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5 THE BRIGHT AZALEAS 
They are not difficult from seeds sown in early spring or 
late autumn, providing that one uses the care that any fine 
seed requires. Make the sowing in a sandy seed bed, or far 
better, in a bed, pot or flat filled with a mixture of sand 
and leaf mold or untreated peat. Shade the seed-bed a bit. 
Line the seedlings out into soil that is on the acid side. If 
yours isn’t already that, you can make it so by treating with 
aluminum sulphate, or by adding decayed oak leaves, peat, 
old sawdust or like acid material. ALTACLARENSIS—Fine 
deciduous hybrid large yellow and orange flowers. Pkt. 20c. 
CALENDULACEA—Salmon orange to orange scarlet. De- 
ciduous. Pkt. 20c. JAPONICA—Bells in rose-salmon, 
orange, or scarlet. Pkt. 20c. KAEMPFERI—Torch Azalea. 
Bright red, rarely varying to pink or rose. Evergreen. Pkt. 
20c. MOLLIS—Before the leaves, bell-blossoms from _ soft 
yellow, through gold, to rose-salmon. Pkt. 20c. NUDI- 
FLORA—Pinxterbloom. Usually pink, sometimes blush or 
white. Pkt. 20c. OCCIDENTALIS—Blossoms _ blush-pink 
with yellow blotch. Fragrant. Pkt. 20c. SCHLIPPEN- 
BACHII—Big pink flowers, spotted rich brown. Fragrant. 
Pkt. 20c. VASEYI—Clustered flowers shell pink to rose. 
Blooms at early age. Pkt. 20c. VISCOSA—Sparkling blos- 
soms, wax-white to blush. Young plants only a few inches 
tall will bloom. Pkt. 20c. OFFER 27A75—One pkt. each of 
the above for $1.75. 
AZALEA HARDY BLEND—Seeds of above, with others, in 
mixture. Pkt. 20c; 3 pkts. for 50c. 
AZALEA KURUME HYBRIDS—A splendid strain of low 
Azalea, immensely varied as to color, and often with semi- 
double flowers. Very young plants just a few inches high 
will bloom heavily. Fully winter-hardy at Philadelphia, but 
in much colder areas will require sheltered position and a 
degree of winter protection. Often grown as a pot plant. 
When so handled, should be plunged in the garden in sum- 
mer. Forces readily. Seeds from fine named sorts, supplied 
in mixture. Pkt. 25c; 3 for 65c. 
AZALEA KURUME PLANTS—Fine young plants running 
four to six inches of height. These should give a few nice 
flowers this spring, very many next spring. Four varieties 
at uniform price of each 45c; 3 for $1.20; one each of the 
four for $1.60. SALMON BEAUTY—Big flowers in soft 
salmon pink. SNOW—Purest of whites. Flowers hose-in- 
hose. PINK PEARL—Deeply tinted pink. Rich. HINO- 
DEGIRI—Flowers scarlet, in the most vivid of tones. Ex- 
ceedingly free-blooming. 
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* BAILEYIA MULTIRADIATA—ecdk(2-5)18. Well called 
the SUNLIGHT FLOWER, for the blossoms are living em- 
bodiment of warm sunshine gold, each with its double ruffle 
of glossy yellow petalage about the little golden center 
cushion. Foliage silvery. The long-stemmed flowers appear 
in continuous succession from late May until November. 
Drought-resistant. Must have full sun. Sow early. 18 
inches. Pkt. 20; 3 for 50c. 
* BALLOON VINE—Cardiospermum. Quick and easy an- 
nual vine for fence, screen or trellis. Sprays of little white 
flowers are followed by large, inflated, balloon-shaped seed 
pods. Pkt. 10c. 
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* BALSAM APPLE AND PEAR—ek(9)100. Momordica, a 
decorative annual vine with yellow flowers and odd pear 
or apple-shaped fruits that split to show interestingly carved 
‘red’ seeds. Pkt. 10c. 
1 BALSAMORHIZA SAGITTATA—rbkt(2-3)17. Silvered 
foliage from which rise 16-inch stems that carry blossoms 
like golden Sunflowers. Pkt. 15c. 
