O. imbricata Tree Cactus. Unfailing attraction. 
Purple carmine blossoms. 25c; 3, 60c. 
O. polyacantha Many-spined Prickly Pear. 4” or 
larger sections; 4’’ silken vellow blooms. 25c; 3, 60c. 
O. rhodantha Like polyacantha but blossoms are a 
gorgeous carmine rose; June. 35c; 3, 90c. 
O. humifusa Sections often 5 to 6”, spines fewer; 
largest of silken yellow flowers, red filaments; late 
June. Ripe pears dark red, showy. 25c; 3, 60c. 
SHRUBS 
Of this brief list of Great Plains shrubs, which 
provide an innovation in this catalog, three are 
showy flowered, while the others possess architect- 
ural and color values and good all-season appear- 
ance. 
Amorpha canescens Lead Plant. Low gray velvety 
effect, with orange-dotted purple fingers of blossom; 
June, July. Usually 12 to 25”. 75c. 
Artemisia cana Rather stiff erect gray bush, to 2 
or 3’. Leaves lance-linear, 1 to 114’. 60c. 
A. filifolia Sand Sage. Handsome, waving, silvery, 
much branched low plant, commonly 2 to 3’. 50c. 
A. tridentata Sagebrush. Blue silvered, three-tip- 
ped little leaves, rather erect bushy plant. At its 
eastern range limit, about twenty miles west of 
Prairie Gem Ranch, heights vary from 1 to 3’. 75c. 
Atriplex canescens Salt Bush. Gray green in branch 
and leaf, a broad much branched bush; to 24’. 60c. 
Cercocarpus montanus Mountain Mahogany. Very 
slow growing. Generally erect, texture effect light, 
in shrubbery groups pleasing. Little toothed leaves 
slightly grayish; blossoms interesting, seed plumes 
Silvery silky, reflecting light. To 8’. $1.00. 
Chryscothamnus graveolens Large Rabbit Brush. 
Fine textured plump bush of bright green, to 3’ or 
so, every upper branch tip carrying a head of Gold- 
enrod-like blossoms in September. 50c. 
Eurotia lanata White Sage. A Sagey appearing 
plant of whitish effect, holding its leaves well into 
the winter, and adding white bract tufts in fall. 35c. 
Rhus trilobata Lemonade Sumach. Spreading or 
more erect bush, usually 2 to 5’, moderately dense, 
dark green. Dark red fruit clusters sometimes 
showy, autumn leaf coloring magnificent. 50c. 
Rose W. J. Fargo Named for the discoverer by Dr. 
N. E. Hansen. A double wild rose of many petals 
and beautiful form; wild rose pink. The blossoms 
come in clusters but open over a long period, an 
average plant producing two hundred or more. Plant 
slender stemmed, 24’ high or less. Each $2.00. 
FOR GARDENS IN HALF SHADE and movcerately 
rich soil, well drained, are: Agastache anethiodora, 
Allium cernuum, Anemone patens, Antennarias 
aprica, campestris and microphylla, Asters meritus 
and ptarmicoides, Campanula petiolata, Cerastium 
strictum, Clematis tenuiloba, Dodecatheon pauci- 
florum, Fritillaria atropurpurea, Iris missouriensis, 
Liatris ligulistylis, Lithophragma parviflora, Pen- 
stemon gracilis, Phloxes alyssifolia, hoodi and 
scleranthifolia, Thalictrum venulosum and, excent- 
ing nuttalli, all the Violets. Much sun, however, with 
reasonable moisture is equally agreeable to these 
shade tolerant kinds. 
