THE SPLENDID PENSTEMONS 
You have missed much if you have not 
grown them, for among them are many 
glorious things for rock garden, hardy 
border, or the cutting garden. Seeds should 
be sown in open ground seed-beds or un¬ 
heated frames in latest autumn or earliest 
spring, while soil is cool. Easy enough 
then, they will sulk for months if sown in 
late spring or summer. 
21 PENSTEMON ACUMINATUM—cbkt(3) 
36. Opaline lavender flowers, intensely blue 
without. Showy. Pkt. 15c. 
21 PENSTEMON AUSTRALIS—crbkt(2-4) 
25. Downy open plants, with fairly large 
flowers of delicate tones and shadings in 
the rosy lilac range. Pkt. 15c. 
21 PENSTEMON CAMPANULATUS 
*ecrbx(8)30. Long sprays of handsome 
flowers that range from purest carmine, 
through rose, to lilac, scarce two plants 
alike. Easy, and blooms freely first 
season. Formerly offered as P. pulchellu.« 
Pkt. 15c; ^ oz. 25c. 
21 PENSTEMON COBAEA — 
Blossoms of great size, larger than in any 
other Penstemon, softest lavender with pur¬ 
ple markings. Glossy sparkling foliage. 
Each plant eventually a spectacular bouquet. 
Illustrated, page 31. Pkt. 15c; A oz. 40c. 
(Plants, each 25c; 3 for 65c; 10 for $1.90.) 
21 PENSTEMON CONFERTUS BLUE—cbkt( 3)28. High 
above the foliage are great showy blossom-clusters. Effect 
is of a brilliant blue, the tubes touched with violet. A 
particularly good species. Pkt. 15c; oz. 35c. (Plants, 
each 30c; 3 for 85c.) 
21 PENSTEMON GLABER BLUE—crbkt(3)20. Attractive 
trumpet clusters in a deep blue-sapphire. Glaucous foliage. 
Pkt. 15c. 
21 PENSTEMON GLABER ROSE—Here the clustered 
trumpets are a rich rose. Otherwise like last. Pkt. 15c. 
21 PENSTEMON GORMANI—rkt(2-3)16. The plants are 
open mounds of branchiness, set with odd trumpets in which 
rose deepens to purple, then at the lip becomes sud¬ 
denly indigo. From southern Alaska. Pkt. 25c. (Plants, 
each 35c; 3 for $1.00.) 
21 PENSTEMON GRANDIFLORUS — ecbkt(3)40. Well- 
called King of Penstemons. Immense flower trumpets, 
pure blue to orchid lavender, are carried in many towering 
spires of serried clusters. Blue-glaucous leaves, thick 
and crispy, in perfoliate effect. A sure and easy species 
of great hardiness in well-drained soils. Superbly showy. 
Cuts well. Illustrated above. Pkt. 15c; % oz. 40c; % 
oz. 65c. (Plants, each 30c; 3 for 85c.) 
21 PENSTEMON HETEROPHYLLUS—*ecrbkt(2-4)20. A 
delightful and easy species, in bloom for many months. 
Exquisitely formed trumpets, lilac, amethyst or purest 
sapphire. Pkt. 15c; fg oz. 40c. (Plants, each 30c; 3 for 
85c.) 
21 PENSTEMON IMBERBUS — *ecbx(8)45. Blossoms, 
loosely carried, of lovely coral pink, filled with silky 
yellow^ down. Excellent in border, or cuts wonderfully. 
Sometimes considered a well-marked variety of P. bar- 
batus. Pkt. 16c; ^ oz. 50c. (Plants, each 25c; 3 for 
65c; 10 for $1.90.) 
21 PENSTEMON LAEVIGATUS AVALON VARIETY — 
cbnkt(3)25. A splendid dwarf variant of a splendid 
species. Dense panicles of trumpet blossoms, pearl-white 
to quaker lavender. Fullest recommendation. Pkt. 15c; 
oz. 60c. 
21 PENSTEMON MENZIESI—rkt(3)8. Evergreen mats, 
with massed tumblings of big purple trumpets above. Pkt. 
15c. 
21 PENSTEMON MONTANUS — rbkt(2-3)18. Flower- 
trumpets of brightest blue-lavender, carried closely, almost 
in spike formation. Very good. Pkt. 20c. (Plants, each 
25c; 3 for 65c.) 
21 PENSTEMON MURRAYANUS—cbkt(2)36. Blooms of 
brilliant scarlet in loose, open panicles. Showy. Pkt. 16c. 
21 PENSTEMON NITIDUS—erkt(l-2)6. Earliest flowering 
and dwarfest of all our Penstemons at Old Orchard. Foliage 
crispy-succulent, blue-glaucous, semi-perfoliate. Blossoms 
of brightest blue. It’s a gem. Pkt. 20c. 
