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CORAL FLOWER ■ OPALCUP 
TITHONIA SPtCIOSA I HIBISCUS TRIONUM 
RAPID CELANDINE 
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. See 
illustration above. Pkt. 15c; x /g oz. 50c; oz. 85c. 
*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, page 2. Pkt. 20c. 
*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; oz. 35c; 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 Poppy, an inch and a half, and 
more, across. Bright golden yellow. Easiest culture; sow 
seeds where plants are to stand. 24 inches. Mildly per¬ 
ennial, but best handled as annual. Illustration, page 2. 
Pkt. 25c. 
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