THE SPLENDID PENSTEMONS 
You have missed much if you have not 
frown them, for among them are many 
glorious things for rock garden, hardy 
border, or the cutting garden. Seeds should 
be sown in open ground seed-beds or un- 
heated frames in latest autumn or earliest 
spring, while soil is cool. Easy enough 
then, they will sulk for months if sown in 
late spring or summer. 
21 PENSTEMON ACUMINATUM—Described 
page 3. Pkt. 15c. 
21 PENSTEMON COBAEA — ecbkt(3)28. 
Blossoms of great size, larger than in any 
other Penstemon, softest lavender with pur- 
ple markings. Glossy sparkling foliage. 
Each plant eventually a spectacular bouquet. 
Illustrated page 62. Pkt. 15c; 1/18 oz. 40c;3 
4 oz. 75c. (Plants, each 30c.) 
21 PENSTEMON COBAEA OZARK VARI- 
ETY—F lowers vary somewhat from plant to 
plant, but always in the purple range, from 
those with deep glowing twilight suffusions 
ia others of royal violet, rich and dark. Pkt. 
c. 
21 PENSTEMON CONFERTUS BLUE — 
cbkt(3)28. High above the foliage are great 
showy blossom-clusters. Effect is of a bril- 
liant blue, the tubes touched with violet. A 
particularly good species. Pkt. 15¢; 1/16 oz. 
385c. (Plants, each 25c; 3 for 70c.) 
21 PENSTEMON CRANDALLI— rx(1)3. Our dwarfest 
Penstemon, and almost the earliest. The plants are flat 
mats of fine foliage. In April and May big flowers of deep 
rich blue are set all over it, as though they had been care- 
lessly strewn about on the tops of the little green rug-lets 
of close leafage. A delightful plant. We recommend it 
fully. Pkt. 20c. (Plants, each 30c; 3 for 85c.) 
21 PENSTEMON GLABER BLUE—crbkt(3)20. Attractive 
trumpet clusters in a deep blue-sapphire. Glaucous foliage. 
Pkt. 15c. (Plants, each 30c; 8 for 85c.) 
21 PENSTEMON GRANDIFLORUS — ecbkt(3)40. Well- 
called King of Penstemons. Immense flower trumpets, 
pure blue to orchid lavender, are carried in many towering 
spires of serried clusters. Blue-glaucous leaves, thick 
and crispy, in perfoliate effect. A sure and easy species 
of great hardiness in well-drained soils. Superbly showy. 
Cuts well. Illustrated above. Pkt. 15e; %& oz. 40c; % 
oz. 65c. (Plants, each 25c; 3 for 70c; 10 for $2.00.) 
21 PENSTEMON HETEROPHYLLUS—“*ecrbkt(2-4)20. <A 
delightful and easy species, in bloom for many months. 
Exquisitely formed trumpets, lilac, amethyst or purest 
sapphire. Pkt. 15c. (Plants, each 30c.) 
21 PENSTEMON IMBERBUS — *ecbx(8)45. Blossoms, 
loosely carried, of lovely coral pink, filled with silky 
yellow down. Excellent in border, or cuts wonderfully. 
Sometimes considered a well-marked variety of P. bar- 
batus. Pkt. 15c. (Plants, each 25c; 3 for 65c; 10 for $1.90.) 
21 PENSTEMON MENZIESI—rkt(1-2)8. Evergreen mounds, 
low, mat-tending, filled with big, handsome purple flowers. 
Early. Pkt. 15ce. (Plants, 30c each.) 
21 PENSTEMON MURRAYANUS—ecbkt(2-4)50. An _ ex- 
ceedingly showy species, altogether unlike other red-flowered 
Penstemons. Even the foliage is decorative, blue-glaucous, 
opposite cup-shaped leaves in perfoliate form. Many tower- 
ing stems, close panicles of radiant scarlet blossoms. Blooms 
until late autumn. Pkt. 15c; 1/ie oz 380c; %& oz. 50c. 
(Plants each 25c; 3 for 70c; 10 for $2.10.) “ 
21 PENSTEMON NEW PURPLE SEEDLINGS—rcbkt (2-3) 
20. Magnificent hybrid strain of English origin. Wide, 
bushy plants that carry well above them, very many, very 
showy flowers in variable rich purples, closely clustered. 
Of fullest hardiness, and long-lived. Pkt. 20c. (Plants, 
each 25c; 3 for 70c.) 
21 PENSTEMON OVATUS OLD ORCHARD VARIETY— 
ecbfkt(3-4)30. A particularly fine strain, far better garden 
value than the type of this species, though that is good, 
too. Base-branching plants, with flowers carried in 
loose clusters well above the foliage. Blossoms of a 
most attractive lavender, buds a bit deeper. Foliage is a 
glorious copper-crimson in autumn. Pkt. 15c; % oz. 35c; 
Y% oz. 60c. (Plants, each 25c; 3 for 70c; 10 for $2.00.) 
21 PENSTEMON NITIDUS—erkt(1-2)6. Earliest flowering 
and dwarfest of all our Penstemons at Old Orchard. Foliage 
crispy-succulent, blue-glaucous, semi-perfoliate. Blossoms of 
brightest blue. It’s a gem. Pkt. 15c; 1/16 oz. 40c. (Plants, 
each 25c; 8 for 70c; 10 for $2.10.) 

