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SCABIOSA 

PORTULACA 
“Moss Rose” (ag) Grp. | 
The brilliant reds, yellows, coppers, and 
rose-pinks make bright any sunny park- 
ing, edging, or rockery. Light, sandy soil 
is best. 
Double Mixed. Like roses. Pkt. 15c. 
Single Mixed. Only 6 inches. Pkt. 10c. 
PRIMROSE, Primula 
Indispensable is the first word that 
comes to mind when it turns to Primulas 
_. . for how drab would be the shade gar- 
den from January until June without these 
beautiful and winter-hardy flowers. Pot- 
gardeners, too, have come to-depend upon 
the Primula Obconica for certain and con- 
tinuous bloom in pots, in the home, in the 
greenhouse, in the lath-house, and just 
out-of-doors anywhere but in direct sun. 
All are about 1 foot high. 
MALACOIDES (Baby Primrose) (a) Grp. 
4. For masses of color, the following 
recent introductions seem hardly the 
same species as the old Light Lilac. 
Blood Red. Pkt. 25c. 
Enchantress. Salmon-rose. Pkt. 25c. 
Glory of Riverside. Deep rose. Pkt. 25c. 
Lavender Glory. Giant lavender. Pkt. 25c. 
Snowflake. Giant pure white. Pkt. 25c. 
OBCONICA (Large-Flowered Primrose) 
(ba) Grp. 4. 
Apple Blossom. Light pink. Pkt. 50c. 
Avalanche. Pure white. Pkt. 50c. 
Coerulea. Sky-blue. Pkt. 50c. 
Fasbender Red. Blood red. Pkt. 50c. 
Lachsrosa. Salmon-rose. Pkt. 50c. 
Wyaston Wonder. Largest red. Pkt. 50c. 
Grandiflora Mixed. All shades. Pkt. 50c. 
VERIS POLYANTHUS (English-type 
Primroses) (p) Grp. 4. For two months 
each spring, the shade-garden borders 
and edgings are enlivened with the in- 
tense yellows, reds, blue, and bronze 
combinations of Polyanthus. 
Grandiflora Mixed. Pkt. 50c. 
Giant Bouquet. Wonderful imported Eng- 
lish strain, with the largest flowers and 
greatest range of colors. Pkt. 75c. 
PYRETHRUM 
Roseum (p) Grp. 4 
Large double and single Daisies in the 
unusual shades of pink, rose, and crim- 
son, on cutting stems above beautiful 
fern-like foliage. 
Single Mixed. Pkt. 25c. 
Double Mixed (80% true). Pkt. 25c. 
SHASTA DAISY 
QUEEN ANNE’S LACE FLOWER 
(a) Grp. 1 
The tiny white flowers are borne in 
large, compound umbels, lending a de- 
lightfully lacy effect to a mixed bouquet; 
2 feet. Pkt. 10c. 
RANUNCULUS and 
ANEMONES (pa) 
The gay flowers of these winter-and- 
spring mainstays in the south and west 
are familiar to all who have grown them 
from their bulbs, but few realize that 
equal results may be obtained the first 
season from seed. Best results are ob- 
tained by sowing where they are to re- 
main, in September-October, choosing a 
sunny, well-drained location, and treat- 
ing the plot as you would a new lawn 
(raking-in ever so lightly, mulching with 
peat moss or steer manure, and never per- 
mitting the surface to become dried out 
or puddled), and allowing 30 days for 
germination. 
Anemone de Caen. Poppy-like flowers of 
red, blue, lavender, and white. Pkt. 
25c. 
Ranunculus, Giant French Hybrids. Many 
shades of pink, rose, red, copper, yel- 
low, and white. Pkt. 25c. 
RUDBECKIA 
“Cone Flower” (a) Grp. 3 
Starlight. Large semi-double high-cen- 
tered Daisies varying in color from 
pale yellow to mahogany red; to 3 feet. 
Pkt. 15c. 
SALPIGLOSSIS 
Velvet Flower (a) Grp. 2 
Combining as it does, delicate grace, 
richness of coloring, and velvety texture, 
the regal Salpiglossis has practically no 
equal. From a low base of leaves rise 
slender but wiry 30-inch stalks which 
bear large lily-like flowers in a magnifi- 
cent range of colors. 
Gloxiniaflora Emperor Mixed. Shades of 
rose, red, bronze, buff, and purple, 
many veined with gold. Pkt. 10c. 

SCHIZANTHUS, GRANDIFLORA MIXED 


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