



ASCLEPIAS 
TUBEROSA 

ROCK GARDENS IN SPRING 
Here are dainty bulb-flowers. Blend them with rocks 
and spring-time for garden, and your own, delighting. 
LEWISIA BRACHYCALYX—A charming Lewisia with 
many big feathery blossoms, white but with the faint 
iridescence that sunset reflection sometimes gives to new 
snow. The flowering starts in March, continuing until near 
June, the overlapping of blooms. at times quite hiding the 
earth-flat succulent rosettes. An exquisite and _ lovable 
rock garden species, rather rare, but not at all hard to 
grow. Each 20c; 3 for 50c; 10 for $1.50; 25 for $3.50. 
LEUCOCRINUM MONTANUM—A lovely little “‘lily’’, with 
up-facing blossoms, these purest white, sweetly fragrant. 
Makes tufts of clumps, to six inches, giving many flowers. 
Does best in fairly light soils and full sun. Each 25c; 
38 for 65c; 10 for $1.90. 
BRODIAEA IXIOIDES SPLENDENS—Star-spread  blos- 
soms, salmon yellow to golden buff, each petal with stripe 
of autumn brown. Rather large flowers, carried in up- 
facing umbels. Hardy. 3 for 20c; 10 for 55c; 25 for $1.00. 
HYACINTHUS AZUREUS—The very daintiest, and most 
charming of true Hyacinths, no larger than a Muscari, 
but far earlier in its blooming, far more intense in its 
azure, than any Muscari might possibly be. Hardy, per- 
sistent, distinctive. In most seasons here it is in bloom by 
late February. Bulbs of this species always tiny. 8 for 35c; 
25 for $1.00; 100 for $3.75. 
TRILLIUM GRANDIFLORUM—It is, I think, the most 
beautiful of the Trinity Lilies, with flowers that open 
snowy white, but soon suffuse with a rich pink that 
finally deepens to a royal rose. It loves moist woodlands, 
but will thrive in the garden if a bit of peat or of leaf 
mold be added to the soil. 3 for 50c; 10 for $1.50. 
TRILLIUM LUTEUM—Really a yellow Trillium, flowers of 
lemon and buff. Marbled leaves. Hardy and easy in any 
rich shade. Each 25c; 8 for 65¢c; 10 for $1.75. 
SHOOTING STAR—Dodecatheon Meadia. Clustered flowers, 
always fragrant, that vary from palest pink to deepest 
rose. 20 inches. Excellent in light shade, but where the 
soil is deep and rich, will do pretty well in sun, too. Some- 
times it is called “Hardy Cyclamen’’, from the blossom 
form. It is not really a Cyclamen, though. (Illustrated page 
13.) Each 25c; 3 for 65c; 10 for $1.85. 
NARCISSUS TRIANDRUS—tThe snowy little Angel’s Tear 
Daffodil from hills of Portugal. The corona-chalice nods, 
but the perianth segments are reflexed and twisted like 
wings in flight; a blossom of enchantment. The bulbs are 
always tiny. 3 for 40c; 10 for $1.00. 
ALLIUM FARRERI—An 8-inch beauty, with pendant purple 
bells. Each 30c. 
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