WATSONVILLE, CALIFORNIA Rare Perennials 

‘Rare, Uncommon Perennials 
Selected for Those Who Want Something Different, Interesting 
Yet Easy to Grow! 
The following pages offer you perennials not ordinarily found i “seri : 
no petunias, or calendulas or snapdragons or pansies; no Sandals ThaEe eee erehted 
every year. But they offer you some choice things, some of them really rare, many of them 
little known, none of them difficult to grow. We think you will enjoy looking through 
these pages; we know you will find much delight in growing them. ig 
Do you know the Erigeron, for example? Nothing new about i 
find it; it blooms with us for most of the year, lovely blue and ea Aye eee eh 
house gay. And Chelone, that grows like a weed, providing those welcome tones of salmon 
and coral that go so well with blue? Don’t overlook our New Double Purple Violet, so 
divinely fragrant, and the easy-to-grow long-blooming Azaleas; the new Columbine that be 
flowers like a clematis; the old-fashioned yet seldom seen, useful Silver Lace Vine ae 
tucked away modestly in these pages are such treasures as a choice Gentian several rare 
Columbines, and the Blue Oxalis or Shamrock Pea, (Parochetus), an everblooming plant 
coeanle that our Ov eenen has ee to get it introduced to American gardens “a 
o again we say, look through this list of uncommo . ie Se est : 
Ree natn Ne eee n plants carefully—for the lasting 
PRICES ON THESE PERENNIALS INCLUDE DELIVERY CHARGES 
PREPAID ANYWHERE unless otherwise stated. Be sure to add 
the Sales Tax, please. 
ACHIMINES LONGIFLORA—Illustrated. Fine all-season pot plant contin i . 
long-tubed flowers in purple shades. Plant 6 to 8 ieee one een pe tat tea 
position, in 5-inch pot filled one-third with drainage, in a soil of loam, sand and teat: 
mold, keep moist, away from hot sun, and you’ll have a beautiful showing for months 
Blooming size rhizomes, 6 for 40c; 12 for 75¢e; 25 for $1.35. r 
ADENOPHORA COMMUNIS—Very much like a Campanula, with tall ik jf 
bellflowers through the summer. Field-grown plants, blooming size, 35¢; 3 soar e cue poe 
AMSONIA TABERNAEMONTANA—Choice border plant, fine among shrubber 
: : 5 ; , , though sel- 
dom seen; perennial herb with willow-like leaves and terminal i 
ers. Strong plants, 40c; 3 for $1.10. pe Cea ta ec En ec sna, 
ANCHUSA “BLUEBIRD’’—Grows to about 1% feet, each plant a mound of cl ° = 
Me-Not blue, effective through a very long season. Easy to grow, aes is ete hee 
25c; 5 for $1. 
THE LOVELY RARE COLUMBINES 
Why plant the ordinary Columbines, 
sold everywhere, when such exquisite 
new kinds like the following are just as 
easy to grow. 
AQUILEGIA AKITENSIS — Rare dwarf 
from Asia with silvery foliage, with 
large upturned flowers of soft blue; 
one of the loveliest Alpine flowers. 
40c. é 
A. Alpina—Most uncommon, choice co- 
lumbine from Switzerland; brilliantly 
blue wide-spreading 2-inch flowers on 
1-foot stems, with incurved spurs. 
40c. 
A. Clematiflora—Quite distinct for the 
spurless bloom, 3 inches wide, in pas- 
tel pink and blue shades, resembles a 
clematis flower; long-season bloomer 
and very effective in the border. 
Strong field-grown blooming size, 
30c; 3 for 75c. 
A. Crimson Star—New type _long- 
spurred Columbine with deep crim- 
son. and white bloom; medium dwarf 
habit, 20c. 
A. Ecalcarata — Asiatic Columbine, 
about 10 inches tall, airy and dainty 
in habit, with nodding spurless flow- 
ers of apricot-copper to claret-brown. 
35c; 3 for 90c. 
A. Hensol Harebell — We think this 
the most strikingly blue Columbine of 
all; the 18-inch bushy plants are a : 
mass of long-spurred flowers of vivid A 5-inch pot of ACHIMENES, for months a 
violet-blue. 25c. cloud of purple beauty 

