persistent flowerer and if spaced 12 inches apart it makes 
the most delightful low, flowering hedge you can 
imagine. 
Heavy-rooted Plants Each $2.00, Three $5.75. Doz. $20.00 
WEIGELA 
Lovely shrubs flowering in May, June and July. Their Fox- 
glove-like flowers are borne in profusion. Most Weigela 
like a moist soil and should stand without competition 
from the shade or roots of large trees. 
Avalanche —2.3 feet, Each $2.00, Three $5.75, Doz. $20.00 
The best white form of Weigela which grows to 5-6 feet, 
blooms in late spring and summer. Blossoms cover the 
plant. 
Bristol Ruby —_ 2-3 feet, Each $1.75, Three $4.75, Doz. $17.50 
Immense quantities of ruby-red flowers in the spring. The 
plant then blooms on and off during the rest of the sea- 
son. Height at maturity is 6-7 feet. This is the best Weigela 
for specimen planting or forward border work. 
Eva Ratke 2-3 feet, Each $1.00, Three $2.75, Doz. $8.50 
Dark rose-red flowers in the spring. Matures at 7 to 8 feet 
and because it grows close to the ground is fine for 
screening. 
Garden Ga dgets 
Forks, hoes, rakes, spades or what common garden tools 
you need—we don’t have them. Buy them from your 
favorite hardware dealer; he has as good as we can get. 
Over the years we have found few special-purpose gar- 
den tools that lived up to their promotions. Here are the 
ones we recommend. 
Dutch Hook Each $2.75 
This is the small, forged, sharp weeder the Dutch use for 
hooking weeds out of daffodil and tulip rows. We use it 
for all kinds of close weeding. It has an 18-inch handle— 
you have to stoop. No one else has this tool. 
Krasco Hand Grass Seeder Each $4.95 
A small hand tool working on the principle (centrifugal) 
of big farm tractor seeders. It will spread Bent and Blue- 
grass evenly and at the same time—something no $15 
hand-pushed seeder will do. Also, it is the only seeder 
that will distribute our Special Lawn Grass Seed, mostly 
a mixture of Fescues. 
Gift Certificates 
There has been a considerable demand for year- 
round gift certificates and we now have them. They 
look like money, feel like money—in fact, they are 
money. Buy them in any multiple of $5.00. We'll 
send the recipient a catalogue. 
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Special Grass eSeed. 
This mixture is composed mostly of the Fescue race— 
tough, hardy, creeping, shade-resisting grasses. They 
withstand drought better than most grasses, are not 
attacked, like some, by fungus diseases. The rest (15 per- 
cent) is made up of three kinds of upright Bent. There is 
no Kentucky Bluegrass in it. Ditto Redtop. If you are seed- 
ing a new lawn let us know and we will send you without 
charge enough annual rye grass to form a cover crop 
for these slower germinating grasses. Use this mixture 
sparingly but consistently. It is expensive stuff and unless 
you are after a fine turf you'll do better with hardware 
store mixtures. 
5 lbs. $13.75, 10 Ibs. $22.50, 25 Ibs. $49.50, 100 Ibs. $180.00 
he USeskohive Garden (onter 
In a delightful setting in the rolling hills near Stock- 
bridge, Mass., you will find The Berkshire Garden Center, 
one of the most delightful public gardens in this country. 
Its founders and backers, members of a group of New 
England and New York Garden Clubs, have kept it 
small in key with the economics of the present day which 
no longer permit the development of the so-called estate 
kind of grounds. Its individually planned gardens are all 
within the reach of today’s pocketbook and today’s labor 
supply (practically none). Visit The Center regularly dur- 
ing the season; garden ideas there are numerous and re- 
warding. 
Votes 
@ Herewith three items that did not get into the main part 
of the book. The new Tritoma are highly useful and a 
check of stock indicates that quantities are sufficient to 
offer them now. Spot one for emphasis in the border or 
plant a group of three. Viola Cornuta were put here 
deliberately because we have not yet found a way to 
ship this plant to our satisfaction. They move best in April 
but at best they move badly and we suggest trying to get 
stock locally. On the other hand, we just forgot that our 
3-year old stock of Christmas Roses is now ready. These 
are huge plants, ready to bloom next December. 
TRITOMA (Red Hot Poker) 
You won't want many of these but a few are extremely 
useful in the herbaceous border. Their common name is 
misleading (hybridizers have done wonders with them) 
and anyway we don’t stock the red hot variety which is 
simply a horticultural vulgarity and not hardy. 
Maid of Orleans Each $1.15, Three $2.90, Doz. $8.50 
Empire-yellow blooms on 36-40 inch spikes. Changes color 
to straw-yellow to ivory-white. July-August. 
Coral Sea Each $1.15, Three $2.90, Doz. $8.50 
A pastel coral-red flower overlaid with a deep rose 
coloring on 30 inch spikes. June-July. An interesting and 
good cutflower. (Patented.) 
Primrose Beauty Each 90c, Three $2.25, Doz. $6.50 
Primrose-yellow. 30 inches. June. 
Vanilla Each 90c, Three $2.25, Doz. $6.50 
Clear pale yellow. 24 inches. June. Foliage is grass-like. 
VIOLA CORNUTA 
(Perennial Tufted Pansies) 
Anyone using good soil and plenty of water can grow 
these heavy bloomers. Pinch them back if they get “leggy” 
—they bloom at once in spring, stay blooming in hottest 
August and bloom again until heaviest frost. 
White Perfection Three $1.80, Doz. $4.75 
Large pure white. 
Arkwright Ruby Three $1.80, Doz. $4.75 
Bright ruby crimson with dark centers. 
Jersey Gem Three $1.80, Doz. $4.75 
Compact violet-blue. 
Lutea Splendens 
Chrome yellow. 
HELLEBORUS (Christmas Rose) 
This strange fascinator blooms in winter, cares not a 
hoot about the coldest cold. Culture requires a cool, moist 
shady position (in the shade of trees or among ferns) and 
soil must be woodsy (mix it heavily with leaf mold and 
three year old cow manure; stay away from lime or in- 
organic fertilizers). Plenty of water is required in summer. 
Helleborus spreads from the crown; plant at least 12 
inches apart. Do not move after the plants are established 
—they resent it, you’re almost sure to lose them if you do. 
H. Niger Each $1.75, Three $4.65, Doz. 18.60 
These are giant plants, grown in large Easimove pots, all 
should bloom next year. Niger’s leaves have a palm form, 
are evergreen and of leathery substance. In December, 
January or February (depending on locality) the plant 
throws large, single, white, bell-like flowers which last 
for weeks regardless of below zero cold or snow. 
Three $1.80, Doz. $4.75 
@ Two magazine articles in Woman’s Day were written 
last year by one of the partners here. One is a general 
piece debunking the usual bewildering gardening advice 
in the magazines and newspapers. The theme is that if 
soil will raise weeds it will probably raise plants and 
directions are simple. The other article is about lawns and 
you'll be quite tired after reading it. The point is that no 
substitute exists for work and money—if you want a turf 
instead of what people refer to as a lawn. If you are not 
willing to work and spend for a turf just cut the weeds 
which come naturally. For one (or both) just drop us a 
line and we will send tearsheets. No charge. 
