| BARBAREA RUPICOLA—erx (2)6. ‘“‘Cheiranthus” flowers 
in brightest yellow. A pretty rock garden perennial. Pkt. 20c. 
* BARTONIA AUREA—eodx(2-4)24. The Sweet Stargold 
(botanically Mentzelia Lindleyi). Showy annual with big, 
glistening golden flowers all summer. Pkt. 10c. 
* BALSAM APPLE AND PEAR—ek(9)100. Momordica, a 
decorative annual vine with yellow flowers and odd pear 
or apple-shaped fruits that split to show interestingly carved 
red seeds. Pkt. 10c. 
BEGONIA 
Handsome, long-blooming window, conservatory, or outside 
bedding plants, decorative in flower and foliage. They mostly 
like, or will at least tolerate, a bit of shade. 
2 BEGONIA EVERBLOOMING BLEND—vw. It may be kept 
in bloom as a pot plant pretty much the year through. It 
was so, indeed, that it earned its old name of Blossom-fool, 
for as long as there is life in it there are flowers on it. 
Blossoms will be white, pale pink, rose, scarlet or crimson, 
the foliage sometimes bronzed or red-tinted. A wonderful 
pot plant in window or conservatory, but much used, too, 
for summer bedding. Pkt. 20c; 8 pkts. for 50c. 
EVERBLOOMING BEGONIA PLANTS—Usually available 
year around. INDIAN MAID—Over foliage of lustrous bronze- 
mahogany are handsome flowers of salmon scarlet. Each 40c; 
3 for $1.10. BALL WHITE—Purest white flowers. Green 
foliage. Dwarf; compact. Each 40c. CHRISTMAS CHEER— 
Fine flowers of deep pink with hint of 
crimson. Foliage green. Each 40c. OFFER 
ee plant each of the three for 
aLU: 
THE REX BEGONIAS—A most beautiful 
and interesting group, grown for the ex- 
ceedingly decorative foliage, graceful in 
form, ornamental in wide range of varied 
coloration. Flowers usually pale pink. Seeds, 
per pkt. 35c. Plants, each 75c, or will send 
three plants, each different, for $2.00. 
3 BEGONIA EVANSIANA—w. This is the 
winter-hardy Begonia, surviving most north- 
ern winters, even as far up as Ottawa, if 
given protection of leaves or litter. Pure 
pink blossoms are carried well above the leaves, over a long 
season. Blossoms are carried in long sprays well above the 
foliage, this glossy green with red netting below. Effective 
for outside use, as a hardy “‘bulb’’. Also makes a splendid 
pot plant under glass. Illustrated page 54. Seeds, pkt. 20c; 3 
pkts. for 50c. Plants, supplied either as dormant tubers or as 
growing plants, our option. Each 40c; 3 for $1.10. 
4 BEGONIA TUBEROUS SINGLE MIXED—w. Flowers of 
great size, in gorgeous color range, and that includes orange, 
pink, rose, salmon, scarlet, white and yellow. Makes an 
exceedingly attractive pot plant, or may be used effectively 
for outside bedding in a shady place if kept well-watered. 
Winter-store tubers in sand. Pkt. 70c; 3 pkts. for $2.00. 
4 BEGONIA TUBEROUS DOUBLE MIXED—Flowers large, 
fully double. Same inclusive color range as the Single 
Tuberous. Highest quality mixture. Tubers only, February, 
through May, but early orders are advisable this year. Each 
35c; 3 for 95c; 10 for $3.00. 
RARE BEGONIA SPECIES—We receive from time to time 
small lots of seeds of the rarer Begonia species, these coming 
from specialist growers or botanical collectors in various 
parts of the world. Among those likely to be available are 
Begonias Cooperi, valerii, glabra coralipetiole, udisilvestris 
picta, luxii pilosior; involucrata, fuchsioides, carpinifolia, 
echinosepala, picta, coccinea, multinerva, xanthina, alnifolia, 
rubro-venia and the like. These collected seeds sometimes con- 
tain a little intermingled chaff, but seeds of Begonias offered 
under previous headings are supplied fully cleaned. For seeds 
of the rare species Begonias, see our special TREASURE 
CHEST OFFER, sent only, but gladly, upon request. Any 
species arriving later in the year will be offered in the next 
issue of our RARE-FLOWER BULLETIN. The Bulletin is 
sent only to those who ask for it. 
BEGONIA BOOK—We can supply a book, illustrated, des- 
cribing many Begonia species, usual and rare, and telling 
how to grow them. It is BEGONIAS AND HOW TO GROW 
THEM, Buxton, available at $2.25 the copy. 

