ORNAMENTAL GOURDS 
It’s perpetual] astoundment that fruits so diverse in color, 
form and size can still all be Gourds. The fancy Gourds 
are increasingly ppular for centerpieces, winter decorative 
effects, and the like. Not only do they vary from variety 
to variety, but even to some degree on individual plants 
within the variety itself. Beyond the fruits, the Gourds 
make good quick-growing summer vines for trellises or 
fences, and they have been used for temporary ground 
covers. We offer here a splendid mixture. Gourds large 
and small, self-colored, parti-colored, and in about every 
conceivable shape in which a Gourd has yet formed itself. 
Pkt. 10c; %4 oz. 20c; 1 oz. 30c. 
GRASSES ORNAMENTAL 
Everyone needs these easily grown annual grasses for 
use in winter bouquets. Sow them early. AGROSTIS 
NEBULOSA—Cloud Grass. Pkt. 10c. BRIZA MAXIMA— 
Quaking Grass. Pkt. 10c. COIX LACHRYMA—Job’s Tears. 
Pkt. 10¢c. ERIANTHUS RAVENAE—Pampas Plume. Pkt. 
10c LAGURUS OVATUS—Hare’s Tail. Pkt. 10c. One pkt. 
each of the five for 35c, OFFER 30A23. 
GYPSOPHILA or BABY BREATH 
Of high value for cutting. alone or with other flowers. 
Quick and easy. ecbx30. Make succession sowings. These 
are varieties of the annual Gypsophila elegans. For peren- 
nial Gypsophilas, see page —. 
LARGE-FLOWERED PURE WHITE—A fine strain. Pkt. 
10c; % oz. 20c; 1 oz. 35c. 
PINK AND ROSE BLEND—Varies from pale pink, through 
aoe and carmine, to near-scarlet. Pkt. 10c; % oz. 25c; 
oz. 40c. 
| A half-hour when sun is low, garden beyond. | 
HEBENSTREITIA COMOSA—ecbx(3-5)25. Grown for fra- 
grance. Tiny white-and-orange blossoms in slender, close 
spikes. The perfume during day is delicate and light, but 
as dusk falls it becomes richer, heavier, more in exotic 
reminder. Pkt. 15c. 
HELIANTHUS—See Sunflower. 
HELIOPHILA MIXED—ek(2)12. Airy little flowers, usually 
blue, but sometimes lavender, mauve or white. Sow early, 
and give position not too hot and dry. Pkt. lbc. 
HELIOTROPE FINE HYBRIDS — *ecbx(w). | Perfumed 
beauty. Giant clusters, flowers in shades of lilac, blue, 
violet, and rich purple. For summer bedding or winter 
pot plants. Pkt 15c (3 for 40c). 
HETEROPAPPUS HISPIDUS—cbkt (3-4) 25. Pretty blue 
daisy, yellow-centered, for summer cutting. Pkt. l65c. 
HETEROTHECA SUBAXILLARIS—enbdkt(4-5)40. One of 
the better of the “Golden Asters,” simulating the purple 
New England Asters of Autumn. In Heterotheca the 
flowers are glistening yellow, of good size, each with a 
double row of petals. August to October. It likes full sun, 
endures drought, and will slowly spread when naturalized 
as a wild flower in old fields or the like. Sow it freely. 
Each flower bears two types of seed and your packet con- 
tains both. Pkt. 10c; zy oz. 20c; % oz. 35c. 
STRAWFLOWER or HELICHRYSUM 
If you like everlastings, strawflowers that you can dry 
for winter bouquets, then you should grow these brilliantly 
hued Helichrysums. Easy if sown early. 36 inches. Six 
distinct color forms can be separately supplied at uniform 
price of pkt. 10c, %4 oz. 25c, being Scarlet, Canary, Rose, 
Salmon, Soft Pink, Violet, or order OFFER 31A23 and we 
will send one pkt. each of the six for 45c. 
HELICHRYSUMS MIXED—All above, with others. 
10c; % oz. 20c; % oz. 35c. 
ANNUAL HIBISCUS 
Utterly unlike, these two; both good. 
HIBISCUS TRIONUM—ex(2-4)30. Blossoms that are ivory- 
hued cups, viclet-patched, with golden center tassel. Plants 
grow to 30 inches, with wide decumbent base-branchings. 
Easy, quick, long in bloom. This is an improved, large- 
flowered form, illustrated page 22, Pkt. l0c; \ oz. 25c. 
HIBISCUS MANIHOT—ebk(4-5)90. Great towers of plants, 
each stem ending in a spire of immense blossoms of shallow 
bowl form. Flowers are lemon yellow, with big basal 
blotches of purple-maroon. Few more spectacular annuals. 
Sow early, it needs a long season. Pkt. 1lbc. 
Pkt. 
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INCARVILLEA VARIABILIS—ebk(8) 30. 
Called The Annual Incarvillea, since it 
blooms freely and long from spring- 
sown seeds. Blossoms are flaring trum- 
pets of pale, creamy pink, just under 
two inches in length. A pretty thing. 
See illustration opposite. Pkt. 20ce (3 
for 50c). 
ANNUAL HOLLYHOCK INDIAN 
SPRING—ebk (3-4) 60. Big semi-double 
flowers, well-fringed, in varied pink, 
rose and carmine. Annual in that it 
will flower freely first year, sown early, 
but actually perennial. Pkt. 15¢; 
oz. 25c. 
HONEST Y—ecbstx (3) 30. Lunaria an- 
nua. Grown for the translucent parti- 
tions of the flattened seed-pods, these 
making attractive winter decorations, 
but the purple flowers (in spring) are 
good, too. Sown in earliest spring, will usually bloom first 
season, or it can be sown in September for certain show- 
ing the next summer. Pkt. 15c; 7 oz. 25c. 
HUMULUS JAPONICUS—ek. The variegated leaf Japan 

