ARISAEMA TRIPHYLLUM—ranmstatkt(2)25. Jack-in-the- 
_ Pulpit: Purple-green spathes, chocolate-streaked, then 
clusters of brilliant red berries that glow like jewels. De- 
lights in dampish shade. Pkt. 10c; % oz. 30c; 1 oz. $1.00. 
(Tubers, fall or spring, 3 for 40c; 8 for $1.00; 25 for $2.90.) 
ARISAEMA HIMALAYAN MIXED—bmfstkt(3)24. There is 
a wierd sort of attractiveness about the Snake Lilies, called 
so from their bizarre grotesqueries of color and form, and 
not at all for any reason of physical serpent-association. 
The bloom is a Calla-like spathe, but often oddly twisted, 
drawn out, or reversely compressed to fat-man form., Color- 
ings may be any dark blendings or streakings in purple; 
violet-shaded green, chocolate, red, or even lightened by 
creamy-yellow splashes as though splotches of paint had been 
thrown, with rather of an upward motion, against the 
spathe. A bit slow in germinating, but reasonably certain. 
A loose mulching is good winter insurance in cold areas. 
9 seeds for 15c; 40 seeds for 50c; 100 for $1.00. 
APIOS TUBEROSA—A trailer or low vine that grows from 
a tuber. Pretty flower clusters of chocolate-toned purple that - 
are very like those of Wisteria. A good winter-hardy orna- 
mental. Additionally, the roots, long strings of tubers like 
half-size potatoes, are edible, really very good when boiled 
and eaten with butter. Had the true potato not been dis- 
covered, this would likely have been developed as a major 
food source. Tubers, 3 for 25c; 10 for $1.00. 
ARUM ITALICUM—bmstkt(2)12. Creamy spathes, followed 
by bright scarlet berries. Channel Islands to Italian Riviera. 
Hardy at Philadelphia. May need mulching in colder areas. 
Pkt. 15c. 
ASCLEPIAS TUBEROSA—*ecrbdx(2-3)25. Clustered. flowers 
of richest flaming orange. Long in bloom. Fullest hardi- 
ness. Makes slender tuberous roots. Illustrated page 60. 
Pkt. 10c; 2/16 oz. 25c; % oz. 40c; %4 oz. T5c. (Tubers, each 
20c; 3 for 50c; 10 for $1.50; 25 for $3.40.) 
ARISTEA or BLUE-BRILLIANT 
Vivid coerulean intensities from the Cape of Good Hope. 
Hardy South, but in the North best grown in pots, the pots 
plunged in the garden-border for summer flowering. The 
plants may be carried over winter in a light cellar, keeping 
them in a half-dormant state with just an occasional scant 
watering. Aristea grows readily from seed, and will make 
striking showing, great sheaves of indigo bloom. ebk(w): 
Two species available, both scintillant blue. «CAPITATA— 
to four feet, very long blooming season. Pkt. 15c; special 
large pkt. 35ec. ECKLONI—to 15 inches. This species tol- 
erates shade and prefers fairly heavy, moist soil. Pkt. 
15c; special pkg. 35c. 
THE ASPHODELS 
Exotic plants, winter-hardy bulb-like perennials in the 
general Lily persuasion, coming mostly from the sun-reflect- 
ing, ledge-raftered hillsides that border the Mediterranean. 
For happiness, then, their own and yours, give them here 
sun-drenched place, with drainage super-good. 
ASPHODELUS ALBUS—bkt(2-3)48. Branching White As- 
phodel. Good species for the hardy mixed border. Pkt. 15c. 
ASPHODELINE BREVICAULIS—erbkt(3)28. Flowers of 
largest size, deep yellow, openly spaced and starry, are car- 
ried in loose panicles. Syria. Plants only, young one-year, 
each 25c; 3 for 70c. 
ASPHODELINE BALANSAE—bkt(2)45. An Asphodel in 
effect of pink-toned silver. Solidly built spikes spring from 
fountain rosettes of silver-swished grass-like foliage. Starry, 
silvery flowers, each petal with a golden brown center line 
that shows in the bud as well as in the open blossom. The 
flowers carry a suggestion, the merest suffusion-hint of pink 
about them. JIilustrated page 26. Pkt. 15c. (Plants, each 
35c; 3 for $1.00.) 
