1 ALYSSUM FOR SILVER AND GOLD 
Here are perennial kinds of fullest winter hardiness. wk” 
culture. FLORIBUNDUM—Our own favorite. Gracefully ir- 
regular 9-inch mounds, spread with a spring profusion of soft 
yellow blossoms. Silvered foliage, silveriness intensifying in 
early winter, but then with a roseate tinge. Near to evergreen. 
Pkt. 15c; 3 for 40c. Plants, each 45c. ALPESTRE (Serpylli- 
folium)—5 inches. Particularly good rock garden species. 
Low spreading mats are covered with soft yellow flowers 
through late spring. Pkt. 15c. Plants, each 40c; 3 for $1.10. 
SAXATILE COMPACTUM—10 inches. Basket of Gold. Bril- 
liant golden showiness over silvered foliage. Pkt. 10c; 1/16 
oz. 20c. Plants, each 40c. SAXATILE CITRINUM—tThe last 
with blossoms of softest sulphur yellow. Pkt. 15c. Plants, each 
45e. SPINOSUM—10 inches. Pretty white flowers over mounds 
stiff, silvery foliage. Full sun. Pkt. 20c. ARGENTEUM— 
(2)12. Citron yellow flake-flowers mantle silvery foliaged 
bushlets. Pkt. 15c; 1/6 oz. 30c. Plants, each 45c. OFFER 
16A7—One pkt. each of above for 75c. 
3 AMARYELLIS 4 
To horticulturists Amaryllis is still a living name, but to 
botanists it is now but a memory and a milestone. 
AMARYLLIS GIANT HY- 
BRIDS—w. Magnificent flowers, 
great expanded trumpets in 
rose, scarlet, crimson, all one 
color, or more often with white 
star-throats, or great splashings 
and barrings of white. There 
is no more spectacular flower- 
ing bulb for pot culture, and 
that culture is easy, too, easy 
enough for any sunny window. 
Illustrated opposite. Seeds 
saved from fine, selected plants. 
10 seeds for 25c; 50 for $1.00; 
100 for $1.75; 250 for $3.75; 
500 for $7.00. Bulbs available 
throughout year except during 
July and August. Each 70c; 3 
for $2.00; 10 for $5.60; 25 for 
$12.50. Mixed colors only. Tech- 
nically Hippeastrum, but most know it as Amaryllis. 
THE WHITE ARGENTINE AMARYLLIS—From time to 
time throughout the year we expect to receive consignments 
of seeds of the rare Argentine species, HIPPEASTRUM 
CANDIDUM. Flowers are described as being of medium 
size, snowy white, fragrant, altogether lovely. 2 seeds for 
45c; 5 seeds for $1.00; 15 seeds (customer limit) for $2.75. 
LILY OF THE PALACE—This is the name given long ago 
to stately, fragrant Hippeastrum aulicum (Amaryllis aulica). 
Flowers large and particularly handsome, bright crimson, 
but the base of each petal is as bright green, with small 
red-purple blotch where the crimson and green meet. 4 seeds 
for 25c; 18 for $1.00. 
HIPPEASTRUM VITTATUM COSTARICENSIS—Further 
botanic study will likely place the Costa ‘Rica Amaryllis as 
a distinct species rather than as a variety of Vittatum. It 
resembles in many ways the cultivated strain of H. vittatum, 
but has a finer, brighter flower, and there are other, more 
technical distinctions. 8 seeds for 25c; 40 seeds for $1.00. 
AMARYLLIS BELLADONNA—w(k) (4)20. The Beautiful 
Lady. Perfumed, clustered flower-trumpets, soft pink to deep 
rose. Makes a delightful window or porch plant, but as far 
north as Philadelphia it is also garden-hardy. With heavy 
winter mulching it may indeed be wintered outside much 
further north. Bulbs available June to October. Each 65e; 8 
for $1.80; 10 for $5.25. Technically Callicore rosea. 
AMARYLLIS EQUESTRE—Barbados Lily. Many handsome 
flowers, in the range from brilliant orange to orange scarlet. 
An Hippeastrum species. Bulbs, each 50c; 3 for $1.40. 
AMARYLLIS ROYAL HYBRID—Large flowers of refulgent 
crimson, the throat with a big star of purest white. Petals, 
broad, rounded. This is likely a natural hybrid of Hippea- 
strums Reginae and costaricensis. Better than Reginae be- 
cause of the absolute purity of the large, white throat mark- 
ing. 4 seeds for 25c; 18 for $1.00. 
HIPPEASTRUM BIFIDUM—Easy species from Uruguay and 
the Argentine. The erect, bright red flowers are carried in 
umbels, usually of six blossoms. Pkt. of 10 seeds for 25c; 
50 for $1.00. 


