WATSONVILLE, CALIFORNIA 
Rare Perennials, Continued 

A. Mollis, The Chinese Azalea — Very hardy; 
blooms before leafing; famous for its large gor- 
geous salmon-orange flowers in utmost profu- 
sion. Foliage a fiery bronze-red in the fall. 
Strong 6 to 8-inch plants, each 25c; 5 for $1; 
10 for $1.85. 
BORAGE—An old-fashioned garden flower, now sel- 
dom seen; valuable for its handsome foliage and 
its profuse, jewel-like flowers of bright deep blue 
all summer long. Easily grown anywhere. This 
is our first offering of this valuable flower. Try 
it; you will be delighted. Small plants to bloom 
first year, each 15c; 10 (for a showy group- 
planting) only $1. 
BEGONIAS—The Tuberous-rooted kind, producing 
a glorious showing of camellia-like flowers all 
summer and fall, in the widest range of colors— 
white, yellow, scarlet, orange, salmon, etc. Large 
blooming size bulbs, 12 for $2.25; each 20c. 
BUDDLEIA LINDLEYIANA — A little known spe- 
cies of the Butterfly Bush or Summer Lilac but 
one of the choicest. Not so rank and coarse 
as the common Buddleia; grows to 8 or 4 feet, 
compact in habit with neat panicles of lavender 
blue flowers in profusion all summer. Prepaid 
in California only. Strong plants, to bloom 
this season, 50c. 
BUDDLEIA MAGNIFICA — The Butterfly Bush or 
Summer Lilac; strong grower to 10 feet high; 
large, drooping panicles of purplish-violet flow- 
ers in great quantities all summer long. Field- 
grown plants of blooming size, prepaid only in 
California. 35c. A few extra large size, 60c. 
CALCEOLARIA Biflora —— Rare South American 
perennial for the rock-garden; 6-inches high: 


BE cues sss . ee 
The enormous scarlet-and-gold trun- 
pet-flowers of the SCARLET-RED 
DATURA, borne continuously, are 
often 8 inches long. (See page 24.) 
quite hardy. Golden flowers like little lady-slippers from leafy rosettes of basal foliage; 
dainty and very lovely. 35c. 
CERASTIUM tomentosum, Snow in Summer——A fast-growing low perennial suited for wall 
plantings, dry rockeries and carpeting sunny banks, forming a blanket of silver-gray 
foliage with clouds of large white fiowers. 20c; 3 for 50c; 12 for $1.50. 
CHELONE BARBATA HYBRIDS—lIllustrated. Very 
coral. 
plant. 
gold, 
tints. 
tubers 

valuable hardy border perennial with pen- 
stemon-like flowers on tall stems through a 
long season in shades of pink-salmon and light 
Most effective and desirable and quite 
easy of culture. Field-grown blooming size 
plants, 25c; 3 for 60c. 
CHELONE Lyoni — An uncommon, choice kind; 
pleasing purplish-red bloom in late summer 
and fall; about 2 feet tall; very good border 
Each 35c; 3 for $1. 
THE NEWER CHRYSANTHEMUMS 
NEW KOREAN CHRYSANTHEMUMS — These are 
the hardy chrysanthemums that continue 
blooming well into the winter, with mostly sin- 
gle flowers in new shades of bronze, copper, red, 
salmon, chamois, amaranth and pastel 
Identically the same new rare novelty 
kinds offered by eastern growers at much high- 
er prices. Choice divisions, true to the original 
carefully selected varieties. Each 20c; 3 for 
50c; 12 for $1.50. 
AZALEA-TYPE CHRYSANTHEMUMS—\tThe ‘‘Cush- 
ion Chrysanthemum,”’ literally covered with 
bloom for weeks; soft tints of pink and buff. 
Each 25c; 3 for 60c; 12 for $1.85. 
THE USEFUL LONG-BLOOMING COMMELINAS 
Seldom seen, yet so easily grown; lovely all 
summer long in groups or the border. Plant the 
2-inches deep in ordinary soil, sun or 
part shade. Grow over a foot high with attrac- 
tive, lasting foliage. 
COMMELINA coelestis, The Blue Sky-Flower— 
Illustrated. Flowers of intense heavenly blue 
with golden stamens borne daily all summer 
The New Dianthus GAIETY bears long. 
This little known perennial should be in 
ower 17 : : ¥ every garden. Blooming size tubers. Each 
fl ers 372 to 4 inches across in glon 25c; 10 for $2; 25, (for a glorious mass plant- 
ing shades of pink and red. (See p. 24) ing), $3.50. Seed, 25c. 
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