GYPSOPHILA or BABY BREATH 
Of high value for cutting, alone or with other flowers. 
Quick and easy. Make succession sowings. ecbx. See page 
52 for hardy perennial Gypsophilas. 
GYPSOPHILA ELEGANS WHITE—Pure white, large-flow- 
ered. Pkt. 5c; 44 oz. 15c; 1 oz. 40e. 
GYPSOPHILA ELEGANS ROSY PINK—Like last, save 
color, that a charming pink-rose. Pkt. 10c; 4 pkts. for 30c; 
10 for 65c. 
GYPSOPHILA ELEGANS SCARLET—New color, deep and 
rich. Pkt. 10c; 4 pkts. for 30c; 10 for 65c. 
STRAWFLOWER or HELICHRYSUM 
If you like everlastings, strawflowers that you can dry 
for winter bouquets, then you should grow these brilliantly 
hued annual Helichrysums. We offer a fine mixture of them 
that will give big double flowers in varied tones of yellow, 
orange, copper, silvery pink, rose, white, red and _ violet. 
Easy if sown early. ecbk(3)36. Pkt. 10c; % oz. 20c; 
Y% oz. 35c. 
HELICHRYSUM SEPARATE COLORS—Following colors 
can be supplied separately at uniform price of pkt. 10c; 
4 oz. 25e: Searlet, Canary Yellow, Rose, Salmon, Soft Pink 
and Violet. One pkt. each of the six for 45¢c. Order as 
OFFER 23A12. 
Understanding comes in the garden. | 
HEBENSTREITIA COMOSA—ecbx(3-5)25. For those who 
like sweet perfumes. The fragrance during the day is deli- 
cate and light, but as dusk falls it becomes richer, heavier, 
more in exotic reminder. The blossoms, individually tiny, 
white with orange markings, are carried closely in long 
slender spikes. From South Africa. Pkt. 15c. 
HELIOTROPE FINE HYBRIDS —*ecbx(w). Perfumed 
beauty. Flowers in shades of lilac, blue, violet, and rich 
purple. For summer bedding or winter pot plants. Pkt. 
15c; 8 pkts. for 40c; 8 for 90c. 
HETEROPAPPUS' HISPIDUS-—cbkt(3-4)25. Pretty blue 
daisy, yellow-centered, for summer cutting. Pkt. 15c. 
HETEROTHECA SUBAXILLARIS—enbdkt(4-5)40. One of 
the better of the ‘‘Golden Asters,’’ simulating in form ef- 
fect, but not in color, the purple New England and other 
true Asters of Autumn. In Heterotheca the flowers are 
glistening golden yellow, Aster-daisies of good size and 
form, each with a double row of petals. Exceedingly showy 
and floriferous, August to October. It likes full sun, en- 
durés drought, and will maintain itself and slowly spread 
when naturalized as a wild flower in old fields or the like. 
Its best, and major use, will, though, be always as a 
garden flower. Sow it freely; and don’t. think you are 
getting a mixture when you open your packet, for each 
head bears naturally two quite different kinds of seed. Pkt. 
10c; 1/16 oz. 20c; % oz. 35c; % oz. 60c. 
THE ANNUAL HIBISCUS 
It is Hibiscus trionum, illustrated on page 21. The blossoms 
are great ivory-hued cups, patched with violet, and with 
center tassel of stamens and golden anthers. The plants 
grow to 30 inches, with wide decumbent branchings at the 
base. Easy to grow, comes into bloom quickly, and stays a 
mass of flowers until well into autumn. Pkt. 10c; % oz. 25c. 
HIBISCUS MANIHOT—ebk(4)50. Immense flowers of soft 
yellow, crimson-centered. Pkt. 10c. 
| Peru and Persia may meet in the garden. 
ANNUAL HOLLYHOCK INDIAN SPRING — ebk(3-4)60. 
Big semi-double flowers, well-fringed, in varied pink, rose 
and carmine. Annual in the sense that it will flower freely 
first year if sown early, but it will live over winter, too. 
Pkt. 15¢c; 4/16 oz. 25c. 
