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.) HUMEANAW—10 inches. Flower 
purple, with touch of yellow. Pkt. 25e. CAUTLIOIDES—12 
inches. Blossoms of luminous, satiny, citron yellow. Pkt. 25c. 
ALPINA—6 inches. Flowers bicolor, purple and white. Pkt. 
25e. OFFER 154A7—One pkt. each of above for 60c. 
* RUDBECKIA—ecx (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 mahogany. Pkt. 15c. TRILOBA— 
Shining gold flowers with black-cone centers. Good. Will 
naturalize. Black-eyed Susan. Pkt. 15c; 8 pkts. for 40c. 
KELVEDON STAR—Large flowers, semi-double to double, 
each petal mahogany red below, golden yellow above. Pkt. 
20c. OFFER 155A7—One pkt. each of above for 40c. 
RUDBECKIA PURPUREA—See Echinacea purpurea. 
1 RUDBECKIA GOLDEN GLOW—60 inches. Big, fully 
double, golden yellow blossoms. Desirable in the mixed hardy 
border or for backgrounds. Plants, each 40c; 3 for $1.10. 
2 SAINTPAULIA IONANTHA—See African Violet, page 3. 
2 SANSEVIERIA LAURENTI—Good, long-lived house plant 
that thrives under poor light conditions. Many thick, up- 
right leaves of sword shape, bright glossy green, but yellow 
edged with white crossbars. Plants, each 40c° 8 for $1.10. 
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. 20c. Plants, each 50c; 3 for $1.40. 
VIRENS—Mounds of brilliant emerald, with creamy buttons 
of flowers. Very good. Pkt. 20c. Plants, each 55c; 3 for 
$1.50; 10 for $4.50. 
1 SAPONARIA OCYMOIDES—erx(3)8. One of the showier 
and easier rock garden perennials, also used for bedding. 
Wide, spreading mounds of brightest rosy pink. Immensely 
floriferous. Pkt. 15c; % oz. 30e. 
1 SAPONARIA DOUBLE BEAUTY—A fully double-flowered 
form of Officinalis, blossoms pure white or softest blush. 
Long in bloom, showy in the garden, a wonderful cut flower. 
Plants, divisions, each 40c; 3 for $1.10. 
5 THE ROSES (Rosa) 
THE SHRUB-ROSES — Charming flowering shrubs for 
foundation plantings, landscape backgrounds, and hedges. 
These have single flowers. Easy from seeds sown outside in 
late autumn or early spring. XANTHINA NORMALIS—%5 
inches, Branches wreathed in lemon-yellow bloom. Pkt. 15c. 
MARGINATA—55 inches. Cup-shaped flowers of pure pink. 
Pkt. 15c. ALTAICA—72 inches. White flowers, then black 
fruits. Pkt. 15¢. CANINA—72 inches. Soft pink flowers. 
Pt. 15c. MOSCHATA FLORIBUNDA—70 inches. Delightful 
wreaths of pure white flowers. Decorative also in fruit. 
Excellent form and habit. Specimens, hedges, background. 
Pkt. 15c; 4% oz. 40c. HUGONIS—85 inches. A profusion of 
wide yellow flowers. Pkt. 20c. FOLIOLOSA—15 inches. Pure 
white or blush-suffused. Long-blooming rock garden shrub. 
Pkt. 25e. SPINOSISSIMA—Burnet Rose. White, cream or 
primrose, sometimes apricot-filushed. Purple fruits. Specimens 
or low hedges. Pkt. 15c; %4 oz. 40c. RUBRIFOLIA — 60 
inches. Foliage always red. Flowers white-centered rosy pink, 
Pkt. 25c. RUGOSA—60 inches. Big flowers, white, pink or 
rose. Shining red fruits. Specimens; hedges. Thrives at 
seashore. Pkt. 15c; % oz. 25c. OFFER 153A7—One pkt. each 
of above for $1.50. 
SHRUB-ROSE BLEND—The above, with seeds of others as 
desirable. Pkt. 15c; 1% oz. 25c; 14 oz. 40c. 
GARDEN-ROSE BLEND — Seeds saved from fine garden 
sorts of Hybrid Tea and Hybrid Perpetual classes. Full color 
pee: Forms worth naming may appear. Pkt. 20c; % oz. 
c. 
BABY ROSE—Multitudes of tiny blossoms, dominantly in? 
white and blush, but ranging into pink and rose, too. Rather 
quick from seeds sown outside in late autumn or early 
spring, often giving some bloom first year. Edgings, rock 
garden, or pot plant. Pkt. 20c. 
ROSA ROULETTI—Delightful miniature to grow as a house 
plant or in rock garden. Pretty much everblooming, double, 
rose pink flowers about an inch in diameter. Rosa chinensis 
minima. Plants only, each 55c; 3 for $1.50. 
