SEEDS FOR THE ROCK GARDEN 
So many of the true alpines, not all of them of course, 
need late autumn sowing to give them the right start. In 
their native mountain meadows there is naturally a long 
covering of snow over the fallen seeds, these starting to 
germinate as the snows melt in the spring. Many of the 
species suited to the rock garden, that are not alpines, seem 
to be helped also by late sowing and winter cold, germi¬ 
nating quickly and strongly the following spring when so 
handled. 
DODECATHEON BLEND—Shooting Star. Fragrant Cy¬ 
clamen-like flowers in pink, rose, purple, crimson and white. 
Pkt. 15c. 
TRAILING ARBUTUS—Epigaea repens. Prettiest, and 
almost rarest, flower of early spring, pink-and-w’hite, like 
fallen apple-blossoms. Deliciously perfumed. A bit slow 
in germinating. Have patience. Pkt. 25c. 
MALVASTRUM COCCINEUM—Blossoms of flame-copper 
on silvery foliage-tufts. Pkt. 15c. 
NOTOTHLASPUM ROSULATUM—Rare plant of New 
Zealand screes. Piled rosettes of thick, fat, over-lapping 
leaves culminate in dense pyramids of creamy, fragrant 
•flowers. Pkt. 20c. 
LEWISIA BLEND—Many-petalled blossoms of cup form, 
like feathery Water Lilies, pink to apricot, above rosettes 
of succulent foliage that may be crisped, undulate, bronze- 
tinted. Pkt. 20c. 
CACTUS HARDY BLEND—Here are thoroughly winter- 
hardy kinds in wide variety of intriguing form and brilliant 
blossom. There will be those that branch pad on pad, others 
that are ribbed and ovalled columns, those, too, that simu¬ 
late clustered cushions (pin-cushions). Flowers may be 
tawny buff, orange-tinted lemon, or purest yellow, with 
others of most vivid rose. There are no better rock plants. 
15 seeds for 15c; 50 for 40c; 100 for 75c; 250 for $1.65. 
AQUILEGIA REUTERI — Flowers of magnificent blue- 
violet swing on gracefully branching stems. A rare but 
easy Columbine that will glorify the rock garden or the 
front of the perennial border. Pkt. 15c. 
ANEMONE DECAPETALA—An exquisite little Wind¬ 
flower of late spring that will do easily in sun or shade. 
The ten-petalled blossom chalices are usually a rosy car¬ 
mine, with bunched golden stamens, but may vary from 
cream to purple. Pkt. 15c. 
RUELLIA CILIOSA—Long-tubed blossoms of silky lav¬ 
ender, like widely flaring trumpets. Blooms all summer 
long, is fully winter-hardy, and thrives in sun and drought. 
Altogether pleasing in rockery or border. Pkt. 20c. 
OFFER 26A1—One pkt. each of above for $1.45. 
THE FRINGED GENTIAN 
There is no more beautiful flower in its time than Gen- 
tiana crinita, with its deeply fringed petals of charming 
misty indigo. Seeds sown in late autumn are rather sure 
to germinate next spring. Pkt. 15c; spec. pkg. 35c. 
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