ROSY-WINGS 
This year is garden-fortunate, for it 
18 not every year that so many good 
new annuals await our sowing,—and en- 
Joying. Perhaps there’s an element of 
compensation about it, a promise that 
Nature shall not pause nor falter, though 
nations '_ shatter. In the Rosy-wings, 
Othake sphacelata, we have a flower so 
good that it is difficult to understand how 
it may have hidden itself so long. The 
blossoms are about an inch across, car- 
ried in corymbose clusters, each flower 
with a densely double center, encircled 
by winglike three-lobed petals. All is of 
a most pleasing silvery pink, petal-wings 
and cushion center of one tone. The 
leaves are narrow, and again with rather 
a silvery overcast. The plants are bushy, 
to 24 inches of height and diameter, and 
they are covered with flowers continu- 
ously from early June to late October, 
so at Old Orchard. The blossoms cut 
and last well. Rosy-wings is of easiest 
culture ; you can sow it right where it 
Is to stand and it will come up quickly 
and grow quickly. It resists heat and 
drought without apparent effort or 
effect, but adapts itself well also to conditions quite the 
reverse. Pkt. 15c; 1/16 oz. 25c; % oz. 45c; % o2. 8b5c. 
MILLIGANIA DENSIFLORA 
Loveliest flower of Tasmania, so they call it there, but 
even in its homeland it is rare, found. only near the 
snow-line in difficult places of the Tasmanian mountains. 
The blossoms are six-petaled, starry, creamy white when 
they open, but often developing a pink flush, and always 
they carry a sweet perfume. The flowers appear in dense 
but irregularly branched spikes, these rising to some 18 
inches from rosettes of wide, rather recurved leaves that 
taper quickly to sharp points, a bit in Roman sword 
effect. Milligania cuts well, the blooms lasting from 12 
to 14 days in water. We haven’t grown Milligania, (the 
seeds here offered having been collected for us this sea- 
son in mountains of Tasmania), and we are not sure 
just what the germination requirements are, nor what 
degree of resistance to winter cold it may have, but it 
is on record as wintering without protection at Edin- 
burgh, Scotland, grown there in sandy loam soil with 
which a bit of peat moss and leaf mold had been mixed. 
It was in a position where north wind was broken, and 
where the plants caught a bit of shade during the mid- 
dle of the day. They were not allowed to suffer in 
drought. Under these conditions there were two fine 
flower spikes to, a plant. However, a plant elsewhere, ex- 
posed to full wind and sun, gave but one spike, a good 
one, though smaller. Seeds, 6 for 15c; 15 for 25c: 35 
for 50c; 75 for $1.00. (Customer limit 75 seeds.) 
CHRYSANTHEMUM RUBELLUM 
Very definitely, and delightfully, a Pink Lady is _ this 
Chrysanthemum, for the blossoms are always in some 
pink tone. They may carry only the faintest of pink suf- 
fusions, a blushing white, or more usually they will be 
in deeper, richer shades, from salmon pink to near-rose. 
It is rather amazing how many and how pleasing can be 
variations in pink. The plants are bushy, rounded, run- 
ning to perhaps 20 inches height, and are massed bloom 
from earliest August until the beginning of October. Of 
full outdoor winter hardiness, but it can also be forced. 
For that use plants should be allowed a short rest, and 
exposure to late autumn cold. Then in early winter they 
may be dug and potted up, brought into gentle heat, 
and they will bloom again in late February and March. 
Seeds need exposure to low soil temperatures to germinate 
them. Sow outdoors, or in frames in late autumn or early 
winter. Or you can sow _in boxes or pots during the 
winter, setting these outside on the north side of a 
building, and covering with snow, or if there is none, 
with straw or litter to prevent winter wind drying. There 
are often very fair results, too, when sowings' are made 
in outdoor seed-beds in earliest spring, just as early as 
soil can be worked. Plants usually flower first summer 
and fall. Pkt. 20c; 1/32 oz. 40c; 1/16 oz. T5c. 
SUTERA COERULEA 
Pretty little South African edging annual. Everblooming, 
bushy fine-leafed plants. Small five-petaled starflowers in 
great profusion, these soft blue at beginning and end of 
season, lilac in summer heat. Ten inches high and wide. 
