PERICOME CAUDATA—ebk(5)40. Big bushy plants, many 
willowy stems, sheaves of them, set with arrow-shaped 
leaves. Blooming starts in early September and continues 
for two months, a vast number of pretty little flowers, each 
a fluffy golden disk, carried in airy cyme-sprays. Pkt. 15c. 
PHACELIA BLEND—ANNUAL BLUEBELLS—erbx (1-2) 15. 
Gaudy fiowers of blue to purple, colorings laid on with 
intensity, but varying to white or lavender. Blossoms are 
wide saucer-bells that unroll in crosier-sprays. Pkt. 10c. 
POLYGONUM CAPITATUM—ergkt(3-5)5. Fluffy little blos- 
som-globes of soft pink, just over flat mats of red-and-green 
foliage. Easy, and rather good. Pkt. 15c; 3 for 40c. 
POLYGONUM TINCTORUM—ebx(8)30. Bright rose flowers 
in many spikes. Maroon-shaded, semi-succulent foliage. An 
easy and rather good annual. Pkt. 10c; 4% oz. 20c. 
RHODANTHE MIXED—cbk(3)20. Pretty Australian Straw- 
flower. Silky petals. White, pink, red. Dried for winter 
bouquets. Helipterum. Pkt. 10c. 
PHLOX EASY ANNUAL 
_As easy and as long summer-bright as ever an annual 
may be, are these gay Phlox-flowers. 
PHLOX THE RADOWITZ—ecbx(8)18. Blossoms of bril- 
liant rose are splashed with purest white, as through great 
flakes from the first snowfall of winter had fluttered down. 
It’s tall enough for cutting, and the bloom-mantling is 
continuous, June until November. Pkt. 15c; 4/16 oz. 40c. 
PHLOX SALMON GLORY—ecx(8)12. Pure salmon pink 
with creamy white eye. Extraordinarily large flowers car- 
ried in massive trusses. Pkt. 15c; 1/i6 oz. 40c. 
PHLOX ROSY MORN—Blossoms of gayest, brightest rose, 
centered with evenly cut creamy eye. The flowers, well- 
grown, will be as large as silver half-dollars (the pre-war, 
pre-inflation kind, of course). Pkt. 15c; 1/16 oz. 40c. 
PHLOX ART GIANTS—Individual flowers of great size, 
up to 11% inches diameter, in massive trusses on nine-inch 
plants. Pastel harmonies, salmon with creamy eye, apple- 
blossom tints, soft rose, pale blue with white eye, delicate 
mauve and others as pleasing. Pkt. 15c; 4% oz. 40c. 
PHLOX STARRED AND FRINGED—ecx(8)12. The petals 
are oddly pointed, slashed, fringed. Splendid mixture of 
gay colorings. Pkt. 10c; %& oz. 25e; 4% oz. 40c. 
PHLOX DWARF COMPACT MIXED—ex(8)6. Dwarf group 
bie ai one bedding or edging. Fine mixture. Pkt. 10c;3 
R OZ. c. 
PHLOX BEAUTY BLEND—ex(8)15. Unsurpassed in wide 
color range. Pkt. 10c; % oz. 25e; % oz. 40e. 
ANNUAL PHLOX BEAUTIES BY COLOR—Each 10c the 
pkt.; 1/16 oz. 25c. Apricot Pink, Ruby, Primrose, Violet, 
Giant White, Rose. One pkt. each of the six, OFFER 
385A12, for 45c. 
BRILLIANT ANNUAL POPPIES 
Gifted with all the gay hues of the Land of Oz, the 
Annual Poppies will make your garden, any garden any- 
where, into a Place of Enchantment almost by the wave 
of a hand; that quite literally if the wave is in spring, the 
hand carries their seeds. SUN-POPPY—Here is a child of 
the sun-drenched hills, summer-dry, that slope to the Med- 
iterranean; let it set your own banks aglow. Long show 
of richest apricot orange petalage on high slender stems, 
over feathered foliage. (Papaver pinnatifidum). Pkt. 10c; 
% oz. 20c; %4 oz. 35ec. SWEET BRIAR—Exquisite rose 
pink, flowers loosely double. A delight. Pkt. 10¢; 4 oz. 
25e. DAZZLER—Vividly hued fully double Shirley in bril- 
liant orange scarlet; give it a breath of breeze and it’s 
pulsating flame of distant night-seen fire. Pkt. 15¢; % oz. 
25c. PICOTEE—A single Shirley with petals of white satin, 
but each with narrow scarlet edging. Pkt. 10c; %4 oz. 25c. 
WILD SCARLET—Brightest scarlet cups. Flanders or Corn 
Poppy. It will naturalize. 41/16 oz. 10c; % oz. 35c; 1 oz. 60. 
OFFER 36A12—One pkt. each of the five for 45c. 
PORTULACA DOUBLE MIXED — ergx(8)5. Vivid little 
double ‘‘roses’’ all summer long, pink, red, white, salmon, 
yellow, buff, apricot, etc. A few flowers will be single. 
Succulent mats. Full sun. Pkt. 10c; 1/16 oz. 85¢c; 1%4 oz. 60c. 
REICHARDIA TINGITANIA—ebk(8)25. Golden orange are 
the flowers, fully double, with a richness of ruddy tones 
glowing through from _the red-orange petal bases. Blos- 
soms appear over a period of many months, a new lot each 
day, but by afternoon they have closed. From Morocco, 
more particularly from the Riff Hills. Pkt. 15ce. 
