
* with flakes of rose-flushed silver. 
Pkt. 20ce. 
4 ROMULEA HARTUNGI—w. From the Canaries comes this 
easy bulb for winter flowering in pots. Little Crocus blossoms 
of lavender, touched 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 knowing. ‘‘y” 
culture. XANTHINA NORMALIS—75 inches. Chinese Shrub- 
rose, wreathed in soft lemon-yellow bloom. Pkt. lic. MAR- 
GINATA—55 inches. Cup-shaped single flowers of purest 
pink. Good shrub. Pkt. 15ec. MOSCHATA FLORIBUNDA— 
70 inches. Wreaths of pure white single flowers. Shrub of 
excellent form and habit. Pkt. 10c. RUBRIFOLIA—60 
inches. Foliage always rich red. Single flowers of deep rose 
with white centers. Pkt. 15c. THE BURNET ROSE—380 
inches. Single blossoms in white, cream and primrose, some- 
times tinted apricot. Hedges. Purple fruit. Rosa spinosis- 
sima. Pkt. 15¢e; 44 oz. 35c. SHRUB-ROSE BLEND—tThe above, 
with many other as desirable shrub sorts from the Treasure 
Chest. Pkt. 10c; 44 oz. 25c. 
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 germinating 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. Pkt. 20c. 
Summer’s wave-crest begins September. 
2 ROSCOEA—erstk(w) (1-2). Charming semi-bulbs, used in 
the rock: garden in mild climates, but elsewhere handled as 
pot plants under glass) HUMEANA—10 inches. Flower 
purple, with touch of yellow. Pkt. 25c. CAUTLIOIDES—12 
inches. Blossoms of luminous, satiny, citron yellow. Pkt. 25c. 
ALPINA—6 inches. Flowers bicolor, deep purple and pure 
white. Pkt. 25c. OFFER 147A56—One pkt. each of the three 
for 60c. ‘ , 
* RUDBECKIA—eex (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. 15e. TRILOBA—Shining gold flowers with black-cone 
centers. Good. Will naturalize. Black-eyed Susan. Pkt. 15c; 
3 pkts. for 40¢c. KELVEDON STAR—Large flowers, semi- 
double to double, each petal mahogany red below, golden yel- 
low above. Pkt. 20c. OFFER 148A16—One pkt. each of the 
3 for 40c. 
RUDBECKIA PURPUREA—See Echinacea purpurea. 
1 RUDBECKIA GOLDEN GLOW —60 inches. Fine double- 
flowering form of Rudbeckia laciniata with golden yellow 
flowers. 
for $1.10, 
Hardy border or background. Plants, each 40c; 8 
1 RUELLIA CILIOSA — *erkt(2-4)15. 
Though it belongs to the Acanthus family, 
the blossoms remind of Petunias in silvered 
sky blue. Each day there is a new flower 
display. Long in bloom. Illustrated oppo- 
site. Pkt. 15¢; 8 pkts. for 40c. Plants, 
each 40c; 8 for $1.10. 
1 RUELLIA STREPENS—Flowers of rich, 
deep purple, still in the Petunia form. Pkt. 
15ce. Plants, each 40c. 
1 RUMEX VENOSUS—eerkt(2)15. The Silver Rumex is grown 
for the decorative seed-plumes, great, wide, loose spikes, filled 
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.) 
* SABATIA ANGULARIS—cryt(3-4)20. Blossoms of. alluring 
loveliness in the purest of pinks, sometimes a hundred open 
at one time on one plant. Perfumed. Perhaps best handled 
by sowing in open in late autumn, but if sowing is done in 
spring, be sure it is earliest possible spring. So beautiful it is 
worth all effort. Pkt. 20c. : 
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 being 
dug and stored in autumn. Makes a splendid pot plant, too. 
Tubers, each 75c. 


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2 SANSEVIERIA LAURENTI—Good, long-lived house plant 
that thrives under poor light conditions. Many thick, upright 
leaves of sword shape, bright glossy green, but yellow edged 
with white crossbars. Plants, each 40c. 
1 SANTOLINA—rbdkt(3)15. Desirable, fully hardy, low 
ornamentals with decorative foliage. CHAMAECYPARISSUS 
—Dense mounds of silvered featherings. In June, flowers like 
golden buttons. Pkt. 15ec. VIRENS—Mounds here of brilliant 
emerald with creamy buttons of flowers. Pkt. 20c. 
