5 AUCUBA JAPONICA PICTURATA — zkt. Shrub, hardy, 
with care, to Philadelphia, but often grown as a large pot 
plant under glass. Large, lustrous evergreen leaves, splashed 
and dotted golden yellow. Panicles of little purple flowers, 
followed on the staminate plants by clusters of bright scarlet 
berries. Dioecious. Pkt. 20c; 3 pkts. for 50c. 
1 ASTILBE 
Feathery flower-plumes, exquisitely fashioned, in white, 
cream, many a delightful pink, rose or carmine. Handsome 
winter-hardy perennial for either garden planting or forcing 
in pots. ‘“‘kt” culture. Mixed colors. Pkt. 25c; 3 pkts. for 
70c. See Treasure Chest for separate species. 
ASTIBLE PLANTS are available for both spring and fall 
forwarding of several desirable kinds. AMERICA—Fine, airy 
plumes of soft lilac. Plants, each 60c. GRANAT—Pome- 
granate crimson with salmon reflections. Extraordinarily good. 
Each 65¢c; 8 for $1.80. PINK PEARL—Spreading plume- 
panicles of softest pink. Each 60c. FANAL—Brilliant garnet 
plumes over bronzed foliage. Each 70c. PEACH BLOSSOM— 
Plumes of vivid pink, dense and feathery. Each 60c. 
5. THE GAY AZALEAS 
They are not difficult from seeds sown in early spring or late 
autumn. 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 
mould 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. CALEN- 
DULACEA—Salmon orange to orange scarlet. Deciduous. 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 to rose- 
salmon. Pkt. 20c. NUDIFLORA — Pinxterbloom. Usually 
pink, sometimes blush or white. Pkt. 20c. OCCIDENTALIS— 
Blossoms blush-pink with yellow blotch. Fragrant. Pkt. 20ce. 
SCHLIPPENBACHII—Big pink flowers, spotted rich brown. 
Fragrant. Pkt. 20c. VASEYI—Clustered flowers shell pink to 
rose. Blooms at early age. Pkt. 20c. VISCOSA—Sparkling 
blossoms, wax-white to blush. Young plants only a few inches 
tall will bloom. Pkt. 20c. OFFER 31A7—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 —QA 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 winter protec- 
tion. Often grown as a pot plant. Seeds in mix- 
ture from named sorts. Pkt. 35c. 
AZALEA KURUME PLANTS—Here are young 
plants that run from 4 to 6 inches of height. 
They will give a few nice flowers this spring 
and very many by next spring. Suitable for outdoor planting 
in many areas of not too severe winter climate, or excellent 
pot plants. Three varieties at uniform price of each 55c; 
3 for $1.50. PINK PEARL—Deeply tinted pink. Snow— 
Purest of white; flowers hose-in-hose. HINODEGIRI — The 
most vivid of scarlets. Exceedingly free blooming. CORAL 
BELLS—Rich coral rose. Particularly good. OFFER 30ANT7 
—One plant each of the four, labeled, for $2.20. 

BABIANA’’ 
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 protected 
with straw or leaves, they are likely to winter well outside. 
Illustrated above. Mixed colors, indigo, pansy violet, white, 
mauve, cream. Pkt. 15c; Ye oz. 40c. 
BABIANA SPECIES—Following are available at uniform 
price of 25¢c each the pkt. ATROCYANEA—Intense, deep 
blue. SULPHUREA—Lovely creamy white. MACRANTHA— 
Large-flowered true pink. RUBROCYANEA—Deep blue with 
Aa ie center. OFFER 82A7—One pkt. each of the four 
or 85c. 
* BAILEYA MULTIRADIATA—ecdk— (2-5)18. Well called the 
SUNLIGHT FLOWER, for the blossoms are living embodi- 
ment of warm sunshine gold, each with its double ruffle of 
glossy yellow petalage about the little golden center cushion. 
Foliage silvery. Long-stemmed flowers from late May to No- 
vember. Drought resistant. Sow early. Pkt. 20c. 
* BALLOON VINE—Cardiospermum. Quick and easy annual 
vine for fence, screen or trellis. Sprays of little white flowers 
are followed by inflated, balloon-shaped seed pods. Pkt. 10c. 
