Dreer's garden book 1906 Dreer's garden book : 1906 dreersgardenbook1906henr Year: 1906 196 DRffi -PHIlADELPHIA^'AW/HAfeDY PERENNIAL PbANTi V' ^/ vSAXIFUAGA i^Iegasea). These will thrive in any kind of soil and in any posiiion; grow about 1 foot high and are admirable for the front of the border or shrubbery, forming masses of handsome, broad, deep green foliage, wliich alone renders them use- ful, while the pretty flowers, which appear very early in the spring, some almost as soon as the frost is out of the ground, makes them doubly effective. Cordifolia. Purple flowers. V Orbicularis, Lar
Dreer's garden book 1906 Dreer's garden book : 1906 dreersgardenbook1906henr Year: 1906 196 DRffi -PHIlADELPHIA^'AW/HAfeDY PERENNIAL PbANTi V' ^/ vSAXIFUAGA i^Iegasea). These will thrive in any kind of soil and in any posiiion; grow about 1 foot high and are admirable for the front of the border or shrubbery, forming masses of handsome, broad, deep green foliage, wliich alone renders them use- ful, while the pretty flowers, which appear very early in the spring, some almost as soon as the frost is out of the ground, makes them doubly effective. Cordifolia. Purple flowers. V Orbicularis, Large heads of rose- iiimalaica. Rose-coloied. | ^ colored flowers. Ligulata. White flowers. l/SquarrOSa. White, llowering in Van Houttei. Light pink. | June. 25 CIS. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100. SAXIFRACAS. The following varieties require a semi-shady position in well-drained ground or on the rockery. Pyramidalis. Forms rosettes of narrow, silvery foliage, showy spikes 2 feet high of white flowers in May and June. (See cut.) 35 cts. each. SarmentOSa (^Aaron's-beard). A trailing variety, with deep green foliage, prettily variegated with silvery wliile; used in hanging-baskets, on the rock- ery, etc. 15 cts. ; SI 50 per doz. Umbrosa {London Pride, Xaiicy prelly, or None-so-prctty'). A low-growing, spreading sort, throwing up stems a foot high of white, sometimes suffused with red flowers. 25 cts. each; per doz, , SCABIOSA. Caucasica [Blue Botmet). One of the handsomest perennials, and should be grown in evei-y garden, if only for cutting purposes, lasting a long time when placed in water. The flowers are of a peculiarly soft and charming shade of lilac-blue, and commence lo bloom in June, throwing stems 15 to 18 inches high until September. — alba. Pure wliite variety. Ochroieuca. Sulphur-yellow flowers; July to Sept ; 2i feet. 15 cts. each; ? per doz. {Skull-cap.) Qrandiflora. -\ pretty trailing plant for the rockery or border, wi
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