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Gaillardia • Blanket Flower 
Wheel-shaped, yellow and red flowers 
with dark brown centers. Excellent for 
cutting and garden decoration. Plants 
2 to 3 feet high. 
7830 Breck’s Exhibition Hybrids. Large, 
handsome flowers of clear yellow or bril¬ 
liant crimson, edged and banded with 
gold. Pkts. 15c and 35c. 
7832 Burgundy. Exceedingly beautiful 
strain with large, wine-colored flowers. 
Pkt. 35c. 
7834 Grandiflora maxima. Yellow. Pkts. 
10c and 25c. 
7838 Grandiflora, Dazzler. Vivid crimson 
with broad yellow margin. Pkt. 25c. 
7840 Portola Hybrids. Clear crimson 
flowers, feather-edged with yellow. 
Pkt. 25c. 
Gentiana • Gentian 
Geranium 
7864 Sanguineum. An attractive, loosely 
branching plant 18 inches high, with 
fine-cut foliage and bright, rosy purple 
flowers. Pkts. 25c and 60c. 
Grasses 
Ornamental grasses make handsome 
clumps, effective as lawn specimens and 
useful as backgrounds in a hardy border. 
The plumy flowering sprays may be dried 
for indoor decoration. 
7865 Arundo Donax. Great Reed. Grows 
12 feet high, with drooping foliage and 
enormous plumes. Prefers a deep sandy 
loam. Pkt. 10c. 
7867 Erianthus Ravennae. Plume Grass. 
Resembles the annual Pampas Grass, 
making feathery, silvery spikes 8 feet 
high. Pkt. 10c. 
Hesperis matronalis 
Helenium • Sneezewort 
Good Autumn-flowering Daisies, 
excellent for borders and cutting. 
7895 Autumnale superbum. Bright 
golden yellow, with brown cen¬ 
ters. 4 ft. Pkts. 25c and 60c. 
7897 Bigelovii. Large, golden yel¬ 
low flowers with brown discs. 
4 ft. Pkts. 25c and 60c. 
7899 Hoopesii. June-blooming va¬ 
riety with orange-yellow flowers. 
Pkts. 10c and 25c. 
7901 Riverton Gem. Handsome 
orange-yellow blooms tinged with 
maroon. 3 ft. Pkt. 25c. 
Heliopsis 
False Sunflower 
Coarse, branching perennials, 5 to 6 
feet high, blooming from Midsummer until 
Fall. 
Pkts. 10c and 25c 
7916 Golden Sim. Deep golden yellow 
flowers. 
7917 Pitcheriana. Fine yellow. 
Hesperis • Sweet Rocket 
Fine old-fashioned garden plants, 2 l /2 
feet high, with big clusters of fragrant, 
purple or white, four-petaled flowers in 
early Summer. 
Pkts. 10c and 25c 
7925 Matronalis. Purple. 
7927 Matronalis alba. White. 
7930 Mixed. Both colors. 
Heuchera 
Splendid border and rock-garden plants 
with tufts of leathery, ivy-like foliage 
from which 18-inch sprays of drooping, 
tiny bell-like flowers spring in continuous 
succession for several months. 
Pkts. 25c 
7935 Sanguinea. Coral-Bells. Coral-red. 
7937 Sanguinea splendens. Bright scarlet. 
7939 Breck’s Choice Hybrids. New 
shades. 
7848 Acaulis. A precious plant of dwarf 
habit, with immense, starry trumpets of 
gorgeous deep blue. Pkts. 15c and 35c. I 
Geum 
Dwarf border plants with 18-inch 
sprays of charming flowers rising 
from a rosette of rough, handsomely 
designed foliage. Blooms freely from 
May to October. 
7860 Lady Stratheden. Flowers 
double, yellow. Pkts. 15c and 35c. 
7861 Mrs. Bradshaw. Double; 
brightest scarlet. Very popular. 
Pkts. 15c and 35c. 
7863 Orange Queen. Double; glow¬ 
ing orange-scarlet. Pkt. 25c. 
Geum, 
Mrs. Bradshaw 
Gaillardia grandiflora, Dazzler 
7869 Eulalia japonica variegata. Good 
clumps 5 feet high, with long, narrow, 
green Leaves striped white. Pkt. 15c. 
Gypsophila • Baby's Breath 
Tall varieties are excellent border plants 
with high value as cut-flowers. The dwarf 
varieties are excellent in the rock-garden. 
7882 Paniculata. Globular bushes 2 to 3 
feet high, with masses of tiny, misty 
flowers and foliage. Pkts. 10c and 25c. 
7884 Paniculata fl.-pl. This seed produces 
at least 70 per cent double flowers 
which are whiter and larger than those 
of the single type. Pkts. 25c and 60c. 
7885 Pacifica. A later-flowering variety 
than Paniculata. The small pink blos¬ 
soms are carried gracefully on spreading 
panicles. Pkt. 25c. 
7886 Repens. A dense, creeping plant, 
producing clouds of dainty pinkish white 
flowers. Pkts. 15c and 35c. 
7888 Repens rosea. Pink. Pkt. 25c. 
