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. Sometimes used in hanging baskets. Pkt. 1l65c. 
2 DROSANTHEMUM SPECIOSUM — Showy Dew-flower. 
Great quantities of flowers that open lavender-rose but soon 
becoming brilliant red-orange. Attractive, succulent foliage. 
A really showy pot plant. Also effective as a summer bedder, 
used in a dry, sunny position. Plants, each 45c; 3 for $1.20. 
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. One of the easier and better Bromeliads. Pkt. 
20c; 4g oz. 65c. Plants, each 45c; 3 for $1.25. 
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. 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. 20c; %6 oz. 30c; % oz. 45c. Plants, 
variety THE KING, considered an improvement in size, 
As and blossom coloring over the type, each 60c; 3 for 
$1.80. 
2 SHASTA DAISIES 
Soundly hardy, long-lived perennials, satisfactory for mixed 
border planting and for cutting. Big daisies, often 4 to 5 
inches across, pure white, or rarely faintly creamy. Seeds 
saved from singles of high merit. ecbk(2-4)30. Pkt. 15c; Ye 
oz. 25e; % oz. 40c; %4 oz. Thc. Plants, fine, large flowered 
singles, long in stem, with petals of heavy texture. Each 40c; 
3 for $1.10. MOUNT SHASTA—Splendid full double, in bloom 
for months. High-centered flowers of purest 
white. Plants, each 65c; 3 for $1.85. EDGE- 
BROOK GIANT—Single white, blossoms of 
immense size. Probably the largest-flowered 
of all the Shasta Daisies. Long stems. 
Plants, each 70c. 
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, lip 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 
to grow them, sources, propagation, description. 260 
pages, 110 illustrations. $6.00. 

2 THE EASY ECHEVERIAS 
Six attractive pot plants with curling racemes of pretty 
flowers above rosettes of thick and crispy, succulent foliage. 
GLAUCA—Large, flattened rosettes of blue-glaucous, succu- 
lent leaves, often with narrow edge of purple toward the 
leaf tip. Little flowers, pink without, yellow within. Each 40c. 
DERENBERGI—Dense, silvery rosettes, each leaf red-tipped. 
Pretty orange pink flowers. Plants, each 40c; 3 for $1.10. 
WEINGARTI—Here the rosettes are dense, compact, built 
of thick, succulent leaves in the darkest and richest of shin- 
ing emerald greens. Plants, each 40c. MULTICAULIS— 
Distinctive species with 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 40c; 3 for $1.10. PULVINATA— 
As different as it well could be. The thick, fat leaves are 
covered with down in effect of silver-green velvet, but red- 
shaded toward the leaf tip. Scarlet flowers. Plants, each 40c; 
pee $1.10. OFFER 85AN9—One plant each of above for 
ECHEVERIA SEEDS—Seeds of ornamental Echeverias in 
mixture, saved from varied assortment. Pkt. 20c. 
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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. 
1 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- 
Ns V4 orange stars. ROBUSTUS—8 ft. Hundreds 
KN P of individually large rose-pink stars are 
Wie WA packed in tall spires. HIMALAICUS—8 ft. 
aS all XS Dense spikes of fragrant, snowy stars. 
SPECIAL HYBRIDS—This, the Shelford group, is latest to 
bloom. Rich in delectable apricots, salmon tints, orange, 
coppery tones, with pure or suffused whites. HIM-ROB—Fine 
Himalaicus-Robustus hybrid. Tall, slender spikes of faintest 
pink. WAREI—Rich, coppery yellow. UNIFORM PRICE— 
Any of the above, pkt. of 20 seeds for 25c; 100 seeds for 
80c; 250 seeds for $1.75. OFFER 86A9—One pkt. each of the 
eight kinds for $1.70. 
EREMURUS PEERLESS BLEND—AI! above, with perhaps 
others, 20 seeds for 25c; 100 seeds for 75c; 250 seeds for 
$1.60; 500 seeds for $3.00; 1000 seeds for $5.70. 


ASK FOR THEM—Supplementing this catalog are two 
special folder offers, either or both of which will be sent 
gladly upon request. SPECIAL BOOK OFFER, lists and 
describes the many books on garden, nature and botanical 
subjects that we sell. TREASURE CHEST FOLDER, gives 
in price list form a large number of additional offerings 
in desirable seeds, plants and bulbs. 

1 ECHINOPS—ebx(3)70. The decorative Globe Thistles. 
EXALTATUS—Big heads of metallic blue. Boldly handsome. 
Pkt. 15e. NIVEUS (Sphaerocephalus)—Soft silvery blue. 
Acanthus-like foliage. Pkt. 15c; %g oz. 25c. Plants, each 40c; 
8 for $1.10. RITRO—Here the flowers are of the most in- 
tense, deep blue, a rich coloring that you will like and 
remember. Pkt. 20c; 14 oz. 35c; % oz. 60c. 
* ECHIUM BLUE BEDDER—erdk(8)20. Tones of intense 
blue. The flowers are carried in graceful crosier sprays. IIlus- 
trated page 4. Pkt. 15e; Wg oz. 25c. 
* ECHIUM WHITE 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; yg oz. 25c. 
1 EDRAIANTHUS MIXED—erx(2-4)4. Wheel-bell. From 
grass-like tuffet-hubs radiate spoke-fashion stems that end 
in close clusters of upfacing purple bells. A rather pretty 
and interesting rock garden perennial of easy culture. Pkt. 
20c. 
3 ERANTHIS HYEMALIS—rkt(1)7. Winter Aconite. Pretty, 
little, hardy bulb-flowers that are in bloom at first hint of 
pee Thai eet golden blossoms in green ruffs. Pkt. 20c; 
4e oz. 50c. 
2 VENUS FLYTRAP 
2 DIONAEA MUSCIPULA—The Venus Flytrap makes an 
interesting pot plant. The leaves are truly trap-like, the 
two halves center-hinged and edged with long bristles. When 
the leaves are touched, the halves fold together until the 
bristles interlock. Attractive white flowers. Supplied only in 
small, single-crown plants. These have naturally scanty 
roots, but pot them firmly {n a mixture of sand and peat, 
keeping this damp, and they will soon increase to fill the 
pot. Plants, each 50c; 3 for $1.40. 
