1 ACANTHUS MOLLIS—ktz40. Dense spikes of purple flow- 
ers rise from decorative foliage. Needs winter protection out- 
side. Also often grown in pots. Pkt. 20c; 14 oz. 35c. 
3 ACHIMENES FOR LONG DELIGHT 
Here is easy, summer-long color richness in the Gloxinia 
reminder, the flowers a bit smaller but many more of them, 
more graceful in form and carriage, and with intensification 
of velvety hue and tone. Lavender will dominate, but there 
should be variations into blue, purple and mauve, with some- 
times a white, a rosy pink, a crimson. In constant bloom 
from spring into late autumn. Desirable as pot plants, 3 to 6 
bulbs being planted to the pot, or they will make a wonderful 
display in the porch or window box that receives a bit of 
shade. See that the container is well drained, 
but also be sure that your Achimenes plant- 
ing is not allowed to dry out badly at any 
time after growth has started. Illustrated 
opposite. 
- ACHIMENES TUBERS—Available in fine 
- mixture as color-described above. Tubers 
' are small by their nature, but some kinds 
and colorings make always smaller tubers 
.. than do others, so a good color mixture 
will have some tubers much larger than 
. others. Supplied packed in peat moss and 
wrapped in wax paper. Plant as soon as 
1 possible after receipt. 3 for 60c; 10 for 
: $1.65; 25 for $3.75; 100 for $15.00. 
4 ACHIMENES SEEDS—Finest Hybrids. Sow 
seeds to get new varieties and new color- 
ings. The seeds are tiny. ‘‘w” culture. Pkt. 
75c; 3 pkts. for $2.00. 
1 ACHILLEA THE DECORATIVE 
A desirable hardy perennial for rock garden, hardy border, 
eutting garden or other use. “‘k’’ culture. 
TAY GETEA—16 inches. Coming from hot, dry hills of Greek 
Laconia, it will delight in the driest, sunniest spot in your 
garden. Wide sprays of primrose yellow, above feathery silvery 
sage green. Pkt. 20c. Plants, each 65c; 3 for $1.50. 
ACHILLEA TOMENTOSA AUREA—7 inches. A beauty in 
silver and gold. It makes curly, ferny mats of down-covered, 
silver-glinting foliage. In May come sprays of golden flowers 
on 6-inch stems. It delights in dry, sunny places. Pkt. 25c. 
Plants, each 55c; 3 for $1.40. 
ACHILLEA TOMENTOSA SULFUREA—Here again there 
is a dense downiness of finely cut foliage, but soft green 
rather than silvery, and with flower-sprays of pale sulfur 
yellow. A trifle the taller of the two. Pkt. 20c. Plants, each 
55c; 3 for $1.40; 10 for $3.90. 
OTHER FINE ACHILLEAS—Every one of them desirable. ' 
SERICEA—Silky, silvery foliage in low, decorative mounds, 
set over in spring with pretty white flowers. Plants, each 60c. 
ANGEL BREATH—30 inches. This newer variety carries 
fully double flowers of purest whiteness, big clusters of them 
on 30-inch stems. Plants, each 60c; 3 for $1.60. AGERATUM 
—14 inches. Sweet Golden Yarrow. Wide, dense heads of 
pleasant golden flowering. Pkt. 15¢e; 1/16 oz. 40c. BOULE 
DE NEIGE—Snowball Achillea. 15 inches. Graceful plants 
long filled with myriads of fully double “‘snowballs’’. Rich 
green mats. Cutting, edging, rock garden. Pkt. 20c. Plants, 
each 45c; 3 for $1.20; 10 for $3.55. ROSE BEAUTY—25 
inches. Attractive border plant with its clusters of rose to 
carmine above emerald ferniness. It cuts. Pkt. 15¢c; 1/16 oz. 