* 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. 15¢; %& oz. 35c. 
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1 SAUSSUREA—rkt. Rare and curious Himalayan perennials. 
GOSSYPIPHORA—9 inches. All a pyramid of gray wool 
from which little rose-violet flowers peer. Pkt. 35c. OBO- 
VATA—8 inches. The whole bloom-cluster, encircled by 
ae “yellow-paper’’ bracts, seems one gargantuan flower. 
t. 35c. 
2 SCHLECHTENDAHLIA LUZULAEFOLIA—ex. Rare Uru- 
guay composite with Rush-like foliage and flowers like yellow 
Centaureas. 
Pkt. 25c. 
2 STREPTOSOLEN JAMESONI — w. 
Clustered blossoms that might be those of 
a fine Browallia, were it not for the 
brilliant orange coloring of them. A very 
box plant is this rare, tender species, 
Pkt. 20c. 
THE TRAILING SALVIA 
An unusual hanging basket, pot or porch 
box plant is this rare, tender species, 
SALVIA COSTARICENSIS. Downy, hastate leaves in grace- 
ful draperies on trailing stems. Pretty little white-center 
flowers of sky blue over a long season. Plants, each 50c. 
* 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 like reversed cones, the many 
slowly flaring stems so tightly thatched with imbrications 
of dark olive green foliage that they seem all of one massive- 
ness until the airy flower-racemes begin. White-bracted 
buds open to flowers of carmine loveliness. Delightful summer 
garden plant, or it may be grown in pots for winter bloom. 
Pkt. 25c; 3 pkts. for 70c. 
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. Pkt. 20c. COC- 
CINHA—ecbx (2-4)36. Easiest and quickest of red Salvias, the 
seeds being sown where the final effect is desired. Coral- 
tinged carmine. Pkt. 15c; Yg oz. 25e. COLUMBARIAE—ek- 
(2)12. Great numbers of little flowers in intense blue, calyces 
wine red. Pkt. 15e. 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 is 
as a ball of fire. Pkt. 20c; Ye oz. 45c; % oz. 80c; % oz. 
$1.45. SPLENDENS BONFIRE—32 inches. A more upright 
grower, preferred by those who wish scarlet color mass: 
Pkt. 20c; eg oz. 40c; 1% oz. T5c. FARINACEA BLUE BED- 
DER—eck(3-4)28. Flowers of wedgewood blue for months. 
Foliage white-powdery. Pkt. 20c; We oz. 35c. PATENS— 
(3-5)25. Particularly large and beautiful flowers of sky blue, 
widely spaced. Start early. Pkt. 25c. HORMINIUM—(k)8. 
15ec. OFFER 156A7—One pkt. each of above, including the 
Baby Salvia, for $1.75. 
1 SALVIA PERENNIAL 
Decorative hardy plants for border or rock garden. VIR- 
GATA—(3)40. Near to everblooming, gay tangles of blossom 
for months. Big, blue-violet flowers. Pkt. 15c; Ye oz. 35c. 
Plants, each 45ec. PRATENSIS ROSEA—(3)25. Richest rosy 
pink, are the wide, heavy flower-plumes. Pkt. lic; Ye oz. 
30c. PRATENSIS BLUE—Like last in every way except 
in deep indigo coloring. Pkt. 15c; Ye oz. 30ce. DICHROA 
MAGNIFICA—(3)36. Splendid deep blue flowers with white 
lips. Pkt. 20c. Plants, each 50c. HAEMOTODES—Blossoms of 
blue-lilac. Pkt. 20c. JURISICI—(2-5)9. Rock garden species 
from Balkan mountains. Graceful spikes of quite large, violet 
flowers. Pretty, free-blooming, long-lived. Pkt. 15c; Ye oz. 
25c. Plants, each 45c; 3 for $1.20. HIANS—(3)28. Big, long- 
lobed flowers of deep blue. Showy species from mountains 
of Cashmir. Pkt. 20c. GLUTINOSA—(3)35. Unusual color 
here. Rather large blossoms in soft, creamy yellow. Pkt. 20c. 
PITCHERI (Azurea grandiflora)—(3-4)60. Big flowers in 
deep and brilliant sky blue. Pkt. 15c. Plants, each 45c; 
8 for $1.20. NEMOROSA—25 inches. Particularly good. 
Many dense spikes of deep blue-violet, the decorative effect 
continued after the flowers have fallen by tightly packed 
flora] bracts of bronzy violet. Plants, each 75c. SCLAREA 
VATICAN GARDENS—Decorative floral leaves of bright 
violet. Exceptionally showy. Monocarpic. Pkt. 20c. OFFER 
157A7—One pkt. each of the above as offered in seed form, 
for $1.60. 
SALVIA HARDY BLEND—Includes all above, with others. 
Pkt. 15c; Wg oz. 30c; % oz. 50c. 

