DAHLBERG DAISY—See Golden-fleece. 
DATURA METELOIDES—eobx(38-4)25. Giant trumpets that 
open softest roseate lavender, becoming gradually white. 
Whole plant is silvered with down. A splendid species to 
tat any garden. Pkt. 10c; % oz. 20c; % oz. 35c; 1 oz. 
1.00. 
DATURA CHLORANTHA—ebx(3)40. Trumpets of most in- 
tense doubleness, trumpet within trumpet, within trumpet, 
within trumpet, to possible final limit of space. Color ranges 
from soft cream, through primrose, to deep buff yellow. At- 
tractive. Pkt. 15c; % oz. 30c. 
DIDISCUS COERULEUS—See Blue Lace Flower. 
RAPID CELANDINE 
Great petal flakes, satin of imperial yellow, showers of 
them should surely have heen strewn before the dragon- 
throne; it is so that Dicranostigma Franchettianum, Rapid 
Celandine, shares each day’s glory of blossoming. Every 
breeze will fill your garden with this airy treasure. Above 
jagged leaves, white-marbled on green, comes a tangle of 
slender branching that fills, day after day, week after 
week, indeed month after month, with big four-petalled 
blossoms all of a golden silkiness. Be sure to sow much 
of this, but be sure, too, that the sowing is made early 
while the soil is still cool. “kt”? culture. Illustrated page 21. 
From Himalayan hills. Pkt. 15¢c; 1/32 oz. 30c; 4/16 oz. 50c. 
THE RAINBOW PINKS 
They are Dianthus, too, these gay Annual Pinks in rain- 
bow-painted hues, but patterned so fantastically, in such 
bizarre grotesqueries, that surely never a sober Rainbow 
could own to them. For long summer weeks, near to, but 
not quite, from frost to frost, they spread their intricately 
labyrinthed color brilliancies. Though there will be lovely 
selfs in utmost white, in pinks, salmons, scarlets and crim- 
son, it is the multitudes of others, with their contrasting 
edgings, lacings, splashings and zonings that interest so 
endlessly. Among them one might find two alike, but that 
would be seldom coincidence. .Superlative of Annual Pinks is 
the strain that we offer as DIANTHUS GIANTS OF ENG- 
LAND, flowers of full doubleness and of truly gigantic size; 
we have not seen any that surpassed them in this, nor in 
range and beauty of colorings and hue application. The 
Giants of England Pinks can be the glory of your annual 
garden. Sorry that stock of them is still limited, so that 
we cannot this year supply more than 4 ounce to any. one 
customer. Seeds of DIANTHUS GIANTS OF ENGLAND, 
pkt. 20c; 4/16 oz. 385¢c; 1% oz. 60ce. 
ANNUAL DIANTHUS NAMED SORTS—Use them for easy, 
long and brilliant color spreads. VESUVIUS, fire-vivid, un- 
marked single, none brighter, pkt. 10c; % oz. 20c. SNOW- 
BALL, very large, fully double snow-white, petals fringed, 
pkt. 10c, 4% oz. 20c. PINK BEAUTY, soft pure pink, fully 
double, pkt. 10c, 4% oz. 25c.. MOURNING CLOAK, black- 
mahogany, each petal edged white, double. Pkt. 10c; 4 0z. 
20c. OFFER 19A12—One pkt. each of four for 35c. 
DIANTHUS OLD ORCHARD ANNUALS—Blossoms run 
from immense singles with long fringed slashings, to others 
of intense doubleness. It is a mixture inclusive for beauty 
to the extent of our abilities to make it so. ecbx(8)12. Pkt. 
10c; %4 oz. 25c¢ 
DIMORPHOTHECA PEERLESS BLEND 
Sometimes they are called African Daisy, and the flowers 
are daisies surely enough, great long-petalled daisies in 
rare tones of apricot, salmon, ecru, copper, rosy suffusions, 
rich orange, varied yellows, pure white, or sometimes pale 
tintings with zoned bandings of midnight blue. Excellent 
foliage. ecrbx(3-4)12. Full sun. Pkt. 10c; 1/16 oz. 25c. 
DIMORPHOTHECA VARIETIES—SALMON BEAUTY— 
Rose-suffused salmon. Pkt. 10c; % oz. 25e. SINUATA— 
Dwarf, spreading, handsome; flowers of glossy rich orange. 
Pkt. 15e. ECKLONIS—Big white blossoms with purple eye 
and blue reverse. Cuts well. Pkt. 15¢c. GOLDEN WEST— 
Bright golden yellow. Pkt. 10¢; % oz. 20c. ANNUA 
RINGENS—Glistening white with a blue-ringed yellow cen- 
ter. Pkt. 15c; 4/16 oz. 25e. LEMON QUEEN—Lemon yellow, 
with violet basal zone. Pkt. 15c; 1/16 oz. 25ec. OFFER 
20A12—One pkt. each of the six for 60c. 