Hop, an attractive, quick-growing summer vine, standing 
heat well. Heavy foliage. Pkt. 10c. 
HUNNEMANNIA FUMARIAEFOLIA—edx(3)24. Gold-cup. 
satiny yellow Poppy-flowers. Full sun. Pkt. 10c. 
IPOMOEA 
The MOONFLOWERS, also the GIANT MORNING 
GLORIES, belong here, but see Convolvulus. too. 
IPOMOEA GRANDIFLORA—kt. True White Moonflower. 
Fragrant giant flowers that open in the evening. A vine. 
Calonyction aculeatum. Pkt. 10c; ™% oz. 25c. 
IPOMOEA ROSE MARIE—Blossoms all of a rich deep rose, 
mostly fully double, some semi-double. Flowers do not look 
like those of Morning Glory, and always they excite specula- 
tion and comment. Pkt. 15c. 
IPOMOEA EARLY HEAVENLY BLUE—ek. Encrmou;3 
flowers of bright sky blue. A splendid vine. This is Clarke’s 
Early-blooming Selection. Pkt. 10c; 4 oz. 30c. 
IPOMOEA WHITE MAGIC—Flowers fleecy white. creamy in 
deep throat. Save in color, exact counterpart of Heavenly 
Blue from which it is a sport. Pkt. 15c. 
IPOMOEA CRIMSON RAMBLER—k. A particularly vigor- 
ous, free blooming annual vine. Big flowers of rich ruby 
red with contrasting white throat. Pkt. 10c; %4 oz. 365c. 
IPOMOEA IMPERIAL GIANTS—ek(w). Giants here, noth- 
ing larger in Morning Glories. Wide color range, pure and 
blush whites, pink, rose, sky b'ue, purple, varied reds, choco- 
late and the like, all in amazing combinations of contrast- 
ing margins and flakings. Pkt. 15c. 
OFFER 32A23—One pkt. each of the six for 60c. 

THE KEY LETTERS and numerals after the variety 
names tell when and how to sow each particular 
kind, its especial uses and cultural needs, the t*me 
of blooming, and the height to which it grows. Thev 
are there to help you grow th2 kind successfully. 
Please make use of them. Full explanation of key 
letters and numerals is given on page 66. Check up 
there. 

IRIS DICHOTOMA—Vesper Iris. The only Iris that may 
be handled as an Annual. Seeds sown outside at first pos- 
sible spring moment, should give plants that will flower 
freely that September, high sprays of jewel-like bloom in 
varied, mahogany-marked, lavenders. Hardy perennial actu- 
ally, enduring for years. Full description page 36. Pkt. 10c; 
1% oz. 20c; \% oz. 35c. 
JASIONE MONTANA—erkt(2-3)10. Fluffy, soft blue blos- 
soms, capitate clusters of deeply split, miniature bells, 
closely packed. Though it looks like Scabiosa, Jasione is 
really close to Campanula. Sow early. Pkt. 15c. 
KOCHIA GIANT VARIETY—ebx(9)36. Speedy annual that 
resembles a dense formal evergreen. Fine for quick hedge 
effects. Turns red in fall. Pkt. 5c; % oz., 25c. 
LALLEMANTIA CANESCENS—eorx(3)15. Foliage, and 
the spikes of pretty, soft blue flowers all silvery-powdery- 
tomentose. Behaves well as an Annual, sown early. Pkt. 15c. 
LANTANA DWARF HYBRIDS—*ew(8)20. Clustered flowers 
in Verbena form, opening yellow or pink apricot, then suf- 
fusing with an orange that may deepen to scarlet. Ever- 
blooming. Valued for summer bedding, withstanding drought, 
or may be grown as pot plant. Pkt. 10c; 4% oz. 80c. 
