SWEET WILLIAMS (Dianthus Barbatus). 
(hP). Among the early hardy plants they 
are outstanding. Grow 10 to 90 inches 
tall. Plant either in full sun or slight 
shade. They form a dense mat of light to 
dark-green leaves, have dense, round- 
headed, hairy-petaled, medium-sized 
flowers. Should be treated as a biennial, 
sow seeds outdoors in May and trans- 
plant them in August to flower the 
second season. Useful as a border plant 
and the mixed border combining with 
Snapdragons, Stocks, Carnations, Pe- 
tunias, Larkspur. Their large color range 
makes them excellent for cut flowers. 
Varieties: New Port Pink; Scarlet Beauty, 
orange red; Dark Crimson; White; Single 
Mixed; Double Mixed. Packet, 10c. 
POPPY . . « Iceland 
TRITOMA (Red Hot Poker). (P). One 
of the most startling of autumn-blooming 
plants, with dense cigar-shaped spikes 
of red and yellow tubular flowers rising 
4 to 6 feet. Seed sown under glass in 
very early spring will sometimes produce 
flowering plants the following autumn. 
_ Set outdoors after all danger of frost is 
| passed in loose, well-drained, rather 
| poor soil in a sheltered but sunny loce- 
_ tion. Mixed. Packet, 10c. 

VALERIANA (Garden Heliotrope). 
(hP). Grows from 2 to 4 feet. Plant in 
any garden soil in either full sun or partial 
shade. Erect branching plant, with 
smooth, compound leaves. Has dense 
clusters of small, fragrant white or pinkish 
lavender flowers. Blooms profusely in 


the summer. Useful for filling in between Bek PYRETHRUM 
shrubs and for covering embankments. : 
Mixed. Packet, 10c. 
i ; SALVIA a Bonhite 
VERBENA (hP). Grows 6 to 8 inches; 
of trailing habit. Densely branching, with 
dark-green, wrinkled, dissected leaves, 
with clusters of medium- sized, salver- 
shaped, white, pink, red, purple flowers 
that bloom from May into the winter. A 
very good border plant, also for park- 
ings, foreground of shrub border and in 
the mixed border combined with Pe- 
tunias, Shirley Poppies, Snapdragons. 
Varieties: Golden Queen, golden yel- 
low; Scarlet Defiance, orange red; Pink 
peace?) Blue Shades; White; Mixed. 
Packet, 10c. 

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