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in window or conservatory, 
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TWELVE SPEEDY PERENNIALS 
Here are twelve delightful winter-hardy perennial flowers 
that will come into bloom almost as quickly as the annuals. 
Sow the seed reasonably early in the spring, and the flowers 
should be in full blossom by mid-summer of the first year. 
Further, being perennial, the same plants will bloom again 
the next year, and for many years to come. All are excellent 
ornamental species; look up our catalog descriptions. We 
will send one pkt. each of Verbena bipinnatifida, Dianthus 
superbus White Lace, Malva alcea, Anarrhinum, Silene For- 
tunei, Salvia Pitcheri, Elsholtzia Farquhari, Monarda Hy- 
brids, Blackberry Lily, Iris dichotoma, Asclepias tuberosa and 
Anchusa riparia, 12 splendid kinds, for only ONE DOLLAR 
in the collection. No changes. Order as OFFER 204Al1. 
CYCLAMEN TENDER 
Of the varied Cyclamens that are used for pot culture, 
no strain is more beautiful 
than the Indicum Rococo. The blossoms are of largest size, 
truly gigantic, always delightfully frilled, fringed and un- 
dulate, like great butterflies, and they come in all the rare 
aay ee Cyclamen colorings. 10 seeds for 25c; 25 seeds 
or 60c. 
CYCLAMEN HARDY 
The Hardy Cyclamen makes a charming rock garden plant; 
or use it against old walls, and in leaf-nestling colonies 
about the roots of some great tree, where on a cold day of 
earliest spring or late autumn, its jJewel-bright blossoms may 
yield us a sudden blood-warming thrill of discovery. Flowers 
are usually fragrant, exquisite in form, white, pink, rose, 
carmine or crimson, foliage undulate, often marbled. For 
its own happiness, give Cyclamen a little lime for its roots, 
a few crumbled fragments below it of old mortar will do 
the service. It likes a bit of shade, but where the roots 
have deep soil, will bear sun well. The seed, as always 
with Cyclamen, is slow germinating, but seems sure to come 
eventually. Culture ‘“‘kt’’. We offer here a blend of many 
winter hardy species including both those of early and those 
of late blooming seasons. 15 seeds for 25c; 50 seeds for 75c. 
* CYNOGLOSSUM 
Notable for quick and vivid blue. Easy and bright. 
*CYNOGLOSSUM BLUEBIRD—ebx (2-4)20. Chinese Forget- 
menot. Lustrous indigo blossoms carried all summer in long 
loose sprays. A splendid annual for every garden. Pkt. 10c; 
% oz. 20c; % oz. 35c. - 
*CYNOGLOSSUM AMABILE PINK—Here the flowers are 
gay rose pink. Pkt. 10c; 4% oz. 30ce. 
*CYNOGLOSSUM WALLICHI—ebk (2-4)40. Little stars of 
scintillant indigo, set along a vast number of slender, cro- 
sier-curling stems, these twisted and entangled until the 
whole, at a little distance, might be a milling swarm of 
brilliant blue bees. Pkt. 10¢; */ig oz. 20c; %& oz. 35c. 
21 CYNOGLOSSUM ZEYLANICUM—*ebnx(2)28. Arching 
sprays of pretty blossoms, these of silvery blue; the foliage, 
too, is silver-dusted. Pkt. 10c; % oz. 25ce. 
TWO RARE CYNOGLOSSUMS—Grande, Pkt. 15c. 
sum, Pkt. 15c. 
OFFER 63A1—One pkt. each of the six above for 60c. 
Nervo- 

Know men by their gardens, for gardens are mirrors. 

338 CYPELLA HERBERTI—*rbx(3-4)25. Lovely Tigridia- 
like blossoms in happy blending of tan, old gold and brown. 
Easy from seed. Handle bulbs in every particular as Tigri- 
dias would be handled. Pkt. 15c. 
33 CYPELLA PLUMBEA—rbx(38-4)28. Steel-blue flowers, 
buff-marked, above plaited leaves. Pkt. 10c. 
24 CYPHOMANDRA BETACEA —ew72. A rare tropical 
fruit that anyone may have by growing the plants in large 
pots in a greenhouse, sun-room or even a window. The 
fruits are about the size of a big egg, tawny orange when 
ripe, with purple stripes. The skin is tough, the pulp soft 
and rich flavored, rather between, in taste, the Tomato and 
the large English dessert Gooseberries. Fruits are eaten 
fresh, or as preserves. Will sometimes bear at two years, a 
full crop at three. Season of bearing is: long. Quite orna- 
mental. Sometimes called Peruvian Tree Tomato. Pkt. 15c. 
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35 CYRTANTHUS BLEND—ew(7)20. Ifafa Lily. Excellent 
Amaryllis-cousins for window or conservatory. Attractive 
flowers, flaring tubular, in the “sealing wax’’ color range, 
chrome, buff, cinnabar and crimson. Pkt. 20c. 
CYTISUS or BROOM 
In full weight of bloom, the Scottish Brooms are gorgeous 
plants. North, they should be considered as herbaceous 
perennials, root-hardy, but making new stems each season, 
though in wind-sheltered positions the old stems are likely 
to winter through safely. In April and May the Brooms are, 
perhaps, the showiest of all the taller perennials then in 
flower at Old Orchard, and visitors all exclaim over the 
rich color display. The range is from creamy yellow, through 
lemon, to golden orange; with red shadings and dark vel- 
vety crimsons. Incidentally, the green whiplike stems of 
Broom, if cut in late autumn, will hold their rich coloring 
all winter long. Sprays of rose-fruits, mingled with Broom 
and Furze (Ulex) branches will pleasantly fill a vase to 
brighten the dull months. Pkt. 15c; 1/i¢ oz. 25c. (Plants, 
each 35c; 3 for $1.00.) 
DAHLIAS FROM SEED 
Sow them early, and you can have flowers first year. It 
is from seedlings that all new varieties of Dahlias come, 
and some of your seedlings may quite possibly be so good 
that you will want to name and introduce them. 
All will be good enough for gorgeous one-season garden 
show, handled then as annuals. 
33 DAHLIA SPECIAL GIANT DOUBLE—*ecbx (4-5) 60. 
Saved from finest named sorts; giants of rare colorings. 
Seedlings will vary much, they always do in Dahlias, but 
average range of quality from this strain will be particularly 
high. 10 seeds for 25c; 25 for 50c; 100 for 85c. 
33 DAHLIA NEW MINIATURE—ecb(4-5)24. Charming 
Baby Dahlias that may, if one wishes, be considered and 
handled as annuals, so quickly do they come into flower 
from spring-sown seeds. Colors include shades of canary, 
buff, terra cotta, apricot, cream, pink, lilac-rose, purple, ma- 
roon, crimson and scarlet. A very fair proportion, though 
not all, will be double. Pkt. 15c; 1/16 oz. 30c; 4% oz. 50c. 

A weed is simply a plant that we do not happen to 
want in the place where it now is. No other defini- 
tion will stand all tests. 

DAISY—See Tahoka Daisy. 
21 SHASTA DAISY AVALON BLEND—ecbkt(2)28. Here 
is the best in Shasta Daisy, and if you have seen the newer 
Shastas, you will know that a best there is very good indeed. 
Blossoms fringed and lacey, single, semi-double or fully 
double, flowers up to five inches across, all pure white, with 
long stems. Soundly hardy perennials. Pkt. 15c; 1/4, oz. 35c; 
1Z oz. 60c. (Plants, mixed as above, but no sorting, each 
30c; 8 for 85c; 10 for $2.50.) 
