ORNITHOGALUM SAUNDERSIAE 
Spectacular summer bulb of easy garden handling. It 
makes big, upright rosettes of wide, thick channelled 
leaves that stay glossily green season through, no tip- 
burn. From the rosettes rise sturdy bud-capped stems to 
3 or 4 feet in young plants, to 6 feet or better in well- 
grown old ones. Flowers are larger than in other Orni- 
thogalums, five wax-like cream-white petals about a center- 
boss of an olive green so dark that it nears black. Many 
flowers are open at once in each high cluster, and the 
buds continue to unfold, the clusters to lengthen over a 
period of many months. This new summer-blooming Orni- 
thogalum is strikingly decorative in the garden, and _ its 
size and robust habit will fit it to many landscape uses. 
Also it cuts wonderfully, lasting far longer than most 
flowers in water. Dig bulbs in late autumn and store over 
winter in any cool, frost-proof place, just as you would 
those of Gladiolus. Seeds should be sown in early spring. 
The larger seedlings are likely to give small sample flower 
clusters the next (second) summer, but don’t expect full 
effect for another year. Well-grown bulbs will reach size 
of large apples. Seeds only, pkt. 25c; 3 for 70c. 
BELAMCANDA AVALON HYBRIDS 
This new strain of Blackberry Lily, the result of careful 
Old Orchard hybridization, can hardly be praised too 
highly. It is Flabellata crossed on Chinensis, and most 
interesting and unexpected combinations of form and color 
characters appear. Flowers may be pale unmarked yellow, 
yellow with orange dots, orange alone, yellow with crimson 
dots, roseate or- 
ange, apricot with 
darker spottings, 
soft yellow with 
deeper yellow 
stripes. The height 
may be anything 
from one foot (the 
Flabellata parent 
being dwarf and 
compact) to four 
feet, and blossoms 
may be carried in 
compact spray 
clusters, or in wide 
panicles. Foliage 
may be _ straight, 
ribbony, or in 
twisted, flattened 
fans. Always the 
flowers are  fol- 
lowed by the showy 
“blackberry’’ fruite- 
ing clusters. Illus- 
trated plant this 
page is one ap- 
proaching the Fla- 
bellata end of the 
scale. There will 
be many of these, 
also many varying 
others. A hardy 
perennial, thriving in full sun or tolerating some shade. 
“kt” culture. Pkt. 25¢c; 3 pkts. for 70c. 
ARAUJIA SERICOFERA 
The Silk-vine is a quick, low climber of exotic appear- 
ence, decidedly ornamental. For months it is filled with 
sprays of blossoms in form of starred salvers, inch-high, 
inch-wide, petals of a thick crispy waxiness, cream-white, 
or sometimes with faintest of pink suffusions. Flowers 
have a sweet, light perfume, and they hold well when cut, 
the graceful habit lending itself to unusual decorative 
effects. Vine may be grown on trellis or other support in 
manner of Sweet Pea. Seeds sown in position in early 
April will produce plants flowering from mid-July into 
November. By sowing early under glass and transplanting, 
the blooming season may start a month sooner. By these 
methods Araujia handles well as an open garden annual 
in the North. Actually it is, in mild climates, or in the 
greenhouse, a tender perennial. Pkt. 20c; 3 for 50c. 
THE SILVER RUMEX 
It is RUMEX VENOSUS, a spectacular hardy perennial 
grown for the decorative seed-plumes; great, wide, loose 
spikes filled with flakes of rose-fiushed silver. Ornamental 
and interesting in any rock garden or border planting. 
May also be cut and dried for winter bouquets. “kt” cul- 
ture. Pkt. 15c. (Plants, fragments of slender tuberous 
root, each 380c; 8 for 85c.) 


MUEHLENBECKIA AXILLARIS 
Delightful mat-tangles of slender, wiry, interlacing red 
stems that are set full of tiny overlapping leaves in rich 
dark green. Wee yellow flowers, then black seeds, each 
one in a succulent, glistening white cup that is almost of 
icecream appearance and consistency. The illustration 
above shows a spray in the decorative fruiting stage. 
Muehlenbeckia comes from New Zealand. At Philadelphia 
it behaves as a winter-hardy perennial, and we recom- 
mend it for rock gardens; likewise as a dense, springy 
carpeting or cover plant. Also it is sometimes grown as a 
window pot plant, or used in hanging baskets. ‘‘x’’ culture. 
Seeds, pkt. of 10 for 20c; 3 pkts. for 50c. Plants, each 
35c; 3 for $1.00. 
THE MOUND LILY 
And other names for it are Hardy Tree Lily, and Glory 
Yucca; to botanists it is YUCCA GLORIOSA. Now a 
species name such as that is assigned to a plant only for 
very good reason, and if you grow this Yucca you will 
understand why Linnaeus called it so. From rosettes of 
leaves that are shaped like old Roman swords, rise on 
short, stocky stems, immense panicles of splendid bells, big, 
waxy, white with soft tinting of rosiness at times so deep 
as to be near red, but more usually but a suggestion of 
suffusion. Main blossoming time is autumn, beginning in 
late September, in full beauty through October and well 
into November. As this is written at Old Orchard on 
November the 12th, I can still see from my office window 
several fine panicles of bloom that show as yet no damage, 
although there have been several heavy frosts. Beside 
blooming in 
autumn, there is 
usually a bonus of 
spring flowering, 
not all plants yield- 
ing this, but per- 
haps one out of 
three will. Yucca 
gloriosa as_ illus- 
trated this page 
shows a young 
plant giving its 
first bloom panicle. 
As the plants grow 
older, and they are 
exceedingly longe 
lived, they develop 
short tree-like 
trunks that divide 
to several branches, 
each branch ending 
in its own leaf- 
rosette, its own 
bloom-panicle. This 
is the only tree- 
Yucea that is fully 
winter-hardy north. 
A somewhat shy 
seeder. “‘kt’”’ culture. 
Pkt. be: 43) -pkts: 
for 40c; 10 pkts. 
for $1.20. 

THE TREASURE CHEST LIST is a supplement to this 
catalog, offering seeds of very many interesting plants 
omitted here through lack of space. Ask for a copy. 
