SOME OF THE BEST THINGS 
ANCHUSA Myosotidiflora. In late spring it sends up its many 
branched stems which are clouded with the tiny clear China- 
blue forget-me-nots for many weeks. Then from the base come 
large attractive heart-shaped leaves and there are some flowers 
appearing through these all summer. Once established it will 
stand considerable drouth. Each 30c; 3 for 75c. (See catalog, 
page 14.) 
DWARF CAMPANULAS. Low, neat and with lovely colorful 
blooms they fit any situation calling for a low plant either in 
rock garden or border. They are the more valuable as most of 
them flower in mid-summer when good blooms are scarce. 
Unique are C. Convexity with reflexed bells and C. Poscharky- 
ana which blooms first in May and when sheared as each bloom 
wanes flowers as often as four times a year. For window bexes, 
hanging baskets or pots the two forms of C. Isophylla are un- 
excelled trailing plants. See page 16. 
DAY LILIES OR HEMEROCALLIS will be found on page 21. They 
are among the finest of bold perennials for any garden and for 
the hot interior valleys of California and in Florida and Texas 
they are unexcelled. Give a fairly rich soil, mulch well, and 
surface water weekly and they will luxuriate even in hottest 
climates. Plant a wide selection of varieties to give the longst 
possible blooming season for you will love them. 
HORNED POPPY. Of the hundreds of flowers blooming here 
through the season no other so universally attracts visitors. 
Give them room for- they are three to four feet across and as 
tall. Flowering begins in late spring when the stems are a foot 
or so high and by late June plants reach maturity and for weeks 
thereafter they are filled with the large colorful poppy blooms. 
As one bloom wanes cut back for a second and third bloom. Very 
drouth resistant. See page 26. 25c each; 3 for 65c; $2.50 per doz. 
HOSTA (Plantain Lilies) are splendid foliage and flowering plants 
for shaded situations. They luxuriate in rich moist soil and be- 
come better with the years. In catalog page 22 are three splendid 
varieties and below are two fine varieties new to my list: 
HOSTA Fortunei. In habit similar to Subcordata but the leaves 
and flowers are smaller. The lovely soft lilac-blue flowers are 
in long racemes carried well above the foliage. 35c each; 3 for 
$1.00. 
HOSTA Aurea-variegata. Rather like the above with pale lilac 
flowers but the unique foliage is beautifully variegated green 
and gold. Each 35c; 3 for $1.00. 
IN MY CATALOG AND WHY 
DELPHINIUM Chinensis, Cambridge Blue. One of those lovable 
plants that reach the heart of all who see it. About 2 feet tall 
with deep green feathery foliage and rather large flowers of 
clear Cambridge blue. See catalog page 18. Each 25c; 3 for 50c; 
$1.40 per dozen. 
OENOTHERA (Evening Primrose). Hach evening from May to 
frost from the foliage masses come the many buds which burst 
to full bloom so quickly the eye cannot follow the unfolding. Try 
to do so sometime. They are splendid perennials for any sunny 
situation, luxuriating with fair soil and moisture but once estab- 
lished capable of standing extremes of drouth. O. America has 
huge blooms of purest white which turn pink as they fade in 
morning. O. Missouriensis is the finest yellow flower I know. 
O. Tetraptera is erect and has smaller flowers but they persist 
until afternoon. See catalog page 25. 
PRIMROSES. I have always loved Primroses perhaps because 
they are not only lovely but are associated with my earliest 
memories, but I think my favorites are the little descendants of 
the English Cowslip which bear each flower on an individual 
stem, perhaps because they flower so long in spring and often 
again in fall. They are the Double Lavender and Double Blush 
~with flowers like tiny full open double roses and Heavenly Blue — 
with quite large single blooms in richest shades of blue. See 
catalog page 27. 
PENTSTEMON, California Blue Bedder. Perhaps some of you 
think I extol too highly this fine native but when I see it flower- 
ing each year for many weeks in early summer in dry rocky soil 
on my road banks and hillsides and when customers write it has 
been masses of bloom all summer when watered, I feel I must 
carry its torch. Under ordinary garden conditions of soil and 
moisture it is the longest flowering perennial I know, yet it is 
highly drouth resistant and without watering will give a profuse 
bloom in late spring. See page 26. 

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