THE YEAR-ROUND CATALOG 
Here is a catalog for every week in the year, not just for 
the spring, for there is no time when it is not the right time 
to sow some kinds of seeds. Key letters tell when. Then there 
are bulbs for both spring and fall planting, and hardy peren- 
nial plants can be put out at either season, some of them, 
as Irises and Hardy Poppies, even during summer heat. Of 
course greenhouse plants for the window garden, and their 
seeds, are always available year-through, and so are the many 
good books on gardening that we offer. This catalog can be 
an ever-ready source of garden help. Save it. 
3 THE PINEAPPLE LILY 
The Pineapple Lily, KEUCOMIS 
UNDULATA, is a rather rare, but 
charming and easily grown South 
African bulb. Even the foliage is 
attractive, big nests of wide, thick 
leaves, glos8y and with margins 
that are crisped and undulate. Ex- 
otic in fact, it seems strikingly 
exotic, almost spectacular, in its 
inflorescence, even though the col- 
oring may not sound exciting. The 
thick, dense spikes of flowers, each 
spike crowned with a green rosette 
of foliage, give much the effect of 
elongated pineapples. The actual 
flowers are creamy, with suffusions 
of elfin green. Illustrated opposite. 
Eucomis comes readily from seed, the young bulbs blooming 
second or third year, according to size. The Pineapple Lily 
makes a handsome pot plant, or it may be given Gladiolus 
culture in the garden, digging and winter-storing in autumn. 
ek(w)18. Seeds, per pkt. 25c; 3 pkts. for 70c; 10 for $2.00. 
Young bulbs, about size when blooming usually begins, each 
50c; 3 for $1.35. 
COLEUS CARLTON AZTEC 
Here is vivid, vibrant color, splashed about in a near- 
barbarie splendor of contrasts that yet blend into beauty. 
Rich reds there are, with carmines and rose-toned crimsons; 
-with pink, and purple, and cerise; with mahogany, and 
maroon, and black-violet. And in backgrounds, or edgings, 
or random spatterings are all the greens that nature knows, 
from those on the brink of yellow, to the deepest and darkest 
of emeralds. Then there are whites, creams and buffs, cop- 
pery tones and salmon flushings, with bits and hints of about 
everything else within the compass of color. And all this may 
be applied in varied edgings, bandings, zonings, in compli- 
cated patternings, or again there may be self colorings, leaves 
all one rich shade. Not unusual are those where colors seem 
to neighbor by chance on the leaf, as random, and as bright, 
as the chromatic daubings of a child with his first paint box. 
The leaves are mostly of great size, some of them by actual 
measuring a full 10 inches long by 9 wide, but don’t expect 
all to be that large. Some particularly colorful ones, will 
have leaves a good bit smaller. Usually the foliage shows a 
distinct tendency toward “‘savoying’”’ or wavy curliness. The 
Carlton Aztec strain is desirable for every Coleus use, spec- 
tacular as a pot plant, or in the garden. Easy from seed. 
Culture ‘‘w’’. Pkt. 75c; 3 for $2.00; 10 pkts. (customer limit) 
for $6.00. 
PLANT FINDER 
To hel» you in picking out plants suited to particular uses 
-we put key numerals before the names, meanings as here. 
1—Plants winter-hardy outside at Philadelphia, stems not 
woody. The hardy herbaceous perennials. 
2—-Frost-tender plants for pot culture in window or green- 
house, or for temporary outdoor planting in summer. 
Mostly herbaceous, but includes a few low, woody kinds. 
3—Bulbs and bulb-like plants. Degree of hardiness, with 
uses and needs usually given in description. 
4—Shrubs, trees or woody vines. Use and relative hardiness 
given in description. 
5—Annual plants. Here are the quick annual flowers that 
come into bloom within a few weeks of sowing. 
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2 THE GAYEST GERANIUM 
Quite surely it must be the 
variety BURDETTE COUTTS, 
for what brighter, happier pat- 
tern of vivid coloring could 
one well expect than the con- 
trasting zonings and paint- 
splashings that the leaves of 
Burdette Coutts show. Each 
leaf is centered in two-toned 
green, this surrounded by a 
wide, irregular band of olive- 
ripe purple, all splashed and 
spattered with pink, and red, 
and yellow. Still beyond this 
comes the broad white margin 
that shows so well in the illus- 
tration opposite. The flowers 
are a bright vermilion red. 
Good, young plants, each $1.50. 
1 PRIMULA INSHRIACH HYBRIDS 
An excellent Scottish strain of garden Primulas, hybrids 
of P. Bulleyana and P. burmanica. Whorls of flowers in rich 
colorings, from yellow, through apricot and orange, to pink, 
rose and carmine, along with violet shades and purple of Tyre. 
rkt(2)18. Full hardiness. Tolerates some shade, but not 
drought. A mulching of straw, leaves or grass clippings be- 
tween the plants will help keep soil temperatures lower at 
root depth, and they will like that. Pkt. 35c; 3 pkts. for $1.00; 
10 for $3.00. 
2 STRELITZIA or Bird of Paradise 
STRELITZIA REGINAE—w. The great blue-and-gold flower, 
oddly poised as though for a moment’s hesitant rest, seems 
a briliant jungle bird above broad tropical foliage. Illustrated 
opposite. The plants are not at 
all hard to grow, tolerant even 
of neglect, and blooming freely 
when of the right size, in sunny 
window or enclosed porch. Nor 
are they hard to start from seed, 
though the big, ‘‘red-haired’’ 
seeds do take a bit of time to 
germinate. But just have pa- 
tience and they are rather sure 
to sprout, unless, of course, 
temperatures have been too low, 
or drainage too poor. It needs a 
fair amount of heat, preferably 
from below. Large seeds, 3 for 
50e; 7 for $1.00; 25 for $3.00. 
Young plants for growing on, 
3 inches up, each $1.10; 3 for 
$3.00. We can also supply plants 
of 10 to 12 inch size (and these won’t need much more grow- 
ing to bloom) at each $4.50; 3 for $12.00. 
2 STRELITZIA NICOLAI—w. Here the flowers are larger 
than with Reginae, bright blue and white, the whole plant 
bigger, and stronger in growth. A superb beauty, but it 
needs a lot more room than does Reginae. Large seeds, each 
30c; 3 for $1.00. 
FOR A GORGEOUS PERENNIAL GARDEN 
sow seeds of the 16 showy and desirable winter-hardy peren- 
nials listed here. See this catalog for full descriptions, and 
while you are about it, look for the separate prices too, and 
check up on the savings our special collection rate gives you. 
All are kinds that grow readily from spring or summer sown 
seeds, blooming to be expected following year, and for many 
years to follow. Here they are, one regular packet each of 
Aquilegia Avalon Long Spurs, Delphinium Avalon Blend, 
Campanula persicifolia, Dianthus Highland Hybrids, Digitalis 
monstrosa, Stokesia, Hibiscus Mallow Marvels, Hemerocallis 
Hybrids, Amsonia, Ascelpias tuberosa, Lupinus Peerless Hy- 
brids, Gaillardia Porto'a, Poppy Oriental Hvbrids, Baptisia 
Hybrids, Gyysophila Oldhamiana and Centaurea macrocephala. 
We will send one regular packet each of the 16 kinds for 
just TWO DOLLARS if ordered as PERENNIAL GARDEN 
OFFER 72A. 
Supplementing this catalog is our TREASURE CHEST 
folder of additional offerings. It will be sent on request. 
