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*“TITHONIA AVALON EARLIEST 
For great spectacular effects, green walls set with flowers 
of living flame, no other tall annual surpasses, or even 
approaches this very easy and gorgeous Tithonia. The big 
long-stemmed blossoms range from orange topaz, through 
tangerine, to those with burnished over-sheen of scarlet fire. 
Sow seed when soil is warm and weather settled. By mid- 
duly the plants should be burdened with bloom, full then 
until hard freezes of late autumn. This is our own selection, 
made from Tithonia tagetiflora. It is the earliest flowering 
strain that we have seen or grown, but that’s not strange, 
since the other early flowering selections appear to have 
been made from T. speciosa, a kind that is naturally much 
later than is T. tagetiflora. Not only is our Avalon Strain 
earlier, but it has the further advantage of being dwarfer. 
At the five to six feet of our Avalon Earliest one can really 
see the flowers, but eight or ten feet up, as on Speciosa, 
one can only guess at most of them. ecbk(3-5)60. Pkt. 15c; 
1% oz. 25c; 1% oz. 40c; 1 oz. $1.35, % Ib. $4.75. 
21 VIOLA SAXATILIS * 
Blossoms that are flutter-winged bits of miniature Pansy 
delight, myriad flowers carried well over the low, spreading 
plants. There will be golden yellow, lemon, lavender, mauve 
and rosy lilac, but perhaps the most plentiful, and most 
endearing are the two-tone flowers, where a mellow honey 
gold melts into smoky purple-violet. It comes from cliffs 
of Greece. Some call it Johnny-jump-up, but that name 
belongs to a small-flowered, brightly marked type of primi- 
tive Pansy, and not to this at all; indeed Viola saxatilis is 
far prettier than any. true Johnny-jump-up. Easy from seed, 
blooming quickly and freely first year. Pkt. 20c. (Plants, 
each 20c; 3 for 50c.) 
21 VERBENA BIPINNATIFIDA * 
A very lovely thing this, piled mounds of twice-pinnate 
fern-like foliage, set over with big, flattened blue blossom 
clusters. The coloring is delightful; effulgent, jewel-like. It 
throws the sun right back again, something that few blue 
flowers will do. Technically it is, perhaps, lavender, but a 
blue-reflecting lavender that approaches the primary color. 
Verbena bipinnatifida is a truly splendid perennial, in con- 
tinuous bloom from June until November. As to winter- 
hardiness, it carries over safely even in Dakota, but we find 
that it is best not to cut the plants back in autumn. Leave 
all trimming of old growth until about the middle of April. 
Sown early, it will bloom first year, just as quickly as the 
annual Verbenas. Splendid cut-flower. erebx(8)16.  JIllus- 
trated page 52. Pkt. 15c; % oz. 35c; % oz. 60c; 1 oz. $2.00. 
(Plants, each 25c; 3 for 70c; 10 for $2.00.) 
21 LEPACHYS MAROON AND GOLD* 
An extraordinary plant, decidedly attractive, and inter- 
esting also because of its diversion from commonly accepted 
lines of form and coloring. The flower-heads are little 
silky columns, set successively with tiny blossoms, and 
guarded at the base by wide petal-rays of richest maroon, 
gold-edged. The blossoms are multitude, carried on long 
slender stems all through late spring and early summer. 
This Lepachys will blossom freely the same season that 
the seed is sown, but it is, nevertheless, a long-enduring and 
fully hardy perennial. 36 inches. ‘x’ culture. Botanically 
it is Lepachys columnifers pulcherrima. Illustrated page 28. 
Pkt. 15¢; % oz. 80c; %4 oz. 50c. (Plants, each 25c; 3 for 
70¢e; 10 for $2.00.) 