ASPHODELINE LUTEA—eckt(2-3)60. Golden Asphodel of 
the ancients. Sometimes called King’s Spear. It is a fully 
hardy tuberous-rooted perennial of quite splendid effect when 
its towering spires of crowded golden stars are showing. 
Even the twisted, silver-dusted rosettes are handsome. JIJilus- 
trated page 10. Pkt. 15c. (Plants, 30c each.) 
ASPHODELINE LIBURNICA — erkt(2-3)20. A miniature 
Asphodel for the rock garden. Airily graceful. Wide stars of 
butter yellow, with buff stains. Pkt. 15c. 
ASPHODELUS RAMOSUS—bkt.(3)60. Large white flowers, 
brown-lined, carried in long, dense racemes. It can be spec- 
tacular. Pkt. 1lb5c. 
OFFER 43A22—One pkt. each of above for 60c. 
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BABIANA 
Gay little South African bulb-flowers. They grow readily 
from seeds, and seedlings will bloom within the year. In 
the North it is usual to handle them as pot bulbs to blossom 
during the winter months, giving them Freesia culture, but 
they may also be grown out-of-doors by covering well with 
a thick mulching of straw or leaves in winter. Perhaps 
best out-door position for them in the North vis against a 
foundation wall with a heated basement back of it. There 
they will persist, and bloom charmingly, for years. Seeds 
may be sown in outside beds in early spring, or. indoors at 
any time of year. Jllustrated page 15. Mixed~colors, blue, 
through indigo, to pansy purple, with white, mauve, cream 
and yellow. Pkt. 15c; 4/1e oz. 40c. (Bulbs, September de- 
livery, splendid mixture, 4 for 25c; 10 for 50c. Azure Blue, 
same price, but other colors not available separately.) 
THE ORNAMENTAL BANANA 
The true Banana (Musa) may be easily used for spectacu- 
lar decorative effects out-of-doors in the North; making an 
exotic but most pleasing showing. At Old Orchard we have — 
had them reach a full ten feet of height in’ a summer, 
great sweeps of breéeze-rustling soft green leafage, arching 
leaf-fans that soon become myriad streamer-banners. In late 
autumn the plants may be dug, cut off a few inches above the 
ground, and the enlarged root portion, or “bulb,’? packed — 
upright in sand, and so left until well-warmed ‘spring calls 
it to the open ground again. We offer it in seeds, and that’s 
one easy way to get it, except that it takes a year longer — 
than when you buy ‘the bulbs already grown. Seed germin- 
ates readily, sown “at any time of year under® glass, and 
remember that doesn’t necessarily mean a greenhouse, for 
a flower-pot on a window-sill is under glass, too. You can 
even sow it in outside shaded seed-beds in early spring, 
transplanting to pdts in the fall, and growing it as a 
house-plant during the winter. Then in spring, you can 
remove it from the pot, and plant it outside. Seeds, Musa 
species (unidentified, but good, being likely Musa superba), 
10 seeds for 25c; 50 for $1.00; 100 for $1.75. BANANA 
BULBS—We also offer Banana, the Orinoco Variety, in 
bulb-like near-dormant plants, each of which will look, when 
you receive it, like a big roll of dead leaves, but plant it 
out nevertheless, and you will get a Jack-and-the-beanstalk 
surprise, so speedy its growing. Not truly a bulb, but it 
handles as one. Offered for late April and May delivery 
at $1.25 each, 3 for $3.50. Due to size of this item, we pre- 
fer to send it by express. If you instruct us ‘to send by 
mail, we can do so, but in that case will you please double 
the allowance for postage that we specify on page one as 
required on plant and bulb shipments to your area. You 
will be credited with any unused excess. : 

To the gardener, the impish, piquant charm of a 
Johnny-jump-up may mean more than all the bland, 
lack-character handsomeness of the 
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