
1 ROMNEYA COULTERI—bdyt(4)60. Matilja Poppy. It 
can be spectacular. Blue-silvered foliage, big blossoms of 
silky white above, each centered with a golden tassel. Give 
well-drained position in full sun. Protect with mulching in 
MPSA’ At Old Orchard we have specimens ten years old. 
te Cc: 
4 ROMULEA HARTUNGI—w. From the Canaries comes 
this easy bulb for winter flowering in pots. Little Crocus- 
like blossoms of lavender, touched at center with buff and 
black. Pkt. 20c. 
5 THE ROSES (Rosa) 
Scant need to paint their beauty, though perhaps the 
merits of the charming Shrub-roses do need better know- 
ing. All Roses are sure and easy enough from seed if 
given “‘y’” culture. XANTHINA NORMALIS—75_ inches. 
Chinese Shrub-rose, wreathed in soft lemon-yellow bloom. 
Pkt. 15ec. MARGINATA—55 inches. Cup-shaped single flow- 
ers of purest pink. Good shrub. Pkt. 15¢c. MOSCHATA 
FLORIBUNDA—70 inches. Wreaths of pure white single 
flowers. Shrub of excellent form and habit. Pkt. 10c; %4 
oz. 25c. RUBRIFOLIA—60 inches. Foliage always rich red. 
Single flowers of deep rose with white centers. Pkt. 15c. 
THE BURNET ROSE—320 inches. Single blossoms in white, 
cream and primrose, sometimes tinted apricot. Hedges. Pur- 
ple fruit. Rosa spinosissima. Pkt. 15c; 144 oz. 80c. SHRUB- 
ROSE BLEND—The above, with many other as-desirable 
cane ade from the Treasure Chest. Pkt. 10c; %4 oz. 25c; 
oz. 75c. 
GARDEN-ROSE BLEND—Seeds saved from named varieties 
of Hybrid Tea and Hybrid Perpetual classes. Fine color 
range. 8 seeds for 20c. 
THE BABY ROSE—Multitudes of tiny blossoms in white 
and in the full range of pink and rose shades, from blush 
to near red, single to double. Quick from seed, even germin- 
ating well from spring sowings made before the soil warms 
up, and usually giving some bloom first year. Edgings, rock 
gardens, or as a window pot plant. Full hardiness. Pkt. 
20c; 3 pkts. for 50c. 

HORTUS SECOND—Bailey, 832 pages. Concise diction- 
ary of gardening and authoritative botanical reference. 
Covers 18,000 species. Needed by every person who 
would grow in knowledge as their gardens grow. Easy 
to use, accurate, non-technical. $12.00. 

1 ROSCOEA—erstkt(1)8. Blossoms of graceful, crumpled 
loveliness. CAUTLIOIDES—Luminous citron yellow. Pkt. 
25c. HUMEANA—Purple, with touch of yellow. Pkt. 25c. 
* RUDBECKIA—ecx(2-3)36. Showy flowers, easily grown 
as annuals. HIRTA AVALON—Big, single blossoms that 
vary from palest primrose, to golden orange, each flower 
zoned or suffused throughout with chocolate brown or red 
mahogany. Pkt. 15c. TRILOBA—Shining gold flowers 
with black-cone centers. Good. Will naturalize. Black-eyed 
Susan. Pkt. 15c; 3 pkts. for 40c. KELVEDON STAR— 
Large flowers, semi-double to double, each petal mahogany 
red below, golden yellow above. Pkt. 20c. OFFER 135A15 
—One pkt. each of the 3 for 40c. 
1 RUDBECKIA GOLDEN GLOW—60 inches. Fine double- 
flowering form of Rudbeckia laciniata with golden yellow 
flowers. Hardy border or background. Plants, each 35c; 3 
for $1.00. 
1 RUELLIA CILIOS A—*erkt(2-4)15. 
Though it belongs to the Acanthus family, 
the blossoms remind of Petunias in sil- 
vered sky blue. Each day there is a new 
flower display. Long in bloom. Illustrat- 
ed opposite, Pkt. 15c; 73 oz. 35c. (Plants, 
each 35c; 8 for $1.00). 
1 RUELLIA STREPENS *cebkt(3) 28. 
Flowers of rich, deep purple, still in the 
Petunia form. Pkt. 15c. (Plants, each 40c). 
1 RUMEX VENOSUS—eerkt(2)15: The Silver Rumex is 
grown for the decorative seed-plumes, great, wide, loose 
spikes, filled with flakes of rose-flushed silver. Ornamental 
and interesting in any rock garden or border planting. 
Often cut and dried for winter bouquets. Pkt. 15c; 3 pkts. 
for 40c. (Plants, fragments of slender, tuberous roots, each 
35c; 3 for $1.00.) 
“THE VELVET FLOWER 
Wide, velvety trumpets, colorings of rich brocade, that’s 
SALPIGLOSSIS. Gold veinings over soft blue, over cream, 
over violet, over scarlet or brown, all these along with 
straight self colorings in crimson, chamois, yellow, purple, 
black-maroon. As easy as Petunia. Fine blend. eck(3-4)30. 
Pkt. 15c; % oz. 35ce. 