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21 PENSTEMON PYGMAEUS — rkt.(2)6. 
Wonderful hardy rock garden Penstemon, of 
fullest enduring hardiness and adaptability. 
Little fountains of silvery lilac blossoms. 
Neat, low habit. Botanical position in con- 
troversy, but never a contest could there be 
over its high horticultural rank. Pkt. 15c. 
(Plants, each 25c; 3 for 70c.) 
21 PENSTEMON RUPICOLA—rstkt(2)7. A 
silvery-leafed evergreen; tumbled foliage 
masses set with bloom of glowing rose or 
rich ruby. Pkt. 20c. (Plants, each 40c.) 
21 PENSTEMON SPECIOSUS—cbkt (2-3) 35. 
The Great Showy Penstemon. Charmingly 
varied colorings, from delicate pure pink, 
through rose, to lilac, mauve, lavender, and 
finally to indigo and ultramarine. A mag- 
nificent species of quite breath-taking love- 
liness. Illustrated page 30. Pkt. 20c; 1/16 oz. 
75¢c. (Plants, each 35c.) 
21 PENSTEMON SPECTABILIS—cbkt (3) 
30. Blue-glaucous foliage. Flowers of rich 
glowing red. Pkt. 20c. (Plants each 30c.) 
21 PENSTEMON SCOULERI—rbkt (2-3) 12. 
Flowers like glorified purple, or rarely snowy 
white, snapdragons. Pkt. 15c. (Plants, each 
30c.) 
vo 
OFFER 124A1—One pkt. each of above for 
$2.75. 
OTHER PENSTEMONS — These are good, 
too. Sorry we can’t describe each one of 
them. Priced per pkt. Albidus 15c; An- 
tirrhinoides 15c; Australis 15c,, (plants each 25c, 3 for 
70c) ; Campanulatus 15c; Centranthifolius 15c; Cinereus 15c; 
Diffusus 15c; Digitalis 10c, % oz. 30c; Digitalis x Tubiflorus 
15c; Deustus 15c; Eatoni 15c, (plants each 30c) ; Gormani 
15¢e, (plants each 30c); Gracilis 10c, % oz. 25c, (plants each 
25e, 3 for 70c); Grandiflorus White 15c; Hirsutus 15c; 
Newberryi x Fruticosus 20c; Laevigatus 10c, 1% oz. 25c; Laev- 
igatus Avalon Variety 15c, 1%4 oz. 60c, (plants each 25c, 
3 for 70c, 10 for $2.00); Palmeri 15c; Procerus 15c; Rich- 
ardsoni 15c; Secundiflorus 15c; Serrulatus 15c, (plants each 
30c); Smalli 10c, % oz. 25c; Tubiflorus 10c; Venustus 20c; 
Watsoni 10c, 1% oz. 25¢c, (plants each 25c, 3 for 65c, 10 
for $1.90, 25 for $4.25); Whippleanus 15c, 4% oz. 40c, (plants 
each 25c, 3 for 70c); Virgatus 15¢c; Erianthera 15c. One pkt. 
each of above for $3.50. Order as OFFER 125A1. 
21 PENSTEMON BLEND—The above, with others. More 
than fifty splendid Penstemons in this blend. There is no 
better, more beautiful, nor more generally satisfactory 
group of hardy perennials in existence than the Penste- 
mons. Pkt. 15c; %& oz. 85c; % oz. 65c; 1 oz. $2.00. 
*PENSTEMON ANNUAL GIANTS—cbkt(2-4)35. Big flow- 
ers in every gay and brilliant Penstemon coloring. Hybrids 
with tender Mexican species, but since they bloom freely first 
season, they may be readily handled as annuals. Nothing 
more showy. Pkt. 15¢; 1/1g oz. 30e. 







GARDENING IN THE RAIN. After long drought, 
come rain, a kind, firm rain that has set its mind 
to a purpose, and decided to stay the day. Then, 
while panes splash and gardens delight, we shall 
enjoy our plant books, look over old catalogs, re- 
member last spring and plan for the next, sort 
seeds and bulbs, write out long wish-lists. It’s a 
lazy, dreamy sort of gardening that rests and renews. 


21 PEROWSKIA ATRIPLICIFOLIA—cofbx (2-4) 50. 
is here dominant, a silver that at times may be almost 
a snowy downiness, or again may hint of olive shadings, but 
Silver 
an enveloping felted silveriness always. The flowers, and 
they show in midget multitudes, would be a bright blue- 
lavender were it not for a silvery haziness. A very lovely 
species. Afghanistan. Pkt. 15c. (Plants, each 30c.) 
*PHACELIA BLEND—ANNUAL BLUEBELLS—erbx (1-2) 
15. Gaudy flowers of blue to purple, colorings laid on with 
intensity, but varying to white or lavender. Blossoms are 
wide saucer-bells that unroll in crosier-sprays. Quick, and 
handsome. Pkt. 10c; % oz. 25c. 
22 PHYGELIUS CAPENSIS—byt(w) (3-5)386. Cape Fuchsia. 
Blossoms of an explicit and glowing red, carried in uniquely 
fashioned panicles. Stem-hardy outside to about Phila- 
delphia; it does very well at our Old Orchard Seed Farm 
near Moorestown, New Jersey. It is root-hardy well north, | 
and in more rigorous climates than this it may be treated 
simply as an herbaceous perennial, blooming freely on each 
new season’s shoots. Pkt. lic. (Plants each 50c.) 
