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DELPHINIUMS - English Hybrids 
Wayside Gardens Hybrids Three $1.60, Doz. $4.50, 100 $35.00 
Here offered ore the newest, the best and the finest to be 
secured anywhere. The range of colors varies from the palest 
shade of blue to the deepest indigo-blue and royal purple 
with many intermediary pastel tones of mauve, pink and 
lavender blendings. Among these new hybrids are flowers of 
huge size in both single and double forms. This strain has 
been raised from seed saved from the finest named kinds in 
creation. Visitors at our nursery proclaim them the best they 
have ever seen. Those who wish to perfect their already 
much prized borders cannot afford to overlook these won¬ 
derful hybrids. 
Sutton's Hybrid Three $1.40, Doz. $4.00, 100 $30.00 
This is one of the newest and at present the most popular 
strains of the garden Delphinium. It is distinct because of 
ifs broad, conical spike and enormous individual flowers, 1 V2- 
2 inches in diameter, in all shades of blue blended with 
mauve and violet. Also contains some fine clear white types. 
Blackmore and Langdon Hybrid 
Three $1.20, Doz. $3.50, 100 $25.00 
This English strain is one of the finest developments in the 
Delphinium family. The flowers are enormous, produced on 
solid, erect spikes of great height and rigidity. The colors lie 
in delicate shades of blue, mauve, and pink. Combines land¬ 
scape value with a grace and elegance for cutting unsur¬ 
passed in this family of plants. 
Gold Medal Hybrids Three $1.00, Doz. $3.00, 100 $20.00 
They are made up from many strains and are a fine mixture 
for an inexpensive planfing. 
Fanny Stormonth Three $1.20, Doz. $3.50, 100 $25.00 
A lovely pale blue variety growing about four to five feet 
high, producing its flower spikes in goodly numbers. One of 
the best kiinds of its color. 
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DELPHINIUM BELLADONNA 
Belladonna. Light sky-blue. 
1- year-old plants .$0.85 
2- year-old plants . 1.00 
Bellamosa. A dark blue form of Bella 
donna. Like the latter and of strong 
growth. 
1 -year-old plants .85 
2-year-old plants . 1.00 
Cliveden Beauty Three $1 
This is a fine English improvement over the common Bella¬ 
donna. Growing much taller, many more flowers to each 
spike and of a brighter color. Altogether a fine improve¬ 
ment. 
WHITE HYBRID DELPHINIUMS 
Iceberg Three $1.00, Doz. $3.00, 100 $20.00 
Here at last we have a White Delphinium. The flowers are 
semi-double, double and single white on 6-ft. stems. Grace¬ 
ful enough for cutting, still tall and sufficiently substantial 
to make noble garden plants. They are of easy culture and 
look splendid combined with the blue hybrids. For a succes¬ 
sion of blooms, do not permit seed to form. 
DELPHINIUM CHINENSE 
(Chinese Delphinium). 
Chinense Three $0.85, Doz. $2.75, 100 $18.00 
A very pretty variety, with fine, feathery foliage and in¬ 
tense gentian-blue flowers in open panicles. 
Chinense album Three $0.85, Doz. $2.75, 100 $18.00 
A pure white form of the above. 
DESMODIUM 
Pendulrflorum Each $0.50, Three $1.40, Doz. $4.00 
A lovely shrublike plant for the hardy border or shrub bor¬ 
der. Arched slender branches are covered with hundreds of 
drooping racemes of liquid purple flowers which make a gor¬ 
geous display late in the autumn. 
DIANTHUS - Pinks 
Latifolius, Beatrice Three $1.00, Doz. $3.00, 100 $20.00 
This everblooming cluster Pink is a very valuable plant for 
the garden, constantly in bloom from June until September. 
Its color is a lovely pure pink. 
Latifolius, Furth Bismarck Three $1.00, Doz. $3.00, 100 $20.00 
Similar to the Beatrice in habit and freedom of bloom, its 
flowers are, however, several shades darker, more like the 
color of the Paul Neyron Rose. 
