3 HOMERIA COLLINA — *ek(w)(3)20. Big Tigridia-like 
flowers in salmon orange. Easy; quick. Will force. Jllus- 
trated page 34. Pkt. 15c; x oz. 40c. 
HONESTY—ecx(3)30. Lunaria. Purple flowers, followed 
by pods having translucent partitions that make attractive 
winter decorations. Sown early, will usually bloom first 
season. Pkt. 15c. 
* ANNUAL HOLLYHOCK — ebk(3-4)60. Variety Indian 
Spring. Will flower freely first year, sown early. Fringed, 
semi-double flowers in variations, pink to carmine. Pkt. 
15c. 
1 HOLLYHOCK PEERLESS DOUBLES—ebx(2-4)60. We 
think we have made up here about as fine and varied blend 
of Double Hollyhocks as it is possible to produce. Many 
of the flowers will be five inches across, usually charmingly 
frilled and fringed. All the oldtime Hollyhock colorings, 
along with new pastel tones, soft apricots and oranges, 
others with vividy contrasting ‘Pelargonium’ blotchings. 
“x” culture. Pkt. 20c; 7 oz. 30c; % oz. 50c. 
1 HOLLYHOCK FINE SINGLE MIXED—ebx(2-4)80. The 
Hollyhock of nostalgic memories. Crinkled, silken petals. 
Many showy colorings. Pkt. 10c; 4% oz. 20c. 
1 PLANTAIN LILY (Hosta) 
fully hardy perennials with tuberous roots, 
Pleasant, 
Also 
ealled Plantain Lily from the wide, decorative leaves. 
known as Funkia. PLANTAGINEA—Snowy Day-lily. In 
late summer come fragrant, waxy trumpet-blossoms of 
purest whiteness, these’ above formal, packed foliage 
mounds. Plants, divisions, each 60c. COERULEA—36 
inches. Wide and handsome bells of bright blue all through 
mid-summer. Plants, each 45c; 3 for $1.20. 
3 GIANT SUMMER HYACINTH 
Bells of waxy white are carried in great loose spikes to 
five-foot heights. Strikingly decorative in the border, par- 
ticularly when several bulbs are planted as a group. Easy 
to grow and to keep. Winter-hardy to about Philadelphia. 
In colder areas, dig in late autumn and store. It is GAL- 
TONIA CANDICANS, so now named, but formerly it was 
considered a Hyacinth. Illustrated page 20. ecx(3-4)60. 
Pkt. 15c. (Bulbs, spring delivery, 3 for 40c; 10 for $1.10; 
25 for $2.55). 
3 ROCK GARDEN HYACINTHS—kt. Dainty little near- 
alpine Hyacinths for the rock garden. AZUREUS—(1)7. 
Blossoms of sky blue intensified, come in earliest possible 
spring. Illustrated page 26. Pkt. 15c; xs oz. 35c. COR; 
YMBOSUS—(1)8. Rare and pretty little South African 
with pink flowers. Pkt. 20c. SAWRISICI—Unusual autumn- 
flowering species with many slender, feathery spikes of 
mauve blossoms. Pretty, and rare. 10 seeds for 25c. OF- 
FER 83A55—One pkt. each of the 3 for 50c. 
1 HYPERICUM BRILLIANCE 
Living gold, long spreads of it here. “x” culture. 
OLYMPICUM—(2-3)12. Blue foliage mounds set with 
eparkling golden sun-blossoms, each attractively center- 
tasseled. Pkt. 20c. (Plants, each 40c; 3 for $1.10). APOL- 
LINIS—Very like the last in effect, a trifle lower, and with 
fewer, larger, flowers. From limestone crags of Helikon 
and Parnassus. Pkt. 25c. TOMENTOSUM—(3)18. A _ host 
of slender stems topped with clustered yellow flowers. Ashy- 
tomentose foliage mats. Pkt. 15c. FRAGILE—(3)6. A 
pretty, low species, fine-leafed in gray-green, blossoms 
bright yellow. Rocks of Euboea. Pkt. 30c. RUMELICUM— 
(3)25. Many leafy branches with soft yellow flowers in big 
terminal cymes. Easy, and good. Pkt. 15c; 75 oz. 35c. REP- 
TANS—(3-4)7. Verdant carpet-densities of fine leaves, set 
with great golden flowers that open from mahogany buds. 
Pkt. 25c. PYRZEWALSKI—(3-4)36. Fairly large pale yel- 
low flowers in high cymes. Pkt. 15¢. PULCHRUM—(3)12. 
