DELPHINIUM 
No need to garland this. By now all should know the 
infinite possibilities for beauty in it. 
DELPHINIUM ALBESCENS—ebh(2)40. Downy white 
flowers, olive-tipped. Pkt. 15c. # 
DELPHINIUM CARDINALE — bfh(3)36. Helmet-shaped 
blossoms of glorious scarlet. Full sun. A bit slow to ger¬ 
minate. Sow late fall or earliest spring. Pkt. 15c ; ii oz. 
25c. 
♦DELPHINIUM CARDIOPETALUM—eorbx(3)16. A little 
beauty. Violet-blue flowers, green-tipped, and with exceed¬ 
ingly long up-curved spurs, are arranged symmetrically in 
loose graceful spikes. Pkt. 15c. # 
DELPHINIUM CAUCASICUM—ebh(3)50. Handsome light 
to dark blue flowers, with “bee.” Pkt. 20c. # 
DELPHINIUM FRAGRANT HYBRIDS—See page 2. 
DELPHINIUM GIANT WHITE HYBRIDS—*ecbh(3-4) 72. 
Seeds saved from plants of unusual height, with fully double 
flowers, varying from cream to purest waxen whiteness. 
One must not expect, though, that every seedling will be 
double, and white, but a goodly percentage should come true, 
and all should be worthy. Pkt. 25c ; oz. 75c. 
♦DELPHINIUM GAYANUM—eocnbk(2-3)40. A bright and 
gay annual Larkspur species of particular value for natur¬ 
alizing. Flowers variably white, pink, blue or purple, in 
loose feathery sprays. Pkt. 10c. # 
DELPHINIUM HANSENI—ecbh(3)48. Flowers, carried usu¬ 
ally in rather dense spikes, may be pale blue, lavender, 
lilac-pink or white. Good. Pkt. 15c. 
DELPHINIUM HESPERIUM—cbldh(2)3G. Open blossom- 
spikes rich blue usually, but varying at times to pink or 
white. Pkt. 15c. 
DELPHINIUM MAACKIANUM—♦ecbh(2-4)40. Big blos¬ 
soms in good spikes. Color variable, pale blue, deep indigo, 
opalescent lavender, deep violet, but always with black bee, 
and always pleasing. Recommended. Pkt. 15c. # 
DELPHINIUM MACROCENTRON—cbh(3)72. The Emerald 
Delphinium. Blossom color varies from deep sea-green to 
blue-green, peacock-blue and cobalt. Rare. Kenya. Pkt. 25c. 
DELPHINIUM MENZIESI—rdh(2)20. Long-spurred, dark 
blue blossoms. Bushy plants. A treasure. Pkt. 15c. 
DELPHINIUM NUDICAULE—rbdsty(2)30. Extraordinarily 
long-spurred blossoms, shading from buff, through orange, 
to scarlet. Slow germinating. Pkt. 15c. 
♦DELPHINIUM ORIENTALE—eorb(2)28. A rare, and 
highly different annual species from Kurdistan. Broad bushes 
of plants, long loaded with bloom. Blossom color is a strik¬ 
ingly rich and unusual shade of true tyrian purple, deep and 
velvety. When it is in flower, visitors at our Old Orchard 
Seed Gardens are drawn to it as by a magnet. Pew con¬ 
nect it with the usual annual Larkspur, which is, indeed, 
a very different thing. Sow seed in late autumn or early 
spring. Pkt. 20c; A oz. 40c. # 
DELPHINIUM PARISHI—crbdh(2)30. Blossoms varying 
from soft lavender to lively sky-blue are carried in loose 
racemes. Pkt. 15c. 
DELPHINIUM PARRYI—rbdh(2)30. Large flowers of blue- 
purple, marked pink and green. Foot-long spikes. Very 
good. Pkt. 20c. 
DELPHINIUM PENARDI—crbh(2-3)30. Silvery white flow¬ 
ers, olive-marked. Gray foliage. Pkt. 20c. # 
DELPHINIUM PYLZOWI—crbh(2-3)20. Oddly symmetrical 
flowers of large size, carried in loose spikes. Deep, pure 
indigo, with black and yellow bee. Pkt. 15c. # 
DELPHINIUM SCOPULORUM—emtbh(3)60. Cleft, foliage. 
Bright blue flowers in long, open racemes. Pkt. 15c. 
