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21 UNUSUALITIES IN PLANTS 
A group of the unusual in desirable hardy perennial 
flowers, ones that are available only in plant form. They 
will be supplied in strong, well-rooted stock that should, in 
most instances, give excellent results first year. Available 
either spring or fall. See note at bottom of page one re- 
‘garding mail shipment allowances. 
LILY OF THE VALLEY PINK—The fragrant bells are 
really pink, with suffusion of rose. Rare. Illustrated page 6. 
Blooms not always typical first year after moving. Rooted 
pide, (not clumps), 50c each, 5 for $2.00. Customer limit, 
ve pips. 
“MAZUS REPTANS — It makes wide low mats, densely 
packed leafage not over an inch or two thick. For some 
weeks in late spring, pretty blossoms are scattered over it, 
as though they had showered down, flowers of violet and 
white, each patched with yellow. It’s another New Zeal- 
ander, and a very likable one. Each 25c; 3 for 70c. 
DICENTRA SWEETHEART—The blossoms are hearts of 
snowiest whiteness, carried in gracefully arching plumes 
well over the decorative green-fern foliage. This rare and 
dainty variety of Dicentra formosa is in constant bloom 
from May until November, not even a pause for summer 
heat. Stock still limited. Good small plants, not more than 
one to a customer, each $1.75. 
THE HARDY FUCHSIA—It is Fuchsia magellanica, and 
with a bit of protection, mulching of straw or loose litter, it 
will usually winter over in the open ground in the North. 
It is particularly effective in the rock garden, making pretty 
plants to 10 inches or more, gracefully diffuse, and loaded 
all summer and fall with pendant pink blossoms, centered 
with rosy violet. Illustrated page 2. Each 35c; 8 for $1.00. 
DORONICUM EXCELSUM—Maenificent giant Daisies of 
golden orange, carried on four-foot stems all through the 
spring season. Nothing more showy then. Botanically Do- 
ronicum plantagineum. Each 35c; 8 for $1.00; 10 for $3.00. 
CERATOSTIGMA PLUMBAGINOIDES—Here is indigo viv- 
idness, blossoms of clean blue brilliance hide the ten-inch 
mounds of plants from mid-summer until mid-autumn. Then 
the flowers fall, and the hidden red calyces emerge to give 
a warm glow to cold days. Good foliage, plants always 
decorative. It comes from depths of China. Full winter 
eee: Each 30c; 3 for 85c; 10 for $2.50. (Illustrated, 
page ¢. 
CALIFORNIA ROSE—Not a Rose at all, but rather Rose- 
like in its flower, this pretty trailing plant will carpet a 
bank, edge a drive, or fill with beauty an odd corner. All 
summer-long it carries its lovely double flowers of purest 
pink. Illustrated on cover. Fully winter hardy. Botanically 
it is Convolvulus japonicus fi.p., but often it is offered as 
Calystegia pubescens. Supplied as sections of root, all that 
it Re eer to plant. A quick grower. Each 30c; 
8 for 85c. 
21 BELAMCANDA FLABELLATA—Butter-Iris. The flow- 
ers are very Iris-like, gathered closely, all of a soft primrose 
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save that the petals are centered with wide stripes of shin- 
ing deeper yellow that is the color of summer butter, this 
shade gradually lightening until it is lost in the softer tone 
of the petal margin. The compactly clustered blossoms just 
top the wide, twisted, foot-high foliage fans. This rare and 
charming plant comes from mountain woods of Japan, but 
tolerates full sun. It makes a long and brilliant showing, 
mid-July to mid-September. First offered as Belamcanda 
shee ae Definitely only one plant to a customer. Each 
PHLOX NIVALIS OLD ORCHARD—Mossy mounds, to six 
inches, set with big blossoms of pure pink, carmine dot at 
petal base. Everblooming. Each 30c; 3 for 865c. 
FESTUCA GLAUCA—It makes dense tussock-mounds of 
steel-blue foliage, even, formal, almost plush-like in the 
close, soft packing of narrow leaves. In this variety of it, 
we call it the Old Orchard Variety, the mounds are never 
over six inches high, and about the same through. It may 
be used as accent in the rock garden, or grouped in front 
of taller perennials in mixed plantings. Planted closely, 
it makes an excellent low edging. Each 20c; 3 for 50c; 
10 for $1.50. 
TUNICA ROSE DOUBLE—In this dainty exquisite, 
blossoms are lovely deep pink, fully double, like midget 
roses. Airy in effect. 6 inches. A non-seeding mutation of 
Tunica saxifraga, and truly a gem. Each 30c; 8 for 85c. 
NIEREMBERGIA RIVULARIS—AIl over the low, close- 
packed mats of leafage, from spring till mid-autumn, set 
big crinkly cup-blossoms of purest white. 6 inches. Put a 
bit of straw or dry leaves over it in winter. Highly distinc- 
tive, and offered with our thorough recommendation. Each 
30c; 3 for 85c; 10 for $2.50. 
POTENTILLA TORMENTILLO-FORMOSA—A trailing ex- 
travagance of flower pavement, Blossoms of apricot that 
deepens to coppery orange, petal bases flecked crimson. 
Long brilliant. Often offered as Potentilla Tonguei. Each 
30c; 3 for 85c. 
SUMMER ROSECUP—The blossoms are shallow cups three 
inches wide, pure pink with rose striations that set them 
all aglow. They are open all day long. Blooming starts 
in late April, and continues in superlative profusion right 
through summer, and until near the end of autumn. The 
plants, flower-hidden mounds of emerald foliage, reach ten 
inches of height by eighteen across. Botanically it is 
Oenothera Kunthiana, a rare species. Fully winter-hardy 
at Philadelphia, and presumably also much farther north. 
Desirable. Each 40c; 3 for $1.10; 10 for $3.00. 
OFFER 202A1—One plant each of the fourteen Unusualities, 
for $6.25. 
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COME TO OLD ORCHARD 
At our Old Orchard Seed Farm and Nursery we 
produce nearly all of the plants, and an actual 
majority of the seeds, offered in this catalog. You 
will find more than three thousand kinds of interest- 
ing hardy perennial flowers at Old Orchard. Most 
of them are lined out in rows four hundred feet 
long, but the rarer and more particular species are 
grown in especially prepared beds. These beds are 
forty inches wide, built to fit, so far as soil prepa- 
ration and composition is concerned, the kinds that 
are to go into them. The total length of such beds 
at Old Orchard is some 11,000 feet, better than two 
miles,—and that takes a lot of weeding. Then there 
are blocks of unusual bulbs, and of the newer annual 
flowers for quantity seed production, together with 
test gardens where we try out each year hundreds of 
kinds from far parts of the earth, to determine horti- 
cultural value and adaptability to American climate. 
All this makes a color display that is quite worth 
the seeing. It offers you, too, the opportunity to 
check over the various kinds as they grow and bloom 
in the field. Visitors are very welcome. Come when- 
ever you can. The gates are open each weekday 
from nine until five, (but on Sundays and holidays 
only by appointment). To reach Old Orchard, leave 
Moorestown on Chester Avenue. At flicker light on 
edge of town, turn right on road marked for Bridge- 
boro, and keep going until you see the ‘‘Old Orchard’”’ 
sign. Moorestown is a residential suburb of Phila- 
delphia, accessible by frequent bus service from 
downtown district of that city. Those coming by bus 
should alight at Chester Ave. in Moorestown, taking 
then the local Bridgeboro bus. This passes the 
Nursery. 

