2 DRYMONIA—w. Rare Gesneriads of semi-epiphytic nature, 
for the moist greenhouse, lightly shaded. MOLLIS—Pretty, 
light yellow flowers. Leaves semi-succulent, crispy. Epiphyte. 
Pkt. 35c. PARVIFLORA—Bell-shaped, canary yellow flowers 
with rose-colored bracts. Lustrous leaves 
with creamy center-stripe, red in reverse. 
Pkt. 50c. SPECTABILIS — Particularly 
showy yellow flowers. Pkt. 40c. OFFER 
80A8—One pkt. each of the three for $1.10. 
2 THE SCARLET ORCHID 
Here is a beautiful true Orchid, Epiden- 
drum O’Brienianum, that handles well as 
a pot plant under window conditions. 
Brilliant scarlet blossoms in big spray- 
clusters, lips touched with orange yellow. 
Illustrated opposite. Pinch plants back 
occasionally to keep them bushy. Per pkt. 
40c. Can also supply plants, good single- 
stem that should bloom within a few 
months at each $1.15; 3 for $3.25. 

BOOK—AMERICAN ORCHID CULTURE—White. How 
sources, propagation, descriptions. 260 
to grow them, 
pages, 110 illustrations. $6.00. 

1 DUCHESNEA INDICA—Low, hardy plants with ‘“‘straw- 
berry”’ foliage, spreading by runners. Golden flowers followed 
by shining red fruits carried above the leaves. Rock garden 
or carpeting. Also as hanging basket plant for the window. 
Pkt. 15c. Plants, each 35c; 3 for $1.00; 10 for $2.70. 
2 DROSANTHEMUM SPECIOSUM—Showy Dew-flower. Un- 
usual pot plant, or in rock garden in summer. Great quan-. 
tities of flowers that show a remarkable color sequence, 
opening lavender-rose but soon becoming brilliant red-orange. 
Attractive, succulent foliage. A really showy pot plant. Also 
exceedingly effective as a summer bedder, used in a dry, 
sunny position. Plants, each 45c; 3 for $1.20; 10 for $3.50. 
2 DYCKIA BLEND—w. Desirable plants for pot culture, 
making dense rosettes of fat and highly glossy leaves, lightly 
spine-edged, the whole in particularly deep, rich green. 
Eventually comes a high inflorescence, sulphur yellow to 
orange red. Bromeliads. Pkt. 20c. Plants, each 40c. 
6 ECCREMOCARPUS SCABER—*ek(w) (8)70. Glory-vine. 
Airy foliage and sprays of oddly lobed flowers in orange 
scarlet. Charming pot or hanging basket plant, or it may be 
grown outside on a low trellis. A tender perennial, but 
blooms quickly first year from seed, and may readily be 
grown as an annual. Pkt. 20c. 
1 ECHINACEA PURPUREA—ecdbx(3)45. Showy flowers 
with reflexing rose-purple petals from high cone centers. 
Long-lived border perennials of great hardiness. Synonym 
Rudbeckia purpurea. Pkt. 15¢e; 4% oz. 25c. Plants, variety 
THE KING, considered an improvement in blossom size, 
form and coloring, each 45c; 3 for $1.25. 
* ECHINOCYSTIS LOBATA—ex. Mock-cucumber vine. Easy, 
rapid-growing annual vine. Panicles of little lacy, white 
flowers, followed by curious fruits. Pkt. 10c; %4 oz. 25c. . 
2 THE EASY ECHEVERIAS 
Four attractive pot plants with curling racemes of pretty 
flowers above rosettes of thick and crispy, succulent foliage. 
DERENBERGI—Dense, silvery rosettes with each leaf carry- 
ing a faint red tip. Rather showy orange flowers. Plants, 
each 35c; 3 for $1.00. MULTICAULIS—A distinctively dif- 
ferent Echeveria with many thick, red, branching stems, each 
branch topped by a fat, rose-toned rosette. Flowers red- 
orange, but soft yellow within. Plants, each 40c; 3 for $1.10. 
ELEGANS—Called Ghost Flower from the eery look of it 
at dusk. Rosettes of silvery white. Dainty little flowers of 
apricot tone. Plants, each 35c; 3 for $1.00. PULVINATA— 
As different from the others as it well could be. The thick, 
fat leaves are each covered with down in effect of silver- 
green velvet, but toward the tips the leaf coloring shows red 
shadings. The flowers are scarlet. Plants, each 40c; 3 for 
$1.10. OFFER 82AN8—One plant each of the four for $1.35. 
ECHEVERIA SEEDS—Seeds of ornamental Echeverias in 
mixture, saved from varied assortment. Pkt. 20c. 
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1 ECHINOPS—ebx(3)70. The decorative Globe Thistles. 
EXALTATUS—Big heads of metallic blue. Boldly handsome. 