Plumarius, Gladys Cranfield 
Kiumarius, « aay Three $12 0, Doz. $3.50, 100 $25.00 
Single, flowers bright rose, with velvet crimson eye, very fra¬ 
grant. 
Plumarius, Essex Witch Three $1.00, Doz. $3.00, 100 $20.00 
Double. Delicate pink; finely fringed. 
Plumarius, Her Majesty Three $1.00, Doz. $3.00, 100 $20.00 
Double. Very large; purest white. 
Plumarius, Highland Hybrid Mjxed^^ ^ ^ ^ ]0Q %2Q QQ 
A beautiful and very varied mixture, including unnamed 
hybrids of all possible shades. Especially noted for their fra¬ 
grance and long bloom. 
Plumarius, White Reserve Three $1.00, Doz. $3.00, 100 $20.00 
Double. Continuous flowering; pure white. 
‘■Plumarius, semperflorens Dqz $2 5Q 100 $15.00 
Double and single blooms. Blooms throughout the summer. 
DIANTHUS HEDDEWIGI - Japanese Pinks 
Mixed Varieties Three $0.85, Doz. $2.75, 100 $18.00 
Their wide range of colors and markings are a constant rev¬ 
elation In bloom from early spring until late fall, they easily 
are one of the most satisfactory Pinks for garden decoration 
or cutting. 
DIANTHUS SPECIES 
‘■Alpmus Allwoodi Three $1.00, Doz. $3.00, 100 $20.00 
This is one of the loveliest of all rockery Pinks, with glossy 
leaves and large flowers of various shades of rose and pink 
on 4-inch stems, produced during July and August. 
“Arenarius Three $1.00, Doz. $3.00, 100 $20.00 
(Sand-Loving Pink). This Pink delights in a sandy soil and 
sun. Flowers white with carmine ring, on 5-inch stems, deeply 
fringed and fragrant. Excellent for dry, hot places. 
*Caesius grandiflorus Three $1.20, Doz. $3.50, 100 $25.00 
(Cheddar Pink). It is very compact in growth and makes a 
cushion of glaucous leaves from which in May, spring the 
sweet smelling, rose-colored flowers. It varies as much as 
from four inches to ten inches in height. 
*Cruentus Three $1.00, Doz. $3.00, 100 $20.00 
Dense heads of flowers on long stems. Deep red. Fine border 
plant. 
*Deltoides Three $0.85, Doz. $2.75, 100 $18.00 
(Maiden Pink). A beautiful little prostrate plant with nar¬ 
row leaves, and bearing a profusion of small, crimson flowers 
during June and July. 
* Deltoides olbus Three $0.85, Doz. $2.75, 100 $18.00 
A charming white form of the above variety. 
^Deltoides "Brilliant" Three $0.85, Doz. $2.75, 100 $18.00 
Glowing crimson-red; a most striking rock plant. 
Deltoides erecta Three $1.00, Doz. $3.00, 100 $20.00 
Upright growing, non-creeping form of the common Dianthus 
Deltoides. Grows into compact tufts which in early summer 
are smothered under hundreds of small brilliant crimson flow¬ 
ers. Valuable rock or edging plant. Its foliage is fine all 
through the year. 
(■Knappi Three $1.20, Doz. $3.50, 100 $25.00 
A dainty species producing slender stems which bear clusters 
of small, yellow blossoms. This is a unique Dianthus as it is 
the only species which produces yellow flowers. 
*Liboschitzianus Three $1.20, Doz. $3.50, 100 $25.00 
A lovely species, pure white flowers in great profusion during 
July. Very lovely plant for rockery or border. About 20 inches 
high. 
»Speciosus Three $1.20, Doz. $3.50, 100 $25.00 
A free-flowering, lavender-pink variety; flowers are finely 
cut, giving a lacy effect; wonderfully sweet scented, growing 
anywhere. 
DIANTHUS BARBATUS. See Sweet William, page 53. 
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