DRACOCEPHALUM MOLDAVICA WHITE—ex(3)18. A 
pleasant annual of quick and easy showing. The curiously 
formed pure white flowers are carried in fairly long, one- 
sided racemes. Aromatic. Pkt. 10c; \%& oz. 20c. 



DIPSACUS SYLVESTRIS AZUREUS—ecbnx (2-3) 60. Grea i 
Blue Teasel. It can be strikingly garden decorative in its 
own large and somewhat devastating way, for there ig 
rather of a stateliness about it, and the big, oddly formed _— 
flowerheads show as pure blue-azure. Later, _the dried — 
seed-heads may be used in winter bouquets, giving quaint — 
Makart effects. It’s most easily grown, but at this point we 
shall have to confess that it is no annual at all, a biennial 
rather. Funny how that word “biennial’’ seems to scare . 
gardeners, yet all it means is that one sows the seeds for 
next summers flowers in August, or thereabout, instead:of 
in the April or May that follows. It becomes then just a 
“spread the work’? device on the part of nature that surely — 
every good union man should approve. Pkt. 10c; 1% oz. 20c. rs 
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 is notable that most of those who see it in flower for 
the first time seem to think it must be some new hardy 
perennial. Illustrated page 22. Pkt. 10c; \% oz. 30c; % oz. 
50c; 1 oz. $1.75. 
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 
white flowers, defer judgment until you have seen these. 
Pkt. 20c. me, 
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ECCREMOCARPUS SCABER—ebtk (w) (3-4)112. Glory-vine. - 
Sprays of charming tubular lobed blossoms that are usually 
vivid orange, but can be anything from golden yellow, to — Fie 
carmine or scarlet. It comes from Chile, and may be han- ¥ 
dled as a perennial in mild climates, for it is almost hardy. 2 
In the North, though, it is safest not to trust to this, but 
instead to grow. it as an annual. Sown early, it will flower 
freely the first year. Pkt. 15c. a 
ERYTHRAEA BEYRICHI—rkt(2-3)12. The delightful “Rose 
Gentian” is loaded through late spring and early summer 
with inch-wide starry flowers of purest pink. Sow where cM 
it 1s to stand, in late autumn or earliest possible springs) ee 
Hard to transplant. Botanically a Centaurium. Pkt. l5c. 
ESCHSCHOLTZIA (California Poppy) 
Sow them right where you want the flowers, any good 
soil in full sun, and you will have a glorious showing all _ 
summer long. This is our carefully considered selection of 
the seven best varieties. AUTUMN GLORY—Brilliant 
orange-crimson, coppery orange within. Pkt. 10c; oz. 25c. 
BUFF PINK—The name describes the color. eset frilled. 
Pkt. 10c; i oz. 25c. CARMINE QUEEN—Flowers are 
double, ranging from bright rosy pink to carmine. Pkt. 10c; 
Y% oz. 25c. _CREAMY CRINKLES—Double blossoms of soft. 
creamy apricot. Petals crinkled and silky. Exquisite. Pkt. 
15c; 4/16 oz. 50c. FIRE FLAME—Erect, compact. Vivid 
orange scarlet flowers; foliage silvery blue. Splendid kind.. 
Pkt. 10c; ¥% oz. 25c. GOLDEN ROD—Very large blossoms. 
of richest golden tone. Erect. Silvery foliage. Pkt. 10c;: 
Ye oz. 25e. RAMONA-—Metallic copper-gold with pink. 
tones. Heavily frilled. Pkt. 10c; %% oz. 20c. ( 
OFFER 21A12—One pkt. each of above for 60c. 
ESCHSCHOLTZIA SUPERBLEND—We make it up oure- 
selves, from. the newer and better named varieties. All the: 
above _are included, together with others. Many double-. 
flowering sorts are here, and, too, we have used a bik of’ 
the wonderful Monarch Art Strain. Pkt. 10c; % oz. 20c;: 
% oz. 35c; 1 oz. $1.00. 
ESCHSCHOLTZIA FOR BROADCASTING—No better- way’ 
to splash color about in sunny places, than to sow this. 
widely. It is the variety Aurantiaca, deep golden yellow,. 
and it will adjust itself to varying conditions, doing well. 
with a minimum of soil preparaton. Once started, it will. 
naturalize, maintaining itself from year to year through: 
its own sowings. % oz. 10c; 1 oz. 30c; % Ib. $1.00, 
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