MECONOPSIS or BLUE POPPY 
The Blue Poppies are not the easiest flowers in the world 
to grow, but in the race for most beautiful, they would 
jank so high in their color group that a bit of fussiness in 
starting them, is quite excusable. Autumn sowing is best 
for them, or refrigerator treatment if sown in spring. We 
think of Meconopsis as blue, but it will be noted that there 
are other colors. 
21 MECONOPSIS BAILEYI—bstyt(3)48. The Great Blue 
Poppy. Big blossoms of sky blue, bunched golden anthers. 
A very lovely form. Technically it is considered a variety 
of Meconopsis betonicifolia. Pkt. 15c; 1/32 oz. 35c. 
21 MECONOPSIS BELLA—ryt(2)4. Fern-foliage rosettes, 
with delicate pale blue flowers, silk-petaled. It grows to 
but four inches, as against the four-foot sky-reach of the 
last. Pkt. 20c. 
21 MECONOPSIS CAMBRICA—rltyt(2)20. Welsh Poppy. 
Rich orange. A bit easier than others, but not too easy. 
Pkt 15c. 
21 MECONOPSIS PANICULATA —bsty(3)50. Towering 
spires of pendulous yellow blossoms in August. Pkt. 15c. 
21 MECONOPSIS SIMPLICIFOLIA—bsty(3)25. Blue form. 
Beautiful clear shade. Golden anthers. Pkt. 15c. 
21 MECONOPSIS WALLICHI—bsty(3)45. Satin Poppy. 
Portly rosettes of feathery foliage, covered with tawny 
fur. Delightful blossoms of soft dawn-blue, with crinkly, 
silky petals. Pkt. 20c. 
21 MECONOPSIS WALLICHI ALBA—A charming rarity, 
with flowers of purest white. Exquisite. Pkt. 20c. 
OFFER 108A40—One pkt. each of above for $1.00. 
MECONOPSIS SPECIES — Dhwoji 20c; Pratti 20c: Na- 
paulensis Red 15c; Violacea 20c; Regia 20c; Villosa 20c. 
21 MECONOPSIS BLEND — Splendid mixture, including 
above. Recommended. Pkt. 15c; 1/32 oz. 30c; A oz. 50c. 
21 MELANDRIUM—Enduring perennials of rich and varied 
values, brilliance for rock garden or border. The Melan- 
driums are now, by botanists, all referred to SILENE, 
which see. 
21 MERTENSIA 
Mertensias grow with fair ease and speed from seeds. 
21 MERTENSIA CILIATA—erbmkt(3)24. Opal fountains, 
great airy sprays of iridescent bugles, pink at the first, 
becoming blue. Foliage in blue-hinting green. Pkt. 15c. 
21 MERTENSIA PULCHELLA — rmstkt(l-2)9. Crinkly 
blossoms of delicate opaline blue, over silver-glaucous fo¬ 
liage. It is a gem of purest ray, though it credits to 
western mountains rather than to unfathomed caves of 
ocean. There is no lovelier fiower. Pkt. 20c. 
21 MERTENSIA VIRGINICA — rbmstkt(2)24. Virginia 
Bluebell. Changeable silken colorings, pink in bud, but 
sapphire and violet as fiowers age. It is a beauty, and 
a bit easier to handle than the last. Illustrated, page 47. 
Pkt. 15c; oz. 35c. (Dormant tuberous roots, fall de¬ 
livery only, 2 for 35c; 5 for 75c; 10 for $1.35.) 
21 MERTENSIA SNOWBELL—Flowers are purest white, 
exquisitely lovely. Does not come altogether true, part of 
the seedlings are always blue fiowered. Pkt. 35c. 
OFFER 109A40—One pkt. each of above for 65c. 
45 MESEMBRYANTHEMUM 
Here are Mesembryanthemums that will add interest and 
beauty to any collection of fiowering succulents. As vari¬ 
able and as beautiful as the Cacti, with same thick succu¬ 
lence of stem or leaf, but without the spines. Foliage may 
be thick triangular, deltoid, cylindrical, or tongue-shaped; 
glossy, or sprinkled with sparkling points. A few may 
simulate stones, or the effect may be of thick, undulate 
leaves, gleaming with crystals. All have showy flowers, 
yellow, orange, scarlet, crimson or rose. We offer here a 
blend of very many kinds. Pkt. 20c. 
21 MEUM ATHAMANTICUM—erbkt(3)25. Mounds of 
sweetly aromatic foliage, delightfully fern-like, pretty as 
a Maiden hair Fern. Eventually it rises to fountains, 
spraying airy umbels of little silvery flowers, with hint of 
pink suffusion, minute blossoms by the thousands, yes, by 
the tens of thousands. A fully hardy perennial that will 
give highly pleasant decorative effects. Pkt. 10c ; % oz. 30c. 
33 MILLA BIFLORA— ecbk(2-3)24. The White Star Lily 
of Mexican highlands. Petals of purest white that seem 
wax-carved. Despite the name, as many as nine of the 
big, richly fragrant blossoms may be carried on a single 
branching stem. Handle bulbs like those of Gladiolus, both 
in summer and in winter. Illustrated, page 44. Pkt. 15c; 
* oz. 40c; % oz. 75c; oz. $1.25. (Bulbs, spring delivery, 
each 35c; 3 for $1.00.) 
