


21 DODECATHEON or SHOOTING STAR 
_ These charming | exquisites are really fairly close to the 
Primrose, though in form of flower they seem to be almost 
- GCyclamens. Sometimes, indeed, they are called Wild Cycla- 
men. Though they will do well in full sun, most of them 
have a slight preference for light shade. The blossoms are 
sweetly fragrant, long in stem, and in form with the petals 
_ thrown straight back, as though by the rush of air in their 
- meteoric passage from some other world. Colorings will 
__yary from tinted whites, through pink and mauve-lilac, to 
pure rose, wine shades, and deep velvety purples. Some 
___ will show yellow markings, or even gold bandings. Height 
runs from 10 to 20 inches. “y’’ culture. This is a blend. 
Illustrated page 17. Pkt. 15ce; */s2 oz. 40c. 
‘ - SEPARATE DODECATHEON SPECIES—Alpinum 20c; Cu- 
_sicki 20c; Hendersoni 15c; Meadia 15c; Meadia splendidum 
OFFER 75A1—One pkt. 




- 20e; Pauciflorum 25c; Jefferyi 20c. 
heh f each for $1.10. 
_ PODECATHEON PLANTS—Plants available both in spring 
and autumn of the eastern Shooting Star, Dodecatheon 
Sates Meadia, rose-tinted, fragrant. Usually supplied when dor- 
mant. Each 25c; 3 for 65c; 10 for $1.85. 
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21 DRABA AIZOON—erltkt(1)6. It makes close rosettes 
that remind one of Sempervivum. The pretty flowers are 
_ brightest sulfur yellow. Pkt, 20c. 
21 DRABA REPENS—erkt(1)6. Low mats of soft green 
foliage, vast numbers of little golden flowers on slender 
waving stems above, through all early spring. Most desir- 
able. Pkt. 15c. (Plants, good but small, each 25c; 3 for 70c.) 
7 DRACAENA DRACO—w. Dragon Tree, perhaps most 
curiously formed of all the great Lily’ family. In the Ca- 
-naries it has reached 70 feet of height; it took centuries of 
growing for that. Here it is usually handled as a tub or 
conservatory plant. There is a short trunk, topped by a 
great bundle of long, crowded sword-shaped leaves, the 
outer recurved. Big seeds, 6 for 25c. 
75 DRACAENA AUSTRALIS—w. Excellent pot plant, or 
often used for outdoor summer accents, in lawn vases, porch 
boxes etc. Long slender leaves, often parti-colored. Cordy- 
line australis. Pkt. 10c. 
21 DRAGON-HEADS 
_ The Dracocephalums or Dragon-heads are plants of easiest 
handling, yet of an inspiring beauty. 
21 DRACOCEPHALUM NUTANS—erx(1-2)12. <A long-at- 
tractive alpine of easy handling. Little ‘‘snap-dragons” of 
_ intense blue, packed in dense spikes. After the flowers have 
fallen, the brown-purple bracts continue the decorative show- 
ing. Pkt. 15c; 1/39 oz. 25c. (Plants, each 25c; 3 for 65c; 
10 for $2.10.) 
21 DRACOCEPHALUM RUPRECHTI—*erbx(2-4)15. Bushy 
upright plants, fine-leafed, pleasingly aromatic. Short spikes 
of pretty blue-purple flowers, but often bright pink or pure 
_ white forms appear. In bloom for months. Pkt. 15c. (Plants, 
mostly blue but no color separation, each 25c; 3 for 65c; 10 
for $2.10; 25 for $4.75.) 
21 DRACOCEPHALUM RUYSCHIANA—erx(3). Big violet 
flowers in fat cluster-spikes, carried over wide thickets 
of rich green foliage. A showy and desirable low mid- 
‘summer perennial. Pkt. 15c; 1/1¢ oz. 25c. (Plants, each 30c.) 
OFFER 76A1—One plant each of above for 40c. 
*DRACOCEPHALUM MOLDAVICUM ALBUM — ex(8)15. 
Pretty pure white annual. Easy and quick. Pkt. 10c. 


