
*DOLICHOS MIXED — ex(3)100. 
climber. Showy flowers, white or 
1 DORONICUM EXCELSUM 
inches. Great Leopardbane. Big, and exceedingly showy 
flowers, to 4-inch diameters, are carried on long stems. 
Rich and shining golden orange. Spring. For mixed border 
or cutting. Plants only, each 40c. 
1 DOUGLASIA MONTANA—ryt(1)5. Tufted rock garden 
perennial. Mounds of daintiest pink in spring. Pkt. 20c. 
* DIMORPHOTHECA 
The Cape-Marigolds (Dimorphothecas) are showy, long- 
petalled daisies from the south of Africa, to be grown as 
annual. ‘“k’” culture. SINUATA—Fasiest, and altogether 
charming. Three months of flowers in glossily rich orange. 
Pkt. 15c; 7 oz. 25c. RINGENS— (3) 14. Glistening, white 
4-inch flowers are ringed violet and centered orange-and- 
black. Pkt. 15¢; 3 for 40c. AURANTIACA HYBRIDS— 
(3)14. Tones of apricot, salmon, ecru, cOpper, rosy suf- 
fusions, with varied yellows. Pkt. 15c; + oz. 30c. SPEC- 
TABILIS — (4-5) 20. Spectacular purple blossoms over 
Slashed, silvery foliage. Needs longer season than the 
others. Start it early. Pkt. 25e. OFFER 59A15—One pkt. 
Hyacinth Bean. 
maroon. Pkt. 10c. 
Quick 
(Plantagineum var.)—60 
each of the four for 60c. 



Give thanks for little things, for bit by bit these 
build our time. The strength of our understanding does 
not reach beyond. 
— 
1 DRABA REPENS—erkt(1)5. Mats of low green foliage, 
set over with a rippling canopy of little golden flowers. 
Pkt. 20c. (Plants, each 85c). 
2 DRACAENA AUSTRALIS—w. Excellent pot plant, or 
for accents in lawn vases, porch boxes, ete. Long leaves, 
sometimes parti-colored. Botanically Cordyline. Pkt. 15c. 
1 DRACOCEPHALUM FRUTICULOSUM—ebx(8) 40. Showy 
long-bloomer, with whorls of elongated blue-violet blossoms. 
Good. Pkt. 20c. 
* DRACOCEPHALUM MOLDAVICA WHITE—ex(3)18. A 
nleasant, easy, aromatic annual. Long racemes of white 
flowers. Pkt. 10c; 3 oz. 20c. 
‘|! DRACOCEPHALUM NUTANS — erx(1-2)9. Dense blue 
1 pikes followed by long decorative rosy violet bracts. Pkt. 20c. 
DRACOCEPHALUM RUYSCHIANA—erbx(3)18. Called 
‘Hardy Blue Snapdragon’”’, though labiate. Big and showy 
1] lue-violet flowers in fat cluster-spikes. Desirable. Pkt. 15c. 
« DYCKIA BLEND—w. Desirable plants for pot culture, 
making dense rosttes of fat and highly glossy leaves, 
lightly spine-edged, the whole in a particularly deep, rich 

frreen. We like them very much. Eventually comes a high 
inflorescence, sulphur yellow to Orange red. Bromeliads. 
I’kt. 20c; 3 pkts. for 50c. (Plants, each 40c). 
' ECCREMOCARPUS SCABER — ek(w)(8)70. Glory-vine. 
.tiry foliage and sprays of lobed flowers in orange scarlet. 
(‘harming pot or hanging basket plant, or may be grown 
cutside on low trellis. Chile. Pkt. 15c. 
1 ECHINACEA PALLIDA — ecbx(3)36. Cone-daisies with 
reflexed petals, pink to pale rosy purple. Pkt. 15c. 
1 ECHINACEA PURPUREA — ecdbx(3) 45. Showy flowers 
with reflexing rose-purple petals from high cone centers. 
Pkt. 10c; % oz. 25c. (Plants, THE KING, coppery crim- 
son, each 45c. Also variety WHITE LUSTRE, gloss-white, 
each 60c. These two are usually listed as Rudbeckias). 
1 ECHINOPS—ebx(3)70. The decorative Globe Thistles. 
EXALTATUS — Metallic blue. Pkt. 10c; % oz. 20c. 
NIVEUS—White. Pkt. 10c; Y% oz. 20c. 
1 EDRAIANTHUS—erx(2)4. Wheel-bell. From grass-like 
tuffet-hubs radiate stems that end in clusters of upfacing 
purple bells. TENUIFOLIUS — Showy in rock garden. 
Most wheel-like. Pkt. 20c. PUMILIO—A rare rock garden 
gem. Low, condensed. Pkt. 25c. 
2 THE EASY ECHEVERIAS 
Two attractive and desirable pot plants with foliage 
rosettes all thick, crispy and succulent, tall, curling racemes 
of pretty flowers above. GLAUCA—Rosettes blue-glaucous, 
with darker suffusion. Attractive flowers, rich pink with 
yellow tips. (Plants, each 30c). ELEGANS—Called Ghost- 
flower, from the eery look of it at dusk. Rosettes silvery 
white. Dainty flowers of apricot tone. (Plants, each 30c). 