HONEST Y—ecbstx(3)30. Lunaria annua. Fairly large flow- 
ers of rich deep purple in spring. Then come flattened 
seed-pods with thin, translucent center partitions that make 
most attractive winter decorations. If sown in very early 
spring, will usually flower and fruit first season, or sow it 
in September and you will be very sure of a full showing 
the next year. Pkt. 10c; 1% oz. 20c. 


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APALLEUME: 
OREOPRHILUM 
‘CALLIRHOE 
’ RPAPAVER 

HUMULUS JAPONICUS—ek. The variegated leaf Japan — 
Hop, an attractive, quick-growing summer vine, standing 
heat well. Heavy foliage. Pkt. 10c. 
HUNNEMANNIA FUMARIAEFOLIA—edx(3)24. Gold-cup 
Satiny yellow Poppy-flowers. Full sun. Pkt. 10e. 
HYPERICUM GENTIANOIDES—erndkt (3-4) 16. Little Broom- 
Jike annual with almost invisible leaves, but whole thickets 
of wiry stems filled with small buff-yellow rotate flowers, 
these followed by as decorative maroon-red capsules. For 
dry; sunny places. Must be sown early. Pkt. 10c; 1/16 
oz. 25c. 
ICEPLANT—ergx. Thick, twisting leaves, set all over 
with drops of crystal-gum that sparkle in the sun as 
though each were a frozen dewdrop. Edgings, ground 
cover, window box or rock-garden. Tinted flowers. Mesem- 
bryanthemum crystallinum. ~-Pkt. 10c. 
AN ANNUAL IRIS—It is Iris dichotoma, the Vesper Iris.: 
This Iris, though a long-enduring perennial, is yet so quick 
from seed that it can be treated as an annual. To do 
that, the seeds must be sown at the first moment in_ the 
spring that the soil is in shape. So sown, the seedlings 
will be’ giving flowers by September, and will then bloom 
for a full six weeks. An exquisite, jewel-like beauty. See 
‘page 17. for full description. Jilustrated page 55. Pkt. 10c; 
1% oz. 20c; % oz. 35ce. 
ISATIS BOISSERIANA — ebkt(2-3)25. Turkestan Woad. 
Blue-glaucous foliage, with wide canopies of little yellow 
blossoms above. Attractive both in flower, and later when 
the blossoms have been followed by the long-hanging black 
seeds. Sow very early; may even be sown previous autumn 
(a good trick if you can turn it). Pkt. 10c; 1/16 oz. 20c. 
KOCHIA GIANT VARIETY—ebx(9)36. Speedy annual that 
resembles: a dense formal evergreen. Fine for quick hedge 
effects. .Turns red in fall. Pkt. 5c; % oz. 25c. 
IPOMOEA 
IPOMOEA: CRASSICAULIS — ebk(3)36. Bush Moonflower. 
Clustered flowers of attractive Cosmos-pink, carried on erect 
stems. Definitely not a vine. Handles well as an annual, 
and it is worth growing. Rare. 10 seeds for 25c. 
IPOMOEA GRANDIFLORA—kt. True White Moonflower. 
Fragrant giant flowers that open in the evening. A vine. 
Calonyction aculeatum. Pkt. 10c; 4 oz. 25c. 
IPOMOEA EARLY HEAVENLY BLUE—ek. Enormous 
flowers of bright sky blue. A splendid vine. This is Clarke’s _ 
Early-blooming Selection. Pkt. 10c; ™%4 oz. 30ce. 
IPOMOEA CRIMSON RAMBLER—k. A particularly vigor- 
ous, free blooming annual vine. Big flowers of rich ruby red 
with contrasting white throat. Pkt. 10c; %4 oz. 35c¢. 
IPOMOEA IMPERIAL GIANTS—ek(w). Giants here, noth- 
ing larger in Morning Glories. Wide color range, pure and 
blush whites, pink, rose, sky blue, purple, varied reds, choco- 
late and the like, all in amazing combinations of contrast- 
ing margins and flakings. Pkt. 10c; 3 for 25c. 
OFFER. 24A12—One pkt. each of the above for 55e. 
