* MONARDELLA LANCEOLATA—erbx (3) 16. A pretty an- 
nual flower of easy handling. The branching plants are set 
with purple flower-heads. Aromatic fragrance. Pkt. l5c. 
1 MONARDELLA VILLOSA—erx(8)18. Heads of pretty, 
Monarda-like flowers, pink to purple. Pkt. 15c. 
2 MONSONIA SPECIOSA —w. A handsome Pelargonium 
cousin, with showy white or soft pink flowers, always veined 
with deeper pink. Fairly large leaves with bipinnatifid lobes. 
5 seeds for 25c. 
1 MULGEDIUM BOURGEAI—ebx (3) 50. Lovely blossom stars 
of pearly blue in immense plume-panicles. Good perennial 
for the mixed hardy border. Pkt. 15c. Plants, each 40c. 
1 MYOSOTIS or FORGET-ME-NOT —*erx. Notable for 
dainty, blue blossoms, though other colors appear. ALPE- 
STRIS BLUE—20 inches. Sprays of intense blue. Usually 
grown as an Annual. Pkt. 15¢e; 146 oz. 25c. ALPESTRIS 
ROSE—tThe pretty pink Forgetmenot. Pkt. 15c; 146 oz. 25c. 
ALPESTRIS WHITE—Pure white flowers. Needed both for 
its own beauty, and for contrast. Pkt. 15¢e; 4g oz. 265c. 
PALUSTRIS SEMPERFLORENS—8 inches. Sprays of soft 
blue with lighter centers. A true perennial of pretty, grace- 
ful habit. Flowers first season from seed. Pkt. 15c; “6 oz. 
30c; % oz. 50c. OFFER 144A8—One pkt. each of above 
for 50c. 
3 NEMASTYLIS ACUTA — rkt(2)18. Celestial Lily. Large 
blossoms of pure sky blue, exquisite in color and form. A 
bulb, to be handled as Tigridia. Pkt. 20c. 
4 MOREA or AFRICAN IRIS 3 
South of the equator Morea takes the place of the genus 
Iris, but that means no lessening of family beauty, for 
Moreas are airier, daintier, with an alluring charm individual 
to them. All make splendid pot plants, and it is so that they 
are usually grown North. Colorings include snowy white, 
white with blue or gold patches, soft yellow, buff, citron 
patched with mahogany, lilac, mauve, lavender and violet. 
“kt”? culture. Pkt. 20c; 3 pkts. for 50c; 10 pkts. for $1.50. 
4 MOREA IRIDIOIDES—This beauty handles easily as a pot 
plant. Flowers to 4-inch diameters, pure white, marked with 
yellow at base of outer segments, with blue on inner seg- 
ments. Pkt. 20c. Plants, each 70c; 3 for $2.10. 
BICOLOR—kt(w). Large flowers of clear citron yellow, the 
outer segments with brown basal patch, the inner sometimes 
sprinkled with brown dots. Particularly desirable. Makes a 
fine pot plant. Pkt. 20c. Plants, each 75c. 
MOREA ROBINSONIANA—The ‘“‘Wedding Iris” of Lord 
Howe Island. Spectacular blossoms, 4 inches wide, white with 
yellow and rosy markings, on stems that reach 6 feet. On 
one stately clump 457 flowers have been counted between 
June and October. North, a large pot plant. Pkt. 25c. 
MOREA POLYSTACHYA—kt. Blossoms like lavender butter- 
flies, touched with yellow and violet, in handsome open 
sprays. Bulbs planted in garden in spring lie dormant for a 
time, then grow rapidly, giving glorious autumn showing. 
May be dug and stored in sand. Also forces as a pot plant. 
Illustrated page 1. Pkt. 15c. Bulbs, spring or fall, 2 for 35c; 
7 for $1.00. 
RAMOSA—20 inches. Bright yellow flowers carried in great 
corymbs of many clusters. Well-grown plants can be exceed- 
ingly showy. Pkt. 20c. 
TRIPETALA—kt(w). Turquoise blue flowers, patched yellow 
at base. Pkt. 20c. 
PAVONIA VILLOSA—kt(w). The flower segments are rosy 
purple, patched with vividly iridescent, deep blue, this 
orange-margined. Offered subject arrival. Pkt. 20c. 
OFFER 142A8—One pkt. each of the 7 for $1.25. 
3 THE BRIGHT GRAPE HYACINTH 
MUSCARI, Grape Hyacinth, will give easy, vivid color for 
springs beyond your numbering, fill your rock garden with 
beauty, your woodland or border with gay surprise. “kt” 
culture. LATIFOLIUM—The lower flowers are dark blue, 
the upper flowers sky blue. Just one wide leaf. Pkt. 20c. 
ELEGANS—Pretty Caucasian species with large flowers of 
porcelain blue. Pkt. 20c. PARADOXUM—Caucasian species 
with dense spikes of a blue so dark that it is near black. 
Pkt. 20c. COMOSUM—14 inches. Tall, loose spikes, bells in 
the top half blue-violet, those in the lower half of olive- 
shaded brown. Pkt. 20c.; 4, oz. 30c. ARMENIACUM—Called 
Heavenly Blue, and that describes the bright, rich blue of it. 
Easy and showy. Pkt. 15c; % oz. 35c; %4 oz. 60c. OFFER 
1483A8—One pkt. each of the above for 80c. 
