21 SARRACENIA FLAVA 
Pitcher Plant. Long trumpets, to two feet, buff, veined 
red. Flowers of clear lemon, five inches across. Hardy. 
Carnivorous. Cultural directions under “Sarracenia”, page 
55. Moisture-loving. Illustrated, front cover. Pkt. 20c. 
(Plants, each 35c.) 
21 ASTILBE KOREANA 
A delightful species, with flower-plumes of remarkable 
size and weight, yet feathery-airy in effect. The spray- 
blossoms open pearl white, with delicate pink-lavender suf¬ 
fusions, but age at last to cream. A wide adaptability is 
characteristic, from dry slopes to mud of the bog garden. 
20 inches, “yt” culture. Pkt. 15c. 
“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. Summer heat does not stop its blooming. • 
This is the most satisfactory cutting annual introduced in 
years. Botanically it is Machaeranthera tanacetifolia 
Illustrated, page 6. Pkt. 15c; % oz. 25c; % oz. 40c. 
*LINDHEIMERA TEXANA 
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A virtuous constancy of blooming, be the weather what 
it may, is, perhaps, the most endearing characteristic of 
this very easy annual. It cannot be called greatly showy, 
but there is always a pleasant display of deeply golden 
star-cups on the rather open, branching, 20 -inch plants. 
It makes a speed record for quick flowering after the 
seed is sown, and there is scant lessening of the pace until 
latest autumn. Best in full sun. Pkt. 15c. 
21 ANCHUSA AFFINIS 
The Alpine Alkanet is perhaps the easiest of all the 
hardy perennial Anchusa species, and assuredly none is 
more graceful. Here is beauty in gracious curves; un¬ 
curling racemes, set with white-centered stars of imperial 
violet. It grows to some forty inches. Sown early, it will 
flower the first season. Pkt. 15c; 1/16 oz. 30c. (Plants 
25c each; 3 for 70c; 10 for $2.00.) 
21 THE POPPY MALLOW 
It is Callirhoe papaver, a Roman of the Purple, half- 
reclining at a feast of summer. The blossoms are gorgeous 
cups of claret-crimson. It will make a brilliant showing 
in full sun for many months. Enduringly hardy. Illustrated, 
page 8 . Pkt. 15c; 1/16 oz. 40c. (Plants, 50c each.) 
21 POTENTILLA TONCUEI 
A trailing extravagance of flower pavement, blossoms 
of apricot, petal-bases near crimson. Hardy everbloomer 
for rock garden. Plants only, each 25c; 3 for 70c. 
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11 THE FRINGED GENTIAN 
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It is Gentiana crinita. Flowers- of exquisite charm, with 
spreading, deeply fringed petals of most delightful mioty 
colorings, sky-blue to indigo. Thrives in deep soils, naturally 
moist, but well-drained. Prefers, not insistently, a touch of 
shade. Stream or spring-side positions are ideal, but it 
may be grown, too, in fairly light garden soils by adding 
a bit of humus, as lime-treated leaf-mould, rotted sods, or 
peat. Carefully spaced and thorough soakings from a 
garden hose may supply needed moisture. No undrained 
sogginess, though. Late autumn or winter sowings are 
likely best, though very early spring sowings often give 
adequate results. In our seed-offering of this species, we 
are co-operating with Dr. George F. Norton, who has 
done so much to extend the range of this most lovely of 
American Gentians. Group pkg. rates withdrawn on this 
item, but seeds are put up in regular size packets at 26c each, 
in “large pkts.” at 50c each, and in “naturalizing pkts.” at 
$1.00 each. Quantity of seed in pkt. varies according to 
amount available in given year, but we shall always be as 
liberal as harvest will permit. Of course we can give a 
bit more proportionately in the larger pkt. units than in 
the smaller, probably about six times as much in the $ 1.00 
size as in the 25c one. 
