ROCK CARDENS IN SPRING 
Here are dainty bulb-flowers. Blend them with rocks and 
spring-time for garden, and your own, delighting. If there 
are no rocky pockets for them, just plant in little clustered 
colonies in sheltered corners, or at the front of the hardy 
border. All are garden-hardy. 
LEWISIA BRACIIYCALYX—Thick, succulent leaf-rosettes, 
earth-flat, and centered with a long succession of feathery 
flowers that almost hide the plant. The petals are enamel 
white, but with a faint lavender overtone that carries a 
suggestion of mother-of-pearl iridescence. A rare, but gar¬ 
den-easy species, in bloom here from mid-March to the 
first week of May. Each 26c; 3 for 60c; 10 for $1.75. 
HYACINTHUS AZUREUS—It is the daintiest of baby Hya¬ 
cinths, but a true Hyacinth nevertheless, with flaring bells 
of most intense azure, bluer and brighter than sky blue. 
Then it is the earliest of Hyacinths, maybe the earliest of 
flowering bulbs, blooming often in February, surely in early 
March, Hardy and persistent. Highly distinctive. 10 for 
45c; 25 for $1.00. 
SHOOTING STAR—Though the Shooting Star, Dodecatheon 
Meadia, is not truly a bulb, it has yet many bulblike 
habits, and goes well with them. Clustered flowers, always 
fragrant, that vary from palest pink to deepest rose. 20 
inches. Excellent in light shade, but where the soil is 
deep and rich, will do pretty well in sun, too. Sometimes 
it is called “Hardy Cyclamen”, from the blossom form. It 
is not really a Cyclamen, though. Each 25c; 3 for 65c; 
10 for $1.85. 
IRIS RETICULATA—Blossoms of deep, brilliant purple, 
streaked with gold, rich with fragrance of violets, brave 
the cold winds of earliest March in their opening. May 
be forced, also. Each 20c; 3 for 50c; 7 for $1.00. 
SPRING STAR FLOWER—A splendid little bulb-flower, 
Triteleia coerculea, easily grown and free in bloom. There 
are masses of upfacing stars that vary from soft blue suf¬ 
fusions to a rich indigo. It winters here without the slightest 
protection, but should, perhaps, have a hit of straw or litter 
over it when grown well north. 5 for 25c; 11 for 50c; 
23 for $1.00. 
TRILLIUM GRANDIFLORUM—It is, I think, the most 
beautiful of the Trinity Lilies, with flowers that open snowy 
white, but soon suffuse with a rich pink that finally deepens 
to a royal rose. It loves rich moist woodlands, but will 
thrive in the garden if a bit of peat or of leaf mold be 
added to the soil. If possible, it should have a position 
that is shaded at least part of the day. Don’t let it 
suffer from drought. 3 for 50c; 10 for $1.50. 
TRILLIUM LUTEUM—Really a yellow Trillium, flowers of 
lemon and buff. Marbled leaves. Hardy and easy in any 
rich shade. Particularly long blooming season. Each 25c; 
3 for 65c ; 10 for $1.75. 
NARCISSUS BULBOCODIUM—A lovely little Fairy Daf¬ 
fodil of pale citron yellow, perianth shyly shrinking, but 
in compensation, a fluted and satiny corona, so far-flaring 
that it seems well called Hoop-petticoat Daffodil, (but did 
Fairies ever wear them;) 3 for 40c; 10 for $1.00. 
NARCISSUS TRIANDRUS ALBUS—Angel’s Tears. A 
daintiness of charm from hills of Portugal. The corona 
chalice nods, but the perianth petals are reflexed and 
twisted like wings in flight: a blossom of enchantment. 3 
for 40c; 10 for $1.00. (Size Note. Bulbs of these two 
Daffodil Miniatures are naturally tiny.) 
CALLIRHOE INVOLUCRATA—Magnificent hardy tuberous- 
rooted trailer. Big cups of showy wine crimson for months. 
Stands heat and drought. Each 20c ; 3 for 50c; 7 for $1.00. 
ROCK GARDEN COLLECTION—Two Lewisia brachycalyx, 
5 Hyacinthus azureus, 3 Shooting Stars, 3 Iris reticulata, 
4 Spring Star Flowers, 3 Trillium grandiflorum, 1 Trillium 
luteum, 3 Narcissus bulbocodium, 3 Narcissus triandrus, 1 
Callirhoe, 28 in all, 10 kinds, separate labels, no changes, 
postage extra, for only THREE DOLLARS. 
APRIL OPALS 
Starting in March, and in dazzling flower-mantling all 
through April, Pulmonaria azurea is perhaps the very best 
of long-blooming early spring perennials in its color range. 
The myriad buds, rosy at first, but becoming an intense 
blue as they open, might be opals in process of re-incarna¬ 
tion as Gentians. Pulmonaria grows to about 8 inches, 
spreading to twice that width. Of full winter hardiness. 
Plant it in autumn for long showing the next spring. 
Each 25c ; 3 for ^5c; 10 for $1.90. 
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