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* NEMESIA—erk. Easy annuals of much beauty. GAYETY 
BLEND— (2-3) 12. Large, oddly formed flowers of white, pale 
yellow, pink, rose, crimson, orange and lilac, carried in long 
and great freedom. Pkt. 15¢c. THE ~ EVERBLOOMING 
NEMESIA—(8)18. Pretty flowers of white or blush, always 
with touch of gold, carried in continuous succession for 
months. Nemesia foetens. Pkt. 15c. 
* NEMOPHILA MIXED—ekt(2)8. Wide; handsome flowers, 
sky blue, pure white, or white with purple splashes. Easy and 
showy if sown early. Pkt. 10c; % oz. 20c; %4 oz. 35c. 
1 NEPETA MUSSINI—erex (2-4) 10. Blue-lavender flowers in 
spraying panicles over wide mounds of silver-gray foliage. 
Excellent, long-blooming rock garden or edging perennial. 
Sometimes used, too, as undercover for bulb plantings. Pkt. 
15e; 146 oz. 25c;) % oz. 40c. Plants, each 40c; 3 for $1.10; 
10 for $3.30. 
3 NERINE FILIFOLIA—One of the prettier bulb-flowers, 
blooming in autumn surprise along with the Chrysanthemums. 
Airy blossoms with petals crinkle-crisped, in open circlets on 
foot-high stems, bright carmine buds unfolding to sparkling 
pink. It cuts well. In the North, dig the bulbs in late autumn, 
and carry over winter in a frost-proof place, packed in dry 
sand. Makes a good pot bulb, too. Bulbs only, spring delivery, 
3 for 50c; 10 for $1.35. 
2 NERTERA DEPRESSA — rmtutkt(w). _Foliage-films ’ of 
bright lettuce-green, set closely with bead-like coral berries. 
New Zealand. Rock gardens, pot culture, terrariums. Pkt. 25c. 
NIEREMBERGIA ALLURE 
COERULEA PURPLE ROBE—*erx(w) (8)8. Blossoms like 
open chalices, so many that the whole 
fptant is but a flower-mound of rich 
i‘blue-violet. Handled as an annual, it is 
‘of easiest garden culture, but also it 
makes a delightful long-blooming pot 
plant. Illustrated opposite. Pkt. 20c. 
COERULEA SOFT BLUE—Like last, 
but in a softer tone of coerulean blue. 
Pkt. 20c. FRUTESCENS — ebx (8) 20. 
White blossoms with blue veinings and 
yellow throat. Fine everblooming garden 
Annual that sometimes also survives 
mild winters. Pkt. 15c; 3 pkts. for 40c. GRACILIS—A pretty, 
fine-leafed species of decumbent habit. Blossoms white, with 
purple and yellow centers. Desirable as a hanging basket or 
window box plant, but may also be grown in garden. Pkt. 
20c. OFFER 147A8—One pkt. each of the four for 60c. 
NIEREMBERGIA RIVULARIS—River-snow. Attractive ever- 
blooming matformer, to four inches, set so closely with 
snowy, silk-crinkly, upfacing blossom cups that the whole 
plant spread shows as a marble-white pavement. Winter- 
hardy at Philadelphia, but protect in colder areas. Rock 
garden, terrarium, ground cover. Plants, each 45c; 3 for 
$1.20; 10 for $38.55. 
* SWEET-SCENTED NASTURTIUMS 
From cream, through lemon, chamois, salmon, rose, orange, 
cerise, scarlet, maroon and mahogany, in many a blending, 
shading or bizarre splashing. “x” culture. DWARF DOUBLE 
GIANTS—Compact plant-globes massed with fragrant blos- 
soms, semi-double and double. Pkt. 10c; % oz. 20c; 1 oz. 
35c. DWARF SINGLE MIXED—The desirable, free-blooming 
single-flowered Nasturtiums in superb color range. Pkt. 10e; 
1 oz. 30c; 4% Ib. $1.00. DWARF EMPRESS OF INDIA— 
Deeply bronzed leaves and velvety scarlet flowers. Makes a 
rich edging or bed. Pkt. 10c; % oz. 20c; 1 oz. 35e. DOUBLE 
GLEAM HYBRIDS—Semi-dwarf, may be grown on trellis 
or as a trailer. Fragrant semi to fully double flowers in 
fine color range. Pkt. 10c; 1 oz. 35c; %4 Ib. $1.10. GLEAM 
SCARLET—The last with flowers of vivid orange scarlet. 
Pkt. 15c. TALL MIXED—Big, varied single flowers. Vine 
for trellis or fence. Pkt. 10c; 1 oz. 25c. OFFER 145A8— 
One pkt. each of above for 50c. 
1 THE GOLDEN LOTUS 
It is NELUMBIUM LUTEUM, a hardy perennial aquatic 
of truly spectacular beauty when in full flower. Big yellow - 
blossoms, followed by oddly decorative ‘shaker’ seed pods 
or receptacles. May be grown in artificial pool, natural lake, 
shallow, or stream backwater. In sowing Nelumbium seeds, 
file through the shell, soak two days in barely warm water, 
then sow in saucer of sand covered with water, placing in 
gunny window until seed sprouts. Seedling plants should be 
transplanted to strawberry box of sand and earth in shallow 
edge of pool, later being set where water is deeper. 6 seeds 
for 25c; 27 seeds for $1.00. 