* BALSAM AVALON BLEND —ecbx(8)30. This exceedingly 
easy, annual Impatiens will give oriental effects in color 
massing. There will be pure pinks, rose, salmon, vivid red, 
lilac and lavender, with whites, clear or pink-suffused. Pkt. 
10c; 144 oz. 25c. 
BAMBOO—The Bamboos are really giant grasses with woody 
stems, but they may be considered rather as decorative shrubs 
of a particular grace and airiness. Some few of the true 
Bamboos possess a considerable degree of winter hardiness, 
and the two here listed we have grown without any winter 
protection at all for several years at our Old Orchard Nursery 
near Philadelphia. SEMIARUNDINARIA FASTUOSA—Tall 
and graceful hardy Bamboo, to 20 feet. Heavy columnar canes 
with wide, deciduous sheath at each node. Numerous branches 
and leaves, these to 7 inches length by one of width. Will 
make good colonies with time. Rooted sprouts or stolon divi- 
sions, each $1.00. DWARF BAMBOO—Another fine species 
of which we have lost the name. It grows to 8 feet, many 
slender, almost whiplike stems, unbranched, that end each 
in i fan of slender leaves. Divisions or rooted sprouts, 
each 85c. 
3 ORNAMENTAL BANANA 4 
The true Banana (Musa) may be used effectively for exotic, 
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. Seeds, 7 for 25c. 
BANANA BULBS—We offer the Ornamental Banana in bulb- 
like, near-dormant plants, each of which will look, when you 
receive it, like’ a big roll of dead leaves, but plant it out, 
nevertheless, and you will get a Jack-and-the-beanstalk sur- 
prise, so speedily aspiring will be its growing. Not truly 
a bulb but it handles as one. Offered for late April and May 
shipment. By mail postpaid, each $1.55; 8 for $4.40. If desired 
by express, collect for shipping charges, price will be each 
$1.30; 3 for $3.70. 
1 BAPTISIA FOR VARIETY 
The Baptisias are fully hardy, long-lived perennials of much 
real beauty. They are, most of them, rather easy to grow, 
thriving in full sun, though tolerating some light shade. Few 
perennials show greater variety in form and coloring than 
do the Baptisia species among themselves. Culture “kt.’”” AUS- 
TRALIS—40 inches. Leafy, branching plants, crowded with 
big and showy spray-spikes of flowers in rich, deep, indigo 
blue. Splendid in the border, or as a cut flower. Closely 
spaced plants make a very satisfactory, quick-growing her- 
baceous hedge. Pkt. 15c; 4% oz. 25c; %4 oz. 45ec. BRACTEATA 
—14 inches. The lovely flowers of creamy yellow are carried 
in enormous, wide-based, tapered clusters like those of the 
better Wisterias. The great flower clusters bow over until 
their points touch the ground. A beauty for the rock garden, 
or the front of the border, or try it at the top of a terrace 
wall. Blooms in May, and early June. Pkt. 20c; 1/16 oz. 40c. 
VILLOSA—20 inches. A handsome species when in glory of 
bloom, the flowers of pure golden yellow being carried in 
massive, bunch-of-grape clusters. June. Pkt. 20c; 3 pkts. 
for 50c. LEUCANTHA—60 inches. In mid-summer come tall, 
tapering spires of white blossoms in Lupine suggestion. Pkt. 
20c. OLD ORCHARD HYBRID—35 inches. A chance form 
found in our Nursery, apparently a natural of fortuitous 
hybrid. General effect is that of Australis, although plants 
are a trifle lower and rather more compact. The flowers, 
carried in long, heavy racemes, are of an odd, tawny violet, 
with hints of buff and of coppery rose, but at times near 
yellows or near blues will appear. New and good. Pkt. 25c. 
TINCTORIA—45 in. Many slender tangled branchings are 
each tipped with little golden flower clusters. Will natural- 
ize. Shows wide range of soil tolerance, thriving in even 
light near-sand. Pkt. 20c; 8 for 50c. OFFER 33A7—One pkt. 
each of the six for $1.00. BAPTISIA BLEND—tThe above, 
with others. Pkt. 20c; %e oz. 80c; % oz. 85e. 
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