. Dreer's garden book : 1905. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. 196 HARDY mmmi plants II SAXIFRAGA ;Megasea.) These will thrive in any kind uf soil and in any position, and are admirable for the front of tlie border or for planting in masses in front of the shrubbery; in all cases forming masses of handsome, broad, deep green foliage, which alone renders them useful, wljile the pretty flowers which api^ear early in the spring, some almost as soon as the frost is out of the
. Dreer's garden book : 1905. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. 196 HARDY mmmi plants II SAXIFRAGA ;Megasea.) These will thrive in any kind uf soil and in any position, and are admirable for the front of tlie border or for planting in masses in front of the shrubbery; in all cases forming masses of handsome, broad, deep green foliage, which alone renders them useful, wljile the pretty flowers which api^ear early in the spring, some almost as soon as the frost is out of the ground, makes them doubly effective. Cordifoiia. Purple flowers ; 1 foot high. Crassifolia. Light pijik ; one of the earliest ; 9 inches high. Himalaica. Rose-colored; 12 inches high. Ligulata. White flowers ; 12 inches high. Orbicularis. Large heads of rose-colored flowers. Squarrosa. White, flowering in June ; 12 inches high. 25 cts. each; $;per doz. ; $ per 100. SAXIFRAGAS. The following varieties require a semi-shady position in well-drained .ground or on the rockery. llypnoides [Mossy Saxifrage). Of dwarf, spreading habit, with finely cut, mossy foliage and white flowers in May and June. 25 cts. each ; $ per doz. riacnabiana. A dwarf spreading rock plant, which in June and July bears numerous 2 feet high spikes of white flowers, spotted with carmine. 25 cts. each ; $,per doz. Pyramidalis. Forms rosettes of narrow silvery foliage, showy spikes 2 feet high of white flowers in May and June, (See cut.) -^5 cts. each. Sarmetltosa {Aaron's-bea7-i}). A trailing variety, with deep green foliage prettily variegated with silvery while; u';ed m hangmij-l'i'^l^fts, on the rockery, etc. 15 cts. each ; $ per doz. Umbrosa ( London Prid<:, jWincy- pretty, or None-so-prettv). A low- growing, spreading sort, throwing up stems a foot high of white, sometimes suffused with red flowers. 25 cts. each ; $2 50 per doz. SCABIOSA. Caucasica. One of the handsomes
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