UNUSUAL ANNUAL FLOWERS 
Here are kinds that will show quick blossoms 
from spring planted seeds. Sowings made even 
as late as July will still give a good season of 
bloom with most of them. Try them for a “dif¬ 
ferent” and more delightful garden. 
ANODA LAVATEROIDES—The Opalcup,—call¬ 
ed so from the iridescent tones, like those of 
changeable silk, that its great blossom-chalices 
show. Actually the color lies between blue and 
pink, pink in the sun, blue in the shadow. The 
Opalcup comes with speed from early sowings, 
often giving flowers by the first week in June, 
and keeping them in continuous bloom through 
scorching summer days and frosty fall nights, 
until finally black freezes of late autumn put a 
period to its season. It makes great bushy 
plants, to four feet. Pkt. 15c. 
ARGEMONES MIXED — Great satin-petalled 
blossoms, crinkly and shining, in whiteness of 
new snow, tyrian rose, palest yellow or golden 
orange. The foliage, too, is attractive, rich 
green, holly-pointed, and often with marblings 
of white. Argemone grows from two to four 
feet, likes full sun, and blooms all summer long. 
It withstands drought wonderfully. Pkt. 15c; 
Ys oz. 25c. 
COREOPSIS CARDAMINEFOLJA — The two- 
foot, fine-leaved plants are domes of brilliance, 
hidden by overlapping blossoms of luxuriant vel¬ 
vety maroon. Long in flower. Pkt. 10c. 
CORYDALIS SEMPERVIRENS ROSEA — De¬ 
lightful blue-gray foliage, with an extravagance 
of airily swung blossoms, rosy pink with golden 
tips. Long in bloom. Pkt. 15c. 
DATURA WRIGHTI—Blue-tinted foliage, dusted 
with silver-down. Big upright trumpets of soft¬ 
est lavender tintings. Pkt. 10c. 
DELPHINIUM CARDIOPETALUM — A little 
beauty, very different from other annual Lark¬ 
spurs. Violet-blue flowers, green-tipped, and 
with exceedingly long upcurved spurs, are car¬ 
ried in loose spikes. To sixteen inches. Pkt. 15c. 
DIASCIA BARBARAE — Exquisite blossoms, 
from salmon pink to soft rose, each with deeply 
inset spots of gold, are carried gracefully on 
Ightly swaying, spreading branches, over a long 
season. 1G inches. A delight. Pkt. 15c. 
ERODIUM GRUINUM — Tufts of soft, heart- 
shaped leaves, from which rise slender ten-inch 
stems that carry each a noble blossom of deep 
blue-lavender, with violet eye. A Geranium 
cousin. Pkt. 20c. 
PROBOSCIDEA BLEND — Easy annuals with 
gorgeous orchid-like blossoms, carried in loose 
or close spikes above enormous leaves, downy 
or sparkling. Color varies from pink-tinged ivory 
to rich rose, or sometimes pale lilac, but always 
with splashings and barrings of burnished bronze 
or coppery red. Then there are others of deep 
and glossy yellowness, relieved by markings of 
cinnabar. Plant in poor soil if possible, other¬ 
wise too robust. Pkt. 10c. 
GOMPHRENA AUREA SUPERBA—Elongated 
flower-beads, from brightest golden-orange to 
rich burnt-orange, sometimes with a bit of scar¬ 
let shading. Long-stemmed and showy. Excel¬ 
lent for cutting, or just for garden decoration. 
Sometimes dried as a straw-flower for winter 
bouquets. Pkt. 10c, 
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