338 
New Japanese Morning Glories 
The war has shut off the supply of the 
beautiful Imperial Japanese Morning Glor- 
ies so that we have not been able to offer 
them but we are just in receipt of word 
that the following have been dispatched via 
air mail and they will be on hand early in 
May. 
This will be too late for listing them for 
most of our customers so we will give thems 
here, hoping it will reach a good number 
in time for planting. 
Here in Michigan, they should be in the 
ground by the first of June but farther 
south they could be planted as late as July 
and in the far South even later. 
The seed is in named varieties and not 
1. HEIAN NO HOKORI, deep carmine- 
red with white edge. 
2. HEIAN NO KASUMI, cherry-rose with 
white edge. 
3. HEIAN NO YUME, purplish rose with 
snow flake, white. 
4. HEIAN NO YOROKOBI, deep red with 
white edge. } 
5. HEIAN NO SAKAE, brown with white 
edge. 
6. SHINSEKAI, deep purplish red with 
white edge. 
7. FUJI, deep carmine red. 
8. TAMA FUYO, light purple. 
9, FUKU MUSUME, purple rose with a 
white edge. 
10. RYUKAN, brilliant red with white edge. 
11. OKINA NO WARAI, deep brown color. 
12. MATSUKAZE, purple with snow flakes. 
13. EN NEN NO MAI, silvery gray with 
white. 
14. KAGETSU, deep rose, self. 
15. KISO NO TSUKH, deep reddish brown 
with white. 
15. KISO NO TSUKI, deep reddish brown. 
brushed stripes. 
17. TENSHIN, pure white. 
18. YOIMACHI, purple blue with white. 
the common hybrid seed usually offered. 
All are wonderful; large flowers up to six 
inches across and in some varieties, even 
larger. 
All Ipomoeas do best on the dry side and 
in soils not too rich. Do not plant them in 
a rich moist soil and do not water them too 
freely; they want to be in full sunshine. 
-All packets are packed in their original 
Japanese packets and are 25¢ each or 6 
for $1.00, any selection you wish; if you 
wish a packet of each of the 40 varieties, 
a special price of $8.00 will be made. 
You may order by the number, if you wish. 
Each packet contains five seeds. 
19. HOW DEN, deep brown with edge. 
edge. 
20. SUIKO NO HIKARI, 
white. 
21. SEIRAN, deep blue with snow flaked. 
22. DAI NICHIRIN, deep carmine red. 
23. YASHIRO NO AKI, deep brown with 
white. 
24. AKATSUKI NO KEISEI, deep red with 
white. 
25. FURUSATO, deep 
and with white edge. 
26. EIKAN, deep carmine with white. 
27. BENI JISHI, brilliant red. 
28. YUKI, brown with white. 
29. CHIYO NO AI, deep blue, plain. 
30. CHIYO NO TSUYU, light blue. 
31. OTOME NO MAL, light rose with white. 
32. CHIYO NO YUKI, pure white. 
33. SHUGETSU, light brown. 
34. ARIAKE, light purple with white. 
35. CHIYO NO OKINA, purple-red with 
white. 
36. MATSU NO MIDORI, light blue with 
white. 
37. HANAGASA, light red striped white. 
38. MIYUKI ZAKURA, rose with white. 
39. HINOMARU, white with red bottom. 
40. HATSU. ARASHI, purple blue, plain. 
deep red with 
red, striped rose 
More Flowers to You 
The object of the magazine is to spread 
the growing of flowers and when we receive 
letters indicating that this is actually being 
accomplished, it certainly encourages us. 
Mrs. E. J. Reish of Raymond, IIl., in 
sending in her order for seeds and her sub- 
scription for the next year, writes: ‘First 
I wish to tell you how very practical and < 
useable your magazine and seed lists are. 
From them I have learned how to handla 
perennial seed as well as house plants and 
as a result I have my first Iris and Peony, 
(hand pollinated) seedlings coming up. I 
also am keeping over Cyclamens for gifts 
and tender Azaleas., so please extend my 
subscription.” 
Mrs. Reish has good prospects ahead, 
when she has accomplished the difficulties 
in growing such plants as Azaleas, Cyclamen, 
and Peonys for these are not easy subjects, 
so we want to concede part of her results 
to her ability and we are happy to know 
that our magazine was helpful. 
