c, Three $2.90, Doz. $5.75, 100 $30.00 
Similar in habit to the Aquilegifolium; blue-gray leaves rather finely 
cut, with heads of Chinese yellow, fragrant flowers. 3 to 4 feet. July. 
THYMUS - Thyme 
Dwarf-growing, almost prostrate creeping perennials with fragrant foli- 
age, suitable for growing on the margins of dry, sunny banks, slopes or 
rock gardens. 
Culture. These will thrive in ordinary soil in well-drained, dry borders 
or on sunny slopes and rockeries. They soon spread and form neat 
patches of foliage, studded in summer with rosy purple or crimson 
flowers. Plant in autumn or spring, 6 inches apart. All flower in June 
and July. 
*Border Gem (Sicily) 
Each 80c, Three $2.00, Doz. $5.75, 100 $30.00 
A fine evergreen variety that can be used for many purposes. It 
grows about 6 to 9 inches high; single plants form a mound about 
15 to 18 inches in diameter. It is evergreen the year round. Grows 
excellently on such sunny, dry banks and places where grass will not 
succeed. It is ideal for a low border in the garden, along a path or 
in front of evergreen and shrub plantings. 
*Citriodorus Each 80c, Three $2.00, Doz. $5.75, 100 $30.00 
The well known ‘‘Lemon Thyme.” 
*Lanuginosus Each 80c, Three $2.00, Doz. $5.75, 100 $30.00 
(Woolly-Leaved Thyme.) Woolly foliage with bright pink flowers. 
*Serpyllum album Each 80c, Three $2.00, Doz. $5.75, 100 $30.00 
(White Mountain Thyme.) Forms dense mats of dark green foliage and 
clouds of white flowers. 
*Serpyllum coccineum Each 80c, Three $2.00, Doz. $5.75, 100 $30.00 
Plants become completely covered with brilliant crimson-scarlet flowers. 
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