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THE GARDEN AMARYLLIS—Here is an Amaryllis (Sprek- 
elia formosissima), for the open garden, culture and handling 
of Gladiolus. Within two or three weeks after the spring 
planting of it, the great, fantastically formed blossoms, vel- 
vety crimson, all gold-glinting with pollen dust, will be ap- 
pearing. May also be grown in pots in manner of other 
Amaryllisses. Sometimes it is called Mexican Fire Lily, or 
again. Jacobean Lily. Bulbs only, each 40c; 5 for $2.00; 
10 for $3.80. Illustrated page 5. 
3 AMORPHOPHALLUS 4 
AMORPHOPHALLUS RIVIERI (Hydrosme)—A bizarrely 
decorative plant for the summer garden, called there Leopard 
Palm, from the graceful form and odd spotting of it. Dig the 
tubers in late autumn, and store. At touch of light in Febru- 
ary or March, without benefit of soil, they will rocket forth 
curious flowers, spadix of maroon, spathe of rose-tinged 
green ; exotic, unconventional. Tubers only, two-inch diameters 
and up, each $1.50; 8 for $4.00. This size will need at least 
another year of growing before blooming, but they are mean- 
while quite well worth their cost in the curious and decorative 
effects yielded by the plant and its strange foliage. 
New frontiers wait in the garden. Adventure is still 
there for those who will seek it, but adventure worthily, 
expecting sometimes a loss. Adventure does not hold with- 
in guaranteed and hostaged horizons. Risk is ever its 
shadow. 
* AMBLYOLEPIS SETIGERA—k(2)15. Honey-daisy. Through 
late spring and into early summer the Honey-daisy carries 
a wealth of pretty, honey-yellow daisies, inch-wide, daintily 
fragrant. Pkt. 15c; 3 pkts. for 40c. 
3 AMOREUXIA WRIGHTI—k(8)10. A rare plant. The fairly 
large flowers of brilliant yellow with purple, appear for 
months. It likes ample moisture, and should be watered in 
drought. Mulch Amoreuxia.in the same manner that we 
suggest for Alstroemeria, and you should have no difficulty 
either in wintering it, or in getting long summer bloom. 
Pkt. 25ce. 
* AMBERBOA MURICATA—ecbdx (2-4)30. This easy, free- 
blooming annual is called Star of the Desert, for it comes 
from .dry, hot wastelands of Spain and North Africa. The 
blossoms are 3-inch lace-stars of pale purple, with creamy 
centers, carried in host-profusion in myriad slender stems 
above rounded bushiness. In constant bloom for months. It 
cuts well. Pkt. 15c; 1/16 oz. 30c; % oz. 50e. 
* AMBROSIA—ecofx(8)20. Graceful green “ostrich plumes” 
for cut flower effects. Decorative; pleasingly aromatic. Called 
Feather Geranium, but botanically a Chenopodium. Effective 
annual edger. Pkt. 15¢c; 3 pkts. 40c. 
5 AMELANCHIER OBLONGIFOLIA 
—kt(1)60. It is the Juneberry, a two- 
purpose shrub. In early spring come 
panicles of snowy bloom, followed in 
due course by big luscious berries, like 
cultivated blueberries, but darker in 
color, and rather sweeter and richer 
in flavor. A really desirable ornamen- 
tal that is worthwhile also for its 
edible fruit. Pkt. 15¢;: 3 for 40ec. 
* ANAGALLIS BLUE—eiruk(2-4)8. 
A brilliant blue Pimpernel, desirable 
for edging or bedding. Long in bloom. 
Pkt. 10e. 
* ANAGALLIS MIXED—eiruk(2-4)8. True Pimpernel, a 
pretty little annual for all-summer bloom. Low, undulate 
color, eye-dazzling blue and oriental red. Pkt. 10c. 
TABERNAEMONTANA 
1 BLUE STAR OF TEXAS 
It is AMSONIA TABERNAEMONTANA, the original 
Star of Texas. An easy perrenial with mighty attractive 
flowers, but not only that, for the foliage is good, never 
unsightly during the growing season. Will tolerate consider- 
able shade, or full sun. The many willowy stems end each in a 
big panicle of starry blossoms in soft blue. Illustrated above. 
enbstx (2-3)25. Pkt. 15c; 4% oz. 30c; 14 oz. 50c. Plants, each 
40c; 3 for $1.10; 10 for $3.25. (Also can supply two other 
species, both lower growing and suitable for rock garden, 
distinct and pretty, being A..SALICIFOLIA and A. MON- 
TANA, either at Pkt. 20c.) 