31 LITTLE BLUE DAFFODIL 32 
Androstephium coeruleum it is, but. Little Blue Daffodil 
it has been often called, one of those spontaneous names 
that spring to the lips of people who, not having heard of 
the plant, see it for the first time. The blossoms are quite 
Narcissus-like in form, though the size of plant and flower 
is rather that of the Rock Garden Daffodils than of. their 
larger garden brethren. The color is a bright and attractive 
blue, sky-blue one might call it, with hint of violet. The 
blossoms are carried in umbels of two to four blooms, and 
the height over-all is about nine inches. It grows from a 
true bulb. At Old Orchard we have had it for several 
years, and it has wintered in the open ground without pro- 
tection. It would probably be well, though, to protect by 
mulching or otherwise, young seedling bulbs the first year 
or two in most parts of the North. “kt” culture. Pkt. 15c; 
special large pkg. 50c. 
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21 GOLDEN DROP 
In gardens of England Onosma tauricum is kno 
Golden Drop, and to see it is to understand wh 
another of those more or less self-naming plant 
to eighteen inches, a lower mound of gray 
which rise many arching, curling, blossom-hung 
flowers are narrow bells of waxen lemon-gold, r¢ 
swinging in dainty gracefulness over the green-sil 
foil. It loves sun and heat, giving a long show O 
June and July. “kt? culture. Botanically it is 
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21 ADENOPHORA FARRERI* — 
Flower-bells of soft blue, lighter within, wide 
hang from the many branches. The color tone of { 
is a bit hard to describe, sort of a silvered sky blue. 
plants are less spire-like than other Adenophoras, m 
branching, whole height perhaps three feet. Bloomi 
is August and well into September. It comes fro 
meadows of high Tibet, and none need doubt its h 
Pkt. 20c. 
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21 AQUILEGIA AVALON DOUBLE 
Our own selection of Double-flowering Columbians — The 
blossoms are mostly fully double, often intensely s a 
quite spur-less, so that they remind one a bit of Ro 
indeed from the usual Aquilegia form. Pink, ros 
tones dominate, with rather rarely a suffused white 
violet. Certain of the soft pure pinks are truly ex 
The flowers are carried at fairly even height, and 
face upward. An established plant will carry 5 
stems that it becomes a great sheaf of blossoming. ecb 
Pkt. 20c; 1/32 oz. 30c; 1/318 oz. 50c. 
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21 CENTAUREA STENOLEPIS — 
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_ Our favorite of the taller perennial Cornflowers, dec 
in the border, and splendid for cutting. There are clus 
of buds, hidden in tangled nests of dainty brown basket 
Each big blossom is built of many crowded tassel and fr 
ing ray florets, giving an effect of full and charming 
ness. It makes great sheafs of bloom. ecbx(3)40. Pk 
1/1g oz. 20c; %& oz. 35c. ia: 
21 VESICARIA UTRICULATA 
When in blossom, April and early May, this is one of 
more showy plants at Old Orchard. Each of the many 18-i 
stems is topped with a wide flattened cluster of brilliar 
yellow flowers, the stems rising from compact tuffets 
silvery foliage. In late May and through June, Ves 
still interests all who see it, though not then as far-v 
as when in bloom. Now it is in seed, and the stems b 
spikes of Liliputian balloons, each capsule inflated to 
loon-like_ form. So far as flower appearance is concer 
this Vesicaria might be considered to lie between Wallflo 
and Alyssum, reminding one a bit of each. Easy ; 
Pkt. 15¢; 4/1g oz. 30c; % oz. 50c. (Plants, each $0) 
21 PENSTEMON ACUMINATUM __ 
Often a full yard-long of big, tight] acked bl 
though perhaps two-foot lengths of fiowots Ree ‘more U 
The stems are upright, several of them from each rosette N 
blue-glaucous leaves. The individual blossoms are large, of — 
flaring, unsymmetrically lipped, funnel form, opaline la 
ender within, intensely blue-indigo without. June is 
month of beauty. Showy in the border, and splen 
cutting, no better Penstemon for the purpose, and 
high praise, for among perennials there are no more 
tiful, no more satisfactory flowers for cutting thai 
Penstemons. “kt”? culture. Pkt. 15c3 1/1g oz. 35¢3 ye : 
21 SALVIA PITCHERI* 
One of the better perennial Salvias i ht alm 
“none better,’ but that might be unrasee tothe mans 
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fully hardy and long-lived perennial that will, nevel 
often bloom first season if sown early. ecbx (3-4) 5! 
10c; % oz. 30c; % oz. 50c. ot) as 
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