4 FREESIAS FROM SEED 
Quick from seed, often flowering within six months after 
sowing. The sprays of perfumed flower-trumpets come in 
rainbow hues, primrose to gold orange, lavender, true blue, 
white, soft pink, carmine, rare sunset tones. Fine blend, 
ecw (7)16. Pkt. 20c; 4g oz. 35e; ¥% oz. 60c. 
3 THE DAINTY FRITILLARYS 
Cousin to the true Lily, the genus FRITILLARIA holds 
many a charming exquisite. Flowers are usually recurved, 
but again bell-like. Variations in cream, yellow, rose, violet, 
scarlet or white, sometimes in tessellations. Rock garden or 
shade-edge colonies. ‘‘yt’?. Mixed. Pkt. 20c. 
FRITILLARIA IMPERIALIS—yt. Crown Imperial. Circlets 
of pendant, showy bells, bronze, orange or crimson. 40 
inches. Pkt. 20c; 8 pkts. for 50c. 
* GAILLARDIA ANNUAL 
No gayer, longer-showing annual flowers than these. 
PICTA SINGLE MIXED — Gorgeous colorings, lemon to 
bronze maroon, in odd combinations, Pkt. 10c; 1% oz. 20c. 
INDIAN CHIEF (Amblyodon)—Big single flowers of coppery 
maroon. Fine for cutting. Pkt. 15c. 
PEERLESS DOUBLE MIXED—Curly ball-blossoms in varied 
brilliant reds, yellows, oranges. Pkt. 10c; 4% oz. 20c. 
1 GAILLARDIA PERENNIAL 
Rich, intense color for border or vase, June to autumn. 
“x” eulture. PORTOLA HYBRIDS—Flowers of great size, 
running chiefly to gold-tipped metallic reds. Vigorous upright 
habit; long cutting stems. Pkt. 10c; 4% oz. 25c. Plants, each 
40c; 3 for $1.10; 10 for $3.15. SUNSET—AIl pure golden 
yellow, no touch of red. Fine showy flower. Pkt. 15c; 3 pkts. 
for 40c. BURGUNDY—Usually wine-red to maroon, but, 
rarely, with yellow tips. Pkt. 15e; % oz. 35c. GOBLIN— 
Dwarf, rather compact variety, loaded with bright yellow 
flowers, zoned red. Edgings. Pkt. 20c. TANGERINE—Varia- 
tions in tangerine orange to copper. Pkt. 15c. OFFER 93A8 
—One pkt. each of above for 65c. 
GAILLARDIA SHERBROOKE—Big flowers, all pure yellow. 
Plants, each 45c; 3 for $1.25. 
GAILLARDIA RUBY—AI glowing ruby red, no touch of 
yellow. Plants, each 45c; 3 for $1.25. 
If we may not make over the world, we can at least 
build our own garden corner of it to fit, though that 
corner be no greater than a window ledge. If this be 
escapism, then make the most of it, giving thanks for it. 

THE FRINGED GENTIAN — Gentiana 
crinita — *rnstyt(3-4)25. Flowers of ex- 
quisite charm, with deeply fringed petals 
in misty sky blue te indigo. Late autumn 
or early winter sowings are best, though 
early spring sowings will often give ade- 
quate results. Does not transplant well, 
except when small. Illustrated opposite. 
Pkt. 20c; 3 pkts. for 50c; 10 pkts. for $1.50. 
1 THE GENTIANS 
Gentian for blue, blue for Gentian, almost 
the words are interchangeable. Nor are Gentians unduly 
difficult, no reason at all why every rock garden, every hardy 
perennial border, should not be jeweled with them. “kt.” 
ACAULIS—7 inches. Royal blue trumpets of quite startling 
size on little, spreading plants. Blooms early. Particularly 
good. Pkt. 20c; 146 oz. 50c; %4 oz. 90c. 
ANDREWSI— (38-4) 20. The Closed Gentian can be spectacu- 
lar in well-grown, many-stemmed plants, each loaded with 
serried clusters of sealed-vase flowers in the most brilliant 
of vitreous blues. Rather easy. Pkt. 20c; 3 for 50c. Plants, 
each 45c; 3 for $1.25. 
ANDREWSI WHITE—Like the last, but with pure white 
flowers. Rare. Pkt. 25c. Plants, each 60c. 
ASCLEPIADEA—(2)12. The lovely Willow Gentian. Great 
sheafs of lithe stems, loaded with sapphire trumpets. Thrives 
in light moist shade, or almost equally well in full sun. Pkt. 
20c; 146 oz. 40c; % oz. T5c. 
ASCLEPIADEA ALBA—Here the trumpets are of purest 
whiteness. A form of much charm. Pkt. 25c; 3 pkts. for 70c. 

