PEERLESS TULIP BLEND 
If you want an almost unsurpassable showing of brilliant 
Tulip colorings, carried on long stems, kinds, too, that are 
long in flower, then this blend should meet your require¬ 
ments. It is a mixture of finer named kinds of the Darwin 
and related classes made up to carry the full range of Tulip 
hues. To be in proper proportion and balance, the Peer¬ 
less Blend is mixed to formula, chiefly from named sorts, 
grown separately. There will be the softer color tones, 
cream primrose and golden yellow, to bronze, orange and 
coffee brown; from palest flesh, through salmon pink, to 
strawberry, rose, scarlet and maroon; with lavender, clear 
blue, smoky violet and rich purple varieties, together with 
others fantastically marbled and striped. No more gor¬ 
geous mixture than this. Medium size bulbs that will bloom 
beautifully and persist long. Particularly effective when 
planted in little groups or clumps, to accent a border, or 
to light up a shrubbery background. 8 for 25c; 17 for 50c; 
36 for $1.00. 
MONARCH OF THE EAST (Sauromatum) 
A most surprising flower. Store the dry tubers in the 
cellar until late February, when they may be placed in the 
north or east window of a not-too-warm room. In a few 
days’ time long ivory-colored buds will push out from the 
tubers, soon opening to immense rose-tinted, purple-streaked 
flower-spathes of most curious form. Remember all this is 
from the dry tuber, no soil, no water, no planting, just ex- 
E osure to light and warmth toward spring. After the tubers 
ave finished flowering, they may be planted out in the 
garden, where they will grow spectacular foliage during the 
summer months, enormous digitate leaves carried high on 
marbled stems. In late fall, dig and store again in the 
cellar. This interesting plant is a species of Sauromatum, 
a rather distant cousin of the Calla, coming from India. 
Good tubers, 60c each, two for $1.00; 10 for $9.00. 
HORTICULTURAL BOOKS 
Here are books worth reading. All offered can be sup¬ 
plied promptly. Prices are post-paid. Please note, though, 
that since I am neither a circulating library nor a second¬ 
hand book store, I cannot very well allow return of books 
once sent out. There is, by the way, no finer present for a 
garden-loving friend than a book of this kind. 
HORTUS—This is a concise dictionary of gardening, giving 
brief descriptions, with to-the-point notes on cultural re¬ 
quirements and uses, on over 5,000 different plants of garden 
interest. Both common and botanical names. Any real 
gardener needs it. 652 pages. $5.00. 
THE GARDENER’S BED-BOOK—Wright. This is not a 
manual, nor a book of instructions. It is just a book of 
“Short and Long Pieces to be Read in Bed by Those Who 
Love the Green Growing Things of Earth,” for, of course, 
“All Gardeners Read in Bed.” Delightful, witty, inspiring, 
yet filled with rich nuggets of practicality. $2.50. 
THE FLOWER-FINDER—Walton. Here is all the infor- 
mation the beginner needs to identify wild flowers quickly. 
The classification and identification charts are so simplified 
that one needs no previous botanical knowledge, nor defini¬ 
tions of botanical terms, to find the name of any wild flower, 
quickly and easily. 18 half-tone engravings and 573 pen- 
and-ink drawings. $2.50. 
MY ROCK GARDEN—Farrer. 300 pages of help and in¬ 
struction in the building of the rock garden. Directions 
are pertinent and to the point. Written particularly for the 
amateur. Gives also descriptions of plants for rock garden 
use, all in Mr. Farrer’s inimitable and unique style. Illus¬ 
trated. $3.00 
WESTERN AMERICAN ALPINES—Gabrielson. Until 
one has this book, he can scarce realize the wealth of 
alpine beauty available as garden material from our western 
mountains. One will want to try them all when they read 
the alluring descriptions. The beginner will be delighted 
by the new vistas that it opens, the more advanced gardener 
will need it for constant reference. 260 pages. 124 illustra¬ 
tions. $3.50. 
CYCLOPEDIA OF HORTICULTURE—Bailey. The uni¬ 
versally accepted authority on horticulture. Intensely inter¬ 
esting. Three volumes, 3,637 pages. Four thousand illustra¬ 
tions of which 96 are full page, and 24 are color plates. 
Gives full descriptions and cultural data on thousands of 
plants. Also general articles. $15.00. 
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