21 PENSTEMON OVATUS OLD ORCHARD VARIETY— 
ecbfkt(3-4)30. A particularly fine strain, far better garden 
value than the type of this species, though that is good, 
too. Base-branching plants, with flowers carried in 
loose clusters well above the foliage. Blossoms of a 
most attractive lavender, buds a bit deeper. Foliage is a 
glorious copper-crimson in autumn. Pkt. 
15c ; % oz. 36c; % oz. 60c. 
21 PENSTEMON TOLMEI—rkt(2)7. A de¬ 
lightful dwarf, with globe-like clusters of 
dark blue flowers. Pkt. 15c. 
21 PENSTEMON SCOULERI—rbkt(2-3)16. 
Flowers like glorified purple, or rarely snowy 
white, snapdragons. Varies; but only from 
good to better. Pkt. 15c. 
21 PENSTEMON SPECIOSUS—ecbkt(2-3)35. 
The Showy Penstemon. Magnificent cut 
flower, or highly decorative in the border. 
Great one-sided, long-laisting spikes of 
bloom above crispy foliage. Charmingly 
varied, from delicate flesh, through pink 
and rose, to lilac, lavender and violet. Has 
been described as of “breath-taking love¬ 
liness”. Winter-hardy. Illustrated, page 
26. Pkt. 15c. (Plants, each 30c; 3 for 
65c.) 
21 PENSTEMON SPECTABILIS CORO- 
NARIA — cbkt(3-4)30. In this fine form 
the flowers are bright glowing red, a 
rich pure tone. Many stems, foliage blue- 
glaucous and perfoliate. Excellent. Pkt. 
20c. 
OFFER 104A9—One pkt. each of above for 
$3.00. 
OTHER FINE PENSTEMONS — Wish we 
had room to describe them all, for these are 
good, too. Write for prices by weight. 
Acuminatum 15c; Albidus 10c; Angusti- 
folus 15c; Antirrhinoides 15c; Centranthifolius 16c; Cin- 
ereus 15c ; Deustus 15c; Diffusus 15c; Digitalis 10c; Eatoni 
20c; Erianthera 15c; Gracilis 10c; Hirsutus 15c; Laetus 
15c; Laevigatus 15c; Palmeri Blue 15c; Pinetorum 15c; 
Procerus 15c; New Purple Seedlings 16c; Rupicola 16c; 
Secundiflorus 15c; Smalli 15c; Stenosepalus 15c; Tubiflorus 
10c; Unilateralis 15c; Venustus 20c; Wilcoxi 15c; Watsoni 
15c Whitedi 15c. 
OFFER 105A9—One pkt. each of the fifty Penstemons for 
$5.75. 
21 PENSTEMON BLEND—The above, with others. More 
than fifty splendid Penstemons in this blend. There is no 
better, more beautiful, nor more generally satisfactory 
group of hardy perennials in existence than the Penste¬ 
mons. Pkt. 15c; Ys oz. 35c; Yk oz. 65c; 1 oz. $2.00. 
PHLOX— See next page, 
PHOENIX^See Palm. 
24 PHORMIUM TENAX—w. Sword-shaped leaves, often 
variegated; tall panicles of red and yellow bloom. Pkt. 10c. 
22 PHYGELIUS CAPENSIS—byt(w) (3-5)36. Cape Fuchsia. 
Blossoms of an explicit and glowing red, carried in uniquely 
fashioned panicles. Stem-hardy outside to about Phila¬ 
delphia ; it does very well at our Old Orchard Seed Gardens 
near Moorestown, New Jersey. It is root-hardy well north, 
and in climates more rigorous than that of here, or of 
Long Island, may be treated as a regular herbaceous per¬ 
ennial, since it blooms freely on new shoots each season. 
Grown also as a pot plant. Pkt. 15c. 
21 PHYSOSTEGIA DIGITALIS—-See page 4. Pkt. 20c. 
21 PHYSOSTEGIA FORMOSIOR—ecbx(3-4)60. Many tall 
stems that break into tangled tree-like tops, each slender 
branchlet ending in a short spike-cluster of big, inflated 
blossoms of a glowing rosy lilac, almost a pink. A splen¬ 
did, and altogether distinct, Physostegia. Pkt. 20c. (Plants, 
each 50c.) 
21 PHYTEUMA BLEND 
Bell-flowers, but with the bells changed by some strange 
magic to clustered, long-necked bottles of lucent, glassy 
beauty; or again, to wide and careless stars. Amethystine 
lavender, blue, violet or cream. Perennials suited to rock 
garden or lower border. Varying heights. Culture of the 
easiest, save for casualties to be expected in handling any 
very tiny seeds. Some ten species are in this blend, amount^ 
of them saved this season being insufficient to warrant 
separate listings. Pkt. 15c. 
21 PHYTEUMAS—Nigrum 15c; Scheuchzeri 20c. 
51 PIERIS MARIANA—akt(2-3) 72. Giant bells of Lily- 
of-the-Valley, pink-tinged over waxy white. Pkt. 16c. 
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