Flowers for Your Garden 



from A down to Z 



Whether you have acres of ground or 

 just a little dooryard, you want the best 

 flowers you can buy. The long list of 

 annuals offered here will give you wide 

 choice of color and variety. Order plenty 

 of them to plant among the perennials 

 and to group by themselves for cutting. 

 Sow perennial seeds at the same time as 

 the annuals; the earlier in the season 

 they are started, the better next year's 

 plants Will be. 



KEY TO SYMBOLS 



A Annual Lives only one season. 



B Biennial Lives two seasons; 



often blooms second 

 year only. 



P Perennial. ... Tends to live from 

 year to year. 



C Climber Requires support. 



R Rock Plant. . .Suitable for rock 

 gardens. 



h Hardy. . . Resists low temperatures. 



hh Half- Hardy. Needs protection where 

 temperatures are low. 



t Tender Will not endure frost. 



Where quantities are offered, the 



weights mentioned are the smallest 



units we supply. 



All prices quoted include delivery by 

 mail in U. S. A. 



ABRONIA (Sand Verbena) [hA-R-6in.] 

 This graceful trailing plant bears 

 verbena-like flowers rosy lilac in 

 color and especially fragrant toward 

 evening. It thrives in poor dry soil 

 making it particularly suited to 

 rock gardens and to window boxes 

 in full sunshine. 



Umbellata Grandiflora 



i^oz. 50c; pkt. 10c 



A dooryard need not be large to contain quantities of flowering plants all summer long. 



ABUTILON (Flowering Maple) [hhP-3 ft.] In the Southern 

 States and Cahfornia this attractive shrub does well out of 

 doors. Elsewhere it is easily grown indoors in winter, and 

 if set outdoors in late spring it will flower during summer 

 and fall. The leaves are maple-shaped, and the beautiful 

 bell-like blossoms appear in white, yellow, and rose. 

 IMaxImum Giant Flowered Mixed Pkt. 25c 



ACHILLEA (Sneezewort, Yarrow) [hP-2 ft.] One of the 



best perennials for cutting or along shrubbery. The plants 



bear many clusters of small double satin-white flowers 



during a long season. They prefer a sunny exposure. 



Ptarmica, The Pearl Pkt. 15c 



ADONIS (Pheasant's Eye) [hA-1 ft.] This showy plant with 

 dark green feathery foliage bears small cup-shaped flowers 



of a deep crimson with dark centers. Long keeping as 

 a cut flower in water where the buds will open and the 

 flowers continue to grow for several days. Sow seed in the 

 open, spring or fall, preferably the latter in California. 

 Aestivalis Oz. 30c; pkt. 10c 



Afghan Gilliflower (See Erysimum) 



African Daisy (See Arctotis, Dimorphotheca, Gerbera) 



ACROCLINIUM [hhA-15 in.] The double daisy-like blooms 

 of this straw flower are about one inch across, borne singly 

 on long stems which are at first inclined and later stand 

 erect. They are well liked as fresh flowers, but their best 

 use is in winter bouquets for which they should be cut 

 when in bud. 



Double Pink Oz. 50c 



Double White Oz. 50c 



Double Mixed Oz. 50c 



Pkts. 10c each 



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