40c. Plants, each 50c; 8 for $1.40. FILIPENDULINA—Cloth 
of Gold. 45 Inches. Showy perennial for back of the mixed 
hardy border, or for cutting. Great sprays of packed golden 
florets, high over fern foliage. Pkt. 15c. Plants, 50c. PTAR- 
MICA THE PEARL—28 inches. Massed sprays of double 
flowers like little, white pearls. Standard for either cutting 
or decorative planting. Pkt. 15c; 1/16 oz. 35c. Plants, each 
45c; 3 for $1.20; 10 for $3.40. OFFER 99A—One packet 
each of the 8 so offered, for $1.25. OFFER 99BN—One plant 
each of the 9 so offered, for $4.40. 
THE TREASURE CHEST—In February each year we issue a 
folder of seeds and plants, being the overflow from this 
catalog, kinds that could not be offered here for lack of room, 
together with late arrivals from all parts of the world. The 
TREASURE CHEST folder is sent gladly to all who ask. 
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3 THE ACIDANTHERAS 
Decorative summer-flowering bulbs, to be handled exactly 
as one would Gladiolus. Illustrated above. 
BICOLOR—18 inches. Rich cream with patch of chocolate 
are the gracefully carried blossoms, these beginning in late 
summer, continuing through autumn. Distinctive in the sum- 
mer garden. Bulbs resemble those of Freesia. 3 for 50c; 8 for 
$1.00; 25 for $2.50; 100 for $9.00. 
MURIELIAE—25 inches. Large, strong grower with a pure 
white blossom that carries a black-maroon throat blotch. 
Gladiolus-like bulbs, spring delivery, each 35c; 3 for $1.00; 
8 for $2.00. 
3 AGAPANTHUS (AFRICAN LILY) 2 
A spectacular plant for long-time blossom showing, grown 
in large pots or tubs, or even plunged directly for the sum- 
mer season in the outdoor border. Truly a glorious beauty 
when in fullness of its flowering, yet few other plants as 
showy are as easy to grow. The blossoms, trumpets spread 
widely to starry form, are carried in great umbels on stems 
anywhere from 25 to 60 inches in height. First year of 
blooming there may be only a few flowers to a stem, but 
second year and after, the umbels often carry 30 or more 
at one time, and we have had clusters at our nursery with 
as many as 160 blossoms to one tall stem. Agapanthus is 
easy from seed, and it can be forced for winter bloom, though 
normally the blooming season is from late spring, through 
the summer. Winter under glass, or in a light, cool cellar. 
Illustrated above. Seeds in varied blues. Pkt. 25c; 3 pkts. for 
70c; 10 pkts. for $2.00. Plants, each 75c; 3 for $2.10. 
AGAPANTHUS GIANT WHITE—Comes true from 
Makes magnificent plants. Pkt. 25c. Plants, each 80c. 
AGAPANTHUS DWARF EVERGREEN—Free-blooming, year- 
through, and dwarf enough to make an attractive window 
pot plant. Umbels of flowers, mid-blue to deep blue, on 15- 
inch stems, above narrow, profuse foliage. Selection of Aga- 
panthus longispathus. Pkt. 25c. Plants, each 75c. 
seed. 
2 ACALYPHA FOR WINDOW SHOW 
Two quite different ACALYPHA species, both making 
desirable, easy, pot plants for window or greenhouse. 
CHENILLE PLANT—Acalypha hispida. Here is beauty in 
unusual shape. The bloom is in the form of many gracefully 
trailing spikes of silky, fluffy red, these up to 15 inches long. 
Plants, each 75c; 3 for $1.85. 
FIREDRAGON PLANT—Acalypha Wilkesiana. Grown for 
the ornamental foliage, in such rich crimson with splashings 
of bronze and rose flushings. As bright as any Croton, and 
rather easier to handle as a house plant. Desirable, too, for 
outdoor summer effects in any sunny position. Each 60c; 
3 for $1.65; 10 for $4.75. 