33 GLORIOSA ROTHSCHILDIANA 
The Great Glory Lily, or Climbing Lily. Big recurved un¬ 
dulate blossoms of gorgeous iridescent crimson, sometimes 
gold-edged or rose-tinted. Pleasingly color-variable. Will 
give long bloom in the summer garden, tubers being dug in 
fall and stored in sand in cellar over winter. Also some¬ 
times handled as a pot plant for window or conservatory 
growing. Tubers only, fine well-grown ones, each 50c; 
3 for $1.40 ; 10 for $4.40. Illustrated, page 65. 
MECONOPSIS REGIA HYBRIDA 
All winter there is a laciness of silvery foliage filigree, 
an earth-spreading decorative rosette. Then in May stems 
start upward, reaching a full four feet, when suddenly 
short-stalked buds rise in each axil, these soon breaking 
into big blossoms of gold-hued silkiness. This handsome 
hybrid of M. regia and M. paniculata, is practically a 
M. regia that has gained strength and bloom-size by the 
cross. New. Remember, Meconopsis is not easy. It 
needs skill and patience. “yt” culture. Pkt. 25c; 1/64 
oz. $1.00; 1/32 oz. $1.75 ; 1/16 oz. $3.00. Seeds of the 
straight species, Meconopsis regia, available at same rates. 
21 MECONOPSIS VILLOSA 
A rare Himalayan woodlander, perhaps the easiest to 
grow of any Meconopsis species, though that doesn’t mean 
so very easy. Mighty pretty yellow flowers. A thoroughly 
sound perennial. “yt” culture. Pkt. 20c; 1/64 oz. 40c; 
1/32 oz. 75c; fa oz. $1.25. 
*NEW ECHIUM HYBRIDS 
A pleasant all-summer annual, June well into October, 
that has been quite outside the experience of American 
gardeners. It might be compared to Cynoglossum, but a 
Cynoglossum with much-magnified campanulate flowers, 
always in bloom, and with seeds that are never a nuisance. 
The flowers are opal-like in their changes of coloring, 
ranging from rosy violet to deepest blue indigo, with rare 
excursions into white and pink. 25 inches high and wide, 
profuse branchings with decumbent tendencies. We have 
found it easy and quick, seeds sown where plants are to 
stand. Pkt. 15c. 
CUPHEA AVALON HYBRIDS 
Curiously attractive, irregularly fashioned, blossoms in 
season-long profusion, the compactly foliaged plants seem¬ 
ing at a little distance to be covered with fluttering, bright- 
hued butterflies. There will be lavender, lilac, pure pink, 
rose purple, crimson, fire-scarlet and vermilion, with all 
possible intermediations. An annual of easiest culture in 
any sunny place. Comes into bloom with speed. Illustrated, 
page 8 . 20 inches. Pkt. 15c; fa oz. 40c. 
61 CLEMATIS CRISPA 
All summer long there are blossoms like giant Hyacinth 
bells, crisp-petalled, bright blue with deeper shadings. Of 
all the Clematis species we grow, this one comes closest to 
being ever-blooming, though Clematis integrifolia runs a 
close race. It is an herbaceous vine, making a light grace¬ 
ful growth to five feet or more and it will do nicely on a 
fence or low trellis. Surprisingly good in the large rock 
garden where it makes no overwhelming, smothering growth, 
simply trailing over rocks and among other plants, hanging 
its pretty bells all about in strange places. No lime. Unlike 
other Clematises, it thrives in slightly acid soil. Illustrated, 
page 2. “y” culture. Pkt. 20c. (Plants, 40c each.) 
21 VIRGINIA FIREPINK 
Well-grown plants may be 20 inches high and wide, a 
multitude of stems loaded with bloom all through May 
and June. The enormous flowers, with their deeply cleft pet¬ 
als, are glorious fulminations of scarlet vividness. Though 
we have more than 3000 kinds of unusual hardy perennials 
growing at Old Orchard, there is none that during its sea¬ 
son of flowering, attracts more attention than this. A 
winter-hardy perennial. Sow seeds in outside shaded seed¬ 
beds in latest autumn, or early in the spring. Illustrated, 
page 2. It is Melandrium virginica. Pkt. 20c. 
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