Pkt. 15c. NIVEUS (Sphaerocephalus)—Soft silvery blue. 
Acanthus-like foliage. Pkt. 15c; 4g oz. 25c. Plants, each 40c; 
8 for $1.10. RITRO—Deep, rich blue. Pkt. 20c. 
* ECHIUM BLUE BEDDER—erdk(8)20. Tones of intense 
blue. The flowers are carried in graceful crosier sprays. Illus- 
trated page 4. Pkt. 15c; 46 oz. 25c. 
* ECHIUM WBITE HILLS—Variety of last with enamel- 
white flowers that build up into undulate snowy hills. These 
two Echiums are easy garden annuals of particular value in 
landscape color schemes. Pkt. 15c; 14g oz. 25c. 
1 EDRAIANTHUS—erx(2)4. Wheel-bell. From grass-like 
tuffet-hubs radiate stems that end in clusters of upfacing 
purple bells. DALMATICUS—A showy and easy rock garden 
plant. Pkt. 20c. PUMILIO—A rare rock garden gem. Low, 
condensed, lesser in diameter than the last. Pkt. 25c. 
1 ELSHOLTZIA FARQUHARI—eocbx (4)40. In September 
the candelabrum branches fill with fluffy, attractive purple 
bloom-spikes. Exceedingly aromatic. A showy, interesting 
plant for the hardy border. North China, Pkt. 15c¢; 46 oz. 
30c. Plants, each 45c; 3 for $1.25; 10 for $3.60. 
1 EPILOBIUM NUMMULARIFOLIUM—*rstx (3) 2. Trailing 
carpets of minute, overlapping emerald leaves, bronze in sun, 
with daintiest snowy star-lets of blossoms above, the stems 
airy, invisible. New Zealand, Pkt. 20c. 
EREMURUS or FOXTAIL LILY 3 
By mid-June the magnificent spike of 
Eremurus robustus that has so strikingly 
accented the border, is losing its hundreds 
of airy, pink star-blossoms, but the nearby 
Eremurus Bungei will be opening the rich 
gold of its pyramid spires and the lower 
buds of the Shelford Hybrids will show 
varied lovely tones of apricot, salmon and 
coppery orange. Eremurus is of full win- 
ter hardiness here, and there is little diffi- 
culty to the growing of it, providing seed 
is sown so that it has long exposure to 
cold. The roots go fully dormant in sum- 
mer. Seedlings take at least three years to 
reach flowering size; but they are long 
lived, once happily established. ‘‘yt” cul- 
ture. Illustrated opposite. ELWESIANUS 
—6 ft. Softest pink. A splendid early. 
ELWESIANUS ALBUS —6 feet. Snowy 
white. BUNGEI—5 ft. Spikes of gold- 
orange stars. ROBUSTUS—8 ft. Hundreds 
of individually large rose-pink stars are 
packed in tall spires. HIMALAICUS—8 ft. 
Dense spikes of fragrant, snowy stars. 
SPECIAL HYBRIDS—tThis, the Shelburne group, is latest to 
bloom. Rich in delectable apricots, salmon tints, orange, 
coppery tones, with pure or suffused whites. UNIFORM 
PRICE—any of the above, pkt. of 25 seeds for 20c: 100 seeds 
for 60c; 250 seeds for $1.30; 500 for $2.45. OFFER 83A8— 
One pkt. each of above for $1.00. 
EREMURUS PEERLESS BLEND—AI] above, with perhaps 
others. 25 seeds for 20c; 100 seeds for 55c; 250 for $1.25; 
500 for $2.25; 1000 for $4.30. 
1 ERICA or HEATH 
Fine-leafed, evergreen plants with multitudes of daintily 
attractive blossoms. See also Calluna (Heather). 
1 ERICA CARNEA—rk(8)12. Splendid hardy Heath that is 
close to everblooming, seldom without its pretty little rose 
colored bells, even blossoming during mild periods of winter. 
The plants are evergreen, with needle-like leaves of deep 
emerald; the plant-form an irregular mound. Does not re- 
quire special soil conditions. Pkt. 20c; 3 pkts. for 50c. Plants, 
each 60c; 3 for $1.60; 10 for $4.70. 
1 ERICA CINEREA—ratk (2-3) 14. Evergreen plants of many 
twisted branchings. Clusters of showy violet flowers. Pkt. 20c. 
1 ERICA VAGANS—atrk (3-4)12. Low, spreading, decum- 
bent evergreen, the branchlets tipped in late summer with 
clusters-of rosy purple blossoming. Cornish Heath. Pkt. 20c. 
2 ERICA MIXED CAPE HEATHS—The other kinds are 
hardy, but this group is tender, grown only under glass in 
the North. Most handsome plants with delightful, variably 
colored flowers. Soil should contain sand and peat. Pkt. 25c. 
OFFER 84A8—One pkt. each of the Ericas for 75c. 