4 BABIANA 3 
Bright-hued South African bulb-flowers that grow rather 
easily from seed, usually blooming within the year. North, 
grow in pots (Freesia handling), or if well enough pro- 
tected with straw or leaves they are likely to winter out- 
side. If they are close to the wall of a heated basement, 
south side of the house, they should live and thrive for 
years, for such a position gives them about the winter 
climate that exists in the open some 300 miles to the south 
of you. Mixed colors, indigo, pansy purple, white mauve, 
cream, yellow. Pkt. 15c; x oz. 40c. Illustrated page 26. 
*BALSAM (Annual Impatiens) 
Oriental effects in color massing. No easier annual flower. 
BALSAM AVALON BLEND—ecbx(8)30. Big flowers, well- 
doubled. There will be pure pinks, rose, salmon, vivid red, 
lilac and lavender, with whites, clear or with pink suffusion. 
Pkt. 10c; 14 oz. 25c. 
BALSAM BUSH BLEND—ebx(8)15. Dwarf, rounded plants, 
the first blossoms carried at the branch tips, so not hidden 
by the leaves. White, varied pinks, rose and vermilion in 
mixture. Desired form for edgings, bedding, porch boxes or 
pot culture. Pkt. 20c. 
IMPATIENS ROYLEI—ebmtx(3-4)70. Mountain Jewel. 
From mountains of India comes this handsome, robust Bal- 
sam. Big, airy flowers, soft pink to deep purple. Pkt. 20c. 
IMPATIENS BIFLORA—ebmtx(3)50. Wild Jewel-flower. 
Pretty, airily swung flowers of orange yellow, spotted red- 
brown. Pkt. 15c. 
OFFER 30A15—One pkt. each of the four for 55c. 
3 ORNAMENTAL BANANA 4 
The true Banana (Musa) may be used effectively for ex- 
otic, decorative foliage displays out of doors in the North. 
At Old Orchard we have had them reach full ten feet of 
height in a summer, great sweeps of arching, swaying leaf- 
fans. In late autumn the plant may be dug, cut off a few 
inches above the. ground, and the enlarged root or “bulb” 
packed upright in sand and kept in a frost-proof, dry place 
until spring. Easy from seed. 6.seeds for 25c. 
1 BAPTISIA or FALSE INDIGO 
Here is real and dependable beauty in the Lupine sug- 
gestion. Long-lived, fully hardy perennials of many values. 
It cuts. “kt” culture. AUSTRALIS—40 inches. Leafy, 
branching plants, crowded with big and showy spray-spikes 
of indigo blue flowers. Splendid in border, as a cut flower, 
or as an annual hedge. Pkt. 10c; 4 oz. 35c; 1 oz. $1.25. 
BRACTEATA—12 inches. Lovely flowers of soft, creamy 
yellow in enormous wistaria-clusters. Blooms rather early. 
Pkt. lic; 3 for 40c. VILLOSA—25 inches. Massive flower 
clusters in bunch-of-grapes shape, all of a rich golden yel- 
low. Handsome. Spring. Pkt. 15¢. LEUCANTHA—50 
inches. Long, tapering spires of white blossoms. It blooms 
in summer. Pkt. 15c; % oz. 35c. TINCTORIA—45 inches. 
Branches tipped with little golden flower-clusters. Will 
naturalize. Pkt. 15c; 8 pkts. for 40c. OFFER 301A55—One 
pkt. each of the five for 60c. BAPTISIA BLEND—The 
above, with others. Pkt. lic; % oz. 25c; % oz. 40c. 

SALMAGUNDI doesn’t always mean pickles. One diction- 
ary meaning is “a medley,’ and our particular SALMA- 
GUNDI, offered here, is surely that. It is a mixture of 
seeds of pretty nearly every thing we offer, including 
Treasure Chest listings, and of a few we don’t as yet 
catalog (left-overs from our own trial sowings). Of some 
kinds there will be just a trace, of others much, for this 
is where old seeds go. Seeds are mostly one-year old, a 
few older. They won’t all grow, but a lot of them will, 
and at low price at which this is sold, you can be pretty 
sure of getting excellent value in plants from it. NOTE 
PLEASE, that we cannot undertake to identify specimens 
sent in of plants grown from Salmagundi. We are too 
short of help for that these days. Not less than 1% oz. 
sold. 4 oz. 20c; 14 oz. 85c; 1 oz. 60c; % Ib. $2.00. 