33 DRACUNCULUS CANARIENSIS—w. Dragon-Lily of 
the Canaries. Oddly decorative foliage in exotic summer 
garden effect. Dig tubers in autumn and store. Attractively 
tinted Calla-like flower-spathes from dry tubers before 
planting, in earliest spring. Pkt. 15c. 
21 DROSERA FILIFORMIS—rnmatkt(2)12. Prettiest of 
the interesting and curious carnivorous Sun Dews. Uncurl- 
ing racemes of bright pink stars. Bog garden, window 
‘pot-plant, or terrarium. Winter hardy. Pkt. lb5c. 
21 DRYAS OCTOPETALA—rey(2)5. Mats of evergreen 
“oak”? leaves, creamy flowers, silver-pink seed fluffs. Pkt. 20c. 
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21 DUCHESNEA INDICA—*ergkt(8)6. A pretty, trailing, 
mat-forming perennial, with yellow ‘‘Potentilla’’ flowers, and 
ornamental fruits of impressive brilliance, as though starkly 
upright strawberries had been dipped in vermilion. Pkt. 
10c; */ig oz. 80c. (Plants, each 15c; 3 for 40c; 10 for $1.10.) 
45 DUDLEYA FARINOSA—w. Dense succulent rosettes, 
glaucous and powder-dusted, or sometimes red-tinged. Above 
come croSier-sprays of creamy flowers. Pkt. 15c. 
21 ECHINACEA PURPUREA — ecdx(3-4)48. Rudbeckia. 
Long petals, soft rose to royal purple, reflex from choco- 
late cones. Thoroughly winter-safe perennial of considerable 
attractiveness. Pkt. 10c; % oz. 20c; 4% oz. 35c. (Plants, 
each 25c; 8 for 70c.) 
21 ECHINOPS EXALTATUS—ecbx(3)60. Flower-heads of 
metallic blue. Bold garden decorative effects. Winter 
bouquets. Also honey plant. Pkt. 5¢; %4 oz. 20c. 
“ECHIUM or JEWEL-FLOWER 
*ECHIUM NEW HYBRIDS—erbk(8)25. The blossoms open 
bright rose, but change to intense blue, or at times to blue- 
violet. Again they may be of enamel whiteness. They 
unroll in long succession from graceful crosier-sprays. An 
individual flower reminds one of a giant Cynoglossum bloom, 
gone campanulate. This Echium is of the easiest possible 
culture, and will give masses of flowers for some months. 
It attracts always much attention. Pkt. 15c; 1/1g oz. 35c. 
*ECHIUM WHITE MOUNTAIN—erbk(8)25. A most pleas- 
ant all-summer annual that will give undulate mountains 
of snowy bloom. The plants are profuse, draped branchings 
of bloom. Of all white-flowered annuals, this and Anoda 
Snowcup are our favorites. Definitely no garden should 
be without them; and please, if you think you do not like 
Mhiraeesiepet att defer judgment until you have seen these. 
- 15e. 
21 ELSHOLTZIA FARQUHARI 
Splendid late-blooming border plants with spicily aromatic 
foliage. In autumn they fill with long and fluffy one- 
sided bloom-spikes in a most attractive shade of lilac- 
purple, carried candelabra fashion on many branching 
stems. Quick from seed. An excellent cut flower. Fully 
root-hardy north, blooming on new annual shoots, like 
Peony. Botanical position uncertain, but no question about 
its high horticultural rank. Pkt. 15¢; 1/ig oz. 30c; %& oz. 
50c. (Plants, each 30c; 3 for 85c.) 
Convention is usually crystallized common sense, but 
sometimes it is only frozen snobbery. 

EDELWEISS—See Leontopodium. 
21 EDRAIANTHUS TENUIFOLIUS—erx(2)4. Dalmatian . 
Wheel-beil. Low grassy tuffets from which radiate in 
even symmetry, many prostrate stems that rise in a grace- 
ful curve at the end to carry each a crowded cluster of 
wide up-facing purple bells. Crebada) in effect, easy to grow, 
and particularly fitted to the rock garden, Thoroughly 
winter-hardy. Pkt. 15c. (Plants, each 25c; 3 for 70c.) 
21 EDRAIANTHUS KITAIBELII—erx(2)3. More compact, 
less wheel-like. Lovely blue flowers. Pkt. 15c. 
21 ERDAIANTHUS PUMILIO — erltx(2)3. Silvery, silky 
mounds, close-set with amethystine cups. Pkt. 20c. 
EPIGAEA REPENS—See Trailing Arbutus. 
21 EPILOBIUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM—bnstx(3)30. Flowers 
of bright rose purpose. Called Fireweed, for it flourishes in 
burned over areas. Pkt. 10c. 
21 EPILOBIUM NUMMULARIFOLIUM *erstx (2-3) 2. 
Trailing carpets of minute, overlapping emerald leaves, 
bronze in sun, with daintiest snowy star-lets of blossoms just 
over, the stems airy-invisible. New Zealend. Pkt. 15c. 
45 EPIPHYLLUM PEERLESS HYBRIDS—w. Phyllocactus. 
The freest flowering of all Cactus groups, and perhaps 
showiest of house plants. Magnificent blossoms in cream, 
pink, orange, scarlet, crimson, lavender, and purple. Oddly 
compressed, flanged and margined plant stems. A splendid 
strain. 10 seeds for 25c; 50 seeds for $1.00. 
31 ERANTHIS HIEMALIS—y(1)15. Called Winter Aconite. 
Golden flowers, green-ruffed in earliest possible spring. 
Hardy bulb. Pkt. 10c; 1/ig oz. 25c. 
21 EREMOSTACHYS LACINIATA—erbdx(2-3)20. Showy 
and easy perennial labiate from Asia Minor. The stems 
carry whorls of flowers in bright primrose yellow. Pkt. 1b5c. 
