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SOME OUTSTANDING PLANTS 
SOME OUTSTANDING PLANTS 

HARDY CHRYSANTHEMUM 
EARLY JOAN HELEN 
Everyone will love this deep lavender 
hardy mum. Extremely vigorous— in 
growth its lavender flowers are a wel- 
come addition to the garden or for 
cutting. 
Ciumps $1.50 each; 
Pots for Spring 75c each 

NEW NARCISSUS 
CRENVER 
After five years of silence we again heard 
from our bulb growers in Holland. All 
through the war this bulb was tested and 
tried and finally adjudged the best of the 
many new narcissus, 
It is a Barii type, giant in size with clear 
cream perianth and intense scarlet .red 
cup. A real show bulb. 
$2.75 each 
We received only 50 Bulbs of this so we 
will seli only one to a customer. 
The Rare Franklinia 
(Franklinia Alatamaha—Gordonia Alatamaha) 
This exquisite fall flowering tree was brought 
in 1777 from the banks of the Alatamaha River 
in Georgia to Bartram’s garden at Philadelphia. 
John Bartram recognizing its extraordinary 
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 
Alatamaha for it. 
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 retaining its firm 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 Frankliniana 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 sev- 
eral trunks, but may easily be trained to a single 
trunk by removing the sprouts which start from 
the base. 2 foot high trees. 
$3.00 each; 2 for $5.00 

k Wie, 
ORIENTAL POPPY 
JESSIE CURTISS 
Deepest Mahogany red—a real red poppy 
with no trace of orange. Blooms over a 
long period. Prefers light shade. 
$1.25 each; 3 for $3.00 
