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Daelphinium - Ladkspur 
Try as you will, one can hardly say enough for these regal midsummer favorites. 
one quite equal them in the commanding stateliness of their profusely bloom-laden 
stalks. Their gamut of colors ranging from exquisitely delicate pastel blues, whites and 
lavenders to those of the deep solid colors in violet and indigo-blue, is but one of their 
charms. 
The giant varieties make an admirable background for any planting. They are the 
English varieties that are so intriguing as over there, they peep atop garden walls and 
hedges. 
ENGLISH DELPHINIUMS 
Pacific Giant Hybrid Delphiniums 
Here offered are the newest, the best and the finest to be secured any- 
where. The range of colors varies from the palest shade of blue to the 
deepest indigo-blue and rcyal purple with many intermediary pastel 
tones of mauve, pink and lavender blendings. Among these new hybrids 
are flowers of huge size in both single and double forms. This strain 
has been raised from seed saved from the finest named kinds in crea- 
tion. Visitors at our nursery proclaim them the best they have ever seen. 
They are particularly fine for cutting. 
Three Doz. 100 
Blue and light blue shades .............. $2.50 $7.25 $50.00 
Violet and dark blue shades ............. Pah) ers = SUA, 
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White and pure white shades ............ 3.00 10.00 70.00 
All shades and colors mixed ............. 1.75 5.00 35.00 
Wayside Gardens Hybrids Three $1.50, Doz. $4.50, 100 $30.00 
This is one of the most permanent and at present the most popular 
strains of the garden Delphinium. It is distinct because of its broad, 
conical spike and enormous individual flowers, 11 to 2 inches in diam- 
eter, in all shades of blue blended with mauve and violet. Also contains 
some fine clear white types. For permanent groups in the garden this 
mixture has no equal. 
Blackmore and Langdon Hybrids Three $1.40, Doz. $4.00, 100 $25.00 
This English strain is one of the finest developments in the Delphinium 
family. The flowers are enormous, produced on solid, erect spikes of 
great height and rigidity. The colors lie in delicate shades of blue, 
mauve, and pink. Combines landscape value with a grace and elegance 
for cutting unsurpassed in this family of plants. : 
Gold Medal Hybrids Three $0.95, Doz. $3.00, 100 $18.00 
They are made up from many strains and are a fine mixture for an 
inexpensive planting. 
Cliveden Beauty Three $1.40, Doz. $4.00, 100 $25.00 
This is a fine English improvement over the common Belladonna, grow- 
ing much taller, many more flowers to each spike and of a brighter 
color. Altogether a fine improvement. 
panty Stormonth Three $1.40, Doz. $4.00, 100 $25.00 
A lo 
vely pale blue variety growing about four to five feet high, pro- 
ducing its flower spikes in goodly numbers. One of the best kinds of 
its color. 
Iceberg Three $1.10, Doz. $3.30, 100 $20.00 
Here at last we have a White Delphinium. The flowers are semi-double, 
double and single white on 6-foot stems. Graceful enough for cutting, 
still tall and sufficiently substantial to make noble garden plants. They 
are of easy culture and look splendid combined with the blue hybrids. 
For a succession of blooms, do not permit seed to form. 
Lamartine Three $1.10, Doz. $3.30, 100 $20.00 
The rich indigo-blue flowers are freely produced on branching stems. 
Excellently suited for cutting as well as for colorful effects in the garden. 
DELPHINIUM BELLADONNA 
The Belladonna Delphinium does not grow quite as tall as the popular 
English Hybrids, but they produce more spikes and are more graceful, 
therefore, more useful for cutting. In fact, they are our loveliest early 
blue flowers for that purpose. They require the same care and treat- 
ment as suggested for the English Hybrids, but may be planted a little 
closer together, 12 inches apart is sufficient space for them. Their 
lovely blue spikes are about 3 or 4 feet high and produced in June and 
again in September. : 
Belladonna. Light sky-blue. 
l-year-old plants Three $0.85, Doz. $2.75, 100 $15.00 
2-year-old plants Three $0.95, Doz. $3.00, 100 $18.00 
Bellamosa. A dark blue form of Belladonna. 
l-year-old plants Three $0.85, Doz. $2.75, 100 $15.00 
2-year-old plants Three $0.95, Doz. $3.00, 100 $18.00 
DELPHINIUM CHINENSE - Chinese Delphinium 
The Chinese Delphiniums differ materially from the Belladonna or 
English Hybrids. They rarely grow over three feet in height and bloom 
about three or four weeks later. The foliage of this variety is almost 
fernlike, the plants are more graceful and the flowers, which grow in 
panicles, are of an intense gentian-blue. A lovely thing for the border. 
Require same treatment as English Delphiniums. They should be planted 
about 10 to 12 inches apart. Their roots are much smaller than those 
of the English Hybrids. 
Chinense Three $0.95, Doz. $3.00, 100 $18.00 
A very pretty variety, with fine, feathery foliage and intense gentian- 
blue flowers in open panicles, 
Chinense album Three $0.95, Doz. $3.00, 100 $18.00 
A pure white form of the above. 

Culture. Delphiniums require a rich, generous and well-drained soil. On 
soils of a light or medium nature dig in plenty of well-decayed manure. In 
those of a heavy nature it is desirable to fork up the subsoil and compost of 
two parts loam and one of equal proportions of decayed manure and sand. 
The plants are best grown in groups of three or six. Allow a distance of at 
least 18 inches to 2 feet between the plants. Planting may be done in 
autumn or early spring. Remove faded flowers, and on no account allow 
seeds to develop, then a second crop of flowers may be expected later on. 

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