If it was our purpose to get rich in pub- 
lishing the magazine we would fill it up 
with outside advertising but not wishing this 
the material must accumulate till there is 
enough for an issue, so please make it yours 
and pass along your experiences that others 
may be helped and the growing of flowers 
spread. 
SEEDS WANTED 
We have requests for seed of the follow- 
ing of which we have no source at the 
moment and therefore trust some of our 
readers may know of a supply. 
Antirrhinum coulteriana and orontium. 
Cosmos diversifolius. 
Eschscholzia caespitosa. 
Eschscholzia tenuifolia. 
Mirabilis species other than jalapa, longi- 
flora and uniflora. 
Petunia axillaris and violacea. 
(Frederick Weigle, Mass.) 
Zelkova carpinifolia, (Planera crenata or 
P. Richardii). Hogan, Calif. 
Calathea insignis, native of Brizil. 
We would also like the addresses of any 
collectors in Brazil, that any of our readers 
can give us. 
Seed of any of the species of Tabebuia, 
especially T. serratifolia, (also listed ag 
Bignonia and Tecoma). 
A reader from Pennsylvania is in search 
of: 
New Guinea Butter Vine or New Guinea 
Butter Squash. 
The plant is a squash, and producing 
fruit about 4” in diameter and from 3-5 
feet long. 
Any of our readers knowing of this can 
drop us a postal. 
BAILEYA 
A new quarterly journal issued by tha 
staff of the Bailey Hortorium, Ithaca, N. Y. 
Its “purpose is to translate the results of 
taxononic research to a form useful to the 
plantsman and to the amateur and the pro- 
fessional. alike.” 
It will also account for plants recently 
introduced to North American horticulture 
and information on them. 
Its name honors Dr. Liberty Hyde Bailey, 
who celebrated his 95th birthday last March. 
The subscription price is $2.00 per year, 
which can be mailed to Dr. George Lawr- 
ence, at the Bailey Hortorium at Ithaca, 
New York. 
ROSE-PETAL MARMALADE 
The following is taken from a _ recent 
bulletin of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 
Rose-petal marmalade is a common del- 
icacy in the Near Eest. Take blooms of 
old-fashioned heavy scented varieties. Pull 
off an entire rose and with the other hand 
snip with a pair of scissors all the whitish 
tough bases of the petals. Buy crystals 
of citric acid at the drug store. Working 
with a small basin of petals, rub the petals 
and the crystals back and forth quickly be- 
tween the palms of the hands. Add water 
and boil up quickly. Flavor with sugar 
and use enough Certo to make the mixture 
jell. If the resulting juice is too tough, the 
petals need to be rubbed longer and bruised 
more extensively. One should use enough 
citric acid to make it almost as tart as 
crab-apple jelly. 
The attractive rose-red color sometimes 
fades near the surface but the flavor is not 
| REVIEW 
BOOK 
PLANT BREEDING FOR EVERYONE 
A new book will be published sometime 
this year entitled “Plant Breeding for Every- 
one”. It is written by a former associate 
of Luther Burbank. 
It is a very readable book, giving direct- 
ions for crossing plants, what to do to breed 
for certain characteristics. Then how ta 
patent plants after you have grown and 
tested them and feel that you have a good 
new variety. Hints on marketing such new 
varieties are also mentioned. 
Gertrude H. Ascher, Calif. 
ALPINES WITHOUT A GARDEN 
A new book, coming shortly (probably 
early summer) is Alpines Without a Garden 
by Lawrence D. Hills, 16 pp. plates (one 
in color). Lge. Cr. 8yvo, cloth. London. 
This is by the author of PROPAGATION 
OF ALPINES. Part of the author’s other 
book MINIATURE ALPINE GARDEN- 
ING, now out of print, has gone to form 
this much enlarged and revised book on in- 
door and outdoor rock gardens, from pock- 
et handkerchief ‘size upwards. Probabld 
price $3.00. 
ROCK GARDEN and ALPINE PLANTS 
We have added this instructive book by 
the late Henry Coorevon. It’s 544 pages 
contain a wealth of information on the mak- 
ing of Rock Gardens and on the many plants 
suitable for growing in them. 
It contains, in addition, valuable suggest- 
ions on the handling of the seed bed; chap- 
ters on the hardy fernery, terrestrial Orchids 
oe hardy Cacti are included. 
t is a valuable all-round book, not 
for Rock Gardeners but all othres. oan 
