THE ANNUAL INCARVILLEA 
Blossoms that are widely flaring, lobed trumpets, rather 
of Gloxinia form, are carried gracefully in long succession 
on many swaying wands of stems. The coloring may be 
cream, pale pink, or at times a suffused blending of the 
tones. The flowers are about 11%4 inches wide, just under 
two inches in length. The foliage is fine, bipinnate or 
even further cut, more or less what most of us call fern- 
like, and the several bloom-bearing stems may reach 30 
inches of height. Sown fairly early where plants are to 
stand, flowering should begin in early July. For a still 
longer season, start early under glass, as you might Asters 
or Scarlet Sage, transplant to open as soon as weather is 
warm, and you can have plants in full bloom in May.~ In 
either instance, the bloom will be unceasing all through 
summer and fall, at least until past middle of October. In 
mild climates, and with care in protecting, the plants can 
be carried over winter, for this is actually a perennial, 
though a somewhat tender one. It’s easier, though, to 
forget all that, and consider and handle it as a rather 
new and very lovely annual. It comes from China, and 
botanists know it as Incarvillea variabilis. Pkt. 20c. 
(8 pkts. for 50c.) 
MADIA ELEGANS 
It is one of the Daisies, one of the better Daisies, flowers 
about an inch across, practically all of this being feathery, 
three-cleft petalage, only the tiniest of centers. The petals 
are rich butter-yellow, each with a base-blotch of autumn 
red-brown, that together form a ring. The flowers are 
carried in clusters on branched, three-foot plants. Madia 
elegans blossoms well and grows well in either sun or 
shade, but if you grow it in full sun the flowers will be 
open only in the early forenoon and late afternoon, closing 
during the long bright mid-day period, while in shade they 
will usually stay open right through. Easy culture. Pkt. 
15c (3 pkts. for 40c). Illustrated below. 
SOUTHERN 
STAR 
Painted peacock 
blue, a most un- 
usual blue of sil- 
ver-veiled pastel 
quality, are the 
inch-wide stars of 
Oxypetalum caerul- 
leum. The _ color- 
ing really does look 
as though it had 
been painted on; 
and the _ flowers 
really are stars, 
each with five pet- 
al-points; and they 
are carried in cyme- 
clusters so that 
whole constellations 
of them are open 
at once, giving de- 
lightful effects. It 
is from the south, 
almost the farther- 
est south, from far 
down Argentine 
way. The plants 
grow to 15 inches, 
then arch over as the upfacing flowers appear. 
It is in 
bloom for months, this year at Old Orchard never a pause 
from early June into mid-October. It is still rather rare, 
seen, although not often, in some conservatory collections. 
It makes a splendid pot plant, and in England can only 
be so grown. By careful field tests we have determined 
that under our American climatic conditions the Southern 
Star (Oxypetalum caeruleum) handles with full facility as 
an outdoor annual flower, seed germinating quickly, plants 
growing strongly and blooming long and freely right out 
in the summer garden. Illustrated in front cover. Pkt. 20c 
(8 pkts. for 50c). 
WILD FLOWERS OF THE WORLD 
Here in one great blend are about 100 different and de- 
lightful wild flowers of the world, mostly of North Amer- 
ica, and your own favorites are pretty sure to be included. 
‘Some will come easily and quickly, some very slowly, but 
patience should give you a wonderful showing. The better 
the soil preparation, the better the results. %% oz. 25c; 
% oz. 40c; 1 oz. $1.25; %4 Ib. $4.40; 1 Ib. $15.50. 

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LAVENDER 
GLOBE-LILY 
A glory of 
autumn, of early 
autumn, for all 
through September 
and far into Oc- 
tober the great, 
fluffy flower-globes 
show. Each is built 
of myriad _ close+ 
packed flower stars 
in the purest of 
tlean, cool lavenders, 
the clusters topping 
slender two-foot 
stems. A_ soundly 
hardy and _. long- 
lived perennial, 
making big clumps 
that become foun- 
tains of showy 
bloom, giving mag- 
nificent effects. 
Makes an_ excele- 
lent, long-lasting 
cut flower. This is 
Allium tanguticum, 
illustrated opposite. 
Culture ‘“‘kt’’. Pkt. 
15c; 1/16 oz. 35c; % oz. 60c. 
THE BABY SALVIA 
A very different Salvia, and a very likeable one, is the 
rare little Mexican species, Salvia microphylla, formerly 
confused with the larger, looser Salvia Grahami, from 
which species, though, it is definitely distinct. Perhaps best 
way to remember it is as The Baby Salvia, for that name 
fits it well. It is really a delightful kind, a tight, com- 
pact grower, the many close, upright stems densely piled 
with leaves that are such a dark, rich green that they 
hint of black, though with a sun-reflecting sheen to them. 
The buds are subtended by white bracts that drop as the 
flowers open. The blossoms are of a charming coral-rose 
coloring with something of carmine suffusion, the calyx 
brown. The combination of white-bracted buds, carmine- 
toned bloom, and the rich dark emerald of the foliage, 
is most attractive. 16 inches is the usual height of the 
plants, and they grow very evenly, uniform as to both 
height and width. Sow the seed where it is to stand 
and plants should be flowering before mid-July, con- 
tinuing then in constant show until late in autumn. As 
this is written, on October the 26th, our plants at Old 
Orchard are still in full bloom, show no cold injury at 
all. By starting earlier, sowing in a frame or the like, 
and then transplanting, you may begin their blooming 
a month or six weeks sooner. Salvia microphylla has 
been considered a house or conservatory plant in the 
North, we so first introduced it, and it really does make 
a fine pot plant, flowering through much of the year; 
yet there is no real reason why it should not likewise 
be grown in gardens. All you have to do there is give 
it the usual treatment of Annuals, for surely it is just 
as easy to handle it so as it is to grow Zinnia, or the 
usual Scarlet Sage. Pkt. 20c; 3 pkt. for 50c. 
CENTAUREA BABYLONICA 
The stately Corn-flower of Babylon. Silver-leafed pillars 
to eight feet of height, set closely with golden tassel-blos- 
soms. Easy, hardy perennial of unusual effect. Long- 
lived. Illustrated front cover. Pkt. 15c (3 for 40c). 
THE PINE-APPLE LILY 
From Southeastern Africa comes Eucomis undulata, an 
easy bulb of threefold delight: first in foliage, wide, suc- 
culent, crimped and frilled at edge, flaring in graceful 
simulation of Birdsnest fern; then in the tight, thick 
spikes of flowers, cream with suffusion of elfin green; 
finally the same spikes in the seed stage, crowded capsules 
hidden in wide, green, foliage-bracts, crowned with a big 

leaf-rosette, the whole looking for all the world like a 
green pine-apple. May be grown as Gladiolus, storing 
bulbs in winter, or handled as a pot plant. Seedlings 
usually take three years to reach blooming size, but they 
are no loss meanwhile, for the nests of undulate, semi- 
succulent leaves will pay their keep in their own decora- 
tive effect. Seed germinates easily. Pkt. 20c; 8 for 50ce. 
(A limited number of bulbs, second-year seedlings that run 
% to 1% inch diameters are available, at each 85c; 8 
for $1.00. Spring delivery.) 