DELPHINIUM SIBIRICUM—♦ercbx(2)30. Irregular flow¬ 
ers of superb beauty, vivid indigo, with rose-purple spot on 
each petal-tip. Blossoms like airy butterflies on the open, 
branching plants. Blooms through drought. Possibly but 
a more robust race of Delphinium sinense. Pkt. 20c. # 
DELPHINIUM SPECIOSUM—ebh (3)50. Spikes of big blue 
and purple flowers, elatum fashion. Pkt. 20c. # 
DELPHINIUM TATSIENSE—♦erh(2-4)18. Airy, loosely 
bushy plants, bearing great blossoms of brilliant blue. Long 
blooming. Fine. Pkt. 20c. # 
DELPHINIUM TIROLENSE — ecbh(3-4)30. Big purple 
flowers, bee-centered, with blue-violet reverse. Close, branch¬ 
ing spike. Good. Pkt. 15e. # 
DELPHINIUM TRISTE—rbh(3-4)25. Flowers deep brown, 
suffused red. Slow to germinate. Pkt. 20c. # 
DELPHINIUM TROLLIFOLIUM—cbmtsth(2)70. Handsome 
palmate foliage. Long terminal racemes of lovely clear blue 
blossoms, white-centered. Pkt. 15c. 
DELPHINIUM VESTITUM— cbh(3)e0. The Himalayan Del¬ 
phinium. Great spires of rich violet blossoms, each with a 
white eye. Slow to germinate. Pkt. 20c. 
DELPHINIUM YUNNANENSE—ecrh(2-4)36. Big violet 
flowers, white-anthered Good, long-blooming species from 
South China and Tibet. Pkt. 15c. # 
DELPHINIUM ZALIL—cbdy(3).30. Showy racemes of yel¬ 
low flowers. Prefers full sun, and well-drained sandy soil. 
Germinates slowly. Seems identical with D. sulphureum, 
Farrer notwithstanding. Pkt. 20c. 
DELPHINIUM AVALON BLEND—*ecbh(3)50. A magni¬ 
ficent blend of all that is finest in Giant Hybrid Delphin¬ 
iums. Includes the Hollyhock strain, the snowy Iceberg, 
the Himalayan vestitum, together with the Fragrant Del¬ 
phinium and the informal beauty of special cut-flower selec¬ 
tions. There will be pale blue, mid-blue ultramarine and 
purple; varied shades of lavender, opal and lilac-pink ; with 
daintier, lovelier color-tones that will scarce bear a name. 
Pkt. 25c; oz. 60c: Vs oz. $1.00; % oz. $1.75. # 
OFFER 57A8— One pkt. each of the three annuals, Cardio- 
petalum, Gayanum and Orientale, for 40c. 
OFFER 57A8 Representative perennial Delphiniums ; one pkt. 
each of Hanseni, Trollifolium. Giant White Hybrids, Macro- 
centron, Nudicaule, Penardi, Pylzowi, Tatsiense, Yunnanense 
and Menziesi, for $1.50. 
OFFER 58A8—One pkt. each of the 29 Delphiniums, includ¬ 
ing Fragrant Hybrids, for $4.75. 
DIANTHUS KNAPPt 
STREPTOCARPUS 
DENDROBIUM—See Orchid. 
DENDROCALAMUS STRICTUS—A splendid Bamboo for 
planting in the lower south. Great clumps of noded, leafy 
stems, often three inches through and fifty feet high. Does 
particularly well in Florida and along Gulf Coast. Pkt. 15c ; 
Va oz. 50c 
DENDROMECON RIGIDA—qy(2). 7ft. Tree Poppy. An 
evergreen shrub, bearing big golden yellow Poppy blossoms. 
Needs careful protection, north. Pkt. 15c. 
DENTARIA DIGIT AT A—rnmtsth(l-2)20. Charming blos¬ 
soms of rosy lavender. Slashed foliage. Pkt. 15c. 
DENTARIA TENELLA—ernmtsth(l)16. Dainty bell-like 
flowers of pink rosiness. There is a piquant charm about 
these first children of the spring. Pkt. 15c. 
DESMODIUM CANADENSE—ecbdnh(3)50. Branching pan¬ 
icles of showy rose-lilac. Pkt. 10c; % oz. 35c. # 
This flower that is so desirable here, may sulk there: 
that flower, so robust and colorful there, may pine 
its way through a’short and inglorious existence here. 
In Utopia, doubtless every flower will do its best 
everywhere, through sheer altruism ; but unfortunately 
Utopia as yet is found only in the writings of Sir 
Thomas More, and in the promises of certain vari¬ 
colored current dictators. Meanwhile, please make 
reasonable allowance for foibles of individual species. 
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