IRIS DICHOTOMA 
Very different from other Irises, with blossoms of ex¬ 
quisite daintiness, cool translucent lavender, with rich 
brown markings. The flowers are carried in tall sprays, 
to four feet, slenderly branching, and come in late July 
and August, after other Irises are done. Fragrant. Likes 
full sun. Seed germinates quickly and strongly, without 
special care. It is the one Iris that often blooms the first 
year from seed. Pkt. 15c; Ys oz. 40c; Ya oz. 7 5c; 1 oz. $2.50. 
*ANODA, the OPALCUP 
Anoda lavateroides, the Opalcup, is an annual of easiest 
culture, likely to show blossom the first week in June 
from April sowings. Then there will be continuous flower¬ 
ing until hard late freezes in autumn. Here I have counted 
as late as November 15th, fifty perfect blossoms open at 
once on a single plant. The flowers are shallow chalices, 
to three inches across, built of crinkly, lustrous petalage 
of just that delightful opaline coloring that lies between 
blue and pink; in sun, called pink; in shadow, blue. Big, 
bushy plants. Sow any time from April to August. Will 
cut. Illustration, page 2. Pkt. 15c; Ys oz. 35c; Ya oz. 60c. 
*RAPID CELANDINE 
Among the treasures of the Celandine Poppy group, this, 
the Rapid Celandine, (Dicranostigma Franchetianum), is, I 
think, the most precious. Quite surely none of them is 
easier, none more beautiful or larger flowered, and none can 
come into bloom quite as quickly from spring-sown seed. 
It is truly the “Rapid” Celandine. Above jagged pinnate 
leaves, white marbled on pale green, come slender branching 
stems that bear repeated showers of four-petaled blossoms, 
crinkled and silken. Week after week the flowers appear, 
large indeed for a Celandine Peppy, an inch and a half, and 
more, across. Easiest culture, full sun or light shade. 24 
inches. Mildly perennial, but best handled as annual. Sow 
seeds where plants are to stand. Illustration, page 2. Pkt. 25c. 
JAPANESE SILVER VIOLET 
A dainty exquisite from mountains of Japan. Blossoms 
are pink in effect, but actually it is a netting of rose over 
cream. Foliage densities, cleft and re-cleft, gleam as though 
over-laid with thin silver-plating. Blooms freely in spring, 
and again in late autumn Of fullest hardiness, “h” culture. 
The Silver Violet is Viola Sieboldiana. Pkt. 25c. 
THE ORIENTAL LARKSPUR 
OFFER 1B7—One pkt. each of seven annuals illustrated 
above, for ONE DOLLAR. 
* TAHOKA DAISY 
Big, splendid daisies of pure blue-lavender, fading to 
rose, with golden yellow centers that stay yellow. The 
foliage is shredded and fern-like, the flower stems of good 
length, and the blossoms carried continuously from mid- 
June until late autumn. Wonderful for cutting, or in the 
border. Summer heat does not stop its blooming. A winter 
annual, and seeds sown in late autumn in open ground, 
usually germinate strongly following spring. Seeds sown 
in spring will also give a fair stand, unless soil temperatures 
happen to be unusually high after sowing, in which case 
they may hang fire a bit, coming rather unevenly, but 
quite surely in the end. This is the most satisfactory 
summer cutting annual introduced in years. Height, 20 
inches. Botanically it is Machaeranthera tanacetifolia. Sc* 
illustration above. Pkt. 15c; Ys oz. 50c; Ya oz. 85c. 
A rare and highly distinct annual species from Kurdistan, 
botanically Delphinium orientalis. It makes broad bushes 
of plants, to a height of 28 inches, long loaded with bloom. 
The blossom color is a strikingly rich and unusual shade, of 
true Tyrian purple, deep and velvety. It is hard to describe 
the precise effect of the plant, but it attracts a vast deal 
of attention from trial ground visitors when it is in flovver. 
Few connect it with the usual annual Larkspur, to which, 
indeed, it is not very closely allied. As with all Larkspurs, 
seed germinates best if sown while soil is cool. Pkt. 20c. 
