51 ROSA JUNDZELLI 
It is our favorite of the shrub-roses, quick, low compact 
growth, so that it looks well at every season of the year. 
There are big cup-shaped blossoms of purest pink, these in 
June, that might be single Tea Roses; then come long- 
hanging showy fruits of burnished scarlet, still staying 
when leaves have fallen, “yt” culture. Pkt. 10c; % oz. 25c. 
21 CLEMATIS STANS 
A splendid upstanding herbaceous species for hardy bor¬ 
der or foundation planting. Not a vine. Handsome foliage 
masses. In autumn, great loose panicles of bloom, each_ two 
or three feet long, filled with hundreds of little pinch- 
waisted “hyacinth” blossoms, soft sky-blue, or sometimes 
snowy white. It is handsome, too, when loaded with feath¬ 
ery seed-plumes. Will flower within a year from seed. 
Culture “kt”. Pkt. 15c; % oz. 35; % oz. 60c. (Plants, 
each 35c, 3 for $1.00.) 
21 ELSHOLTZIA FARQUHARI 
Splendid late-blooming border plants with spicily aromatic 
foliage. In autumn they fill with long and fluffy one¬ 
sided bloom-spikes in a most attractive shade of lilac- 
purple, carried candelabra fashion on many branching 
stems. Quick from seed. An excellent cut flower. Fully 
root-hardy north, blooming on new annual shoots, like 
Peony. Botanical position uncertain, but no question about 
its high horticultural rank. Pkt. 15c; ^ oz. 40c. (Plants, 
each 40c.) 
AMBERBOA MURICATA 
It is a cousin of Centaurea, reminding one a bit of 
Centaurea montana, but it grows taller, the flowers are 
lacier and of a rich tyrian violet shade, and of course it 
is an annual, a quick and easy one. Rather think you will 
like it. ecbk(2-4)30. Pkt. 15c. 
=^MONOPSIS CAMPANULATA 
Illusions of purple velvet, rich, light-shimmering depths, 
yet touch the flowers and you will feel no downiness. The 
blossoms are little bells, widened and fore-shortened to 
near planiform, each looking^ straight up,_ thousands of 
them to a square yard of Lilliput. Fine foliage, the whole 
never above six inches, bloom like this for many continu¬ 
ing months. One might call them miniature purple Pansies, 
were it not that so would Pansy be enobled, rather than 
this, and, too, it is of the Campanulaceae, far from all 
the pleasant Violet tribe. There is no more charming, 
quaint or endearing smaller annual than Monopsis cam- 
panulata. erx(8)6. Pkt. 20c. 
-SALVIA CARDUACEA 
A pretty little annual Salvia that needs more knowing. 
The daintiest of fringed skyblue blossoms, wavy-edged and 
undulate, are carried in many cushion-like whorls of thorn- 
set silvery gossamer. The plants grow to about 18 inches, 
and flower here through June, starting in late May, and 
ending in July. There is only one catch in its culture, it 
must be sown early, at very first possible moment in the 
spring, if it is to do well. Better yet, sow the seed right 
where the plants are to stand, any time in late autumn, 
or during the winter. That is our way with it here at 
Old Orchard, and it works. ekt(2)18. Pkt. 15c. 
^TONELLA TENELLA 
A rare, little Blue-eyed Mary that will give you a spread 
of dainty, airy little blue-violet blossoms in earliest spring, 
that is if you remember to sow the seed in October or 
November. Seeds sown then right where the flowers are 
to be, will give you a pretty blossom carpet through April 
and May. If you have forgotten to sow in the Fall, then 
try sowing at first moment in spring that the ground can 
be worked. Only difference will be that the blooming comes 
a month later on. Tonella is a flower to scatter widely, 
to naturalize in corners, along fences, at edge of shrub¬ 
bery or woodland. You have only to sow it once, it will 
self-sow after that, but never in a nuisance way. It is 
not a flower to grow in garden rows, but rightly used, you 
will find it charming. It comes from the Queen Charlotte 
Islands, and the mainland adjacent. erstkt(l)10. Pkt. 16c. 
