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DELPHINIUMS 
Highlight the Garden 
For a regal show in June and September there is nothing to com- 
pare with the stately splendor of Delphiniums. These aristocratic 
flowers will provide the high-spot in your garden. They bloom in 
June and if cut back afterward will usually flower again in late 
summer and autumn. 
Small young plants, in our experience, wiil transplant better in 
spring than large clumps, and we are therefore prepared to supply 
pot-plants at a great saving in cost. Planted in April and May, they 
will bloom in late summer and autumn and be at their best the fol- 
lowing June when their finest spikes should be produced. At our 
very low price for these smaller plants you can use them in quantity 
and have a real Deiphinium show right in your own garden. 
Not only do the smaller plants cost less, but they will produce 
better flowers and live longer than older clumps. We have set out 
thousands of these small plants with such splendid results that we 
do not hesitate to recommend them to you. 
(Note: Because we have kept the price low, we cannot supply 
less than 6 of a kind of these young plants.) 
DELPHINIUM CULTURE. Plant in deeply spaded, fertile 
garden soil in a well-drained, sunny location. Set the crown of 
the plant level with the soil and do not use manure where it will 
touch the roots; lime well mixed with the soil is usually beneficial. 
Space hybrids at least 18 inches apart. 
For a particularly brilliant and striking garden picture, plant 
groups of Delphinium in back of the gold, copper, and bronze of 
Daylilies. Delphinium and Regal Lilies make another combination 
that is breathtakingly lovely. 
HYBRID DELPHINIUMS 
Young plants from small pots 
6 for $1.75; 12 for $2.95; 25 for $5.75, postpaid 
We offer here four strains of hybrids which we have found of 
outstanding quality. The blooms are magnificent with spikes of 
double flowers often 4 to 5 feet high and under favorable conditions 
even more. If you have grown hybrids, we do not have to tell you 
how fine they are; if you have never grown them, we suggest you 
try them. For striking effect plant a quantity. 
Blackmore & Langdon Hybrids. See illustration. To our mind 
this is the finest strain of English hybrids. Colors range from deep 
violet down to the palest lavender, with all the tints imaginable 
modifying these colors; every flower has a lovely “‘bee.’”’ Flowers 
are closely set on strong spikes 4 to 5 feet high. 
Giant Pacific Hybrids. A fine strain of recently developed Ameri- 
can hybrids tn shades of blue. Strong, wiry stems, bearing spikes 
3 to 5 feet high, made up of large individual flowers often 2 to 3 
inches across. Very striking. 
Giant Pacific White. Large flowers of clear white on strong spikes. 
A really fine white Delphinium. Very attractive, 1t has quickly 
pecome popular. It is a valuable addition to the Delphinitum 
amily. 
Lyondel Strain. An outstanding strain of American hybrids, 
much admired by Delphinium enthusiasts. Strong spikes of very 
fine color in shades of biue. 
6 Delphiniums: 3 Blackmore & Langdon 
Offer 21. and 3 Giant Pacific Hybrids $1.65 
A Blue and White Garden of 
A Delphinium Story from Our Files 90 DELPHINIUMS $3.95 
Neshaminy, Pa., June 7, 1946 
“We have never been able to grow Delphiniums for our own pleasure, as 
our ground is too acid, but will try once more with your little plants. Mrs. J. 
B. Carson won the Horticultural Award this year in Philadelphia with her 
Delphiniums. She says she has used your small plants and thinks they assure 
success. If we succeed this time, it will be an achievement.”—ALLEN J 
HANKELE. 
We shipped twelve plants on June 13 and wrote, “Be sure to plant the 
Delphiniums where there is ample surface drainage and in soil that is well 
limed, because they will not grow satisfactorily in acid soil. . . . We shall 
be interested to know how you make out.” 
Neshaminy, Pa., Sept. 21, 1046 
“My husband wrote you in the spring about being unable to raise Del- 
phiniums and you responded with such an enlightening letter. I succeeded in 
raising nine out of the twelve plants you sent us about the middle of June, 
and eight of these have bloomed. One spike was five feet tall and won the 
first prize at the Old York Road Garden Club, of which there are 356 mem- 
bers. It had the most gorgeous blue double blooms of any we have seen in 
six shows. Thanks a million, and book us for thirty-six plants like them to be 
sent next spring.” —(Mrs.) ErHert R. Hanxete, M.D. 
Star Rose-Growers * West Grove, Pa. 21 
These plants produce magnificent stalks of 
bloom, really something striking you would be 
sorry to miss. These are the best strains on the 
market today and these small plants give results 
at very low cost. 
20 Delphiniums (5 young 
Offer 21A. plants of each of $3 9 
the 4 hybrids listed). . . . Ppd. 95 
A Blue Garden of $ 
122 Deighiniumitlvonde, 22:02 
4 young pot-plants of each of the 3 blue strains. 
Gives many shades of blue. 
Offer 21B. posipadior. |. 2 2tO9 
