ROBERT WAYMAN 
Rare Flowering Plants 
Bayside, L. I., N. Y. 
: | March Ist, 1944 
Dear Friends: 
This “‘Advance Sale”’ Folder is sent out early for a definite purpose. 
It lists things that should be ordered EARLY. Many people usually 
think this is just sales talk and, notwithstanding my suggestion, delay 
sending in their orders and lose some of the plants as a result of late 
planting. Please remember that the safest time to plant things in the 
spring is while they are dormant. That means that you should ORDER 
AT ONCE. There is a double reason for this, when labor is so scarce. 
Orders received first will be shipped first. This is only fair to everybody. 
There will be from a few days to a week or more delay filling orders, 
but very little delay on early orders. No RUSH orders please. All will 
be filled in rotation. So sit down right now and send in your order. 
This will be the last offering for the duration on most of these 
items in this list, as no new plants will be propagated excepting berries, 
fruit, and various food stuffs. Other items will be discontinued as fast 
as plants on hand are sold. War conditions make this necessary. 
Our Spring Catalogue of Patented Roses, etc., 
will be mailed as 
soon as received from the printer, in 2 or 3 weeks. It will be our last 
offering of Patented Roses for the duration, as well as our last Spring 
Catalogue. The same advice regarding early ordering will apply to this 
Spring Catalogue when received. 
Looking forward to an early re:umption of more normal living 
conditions and with best wishes for a successful gardening year, 
Very truly yours, 


REGAL LILY—This Lily i is well named, as it is a flower of Regal 
Splendour. The flowers are of immense size and great beauty, being 
of snowy whiteness, much like an Easter Lily, but with an attractive 
yellow flush at the centre, and the outside flushed soft pink. It is 
delightfully perfumed, having the sweet fragrance of the Jasmine. 
The flower stalks are 3 to 4 feet tall and one stalk will often make a 
complete bouquet. And it is one of the hardiest of all Lilies and 
easiest to grow. Flowers in July. Flowering Size Bulbs—50c each; 
3 for $1.00; 12 for $3.50; 25 for $6.50; 100 for $25.00. 
SUNSET LIL Y—One of the most spec- 
tacular of all Lilies, often producing 15 
to 20 flowers to a stalk, up to seven feet 
high when established. Color deep or- 
ange, spotted maroon, with tip of petals 
scarlet. Hardy in sun or partial shade. 
July Flowering. 
ELEGANS LILY—The finest rock 
garden or bedding Lily, just 12 to 18 
inches tall, with attractive saucer-shaped 
blossoms facing up, giving perfect bed- 
ding effect. Profuse bloomer, red, spot- 
ted 1 maroon. 
DOUBLE TIGER LILIES—An un- 
usual DOUBLE form of the Tiger Lily, 
with large attractive rosette-like flow- 
ers. Very handsome and the double em 
is quite rare. 
PRICE FOR THESE 4 LILIES: 50c 
each; 3 for $1.00; 12 for $3.50; 25 
for $6.50; 100 for $25.00 
3 EACH OF THE ABOVE FOUR 
LILIES $3.50; 12 EACH $12.50; 
25 EACH $24.00; 100 EACH $90.00 

The Rare and Beautiful 
FRANKLINIA TREE 
~ This excellent fall flowering tree has a history that 
is as unusual as the tree itself is beautiful and un- 
usual. It was brought in 1777 from the banks of the 
Alatamaha River in Georgia to Bartram’s garden in 
Philadelphia. John Bartram, recognizing its extra- 
ordinary beauty and value, named it in honor of his 
life-long friend, Benjamin Franklin. 
The original grove of Franklin trees was again 
visited in 1790, but from that day to this no one has 
seen these trees growing in the wild though many 
expeditions have searched the banks of the Alata- 
maha for it. 
Franklin’s tree is beautiful in detail and marvelous 
in landscape effect besides blooming at a season 
when few shrubs or trees are in flower. 
The slender trunk and graceful branches are so 
muscular and sinewy in appearance that one almost 
expects motion as under a greyhound’s skin. The 
bark is smooth and dark gray, with wavering length- 
wise markings of lighter color. 
Each twig develops at its tip a cluster of buds of 
graduated size, like overgrown greenish pearls. Early 
in August the largest of these attain the size of 
marbles. Then the guard, petal folds back, still re- 
taining its first spherical form. From its shelter emerge 
four other petals, satiny snowy white, elaborately 
frilled and pleated. The snowy, frilly chalice, three 
inches in diameter, holds a sumptuous mass of 
orange-gold stamens and breathes forth a delicate, 
balmy fragrance. 
Each flower lasts two or three days and then drops 
cleanly. There is a constant succession of bloom till 
hard frost. We frequently get the unusual effect of a 
tree clad in crimson autumn foliage and abundantly 
starred with white flowers. 
The Franklinia begins blooming when not more than 
three or four feet high. Young trees under favorable 
conditions increase in height a foot or more each 
season. Specimens thirty feet high are known. It 
develops naturally with several trunks but may 
easily be trained to a single trunk by removing 
sprouts which start from the base. see 
Franklinia prefers full sun and has proven Caurely 
hardy about New York and hardy in favorable 
locations about Boston. It is an especially desirable 
tree for the small, intimate garden, loved and lived 
in. It is a charming lawn tree and the grass may be 
allowed to grow closely about its trunk. It also 
thrives when planted by pools, lakes, and streams. 
Its light elelgance of form and color contrasts ex- 
quisitely with the dark green of conifers. 
I have a few choice 3 to 4 ft. specimens of this un- 
usual tree ready for delivery this fall and next spring 
at $3.75 each; 3 for $19.00. 
Ordervearly as the supply will quickly be exhausted. 

WHITE SWAN DOUBLE DAISY—Something 
new and unusually beautiful. Solid double pure 
snow-white flowers on good wiry stems from 18 
to 24 inches long. Magnificent for cut flowers 
and for landscape or garden effect. Used exten- 
sively by the florist trade. 50c each; 3 for $1.25; 
6 for $2.00; 12 for $3.75; 25 for $6.25. 