Seed fine. Pkt. 15¢ (3 for 40c). 

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THREE BIRDS 
It is Linaria triornithophora, lovely 
stray from hills of Portugal. The flowers 
are large, rather like Snapdragons, but 
with very long slender spurs, and com- 
ing in a rich and glowing shade of 
deep-purple that Snapdragon never shows. 
Each flower carries a contrasting orange 
lip. Rarely a plant will appear in 
which the blossoms are in delicate pink, 
a form that is much desired. (There 
were such plants in the block of plants 
at Old Orchard from which this seed was 
saved). The flowers are carried in 
whorls, tier above tier, usually in sets 
of three, three slender swaying birds 
aperching. Plants grow to 30 _ inches, 
many stems, but sometimes make a 
branching, bloom-filled bank to only half 
that height. It starts blossoming in 
June, and continues until stopped by 
snow. You may handle it as an easy 
flower-garden annual, sowing in _  posi- 
tion in spring for summer open ground 
flowering, or it may be treated as a 
winter window plant (being actually a 
somewhat tender perennial). For winter 
window use, sow in mid-summer and pot 
Such plants will bloom freely all winter. 
up in autumn. 
Pkt. 20c (8 pkts. for 50c). 
HELIANTHUS AVALON CUTTING 
Here is a strain of annual Helianthus in the star- 
flowered cucumerifolius section that will give you fine 
long-stemmed blossoms for cutting in many new and rare 
tones, yielding decorative bloom in continuous quantity 
from the middle of June right through to the middle of 
October. The flowers are single, usually with stellate 
petals, small-centered, and run from 8 to 4 inches across. 
They are carried on stems 12 to 15 inches long, just 
right for effective cutting and arrangement. All this is 
quite usual among the better strains of Cut-and-come- 
again Sunflowers. In our variety Avalon Cutting it is 
the coloring, its variations, range and inclusiveness, that 
are different. Many of the blossoms will be white, or 
a cream that is close to white, some of these with centers 
that are also creamy, but again the centers will be con- 
trastingly black or brown. Often the paler blossoms 
will have a lemon yellow or even golden halo about the 
center. Again there will be flowers of rich pure yellow, 
but more plentiful than any of the others will be those 
in the gentle, melting pastel tones that we know in 
Gerberia, blendings of cream and rose, coral flushings, 
others close to pink, some with shadings of autumn red 
or mahogany. Many will have petals in two tones, the 
base either lighter or darker than the tip. Of easiest 
culture, just sow and thin. Pkt. 15c, 1/16 oz. 25c. 
COMMELINA CRISPA 
Purest intense blue are the blossoms of this decumbent 
Skyflower. For edgings, mass plantings, rock gardens, 
hanging baskets, porch boxes. 6 inches. Consider it an 
easy annual. Pkt. 15c; 1/16 oz. 35c. 
THE BABY ROSE 
Multitudes of tiny Roses in varied lovely colorings, but 
largely in white, blush or delicate pink, are carried 
in clusters for many months, from late May to the be- 
ginning of October, this when grown out of doors. 
Handled as a window or greenhouse plant it is rather 
close to being everblooming. The flowers are single, semi- 
double, or fully, intensely double, more of the single and 
semi-double than of the last, but a fair proportion of 
those, too. Quick from seed if sown while soil is cool, 
plants from earliest spring sowings being often in bloom 
by June, midgets then of about four inches height. The 
plants will keep on growing and branching, never very 
tall, but final height quite variable from plant to plant. 
Some will be natural dwarfs, never more than a few inches 
high, but others will go above a foot, a few above two 
feet, taking, though, several years to make it, and during 
all that time they are flowering freely. Plants are of 
dense, compact habit, and immensely floriferous. Recom- 
mended for edgings, rock gardens, mixed borders, or just 
for bank-masses of long delight. Brilliant in winter, 
filled with shining scarlet fruits. Though of full outdoor 
hardiness, the Baby Rose is often handled as a window pot 
plant, as charming there as in the garden. Pkt. 15c; 
1/82 oz. 85¢: 1/16 oz. 60c. 