21 THE MOUND LILY 
Sometimes it is called Hardy Tree Lily. Botanically it 
is Yucca gloriosa, species of great beauty, fully winter- 
hardy north, and very different in both habit and effect 
from any other hardy Yucca. That it is so rare is due 
to the extreme scarcity of its seed, only on widely spaced 
occasions does a plant make any seed at all. It has been 
our good fortune this year to have harvested a limited 
amount at Old Orchard. Now to the “Lily” itself, to see 
whether it may be worth all this expenditure of verbiage 
over its seed-making. 
There are enormous and dense rosettes of leaves, like 
old Roman swords. In young plants there is but one 
rosette, but with age a true tree trunk builds up, becom¬ 
ing ruggedly branched and re-branched, each branch ending 
in a great sheaf of leaf-swords, each throwing in its own 
good time an immense panicle of blossoms. The panicles, 
many in old plants, are filled with splendid bells, white, 
with softest tinting of losy red, sometimes deep, but again 
but the merest suggestion of suffusion. Mostly the flowers 
come in autumn, first blossoms opening in September, with 
October the real month of flower-glory that gives the spe¬ 
cies its name; but sometimes there will be an aberrant 
flower-panicle that may mistake (or reverse) its season, 
and open in April, “kt” culture. Pkt. 20c. 
33 THE FLORIBUNDA OXALIS 
Floribunda is an old, and^ rather appropriate name for 
this giant species that botanists know as Oxalis lasiandra. 
The blossoms are rather large, of a rich rose that ap¬ 
proaches crimson, and carried in clusters on slender up¬ 
right stems that may reach 18 inches in height. Exceed¬ 
ingly florifercus, and in bloom all season long. The foliage 
is unlike that of other Oxalis species, wheel-like radiating 
leaflets in odd effect. This showy Oxalis may be used in 
the rock garden, or it is large enough, and brilliant 
enough, to add beauty to the hardy border. For ever- 
blooming edgings it is unexcelled. Illustrated, page 65: 
Big bulbs, averaging size of walnuts, 6 for 25c; 12 for 
40c; 33 for $1.00; 100 for $2.60. 
22 LINDELOFFIA SPECTABILIS 
A noble perennial, from hills of Kashmir and Afghan¬ 
istan. Many bud-set crosiers unroll to wide close sprays 
of blossoms, that, rosy at first, soon become sapphire, 
then peacock blue. rbmtkt(2)20. Pkt. 25c. (Plants, each 
50c; 3 for $1.40). 
21 IRIS BREVIPES 
An aberrant “Delta”, very different from the others. It 
blooms just as the Japanese types are finishing, and the 
blossoms are, in their flattened upfacing form, a bit in 
the suggestion of the Japanese. The coloring is the most 
intense of indigo blues, gold-patched. The flowers are 
many, carried on plants that will in time make clumps 
two feet wide, but never a flower will there be more than 
six inches _ above the ground. Fullest winter hardiness at 
Philadelphia. This new, very dwarf, very late Iris, long 
in its period of bloom, should be of great value in rock 
garden, for edging, or for clumps at the front of the bor¬ 
der. 10 seeds for 20c; 30 for 50c; 65 for $1.00 ; 250 seeds 
for $3.00. (Plants, good divisions, each 90c; 3 for $2.60; 
10 for $7.50.) 
21 ANEMONE AVALON EARLY 
It is an Anemone japonica that blooms in August, in 
favorable seasons in full flowering by August the tenth, 
and continuing then until about the middle of September. 
No strain of Japanese Anemone that we have seen or 
known approaches it in earliness. Its season is done when 
such old favorites as Queen Charlotte and Whirlwind are 
just beginning. Compared with Anemone Hupehensis, it 
is earlier, taller, larger-flowered, and in color a soft pink 
that we think is rather more pleasing than the mauve 
rose of Hupehensis. In habit Anemone Avalon Early is 
stoloniferous, spreading from the base to form large clumps. 
Will not come altogether true from seed, but all seedlings 
will be good. Seeds offered are saved from segregated 
plants, all stolon-divisions of our original seedling form. 
All Anemone japonicas need cold to germinate their seeds, 
“y” culture, (see page one). Pkts. only, each 35c. 
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