Slender red stems in close bouquet-sheafs are topped with 
red buds that open into bright yellow flowers. Pkt. 20c. 
POLYPHYLLUM—(2-3)6. Fine-leafed, silver-verging cas- 
cade-mats are set with burnished buds that open to blos- 
soms of polished golden richness. Pkt. 20c. (Plants, each 
40c). LANUGINOSUM—(2-4)20. In bloom for months, 
fluffily tasseled blossoms of butter yellow in terminal pan- 
icles, calyces oddly. black-dotted, foliage wool-silvered. From 
the Alexandrettean Musa Dagh. Pkt. 15c; ts oz. 865c. 
(Plants, each 35c). PROLIFICUM—(3)50. Pleasant hardy 
shrub of bright yellow flowers, well-tasseled, in long pro- 
fusion. Pkt. 15e. PATULUM FORRESTI—(3-4)36. Ever- 
green shrublet with large flowers of deep, golden. Pkt. 20c. 
OFFER 84A55—One pkt. each of the above for $2.10. 
1 HOUSTONIA COERULEA—eratx(1-3)6. Myriads of ex- 
quisite little blue stars. Never more delightful than when, 
spread in great azure drifts, it reflects April skies. Illus- 
trated page 18. Pkt. 1l5c. 
* HUNNEMANNIA FUMARIAEFOLIA SUNLITE—ex(3) 
24. Gold-cup. Satiny yellow poppy-flowers for full sun. 
Pkt. 15c. 
3 HYPOXIS HIRSUTA—rmtkt(8)7. Pretty little yellow 
star-flowers. Rock garden ‘bulb’. Pkt. 15c. 
Tender 
Flowers glistening white, 
4 HYPOXIS STELLATA ELEGANS—k(w) (2)9. 
South African for pot culture. 
blue-violet at base. 
Pkt. 20c. 



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1 THE IRISES 
They are easy enough from seed. All you need is a bit 
of patience. Seeds germinate slowly, those of some kinds 
very slowly, but most of them are pretty sure to come 
eventually. So far as the species, or botanical, Irises are 
concerned, this is the lowest cost way to get them in 
quantity. At Old Orchard we have produced many thous- 
ands of them so. In the Hybrid Irises, each seedling is 
technically a new variety, and you are rather likely to 
produce some that may be worth naming and introducing. 
Iris seeds need low soil temperatures before germinating, so 
sow outside in either early spring or late autumn. For 
many other Irises, see our TREASURE CHEST list. 
ARENARIA (Flavissima) — rkt(1-2)8. In early spring 
bronzed buds open to yellow vividness. Illustrated above. 
Pkt. 20c. (Plants, each 45c). 
ATROFUSCA—yt(1-2)15. A dusky ground color of silver 
to buff, is veiled with a netting of black maroon. An un- 
usual Palestine oncocyclus. 7 seeds for 25c. 
BREVIPES—yt(3)7. Big flat blossoms of gold-patched in- 
digo. A dwarf “Delta’. Begins flowering as the Japanese 
Irises end. Pkt. 20c. Plants, each 60c. 
BUCHARICA—yt(2)18. An odd Turkestan bulb-Iris that 
sends up stems like little cornstalks with satiny yellow 
flowers in the leaf-axils. Pkt. 20¢c; 1/32 oz. 35c. 
CHRYSOPHYLLA—styt(2)10. Undulate, orchid-like flowers 
of creamy primrose, orange-blotched, with pencilings of 
violet sepia. Pkt. 15c. 
CRISTATA—stat(2)8. Exquisite blossoms like crumpled silk 
of palest blue, gold-patched, and with snowy fringed crest. 
A delightful low species, illustrated above. Plants only, 
each 45c; 3 for $1.20. 
DELTA BLEND—-yt. Big blossoms, mostly with horizontal 
standards as shown in illustration above of one of the in- 
cluded species, Giganticoerulea. Flowers show clearest of 
blues, then lavender to purple, red-violet, lilac, cerise, with 
pink-tawny and rose tones, mahogany, near-reds and ful- 
vous orange, with white. Flowers average large. This is a 
rather wonderful Iris group, quite unlike any other, and it 
includes many a spectacular beauty. Though they come 
from far South, lower part of the Mississippi delta, they 
yet seem to be of fullest winter hardiness in the North. 
Pay pels of them. Pkt. 20c; 1% oz. 35c; 44 oz. 60c; 1 
oz. $2.00. 

