21 DIGITALIS THAPSI 
Open plants in miniature fountain form foliaged in 
tawny down, carry blossoms that open to buff-tinged 
cream, suffusing gradually with delicious strawberry tones. 
The flowers are long-pedicelled, carried in open graceful 
racemes, and while the individual bloom is a “Foxglove”, 
the whole carriage, coloring and plant effect is very differ¬ 
ent from the picture that word might bring to us. The 
species, too, is definitely a long-lived perennial, no biennial 
tendencies here. It grows to 20 inches, and as much across. 
Quick and sure from seed. A long delight. erx(3-4). Pkt. 
15c. 
BEAUTY OF BELVEDERE 
Iceland Poppies dipped in the sunset, new shades, melt¬ 
ing tones of apricot, salmon and pink, brightness of cherry 
and flame, carmine gayety, crimson richness; here is depth 
and vividness of color beyond past reach or dream in the 
Iceland Poppy group. Blossoms are of largest size, long 
stems, excellent carriage, airy and graceful. Though good 
perennials, you can, if you sow them early, have these 
Beauties of Belvedere flinging their bright banners to this 
summer’s breezes all up and down your garden paths. 
Illustrated, this page. I'he Beauty of Belvedere Strain of 
Iceland Poppy was developed in England, and is this year 
first released in America. Pkt. 25c; special size pkg. 60c. 
21 DELPHINIUM TATSIENSE 
33 MEXICAN FIRE LILY 
Airy, loosely bushy plants, bearing great blossoms that 
may be brilliant, far-vivid blue indigo, soft powder-blue, 
or of purest silvery whiteness, with least touch of apple- 
green deep within. Long in bloom, might almost be called 
everblooming. We consider this the best of all the lower 
growing hardy perennial Delphiniums. *erbx(2-4)24. Pkt. 
15c. (Plants, each 25c; 3 for 70c.) 
21 THE SUMMER ROSECUP 
So it has been named, but it is the Autumn Rosecup, too, 
for as I write this description, on October the 25th, I see it 
from my office window, still full of pleasant blossoms, the 
rich pink of the cups in most delightful effect with the 
blue of hardy Verbena bipinnatifida that is blooming close 
by. The two really go very well together, and there is 
suggestion for placement. The blossoms of the Summer 
Rosecup, are wide cups, three inches across, pure pink, 
with rose striations that set it all aglow. The plants 
reach ten inches of height, by 18 across, emerald foliage 
mounds. Flowering starts in April, and continues in 
superlative profusion all through the summer, and until 
late in autumn. This still new and rare perennial is 
Oenothera Kunthiana. It winters without any protection 
at Philadelphia, and is presumably winter-hardy very much 
further north. Flowers are open all day. Everyone who 
sees it, falls in love with ’Ihe Summer Rosecup. Illustrated, 
on cover. Plants only, each 50c; 3 for $1.40 ; 10 for $4.00. 
Amaryllis formosissima it is usually called, but often 
Mexican Fire Lily, or Jacobaean Lily, the last from the 
approximation of the blossom shape to the formalized fleur 
d’lis. Technically it is Sprekelia, horticulturally it is pure 
delight for all those who pleasure in rich depth of color¬ 
ing and grace of petalage curve. Immense flowers, fantas¬ 
tically beautiful, built of glowing velvety crimson, gold- 
glints in sun that are dust of its pollen scattering. It 
blooms freely in the garden. May and June, the bulbs 
being dug in late autumn and stored over winter in man¬ 
ner of Gladiolus. Actually it is easier than Gladiolus, both 
in storing and in garden growing. In one way it is like 
the Magic Lily, Lycoris, in that the blossoms often push 
up from the bare ground, foliage appearing after blooming. 
Sometinies it is forced for late winter flowers, for that pur¬ 
pose being potted up in December or January. Illustrated, 
page 8. Good bulbs, 3 for 40c; 9 for $1.00; 25 for $3.00; 
100 for $11.50. 
’^^ECHIUM WHITE MOUNTAIN 
A pleasant all-summer annual, June to October, that will 
give undulate mountains of snowy bloom. The flowers are 
a bit on the Cynoglossum order, but a Cynoglossum with 
much magnified campa,nulate blossoms, always in bloom, and 
with seeds that are never a nuisance. The plants grow to 
25 inches, profuse draped branchings. Easy and quick. 
Sow seeds where plants are to stand. Pkt. 20c. 
21 VERBENA BIPINNATIFIDA 
A block of Verbena bipinnatifida is in fullest spread of 
flowering just outside the office window. Looking down on 
it, the office is one story up, the effulgent, jewel-like 
quality of its coloring is most noticeable. It throws the 
sun right back again, and that, after all, is not what we 
expect a blue flower to do. Technically it is perhaps lav¬ 
ender, but a blue-reflecting lavender that approaches the 
primary color. Another year of growing it has but in¬ 
creased our liking for it. It is a splendid perennial, in 
continuous bloom from June until November, blossoms in 
big flat clusters, so many of them that the piled fern-like 
foliage is mostly hidden. Early, mid-season or late, it is 
never dingy, never out of condition, no matter what the 
weather may be. At Philadelphia it is of full perennial 
winter hardiness, but it can be treated as an annual if 
one wishes, for it comes into flower from spring-sown seeds 
at least two weeks before the regular annual garden Ver¬ 
benas are touched with color. Whether it be handled as 
a perennial, or to compete with the annuals, this new 
Verbena is very much worth growing. It reaches 16 inches 
of height, by two feet across. Illustrated, this page. 
ecrbx(8)18. Pkt. 20c. (Plants, each 25c; 3 for 70c; 10 for 
$ 2 . 10 ) 
’^XANTHISMA TEXANUM 
A new annual composite of high horticultural worth. 
The flowers average two inches across, mostly petal, with 
only a tiny center disc. The petals are set in close over¬ 
lapping form, and at an angle with the disc, making a 
salver-shaped bloom. Color is a deep-rich butter yellow, 
the petals polished and glistening. The plants are bushy 
and ground-branching, with excellent foliage. In blossom 
all summer and fall. Easy to grow, erbdk(8)15. Pkt, 20c. 
21 ASPHODELINE BALANSAE 
An Asphodel in effect of pink-toned silver. The great 
upstanding, solidly built spikes spring from fountain- 
rosettes of foliage that might be silver-swished grass. The 
flowers are starry, silvery (this flower should go well in 
the silver states), each petal with a golden-brown center 
line that shows in the bud as well as in the open blossom. 
The flowers carry a suggestion, the merest hint of suffusion, 
of pink about them. The spikes are compact, each up to 
thirty inches long. After the main spike is done, others 
branch from the base to carry on the blooming. Illustrated 
above. An excellent species for the hardy border. bkt(2)45, 
Pkt. 15c. 