DAHURICA—(3)14. A really fine Gentian, and one of fairly 
easy culture. Flowers of rich, dark, blue. Does very well 
here in the Atlantic coastal plain, right in full sun. Should 
have mulching about the roots of grass clippings, straw or 
the like to give it the cool-soil root run it prefers. Pkt. 20c. 
Plants, each 50c; 3 for $1.40. 
FETISOWI—(3) 16. Consider it a Dahurica with both foliage 
and flower in somewhat darker, deeper coloring. Showy, 
robust species of great floriferousness. Pkt. 25c. 
HASCOMBIENSIS— (2-3) 8. Splendid English hybrid. A free 
producer of big and beautiful blossoms in mid-blue. Does 
very well in New Jersey. Pkt. 20c; 142 oz. 35c. 
LAGODECHIANA—(3-4)8. In 
bloom for many months, charm- 
ing, wide-lobed blossoms that are 
luxuriant bells of deepest indigo. 
Not at all a difficult species, and 
definitely one of the more beauti- 
ful. Illustrated opposite. Pkt. 20c; 
3 pkts. for 50c. 
LUTEA—It(3)36. Starry golden 
flowers rise in dense clusters, : 
whorl above whorl. Farrer called it, at its best, truly glorious. 
For the mixed hardy border or larger rock garden. Pkt. 20c; 
14g oz. 35ce; 4% oz. 60c. 
PHLOGIFOLIA—(3)17. A Gentian that will thrive in any 
garden. It grows with such ease that it may be used for 
bedding. Medium-size flowers of deep blue, produced in 
abundance. Pkt. 20c; 3 pkts. for 50c. Plants, each 50c. 
PURPUREA—(3)24. The weird ‘‘Red’’ Gentian. Clustered 
flowers of rather rich red-brown, with mottled shadings. The 
flowers are sweetly fragrant. Pkt. 20c; 146 oz. 40c. 
SCABRA BUERGERI— (3-5)16. Garland 
Gentian. Big, five-lobed bells in a fine, 
deep blue, grouped and scattered along the 
several outspraying stems. In bloom 
autumn. Illustrated opposite. Pkt. 25c. 

SEPTEMFIDA— (2-3)9. Amazingly beauti- 
ful, jagged flower-bells of lovely soft blue. 
An enduring perennial of relatively easy 
ee culture, thriving in light shade, or full sun; 
becoming better year by year. Pkt. 20c; 140 oz. 35c. 
OTHER GENTIAN SPECIES—Not room to describe all. 
These are very good, too. PROLATA—9 in. Sikkim. Deep 
blue. Pkt. 20c. ELWESI—15 in. Pale blue. Pkt. 20c. KUROO 
—5 in. A beauty. Blue with green dots. Pkt. 25c. DECUM- 
BENS—9 in. Easy, variable blue. Pkt. 20c; SPECIOSA— 
.Himalayan of which we have no description. Pkt. 20c. 
SIKKIMENSIS—9 in. Mats. White-throated blue-bells. Pkt. 
20c. STYLOPHORA—40 in. soft, creamy yellow. Stately. 
Pkt. 20ec. TRICHOTOMA—14 in. China. Deep blue, white 
within. Pkt. 20c. ORNATA—Indigo, throat white. Pkt. 25c. 
OFFER 94A8—One pkt. each of the Gentians for $4.30. 
GENTIAN BLEND—A well-balanced mixture. Includes seeds 
of most of the kinds here, with others as fine. Pkt. 20c; 146 
oz. 40e; 1% oz. 75c. : 
Know men by their gardens, for gardens are mirrors. 
1 GALAX APHYLLA—rmstatyt(1)10. Ornamental foliage, 
that in spring is delicate green-yellow, in summer bronze, 
in autumn wine red. Spikes of pretty cream-white flowers, 
tolerates sun but prefers some shade. Pkt. 15¢; 146 oz. 35c. 
Plants, each 50c; 3 for $1.40. ; 
1 GALIUM — ecx (2-3) — Lacy foliage and sprays of airy 
flowers. AETNICUM—25 inches. Seafoam Flower. Wave- 
spray of white with faintest green suffusions. Pkt. 15c. 
VERUM—25 inches. This is the charming Golden Baby- 
breath. Tall sprays of airy golden flowerlets, over foliage of 
emerald lace. Delicate fragrance. Good cut flower. Pkt. 20c. 
Plants, each 45e; 3 for $1.20. 
- GAMOLEPIS—ex (2-47. Easy and pretty long-blooming 
Annuals from South Africa. Both have golden yellow flowers. 
SPECIOSA—Largest flowered. Pkt. 15e. TAGETES—Most 
profuse. Fine foliage. Pkt. 15c. 
6 GARDENIA VEITCHI—Perhaps finest horticultural form 
of the lovely Cape Jasmine, Gardenia jasminoides. It is 
tender evergreen shrublet that bears a long succession of 
sweetly perfumed, large and double Camellia-like blossoms, 
pure white and with thick, waxy petals. Grown as a pot or 
conservatory plant. Nice young plants, each 10c; 3 for $2.00. 

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