* 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 
colorings in crimson, chamois, yellow, purple,.black-maroon. 
Fine blend. eck(3-4)30. Pkt. 15c; 1% oz. 35c. 
* SALVIA ANNUAL 
THE BABY SALVIA—ex(8)16. A 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. Good in the summer 
garden, or it makes a splendid everblooming pot plant. Pkt. 
25c; 8 pkts. for 70c. ie : 
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 quickest of 
red Salvias, the seed being sown where the final effect is 
desired. Coral-tinged carmine. Pkt. 15c; 1/16 oz. 25c.. COL- 
UMBARIAE—ek(2)12. Great numbers of little flowers in in- 
tense blue, calyces wine red. Fern-like gray-green foliage. 
Sow great drifts of it. Pkt. 15¢c. SPLENDENS AMERICA— 
24 inches. In this true Scarlet Sage the plant habit is globe- 
like, the vivid flower plumes rising at varied angles so that 
the whole becomes a ball of fire Pkt. 20c; 1/16 oz. 45c. 
SPLENDENS BONFIRE—32 inches. A rather taller and 
more upright growing sort, preferred by those who wish great 
color masses. The scarlet plumes are long and heavy. Pkt. 
20c; 1/16 oz. 40c. FARINACEA BLUE BEDDER—eck (3-5) 28. 
Months of: bloom, flowers of wedgewood blue rising from 
white-powdery bracts and foliage. Pkt. 20c; 3 pkts. for 50c. 
PATENS—erw(3-5)25. One of the more beautiful, with large 
and attractive skyblue flowers. Pkt. 25c. HORMINIUM— 
k(8). Spikes of floral leaves in richest violet, white or pink. 
Pkt. 15c. .OFFER 149A16—One pkt. each of above, including 
Baby Salvia, for $1.75. 
1 SALVIA PERENNIAL 
Decorative hardy plants for border or rock garden. Mostly 
they are easy. to handle, and of a long life. VIRGATA—(3) 
40. Near to everblooming, gay tangles of stem and blossom 
for months. Big, blue-violet flowers. Pkt. 15c; 1/16 oz. 35c. 
Plants, each 45c. PRATENSIS ROSEA—(3)25. Richest rosy 
pink, a most attractive shade, are the wide, heavy flower- 
plumes. Pkt. 15c; 1/16 oz. 30c; % oz. 50c. Plants, each 40c; 
8 for $1.10. PRATENSIS BLUE—Like last in every way 
except that color is a deep, velvety indigo. Pkt. 15c; 1/16 
oz. 80c. DICHROA MAGNIFICA—(3)36. Long racemes of 
flowers in deep blue, each with a white lip. Pkt. 20c. HAE- 
MOTODES—Pretty Grecian species with flowers of soft blue- 
lilac. Pkt. 20c. JURISICI—(2-5)9. Low rock garden species 
from Balkan mountains. Feathery foliage of dark green. 
Spikes of pretty violet flowers. Blooming season is unusually 
long. Pkt. 15c; 1/16 oz. 25c. GLUTINOSA—(3)35. The only 
good yellow-flowered hardy Salvia. Rather large blossoms in 
soft, creamy yellow. Pkt. 25c. WERTICILLATA—(3-4) 25. 
Rather dense spikes of little silvery lavender, or sometimes 
white, flowers. sweetly aromatic. A pleasant, enduring peren- 
nial. Pkt. 15c. PITCHERI (Azurea grandifiora)—(3-4)50. 
Big flowers of just the delightful, brilliant blue of summer sky 
between white clouds. Pkt. 15c; % oz. 35c. Plants, each 45c. 
SCLAREA TURKESTANICA—(3)40. Floral leaves of white 
to rosy violet. The actual] flowers are lilac-suffused white. 
Monocarpic. Pkt. 15ec. VATICAN GARDENS VARIETY—A 
form of Sclarea with particularly bright coloring. Pkt. 25c. 
OFFER 150A56—One pkt. each of the above for $1.75. 
SALVIA HARDY BLEND—Includes all above, with others. 
Pkt. 15c; 1/16 oz. 80c; 1% oz. 50c. 
