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The Lester Rose Gardens 
long blooming season and their bushy forms are completely covered with bloom that ranges 
from white to exquisite shades of pink, lavender and light and dark blue. Our stock includes 
the latest and choicest kinds, and being propagated from divisions they are true to original types. 
Strongdield-grown plants, 3 for 60 cents; 12 for $1.9 5; each 2 5c. 
Seed of our choicest selections, mixed, per packet 2 5c. 
AZALEA HINODEGIRI— This is the very showy bright scarlet azalea, free flowering and of 
dwarf habit that remains dense and compact, with rich green foliage, much used for massed 
bedding; one of the best. Strong well started small plants, at this very low, special price, de¬ 
livered prepaid anywhere, 10 for $1.00; 5 for 65c; each 15c. 
BEGONIAS —The Tuberous-rooted kind, producing a glorious showing of camelia-like flowers all 
summer and fall, in the widest range of colors—white, yellow, scarlet, orange, salmon, etc. 
Large blooming size bulbs, 12 for $2.2 5; each 20c. 
BUDDLEIA LINDLEYIANA —A little known species of the Butterfly Bush or Summer Lilac 
but one of the choicest of all. Not so rank and coarse as the common Buddleia; grows to 3 or 
4 feet, compact in habit with neat panicles of lavender blue flowers in profusion all summer. 
We highly recommend it. Plants, to bloom this season, each 3 5c. 
BUDDLEIA MAGNIFICA—The Butterfly Bush or Summer Lilac; strong grower to 10 ft. high; 
large, drooping panicles of purplish-violet flowers in great quantities all summer long. Large 
field-grown plants of blooming size, prepaid only within California. 5 0c. 
CERASTIUM tomentosum, Snow in Summer—A fast-growing low perennial suited for wall 
plantings, dry rockeries and carpeting sunny banks, forming a blanket of silver-gray foliage 
with clouds of large white flowers. 3 for 50c; 12 for $1.50; each 20c. 
CHELONE BARBATA—Very valuable hardy border perennial with penstemon-like flowers on 
long stems through a long season in shades of pink-salmon and light coral. Most effective and 
desirable and quite easy of culture. Field-grown blooming size plants, 3 for 60c, each 2 5c. 
CHILE JASMINE VINES (Mandevilla suaveolens)—A fine quick-growing vine with glossy 
foliage and two-inch wide white trumpet flowers in great profusion, intensely fragrant and 
larger than any true jasmine. Young plants, each 2 5c; Seed, per packet 2 5c. 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS (New Korean Hybrids)—These are the hardy chrysanthemums that 
continue blooming well into the winter, with mostly single flowers in new shades of bronze, 
copper, red, gold, salmon, chamois, amaranth and pastel tints. Identically the same new rare 
novelty kinds offered by eastern growers at much higher prices. Choice divisions, true to the 
original carefully selected varieties, 3 for 65c; 12 for $2.00; each 25c. 
DELPHINIUM HYBRIDS—Strong one-year-old transplanted plants to bloom this season of 
selected strain of highest quality, producing magnificent spikes in all shades of blue and some 
whites. Ideal for mixed borders and cut bloom. 3 for 5 0c; 12 for $1.8 5; each 20c. 
DIANTHUS, the Garden Pinks, of many kinds, are dependable plants for rockery or edging, 
preferring a light-soil and affording a great variety of showy bloom in many shades from white 
to deepest blood-red. Here are a few of our offerings, field-grown, blooming size plants: 
D. Allwoodi—Hybrid, improved strain of the sweetly perfumed Clove Pink-Carnation in 
marvelous colorings; an ornament to any garden. 
D. Arenarius Handsome rock garden kind; mounds of lovely silver-green foliage and 
fringed, fragrant, creamy blossoms. 
D. Deltoides Dark green foliage with myriads of crimson dotted flowers of vivid, deep rose; 
quite indispensable for the rock garden. 
D. neglectus A gem for the rockery or low border with profuse small flowers of bright 
cherry with tawny fawn reverse. 
Field-grown plants, blooming size, of any of the above kinds, 3 for 60c; each 2 5c. 
Sweet Wivelsfield—This is the new hardy annual Dianthus that resembles a Sweet William 
but with much larger flowers and in a wider range of brilliant colors; grows to about 12 inches. 
Easily grown from seed, which we offer, per packet 2 0c. 
DIMORPHETECA EKLONIS—A long name for this beautiful everblooming African Daisy, 
perennial in mild climates; large white flowers of much beauty with blue center and reverse, on 
long stalks; a fine cut flower. Strong plants to bloom quickly, 3 for 5 0c; 6 for 90c; each 
20c; seed, per packet 20c. 
