VIOLA PUBESCENS—Yellow flowers, veined purple. Pretty ' 
woodlander. Pkt. 15c. 
VIOLA RUPESTRIS—Pretty dear-lavender flowers. Makes 
wide, close, fine-leafed mats. Recommended as carpeter, 
for rock gardens, banks, terraces, stepping stones, and the 
like. Particularly good. Pkt. 20c. (Plants, each 25c; 
3 for 60c; 10 for $1.80.) 
VIOLA SIEBOLDIANA—Japan Silver Violet. Creamy blos¬ 
soms, laid over with stippled rosy netting to give pink 
effect. The foliage is silvered, cleft and re-cleft densities 
that gleam as with argentine plating. Blooms long in 
early spring, again in late autumn. Highest recommenda¬ 
tion. Pkt. 15c; I'g oz. 50c; % oz. 90c. (Plants, each 25c; 
3 for 65c; 10 for $1.90.) 
VIOLA STRIATA—A carpeter, particularly good for cool 
coverings under roses or lilies. Pretty blossoms, color of 
new cream. Pkt. 15c; 1*5 oz. 50c. (Plants, each 25c.) 
VIOLA SYLVESTRIS ROSEA—Months of bloom, jewel¬ 
like blossom-brilliants of gleaming rose. Particularly 
good, both in flower and in foliage. Pkt. 15c; A oz. 60c. 
(Plants, each 25c. 3 for 65c; 10 for $1.90.) 
OFFER 127A9—One pkt. each of above for $4.16. 
OTHER BUTTERFLY-VIOLETS—Betonicifolia 25c ; Brooksi 
20c; Chinensis 15c; Canadensis 15c; Declinata 20c; In- 
ominata 20c; Lanceolata 15c; Macroceras 20 c; Obtusise- 
gittata 25c; Papilionacea 10c, % oz. 80c; Pedatifida 20c; 
Pinnata 15c ; Praemorsa 20c; Scabriscula 15c; Violacea 16c; 
Viarum 16c. 
VIOLET BUTTERFLY BLEND—Splendid mixture, above 
and others. Sow in quantity for naturalizing. Pkt. 15c; 
Ys oz. 60c; % oz. 90c; 1 oz. $3.25. 
61 VITIS VINIFERA—^y. European type of sweet grape. 
Reasonably hardy North. Mixed varieties. Pkt. 10c. 
22 WACHENDORFIA THYRSIFLORA — emrbx(w) (3)25. 
Panicles of autumn-russet flowers above plaited leaves. 
Easy and rather showy South African. At Philadelphia, 
will usually winter outside if well-mulched, but also makes 
good pot plant. Pkt. 15c. 
21 BELLFLOWER SUB-EQUATOR 
In the southern hemisphere, the cool temperate parts 
of it. New Zealand, Tasmania and Cape Province, grow these 
delightful, and easy, rock garden Campanulaiads. They are 
low-growing Bell-flowers, the bells mostly up-facing, often 
with lobes spreading toward star-iness, A few species are 
found in Europe, but mostly the group is far sub-equator 
in its range. Foliage is often grass-like, habit turfing. 
Colorings of blossoms may be softest blue, indigo, or 
purple, with pearly or translucent whites. Recommended. 
Excellent blend. erk(2). Pkt. 15c. 
WAHLENBERGIAS—At 20c the pkt. Albo-marginata, 
Bosniaca, Gracilis, Paniculata, Saxicola, Tasmanica. 
WATER LILY—See Nymphaea, Nelumbium. 
33 WATSONIA MIXED—cbk(w). Bugle Lily, Showy flowers 
in tall spikes, like bugle-shaped Gladioli. Greatly showy. 
For pot forcing, or may be handled in garden like Glad¬ 
iolus, the bulbs being winter-stored same way. Pkt. 16c; 
Ys oz. 40c ; % oz. 75c. 
WINE CUP—See Callirhoe. 
WILD FLOWERS— 8 (ee pa(/e 24. 
61 WISTERIA FLORIBUNDA—^w. Magnificent flowering 
vines, with very long bloom clusters in variable blues. 
Pkt. 10c. 
♦XANTHISMA TEXANA—erbdk(8)15_. Excellent florifer- 
ous, bushy, yellow daisy, widely publicized abroad. Pkt, 15c. 
*XANTHOXALIS CORNICULATA — egprk(8)2. Bronze- 
purple foliage, little yellow flowers. Pavements, terraces, 
etc. Pkt. 10c. 
21 XEROPHYLLUM 
Stately shafts, topped each with lacy-clustered myriad 
stars, ivory tinted, rise from profuse grassy tufts. A 
splendid long-lasting beauty. Makes a glorious cut flower. 
Delicate perfume of old sachet. Likes dampish, sandy, 
lime-free soils, but will grow very well in ordinary garden 
loam. Hardy and persistent, once established, cmstaty(2-3) 
50. We can supply seeds of X. asphodeloides or of X. tenax 
(differences only technical), either at 15c the pkt. 
51 ZENOBIA PULVERULENTA — atkt(2)60. Clustered 
flowers, wide and waxy, like Lily-of-the-Valley bells. 
Handsome hardy shrub, but will force. Rhododendron cul¬ 
ture. Pkt. 16c. 