THE YELLOW "PINK" 
This contradictory name belongs to the one species of 
the Hardy Garden Pinks that carries flowers of yellow in¬ 
stead of the usual roseate tints. The blossoms, a pleasing 
shade of clear lemon, are borne in terminal clusters on many 
spreading stems, over a period of some two months. It 
grows to about 18 inches, and is fully hardy. Botanically it 
is Dianthus Knappi. Pkt. 20c. 
*CORAL FLOWER 
A new annual flower of exquisite, jewel-like daintiness 
and vivid colorings. Even the foliage is decorative; spoon¬ 
shaped leaves of thick, rich succulence. There are many 
stems, growing to some thirty inches, and bearing in loose 
alternate clusters, litle five-pointed blossom stars of lumin¬ 
ous pink rosiness. Then come airy, long-hanging capsules, 
each like a bead of coral, polished to brilliancy, hundreds 
of them on each spire-like stem. The plant is of easiest 
culture in full sun. Botanically it is Boerhaavia adscendens. 
See illustration, ^age 2. Pkt. 20c. 
HOUSE PLANT SURPRISE 
Here you are due for delightful amazement. Seeds of 
very many different house plants in one great mixture, some 
of them decidedly unique. Better separate the fine seeds 
from the coarse, since the latter will need deeper covering. 
Give them all a fair chance and ample time. Sold only in 
extra-size packets at 25c each. 
WILD FLOWER BLENDS 
Wild Flowers, with a few exceptions, may be grown 
rather readily from seed, and this is the most practicable 
way of rapidly increasing them. The folder of cultural 
instructions sent out with all seed shipments, contains spec¬ 
ial notes on the handling of Wild Flower seeds, in order 
to insure maximum results from them. 
The annuals in the blends will make a good showing the 
first season, the perennial kinds in after years. 
WILD FLOWERS FOR SUN—At least one hundred dif¬ 
ferent and delightful Wild Flowers are in this blend. Among 
them are Wind-flowers, Shootingstar, certain Gentians, Lych¬ 
nis, Golden and Purple Asters, Monarda, Solidago, Gay 
Feather, Datura, Starry Campion, Petalostemon, Buttercup, 
Cassia, Columbine, Lepachys, True Black-eyed Susan, Cam- 
assia, Lilies, Sundrop, Flowering Cactus, Bellflowers, 
Saponaria, Pentstemon hirsutus, .Yucca, Pardanthus, Wild 
Rose, Dove Mullein, Tradescantia and many Violets. It 
will make a glorious showing from early until late. Ys oz 
20c; Ya oz. 35c; 1 oz. $1.00; Ya lb. $3.75; 1 lb. $14.00. 
WILD FLOWERS FOR SHADE—Woodland Wild Flow¬ 
ers bloom mostly in early to late spring, a few kinds though 
come later. Here we have such dainty beauties as Trillium, 
Fairy Bells, Anemone, Anemonella, Violets again, Jack-in- 
the-Pulpit, Wild Geranium, Claytonia, Hepatica, Erythro- 
nium, Mitchella, Winter-green, Trailing Arbutus, Bear- 
berry, Smilacina, Ground Gold, Asarum, Mist Flower, Dasy- 
stoma, Mertensia, Wild Sweet William and Polemonium, 
with Celandine, Pentstemon, Bloodroot and Wild Bergamot. 
Others, many of them, of course. These seed more shyly. 
Special large pkg. 20c? Ys oz. 35c; Ya oz. 65c; 1 oz. $2.00. 
WILD FLOWERS FOR MEADOWS—This is made up 
for moist meadows, streamsides, marsh borders and other 
damp but fairly open places. In it are several Gentians, 
many Orchids, Meadow Beauty, Polygala, Sabbatia, Xero- 
phyllum, Lythrum, Giant Wool Grass, Lance Leaf Violet, 
Purple Gerardia, Xyris, Eupatorium, Sagittaria, Helonias, 
Blue-eyed Grass, Mimulus, Vernonia, Pink Asclepias, Lilies, 
Iris, Meadow Sweet, Pitcher Plant, Sundew, and the like. 
Special large pkg. 20c; Ys oz. 30c; Ya oz. 50c; 1 oz. $1.75. 
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