HIBISCUS AVALON HYBRIDS 
A new hybrid strain, crosses of Hibiscus 
cocecineus and Hibiscus militaris, that 1s yield- 
ing a whole new series of forms and colorings 
quite unlike anything seen before in hardy 
Hibiscus, and there are other good characters, 
too. Instance the long blooming habit, begin- 
ning when the usual Giant Hybrids of _the 
Mallow-marvel class are well on, but continu- 
ing for many weeks, indeed months, after the 
last petal of the older class has fallen. The 
new Avalon Hybrids are in bloom until Oc- 
tober. The habit is better than of the older 
group also, more upright, less sprawly, less 
dominant foliage, and excelling somewhat both 
in height and in resistance to winter cold. The 
flowers have a bit of bell shape about them, 
bells not too deep, and with a sudden wide 
flare. Colorings vary from the palest blush. 
through many pink shades, soft to deep, then 
into rose, culminating in reds of a rich vivid- 
ness never before seen in a hardy Hibiscus, 
shaming even the flaming satin of Hibiscus 
coecineus. Center eyes are uncommon here, but 
rather often one finds stains and suffusions of 
deeper colorings, as of rich rose or red over 
delicate pink ground. Such stainings are likely 
to be oddly unsymmetrical, up and down one 
edge only of each petal in rotate effect, or some- 
times at the petal tips. Foliage varies from 
plant to plant, as one might expect in a hy- 
brid strain, likely to be of halberd form, or 
digitate, but always the leaves are smaller, less 
obtrusive, than in the usual types. Seeds are 
fluffy, brown. A quick and easy kind; sow it 
fairly early and you are pretty sure to have 
some flowers first year. “x”? culture. Pkt. 
15c; 1/16 oz. 385c¢; % oz. 60ce. 
THREE EASIER GENTIANS 
Blue for Gentian, Gentian for blue, almost 
the words are synonyms, for where else may 
one find flower flasks and pitchers that over- 
flow with such ultramarine richness. Here are 
three Gentians for any garden, kinds not 
only of an attractiveness, but ones that will 
grow and thrive for any person who has a 
modicum of patience, and the ability to follow 
simple directions. The three are of full hardi- 
ness. All will succeed, other conditions right, 
in full sun, yet each of them will tolerate a 
bit of shade, too. They like deep rich soil 
and cool root runs, meaning that they will 
enjoy a straw or leaf mulching on the soil sur- 
face, to keep ground temperatures lower, and 
to help hold moisture. In drought, water so 
the roots are thoroughly reached, but have no 
continued sogginess. The seeds need cold, sow 
outside in beds late in autumn, or in flats or 
pots during winter, these being then placed 
outside, or otherwise sow at first possible spring 
moment in outdoor seedbed. Gentians bloom at 
one year, but increase in size and beauty for 
many years. GENTIANA PHLOGIFOLIA, the 
best bedder, prodigal of rich blue _ bloom. 
Flowers relatively small, but in great numbers. 
Rock garden, border. 15 inches. Mid-summer. Pkt. 15c; 
1/32 oz. 80c; 1/16 oz. 650c. GENTIANA SCABBRA 
BUERGERI—Clustered upfacing bells, five-lobed, in a 
particularly fine deep blue. Many out-spraying stems, up- 
turned at the flower cluster. 8 to 10 inches. September 
and October. Rock garden. A fine late-blooming Gentian. 
Pkt. 20c; (3 for 50c). GENTIANA ANDREWSI MIXED 
—Closed Gentian. Blossoms of an intense blue that is 
close to ultramarine. The form is somewhat flask-like, 
the tops closed, or practically so, and the flowers are 
carried in clusters in the leaf axils, each stem ending 
in a particularly large terminal cluster. The plants 
give flowers at one year, but increase in size and flori- 
ferous each season. Long lived, and a really showy plant. 
We offer a mixture of the blue and the white flowered 
forms, being about 2/3 blue. Pkt. 15c; 1/82 oz. 25c; 
1/16 oz. 40c. OFFER 2A53—One pkt. each of the three 
Gentians for 40c. 
STENOSIPHON LINIFOLIUS 
Tall new Annual for accents, each of the many slender, 
blue-silvered branches an ever extending spike of little 
fluffy white flowers. Decidedly decorative. Six feet. Try 
it with Golden Cleome. Pkt. 20c. 

TRUE EASTER LILY 
It is Lilium longiflorum, offered here in_ its variety 
Takesima. Immense trumpets of purest whiteness, wax- 
like, unstained. Delightfully perfumed. May be grown 
in pots, as florists grow it for Easter, but it is also a 
garden Lily of full winter hardiness at Philadelphia, and 
it thrives out of doors at Boston and in similar climates 
if given some protection of straw or leaves in late autumn. 
Seeds germinate readily from either late autumn or early 
spring sowings, and quite often there will be an occa~- 
sional flower the first year. Illustrated above. Seeds 
saved at Old Orchard. Pkt. 25c; 1/32 oz. 60c; 1/16 oz. 
$1.10; 1% oz. $2.00 (final customer limit). 
AGROSTEMMA NEW MILAS 
All-spring showiness in this vivid annua] Agrostemma, 
but lately from Turkey. Slender-stemmed, _three-inch 
flowers, upfacing salvers of lilac-tinted violet with radiat- 
ing white striations. It cuts. Two months of bloom. 
Definitely should be sown in early spring. Pkt. 20c; 
1% oz. 40c. 
