Glad Specie Seed 
As this is going to the press, we have not as yet received notice 
from our South African grower as to what species he is going to be able 
to supply us with this year. However, we expect to have our usual 
supply and if you are interested, we suggest you write us. 
We have found specie seed hard to germinate, even in the green- 
house, but may, accidently stumbled on to something. Last May, we 
had a number of seeds left, so we planted them in the greenhouse in 
bands. Only one or two germinated and some specie didn’t even 
show a sign of germination. We dug around in the bands, (something 
easy to do in a greenhouse) and could find the seeds, and we concluded 
they were dead. However, rather than disturb those that were 
growing, we continued to water the entire lot. Around October 1st, 
we noticed some thing that looked like grass beginning to grow in the 
bands and a month later, we had good growth in all the specie bands. 
We are just reporting our experience in hope it may help someone else. 
If our usual supply comes, we hope to have the following varieties, 
but as we said above we cannot be sure. 
G. Alatus, Brick red, sweetly scented. 
. Blandus, Pink, with many open. 
. Gracilis, Fragrant, pale lilac. 
. Odoratus, Quite fragrant—dark maroon. 
Gdn, Gs Qs QD 
. Tristis, Scented—yellow—mottled throat. 
The price will be 10 seeds for 75 cents. 
ea 4 = Pate. 
