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Our New Red Sunflower 
T O know our “New Red Sun- 
flower” is to love it. For tall 
borders and in shrubbery, it 
is most effective. It’s six feet of 
height are full of grace and distinc- 
tion, whether on a large or small 
place. 
1 he illustration below gives but a 
faint idea of its real beauty which 
lies much in its brilliant coloring: 
dark center with petals of bright 
rich red, merging to yellow at the 
tips. 
We want you to grow this wonder- 
ful flower this year, and will send 
a generous package of the seed and 
our 1915 Spring Catalogue (of 144 
pages) for ten cents in stamps or 
money. 
IV e believe a good many will ask f 0T this: 
better write promptly to make sure of yours. 
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to 54 Park Place 
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Cassia and Calliopsis 
C ASSIA marilandica is a background plant 
rather curious than pretty, but of possible 
color use in some situations. It blooms from the 
upper leaf axils during July, short racemes of yellow 
blossom standing out from the unbranched whippy 
shoots that the crown throws up every season. The 
leaves are of the general pattern of those of the 
white honey locust, though of half the size, and 
lacking the silvery shimmer and finish of the locust 
greenery; in fact, the cassia has what house 
painters call a “flat finish” in a calsomined ceiling — 
dull and unpolished to a degree in a garden of 
phloxes, peonies, physostegia, and other better 
greens. It is a plant fundamentally lacking in 
“style,” as a milliner would say. 
But by the color and height of its bloom, the 
ocherous chrome heavily laced with black stamens 
in forty clusters at once, it has the curious property 
of duplicating, at three and four feet high, the 
exact color of a bed of brown-eyed yellow calliopsis, 
that useful annual of cottagers, beginners, and busy 
people. The calliopsis grows to twenty inches or so 
all over the bed, and there it stops; and unless it be 
grown against a boulder wall, or a flat ivied surface 
rising directly behind it, the calliopsis never im- 
presses the beholder as in any sense a landscape 
flower. Useful as it is, hardy and sure and useful 
in summer house bouquets, the calliopsis is too apt 
to keep low company; it somehow does not seem 
out of place among scenic features like the dog- 
kennel or the trash barrel. It is “plain and com- 
mon in its ways.” And for some aesthetic bo- 
tanical reason, its stature has kept it down in the 
garden society. It has no rising friends, no dig- 
nified mates and companions of its own color but 
greater height. Where it spreads its opulent color, 
it makes neither “a carpet” nor “a fountain” nor 
“a mass”; its sum total is nothing but “a patch.” 
The cassia centres a bed of calliopsis, and agrees 
with it surprisingly well. Against brown rocks — 
or, for that matter against a steel-gray emptiness 
of sea distance — the two plants compose a splendid 
barbaric border. The cassia lives from year to 
year, branching anew each season from the root- 
stock; the calliopsis sows itself and needs no care. 
A wide edge of ribbon grass, if one has space, is 
handsome and prevents the calliopsis from being 
lodged during rainstorms. 
Pennsylvania. E. S. Johnson. 
Some “Best” Roses 
O F SOME seventeen varieties of Hybrid Tea 
roses that I have had growing in my garden, 
the best red ones are Kaiser Wilhelm II and Gruss 
an Teplitz. The former is the reddest, largest, 
sweetest red rose I have ever seen. It makes a 
small, symmetrical bush and in my garden a row 
of them stand in front of a row of Gruss an Teplitz. 
The blooms are not so profuse as the Teplitz. 
They are high pointed, shaped like Kaiserin 
Augusta Victoria, and very sweet. 
Gruss an Teplitz I considered the best bedder of 
the red roses. It is very hardy and will grow and 
bloom in any soil. With me it makes 5 -foot canes 
thickly studded with branches, and I have cut as 
many as twenty-two blooms from one tip. 
1 have also in my garden about fifteen varieties 
of semi-double roses, which I consider the aristo- 
crats of my roses. These are all hardy and quite 
easy to grow. Of them the following five I con- 
sider best: 
Harry Kirk, absolute perfection in texture and 
outline, colored a soft, deep citron yellow. But 
alack! If it opens in hot sun the exquisite yellow is 
transformed into deep cream. 
Mme. Philippe Rivoire opens an apricot yellow 
with scant petals in hot weather; but a few cool 
days gives great, peachy-hearted blooms. 
Mrs. A. R. Waddell starts out with golden buds 
which burst into a shell pink and corn yellow, ballet- 
skirted affairs that flutter like butterflies in the 
breeze. 
Nita Weldon is yellow hearted, cream edged with 
blush. 
Betty is a gay pink-yellow and yellow-pink, 
flaunting and flirty, sometimes quite luxurious but 
often a draggled rag. 
Oregon. Mrs. John Rawley. 
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