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* ECHINOCYSTUS LOBATA—e. 
nual vine. Panicles of little 
curious fruits. Pkt. 10c. 
* ECHIUM NEW HYBRIDS—erdk(8)20. Tones of intense 
blue, but rose-colored when the buds first open. Others will 
be pure white, all in graceful, crosier-sprays. Illustrated 
page 3. Pkt. 15c. 
* ECHIUM WHITE HILLS—Variety of last with enamel- 
white flowers that build up into undulate snowy hills. 
These two Echiums are easy garden annuals. Pkt. 15c. 
ECHIUM SIMPLEX—Spectacular biennial from the Canar- 
ies, with dense, cylindrical, unbranched spikes of blue 
flowers to 10 ft. South, or start very early under glass if 
grown North. Pkt. 20c. 
1 ELSHOLTZIA FARQUHARI—eocbx (4) 40. In September 
the candelabrum branches fill with fluffy, attractive purple 
Easy, rapid-growing an- 
lacy flowers, followed by 
bloom-spikes. Aromatic. Pkt. 15c; yy oz. 35c. 
3 ERANTHIS HIEMALIS — ryt(1)4. Winter Aconite. In 
earliest spring come green-ruffed yellow flowers. A hardy 
bulb. Pkt. 15¢; + oz. 30c. 
1 EPIMEDIUM—Charming and dainty rock garden plants 
for shade or sun. So delightfully graceful is the foliage 
that just cut sprays of it are decorative. COCCINEUM—T7 
inches. Exquisitely formed, airy foliage. Soft red flowers. 
Plants, each 50c. NIVEUM—=8 inches. Intricately made- 
blossoms like tiny snowy orchids. Plants, each 50c. PIN-.- 
NATUM ELEGANS—9 inches. Pretty little bright yellow 
flowers. From Persian mountains. Plants, each 50c.. 
OFFER 61A35-—One Plant each of the three for $1.40. 
2 THE SCARLET ORCHID 
Here is a beautiful true Orchid, Epiden- 
drum O’Brienianum, that handles well as 
a pot plant under window conditions.. 
Brilliant scarlet blossoms in big spray- 
clusters, lips touched with orange yellow. 
Illustrated opposite. Pinch plants back 
occasionally to keep them bushy. Per pkt. 
25c; 3 pkts. for 70c. (Good plants that 
ooh), bloom within a few months, each 
1.00). 
] EREMURUS or 
FOXTAIL LILY 3 
By mid-June the magnificent spike of 
Eremurus robustus that has so strikingly 
accented the border, is losing its hundreds of airy, pink 
star-blossoms, but the nearby Eremurus Bungei, from hills 
of north Persia, will be opening the rich gold of its 
pyramid spires and the lower buds of the Shelford Hybrids 
will show varied lovely tones of apricot, salmon and cop- 
pery orange. Eremurus is of full winter hardiness here, 
and there is little difficulty to the growing of it, provid- 
ing seed is sown so that it has long exposure to cold. 
The roots go fully dormant in summer. Seedlings take at 
least three years to reach flowering size; may take longer, 
but they are long lived, once happily established. ‘‘yt’’ 
culture. Illustrated page 26. ELWESIANUS—6 ft. Pale 
pink. Early. ELWESIANUS ALBUS—6 ft. Earliest pure 
white. BUNGEI—Spikes of gold-orange stars.. ROBUS- 
TUS—8 ft. Hundreds of individually large rose-pink stars 
packed in tall spires. HIMALAICUS—8 ft. Dense spikes of 
fragrant, snowy stars. SPECIAL HYBRIDS—5 ft. This 
group is latest to bloom. Rich in delectable apricots, sal- 
mon tints, orange, coppery tones, with pure or suffused: 
white. UNIFORM PRICE any of above, pkt. of 20 seeds 
for 20c; 100 seeds for 65c; 250 for $1.45; 500 for $2.75.. 
OFFER 60A55—One pkt. each of the six for $1.00. 
EREMURUS PEERLESS BLEND—Above in mixture, with 
perhaps others. 25 seeds for 20c; 100 for 60c; 250 for 
$1.85; 500 for $2.50: 1000 for $4.70. 
1 ERODIUM 
Delightful long-bloomers for rock garden or _ border. 
MACRADENUM—rkt(8)7. Soft pink blossoms with radiat-- 
ing lines of velvety black. Fern foliage. 5 seeds for 1lbdc. 
MANESCAVII—erbkt(8)15. Far-seen blossoms of flaming - 
rose-purple for month after month. Feathery, aromatic - 
foliage. Pkt. 15c; 8 for 40c. 
CHAMAEDRYOIDES ROSEUM—In full sun it blooms con- - 
tinuously. Foliage cushions are jeweled with rose-veined 4 
pink flowers .Plants only, each 45c. 

