WATSONVILLE, CALIFORNIA Rare Perennials, Continued 
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NEPETA mussini—Indispensable low-growing plant of the mint family for borders or the 
rock garden, withstanding neglect and drought and hot, dry places. Silver-gray foliage 
with lavender-blue flowers for months; cut back will bloom recurrently. Each 25c¢; 3 for 
50c; 12 for $1.25. 
NEPETA UKRANICA—Similar to above but with larger, longer spikes of showy flowers in 
rich, dark blue; most valuable. Each 25c; 3 for 65c; 6 for $1.15. 
One plant of each of above two Nepetas for 40c. 
NIEREMBERGIA HIPPOMANICA, The Blue Cup Flower. A fast-growing, shrubby, much 
branched plant that starts to bloom in late spring and continues all summer long, cov- 
ered with shallow, cup-shaped, violet-blue flowers an inch wide with lovely effect. Likes 
full sun. Strong plants in 3-inch pots, each 30c; 3 for 75c. 
HERE’S AN UNUSUAL PLANT GEM! 
PAROCHETUS communis, The Blue Oxalis or Shamrock Pea. A treasure for the damp rock 
garden or for pot culture, from 
the Himalayas. Forms a carpet of Se 
clover-like green bright with mul- an 
titudes of dazzling gentian-blue 
flowers. Correvon, the rock-garden 
authority, recommends it highly. 
Deserves wider recognition. Bloom- 
ing size divisions, each 35c; 3 
for $1.00. 
Two Cffective 
‘Passion Vines 
These quick growing Passion Vines 
are quite indispensable for California 
gardens for they serve their purpose 
in quicker time and with more last- 
ing effect than most vines and in 
our mild climate their evergreen fo- 
liage is always lovely. 
PINK PASSION VINE (Passifiora The Jovely PINK PASSION VINE whose 5-in. 
mollissima), illustrated, is quite pink flowers look down on you like pink stars 


without an equal for rapidly covering trellis 
or pergola or for growing up through a live 
oak or other tree. An extraordinarily rampant 
grower when once established. Its large 5-inch- 
wide pink flowers hang downwards with lovely 
effect and these are followed by oval golden 
seed-pods, 4 inches or more in length, which 
are not only most attractive but edible. Strong 
plants in 38-inch pots, 3 for $1; each 40c. 
SCARLET-RED PASSION VINE (Passifiora mani- 
cata), illustrated, is quite in a class by itself 
because its many flowers of scarlet-vermilion 
stand out most effectively against the dense, 
glossy, bright green foliage. This vine is adapt- 
ed to fence or wall or trellis for which it rap- 
idly makes an ideal covering; the bloom is 
borne through summer and fall and well into 
the winter. Strong plants in 3-inch pots, 3 for 
$1.25; each 50c. 
For shipment beyond 38rd zone, add 10c 
per plant, either kind. 

A TRULY REMARKABLE ROSE! 
Visitors to our garden have gone into ecstasies 
when they have seen our rose Kathleen, modestly 
described on page 9. It is so different to any 
other rose, so altogether healthy, pest-resistant 
and continuously in bloom, that it stands out as a 
rose in ten thousand! So far as we know we are 
the only firm in America offering it. Try it and 
you will never regret it; rather, you will thank us 
for suggesting so lovely a rose. 

The intense scarlet flowers set off by 
the dense, attractive green foliage of pomriss 
the RED i , : 
th id l me ON. VINE make this In gardening I put common sense first because wt restrains 
e€ 1deal quic “growing vine for Cali- from any sort of folly or sham or affectation. 
fornia gardens —GERTRUDE JEKYLL. 
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