Delightful Delphiniums 
As you know, Delphiniums run largely to 
blue tints and shades. Not so long ago we 
had only the solid light blue and dark blue. 
Now we get an amazing and delightful vari¬ 
ety of blues, many in combination with lilac, 
lavender, heliotrope, and near-pink. And the 
types or forms are as varied as the colors, 
many blossoms with a double set of petals 
instead of just one, the two sets often different 
in color. 
So far I’ve not segregated the different types 
of colors, nor saved seed in separate colors or 
shades. May do this some time. But it 
seems most fascinating to me to let them 
grow and bloom in masses of the various col¬ 
ors, all harmonizing. So that is the way you 
will have them from seed or plants I supply 
this season—all in one grand and glorious 
mixture, including largely the more graceful 
open type plants, but some also of the massive 
Wrexham or “Hollyhock” strain. 
Each season many splendid delphinium 
blooms the first year, from seed sown right 
out in the garden in April. 
Delphinium may be sown right outdoors 
early in spring. With no protection, the plants 
will live over winter and increase in size and 
vigor. 
7012. Seed saved from my best stock or 
exhibition plants. Mixed colors only: Fkt. 
$1.00; Small Fkt. 50c; % Oz. $2.50; Oz. $9.00. 
Wrexham or Hollyhock Type 
All right. You can’t quarrel with me. Al¬ 
though I myself prefer the less dense and 
more airy-like “Dells,” as we call ’em for 
short, yet I receive requests for the Wrex¬ 
ham type only. 
Now, as I say; it’s jake with me whether 
you order my super special mixture offered 
on the left here, or the Wrexham type only, 
for this season I have seed of both. A typi¬ 
cal Wrexham spike is shown above. But this 
type varies a great deal. Not all come so 
dense or crowded. And it’s a good thing they 
don’t. 
FOI 214 . WREXHAM seed at 80c a Fkt., Small 
Fkt. 40c; 14, oz. $2.00; oz. $7 jOO. (Ho Wrex¬ 
ham plants, except as they may happen to 
come in the mixed plants X offer.) 
DEI.PHIHIUM SEED. Ho. F013. Mixed Hy¬ 
brids. Pkt. 15c. 
Some of my Delphiniums from seed. Never 
been transplanted. Just as they run in beds 
from which I sell plants. 
Delphinium Plants 
From seed containing a liberal per cent of 
the fine new kinds. Strong seedlings, many 
of which bloomed last year. 7 for $1.00; 15 
for $2.00; 25 for $3.00; 36 for $4.00. All pre¬ 
paid. (Mixed colors only.) 
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HOTE: Delphiniums are very hardy. They 
begin growth real early in spring. Is best 
to set these plants out when you do your 
early gardening. But will thrive if shipped 
and planted later. If sent after growth well 
started we cut the tops back before packing. 
New shoots start at once from crown of 
plant. Bnt order and plant early if you can. 
Means better results the first season. 
FESTER THE PESTS. Only insect I know 
of that works on Delphinium is some sort of 
red spider, louse or other “varmint” very ef¬ 
ficient in “mass production.” Shoot him in 
the eye first time you see him—shoot his wife 
and children, too—with some tobacco solu¬ 
tion. For mildew on plants, dust with fine 
powdered sulphur. 
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