31 ZYGADENUS FREMONTI—ermyt(2)20. Panicles of 
creamy flowers, with yellow center-star. Pkt. 15c. 
21 HARDY YUCCA LILIES 
Splendid ornamentals of exotic appearance, easy, showy, 
long-lived, ebkt. 
21 YUCCA BACCATA — Banana Yucca. Thick, deeply 
grooved leaves, often red-tinged. Cream colored flowers of 
great beauty. Then clusters of banana-like fruits, sweet, 
richly date-flavored when ripe. May be eaten out of hand, 
or used as pie-fruit. Hardy to Boston. Pkt. 15c; % oz. 
25c. 
21 YUCCA CONCAVA—Compact rosettes of radiating con¬ 
cave scoop-leaves, narrowed at base. Brittle, creamy bells 
in four-foot panicles. Distinct, good. Pkt. 15c. 
21 YUCCA FLACCID A—Adam’s Needle, Evergreen leaf- 
swords, thread-hung. In June, great 7-foot bloom-panicles, 
inverted water-lilies carved in ivory. Pkt. 10c; % oz. 
25c; 1 oz. 76c. 
21 YUCCA GLAUCA—Spanish Bayonet. No plant better 
named. Open rosettes of slender, blue-dusted, steel-like 
leaves with bayonet points. Early-blooming, great 4-foot 
panicles of waxy, creamy bells, suffused both with rose and 
with palest elfin green. Pkt. 10c; % oz. 30c; 1 oz. $1.00. 
(Plants, one year old, each 25c; 3 for 65c; 10 for $1.90.) 
21 YUCCA GLORIOSA—Tree Lily. Dense rosettes of leaves 
like old Roman swords. Enormous blossom panicles in 
autumn, big flowers with decided rosy suffusion. Handsome. 
With age, becomes a small tree, each branch ending in 
a rosette. Hardy. Shy-seeder. 6 seeds for 15c. 
OFFER 130A9—One pkt. each of above for 55c. 
21 YUCCA HARDY BLEND—The above, with others, in¬ 
cluding hybrids. Pkt. 10c; ^4 oz. 40c. 
33 ZEPHYRANTHES or FAIRY LILY 
The Fairy or Zephyr Lilies are bulbs of easiest culture 
that will thrive in any garden. They are, moreover easy 
to grow from seeds sown in earliest spring, bulb seedlings 
often flowering second year, “k” culture. See page 66 for 
fuller descriptions, also for the Pink Zephyranthes, available 
this year only as a bulb. Z. ATAMASCO, “lilies” of blush- 
white in spring, pkt. 15c. Z. AJAX, lemon-primrose, with 
roseate flushing, pkt. 15c ; ^ oz. 35c ; Ys oz. 60c. Z. CAN¬ 
DIDA, glossy white Crocus-lily, pkt. 15c ; Ys oz. 40c. Z. 
CITRINA, rich yellow, coppery reverse, pkt. 20c. One 
pkt. each of the four, OFFER 128A9, for 55c. 
=^THE LITTLE ZINNIAS 
The small-flowered Zinnia species and hybrids have a 
certain graciousness of charm and appeal, that is lacking 
in the obese formality of the various giant strains. 
*ZINNIA ANGUSTIFOLIA HYBRIDA — In this delightful 
selection of the highly distinctive Mexican Zinnia, the 
blossoms have a lightsome starry individuality that is 
quite surprising. The field of color is approached from 
a new angle, for the tapered petals show brilliant autumii 
browns, sulphur, orange, gold, blood-red, crinison and 
maroon in varied odd partnerships, imbrications and 
tesselations. Pkt. 15c; I's oz. 25c. 
*ZINNIA FANTASY RESELECTED—Shaggy ray-like petals, 
twisted and interlaced in full doubleness. Color range in¬ 
cludes every bright Zinnia hue, with rarer tones and tint- 
ings in pastel reminder. Our reselection. Pkt. 15c; % oz. 
25c. • f 
*ZINNIA LINEARIS—Delightfully graceful single flowers 
of burnished orange, each petal with soft yellow center- 
stripe. Free in bloom. Pkt. 15c. 
OFFER 129A9—One pkt. each of above for 35c. 
SALMAGUNDI 
Salmagundi doesn’t always mean pickles. Dictionary 
gives one meaning of it as “a medley,” and that surely 
describes this particular Salmagundi. It is a mixture of a 
little, sometimes more, of about everything I list; annuals, 
rockery perennials, border perennials, bulb seeds, wild 
flowers, house plants, succulents. Cacti, Irises, Lilies, Roses, 
even tree, vine and shrub seeds. You are likely to find 
almost anything in it, and probably will. The seeds are 
year old, mostly. That means in this season of 1938-39, 
that they are largely of the autumn harvest of 1937, where¬ 
as new crop seeds are of harvest of 1938. They won’t all 
grow, but a whole lot of them will; and if you can’t get 
enough out of a sowing, considering low price, and the 
rarity of many of the kinds, to make it worth your while, 
I am afraid there is not much hope for you as a gardener. 
No guarantee, though. Salmagundi is the answer to where 
old seeds go. Not less than % oz. sold. ’4 oz. 20c; % oz. 
35c; 1 oz. 60c; Y 4 lb. $2.00; 1 lb. $7.00. 
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