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PROBOSCIDEA or MARTYNIA 
Easy annuals with gorgeous flowers that have been likened 
to both Orchids and Gloxinias. Blossoms. shade from 
pink-tinged ivory to richest rose with burnished coppery 
barrings, or sometimes they are glossy gold, marked cin- 
nabar. Weird devil-claw pods. Sun-sparkling foliage. Mixed 
colors. Illustrated page 34. Pkt. 15c; 1% oz. 265c. se 
THE BABY ROSE—It is a true Rose, and like other Roses, 
a long-lived woody perennial; but it differs from other 
Roses in being so quick from seed that it can, if one wishes, 
be grown even as an annual. Seeds sown in open ground 
seed beds in March, will, conditions being right, produce 
plants that will bloom by late July. The plants are dwarf, 
compact, the flowers about an inch across, single, semi- 
double, or sometimes fully double. Colorings are mostly 
white, or in soft pink suffusions, but at times deep pink 
forms appear. Attractive as an edging, or can be grown 
as a pot plant. Pkt. 15c; special large pkg. 50c. 
RUDBECKIA HIRTA AVALON VARIETY — ecbx(2-3)36. 
Big, small-centered flowers that vary from palest primrose, 
through citron, to golden orange, each blossom widely 
zoned with chocolate brown or mahogany red. Some will be 
nearly all ruddy to richer autumn tones. Blooms quickly 
and easily first year, so ‘‘annual by courtesy.” Pkt. 10c. 
RUDBECKIA TRILOBA—ecnbx(3-4)36. Black-eyed Susan. 
Exceedingly bright, flowers of shining gold with almost 
coal-black cone-centers. Greatly floriferous. Pkt. 10c.. 
SABATIA ANGULARIS—rcbnkt(2-3)25. Alluring, perfumed 
loveliness in clearest of pinks, sometimes a hundred open 
blossoms at once. It’s a sort of annual pink Gentian, with 
all the Gentian charm. Sow in latest autumn or earliest 
spring. Pkt. 15c; special large pkg. 35c. 
THE VELVET FLOWER 
—And that’s another name for Salpiglossis, arith its wide. 
trumpets, velvety in texture, but colors laid in rich brocade 
simulations. It grows easily and cuts well. 
Splendid mixture. Pkt. 10c; 4% oz. 20c. 
SALPIGLOSSIS COLORS — Following separate varieties 
available at pkt. 10c; % oz. 25c: Brown and Gold, Velvet 
Black, Light Blue and Gold, Scarlet and Gold, Purple and 
Gold, Royal Crimson, Rich Yellow, Violet, Rose and Gold, 

* White and Gold. OFFER 42A12—One pkt. of each-for 75c. 
ANNUAL SALVIAS 
Eight fine kinds. ARGENTEA—rdk(9)6. Grown for the 
glorious silvery foliage rosettes, lovely beyond compare. Pkt. 
15e. CARDUACEA—kt(2)18. Fringed, undulate skyblue 
blossoms, carried in cushion-like whorls. Must be sown while 
soil is cool. Pkt. 15e. COCCINEA—ecbx(2-4)36. Long slen- 
der racemes of coral-tinged carmines. Pkt. 10c. HORMIN- 
IUM—erk(8)20. Floral leaves of richest blue-violet or of 
pretty rosy pink. Pkt. 10c. SPLENDENS BONFIRE—ebk 
(3-5)28. For months, great plumes of vivid fire-red blossom- 
ing. Brilliantly far-showy. Pkt. 15c; 1/16 oz. 30c. SPLEN- 
DENS SALMON QUEEN—Salmon pink. Pkt. 20c. FAR- 
INACEA BLUE BEDDER—Busbhy, sturdy. 25 inches. Flow- 
ers rich blue, foliage powdery. ‘Courtesy Annual.” Pkt. 
15¢c; 4/16 oz. 25c. SPLENDENS AMERICA—Brightest scar- 
let; taller than Bonfire, spikes longer. Pkt..15¢. OFFER 
387A12—One pkt. each of the eight for $1.00. 
SCABIOSA ANNUAL 
Pincushion Flower, or Mourning Bride. Our Giant Strain 
has flowers of marvelous size, greatly double, long in the 
stem, and in all the delightfully wide range of colorings 
and shadings that Scabiosas show. Many unusual tones. 
Order as SCABIOSA GIANT ANNUAL BLEND. Pkt. 10c; 
YZ oz. 20c; 4 oz. 30c; 1 oz. 90c. 
ANNUAL SCABIOSA BY COLOR—Each 10c the pkt.; 4 
oz. for 25c. Azure Blue, Sulphur Yellow, Black Maroon, 
Coral, Salmon Rose, Peach Blossom Pink, Scarlet, White. 
One pkt. each of the eight for 60c. Order as OFFER 38A12. 
SCABIOSA HEAVENLY BLUE—ecx(3-5)20. A sensational 
advance. Large, fully double blossoms with high centers, 
pure azure blue, are carried with great freedom on semi- 
dwarf, very compact plants. Pkt. 15c; % oz. 25e. 
SCHIZANTHUS BLENDED HYBRIDS—erx(2)18.  Exqui- 
site butterfly-blossoms in amazing profusion. White, pink, 
carmine and lavender, often yellow marked, in infinite sur- 
prise of shade and application. Pkt. 15c; 3 for 40c. 
SENECIO ARENARIUS—erdk(2-3)15. Annual Cineraria or 
Sand-daisy. Mauve-rose to violet. Sow early. Pkt. 15c. 

ecx (8-4) 30. 