♦MIGNONETTE GOLIATH-7ecobx(2-3)12. Spikes of pleas¬ 
ing coppery red, sweetly, intensely, fragrant. Pkt. 10c; 
% oz. 20c. 
21 MIMOSA ILLOENSIS (Desmanthus)— *ebdkt(3)36. A 
graceful, decorative and highly interesting hardy perennial. 
Feathery foliage of softest green. The flowers are creamy 
cluster-puffs, pretty, but not by any means as showy as 
the curved and close-packed seed-clusters that follow thenn 
These simulate amazingly an opening rose, a rose with 
petals of burnished bronze. The bronze roses hold their 
beauty into early winter. Pkt. 10c; oz. 25c. 
’’BRILLIANT MIMULUS 
For easy color and long beauty, use Mimulus freely. One 
may think of it as an annual, for it flowers with surpris¬ 
ing quickness the season that the seed is sown. It is, though, 
quite truly perennial in graduated degrees of hardiness, 
most of the specit-s winter-safe at Philadelphia. All of them 
will fit the hardy border, all save perhaps Ringens, will do 
likewise for the rock garden; or one may simply grow 
them as annuals, with other annual flowers. The blend we 
offer here will show flowers that range from soft yellow 
and lemon, to glossy golden hues, and there will be pink, 
rose, copper reds and pure reds, with crimson and yellow- 
throated royal purple. “X” culture. Pkt. 15c. 
MIMULUS SPECIES—Bartonianus Hybrids 20c; Cardinalis 
15c: Dwarf Violet-scented Yellow 20c; Guttatus 15c; 
Lewis! 15c; Luteus 15c; Ringens 10c. 
♦MIRABILIS VISCOSA —ebx(8)36. Ten-o’clock Flower. 
Daybreak finds the plants filled with flowers, not large, 
but with coloring brilliant to excess of rose purple in¬ 
tensity. Along with the true flowers are innumerable open 
calyces of brown-buff, crinkly and silken, bloom-sirnulates 
so true in appearance that effect is of plants loaded with 
two kinds of flowers at one time. Recommended. Pkt. 20c. 
MISTLETOE—Grows into great clusters of evergreen leaves 
and twigs, living on the involuntary bounty of the Oak, 
Birch, Apple or other trees on whose branches it grows. 
To start, simply soak the dried berries, and smear on bark 
of host plant. Pkt. 15c; % oz. 50c. 
21 MITCHELLA REPENS — rsatnmy3. Emerald-leafed 
trailer for rich shade, with pretty cherry-scented blossoms; 
then berries of brilliant ruby. Pkt. 15c. 
♦MOLUCELLA LAEVIS—ebx(8)30 — The blossom-calyces, 
shell-formed, translucent and reticulate, are carried in close 
verticillate whorls, piled high to form long “hyacinth” 
spikes of delicate pearly greenness, sun through sea-water. 
A conchological-floral oddity, altogether unique. Pkt. 15c. 
21 MOLTKIA GRAMINIFOLIA—rltkt(2)10. Flowers like 
skyblue bugles, carried in greatest freedom, a fine clear 
color. Close to Lithospermum. Italian hills. Pkt. 15c. 
♦MORNING GLORY DWARF MIXED—ex(2-3) 10. Exceed¬ 
ingly showy and easy. Not a vine. Varied colors. Pkt. 5c. 
MORNING GLORY. For vine-types, see Ipomoea. 
35 MOREA or AFRICAN IRIS 33 
In the wild. Iris seems not to cross the equator. In ’the 
southern hemisphere grow instead the Moreas, very_ like 
Irises, but rather less overwhelming, airier and daintier 
in effect. Most often they come from bulb-like corms, but 
a few are fibrous rooted. All of them make splendid pot- 
plants, a few of them, as Bicolor and Polystachya, will 
winter outside with protection of mulching, fairly far north. 
Others may be carried over in cold-frames, or stored in 
sand in the cellar. Color range is perhaps more varied 
than with Iris, snowy white, white with blue or gold patches, 
soft yellow, buff, citron patched mahogany, lilac, laven¬ 
der, mauve and violet. Excellent blend, “kt” culture. Pkt. 
15c ; oz. 35c. 
32 MOREA SPECIES—Priced per pkt. Bicolor 20c; Car- 
son! 15c; Iridoides 10c; Flagelloides 20c; Polystachya 20c; 
Ramosa 15c ; Spatheca i5c; Tripetala 20c; Villosa 20c. 
OFFER 111A40—One pkt. each of the nine species above, 
for $1.40. 
THE WEDDING IRIS 
Morea Robinsoniana comes from that curious Paradise of 
the South Seas, Lord Howe Island. Their most spectacular 
flower, few more so anywhere, it is used by the Islanders 
for wedding decorations. It is really a superb affair, flow¬ 
ers of pure white, but with violet and yellow markings 
at the petal base, the blossoms carried often on six foot 
stems. Grow it in the cool conservatory, or, far south, in 
the open. Pkt. 25c. 
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