Dreer's mid-summer catalogue 1914 (1914) Dreer's mid-summer catalogue 1914 . dreersmidsummerc1914henr Year: 1914 SEDUM SPKCTABILIS SPIE^A XJLMAEIA FL. PL. SEDUM (Stone-crop) Useful and pretty plants for the border, producing their interesting flowers during late summer and fall. Spectabilis. One of the prettiest erect-growing sp)ecies, 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-blooming plant. 15 cts. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100. — 'Brilliant.' A rich colored form of the prece
Dreer's mid-summer catalogue 1914 (1914) Dreer's mid-summer catalogue 1914 . dreersmidsummerc1914henr Year: 1914 SEDUM SPKCTABILIS SPIE^A XJLMAEIA FL. PL. SEDUM (Stone-crop) Useful and pretty plants for the border, producing their interesting flowers during late summer and fall. Spectabilis. One of the prettiest erect-growing sp)ecies, 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-blooming plant. 15 cts. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100. — 'Brilliant.' A rich colored form of the preceding, being a bright amaranth-red. 25 cts. each; $ per doz. SILENE (Catchfly) Schafta (Autumn Catchfly). A charming border or rock plant, growing from 4 to 6 inches high, with masses of bright pink flowers from July to October. 15 cts. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100. SPIRAEA (Goat's Beard, Meadow Sweet) Elegant border plant-s with feathery plumes of flowers and neat, attractive foliage; succeed best in a half-shaded loca- tion in a rich, moist soil. Aruncus. A noble variety, 3 to 5 feet high, producing in June and July long, feathery panicles of white floweis. Chinensis. A handsome species with large heads of silvery- pink floweis in June and July; 2 feet. 25 cts. each; $ per doz. Filipendula Fl. PI. {Douhle-flmoered Drop-wort). Numerous corymbs of double white flowers, on stems 12 inches high, (hiring June and July, and pretty fern-like foliage. Palmata Elegans. A free-flowering, silvery-pink. Ulmaria Fl. PI. {'Memlow Sicccf). Grows about 3 feet high, and prcxluces its large double-white flowers during June and July. Price. Except where noted, 15 cts. each; $ per doz.; $ per 100. STATICE (Great Sea Lavender) Latifolia. A most valuable plant either for the border or rockery, with tnfts of leathery leaves and immense can- delabra-like heads, frequently 2 feet across, of purplish- blue minute flowers from June to September; these, if cut and dried, last i
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