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3 SANDERSONIA AURANTIACA—eck(3-4)15. It comes 
from Mozambique this delightful relative of Gloriosa, with 
curl-pointed foliage and bell-blossoms of a golden, radiant 
orange. Blooms freely and long in the garden, tubers be- 
ing dug and stored in autumn. Makes a splendid pot plant, 
too. Pkt. 20c. (Tubers, each 75c; 3 for $2.00.) 
1 SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS — rstyt(1)10. Blood-root. 
Delightful blossoms, pure white with golden centers. Blood- 
red sap of it was a warpaint of the Indians. Pkt. l5dc; 3 
pkts for 40c. 
*“SALVIA ANNUAL 
And that means far more than Scarlet Sage. 
THE BABY SALVIA—ex(8)16. An affair 
of charm is this rare Mexican species, 
SALVIA MICROPHYLLA, the dwarfest 
and most compact of our Salvias. The 
plants are shaped like the upper half of 
an hour glass, the many, tightly gathered 
stems slowly flaring, but they are so 
thatched with tight imbrications of dark, 
olive green foliage that they seem all of 
one massiveness until the airiness of the 
flower racemes breaks forth. The buds 
are white-bracted, the bracts falling as 
the flowers open their carmine-suffused, 
coral rose loveliness. Very different from 
Salvia splendens, but of like handling to 
it, save that it gives bonus in not only 
2 fitting the open garden, but in also mak- 
ing a most satisfactory pot plant. Illus- 
trated opposite, Pkt. 25c; 8 pkts for 70c. 
OTHER FINE SALVIAS—These may all be grown as An- 
nuals. ARGENTEA—rdk(9)6. Grown as an Annual for 
the decorative, silvery first-year rosettes, lovely beyond 
compare. Pkt. 20c. CARDUACEA—kt(2)18. Fringed and 
undulate skyblue blossoms in cushion prickle-whorls. Sow it 
early. Pkt. 20c. COCCINEA—ecbx(2-4)36. Easiest and quick- 
est of red Salvias, the seed being sown right where the 
final effect is desired. It should be more grown. Long, 
slender, racemes of coral-tinged carmine. Pkt. 15c; 7 oz. 
25e. COLUMBARIAE—ek(2)12. Great numbers of little 
flowers in intense blue, calyces wine red. Fern-like gray- 
green foliage. Sow great drifts of it. Pkt. 15¢. SPLEN- 
DENS BONFIRE—A particularly satisfactory true Scarlet 
Sage for general planting. Dense fire-red plumes for 
months. Pkt. 20c; zy oz 40c. FARINACEA BLUE BED- 
DER—eck(38-5)28. Flowers of wedgewood blue from white 
powdered bracts and foliage. Months of bloom. Pkt. 20c; 
8 for 50c. PATENS—erw(3-5)25. One of the more beautiful, 
with large and attractive skyblue flowers. Pkt. 25c. OFFER 
136A15—One pkt. each of above 8, including The Baby Sal- 
via, for $1.45. 
Explore. 
1 SALVIAS PERENNIAL 
Decorative hardy plants for border or rock garden. Mostly 
they are easy to handle, and of a long life. VIRGATA—(8) 
40. Near to everblooming, gay tangles of stem and blossom 
for months. 
Big, blue-violet flowers. Pkt. 15c; + oz. 35c. 
(Plants, each 35c). PRATENSIS ROSEA 
—(3)25. Richest rosy pink, a most at- 
tractive shade, are the wide, close plumes. 
Pkt. 15c; zs oz. 30c; % oz. 50c. (Plants, 
each 35c; 3 for $1.00). PRATENSIS BLUE 
—Like last in every way save that color- 
ing is a deep and velvety indigo. Pkt. 15c; 
yz oz. 30c. (Plants, each 35c). JURISICI 
—(2-5)9. Low rock garden species from 
Balkan mountains. Feathery emerald foli- 
age; spikes of pretty violet flowers. Par- 
ticularly long blooming season. Pkt. 15c; 73 oz. 35¢e. VER- 
TICILLATA—(8-4)25. Spikes of filmy lavender, or some- 
times white, flowers, sweetly aromatic. A pleasant peren- 
nial. Pkt. 15c. PITCHERI or Azurea grandiflora. (3-4) 50. 
Big flowers of just the delightful brilliant blue of summer 
sky breaking through between white clouds. Pkt. 15c; % oz. 
35e. (Plants, each 40c). SCLAREA TURKESTANICA—(3) 
40. Floral leaves of white to rosy violet. Flowers of lilac- 
suffused white. Monocarpic. Pkt. 15c. VATICAN GAR- 
DENS VARIETY—A splendid form with vividly colored 
floral leaves. Pkt. 25e. OFFER 137A55—One pkt. each of 
above for $1.10. 

SALVIA HARDY BLEND—Includes all above, with others. 
Pkt. 15c; x oz. 30c; % oz. 50c. 