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* BELLIS PERENNIS FINE MIXED— && 
arkt(1-2)6. English Daisy. Desired for 
spring bedding, edgings, porch boxes. Double, 
large-flowered, in mixture of rose, red and 
white, Pkt. 15c; 3 pkts. for 40c. 
* BELLS OF IRELAND—edx(3-4)30. It . 
is that old Syrian beauty, Molucella laevis, 

suggests itself to those who see it. The * 
several branching stems are closely set with 
big bell-calyces of pale, translucent green. 
Within each calyx lies a curiously formed 
little white flower. Illustrated opposite. 
Molucella cuts well as a fresh flower, also 
the spikes may be dried for winter decoration 
as a straw-flower. Pkt. 20c; 3 pkts. for 50c. 
1 THE BLACKBERRY LILIES 3 
Enduring perennials for sun or shade, desirable in the 
mixed border, or for cutting. Botanically BELAMCANDA 
(syn. Pardanthus). 
BELAMCANDA CHINENSIS—(3-4)48. Pretty orange-and 
crimson blossoms, then glossy ‘“blackberry’’ seed clusters 
that may be dried for winter bouquets. Illustrated opposite. 
Plant with Vesper Iris, Iris dichotoma, for interesting effects. 
Plants, each 40c; 3 for $1.10; 10 for $3.25. FLABELLATA— 
Butter-Iris Flowers of soft primrose, each petal centered with 
a deeper stripe of butter-yellow. The compactly clustered 
blossoms just top the wide and twisted, foot-high, foliage 
fans. Gives a full two months of summer bloom. This rare 
and charming species comes from mountain woods of Japan. 
Plants, each $1.50, only one to a customer. AVALON HY- 
BRIDS—Surprising variations in color, form and height show 
in this new strain, the result of Old Orchard hybridization, 
being Belamcanda flabellata crossed on B. chinensis. Flowers 
may be pale, unmarked yellow, bright yellow with orange 
dots, orange alone, yellow dotted with crimson, roseate orange, 
apricot with darker spotting, creamy yellow with deeper 
center stripe. Seeds, 10 seeds for 25c; 50 seeds for $1.00. 
A shadow may be key to light. 
2 BELOPERONE GUTTATA—“*ex(8)15. Shrimp Plant or 
Dwarf Chuperosa. Little lilac-tinted white flowers peer from 
showy red-brown bracts, these closely imbricated in grace- 
fully drooping form. Makes an interesting pot plant for 
window garden or greenhouse. Also, handled in manner 
of Scarlet Sage, may be effectively used for summer garden 
planting. Pkt. 20c. Plants, each 35c; 3 for $1.00. 
5 BERBERIS THUNBERGI ATROPURPUREA—True Red- 
leaf Barberry, the brilliantly colored foliage varying from 
bright red to black-maroon, always richest in sun. It comes 
true from seed, germinating with fair ease from early spring 
sowings. The shining red berries make long, gay showing. 
Note, please, that this Barberry species is not a host for 
wheat rust. Pkt. 15c; 1% oz. 35c; 4% oz. 60c; 1 oz. $2.00. 
1 BERLANDIERA LYRATA—rbkt(2-3)8. A pretty yellow 
daisy that blooms repeatedly through the summer months, 
the flowers carried on slender stems above rosettes of lyrate, 
white-pubescent leaves. Pkt. 15c. 
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2 BESCHORNERIA YUCCOIDES—w (x) 
(3)50. Decorative Amarylliad, usually grown 
as a large pot plant. Red-stemmed panicles 
of rose-bracted flowers rise from leaf-rosettes 
that are like nests of aroused sword blades. 
Pit 20c3 
3 BESSERA ELEGANS—Lady’s Eardrop. 
A garden-easy bulb of considerable charm. 
Intricately formed blossoms of bright coral 
with orange suffsions, striped creamy 
within, and with blue anthers, are carried in 
nodding, swaying umbels on slender 20-inch 
stems. Tt ea.cuts. Illustrated opposite. 
Give bulbs Gladiolus handling throughout, 
save that a covering of dry sand is advisable 
while they are in winter storage. Bulbs, 
spring delivery, each 40c; 8 for $1.10; 10 
for $3.10. 
1 BOCCONIA LATISQUAMA—*ebx(4)60. 

starry 
Airy, 
“Aster”? blossoms, blush white to pale pink, for some two 
months in late summer. One of the easier and better border 
perennials. Pkt. 15c; 1/16 oz. 25c; % oz. 35c; %4 oz. 60¢e. 
Plants, each 40c; 8 for $1.10; 10 for $3.25. 
