ORNAMENTALS 
GENERAL LIST 
5 ABRONIA UMBELLATA—ex(8)5. Fragrant, rose-colored, 
Verbena-like flower clusters over crispy foliage. Creeping 
annual for full sun and dry soils. Pkt. 15¢; ¥% oz. 35c. 
4 ABELIA EDWARD GOUCHER—Delightful low shrub that 
blooms continuously from June through October, blossoms of 
true pink with fleck of yellow. Winter hardy outside at Phila- 
delphia, but also makes a pretty, long-blooming house plant. 
Plants, each 90c; 3 for $2.50. 
3 ABRUS PRECATORIUS—w. Weather-vine. Rose-tinted 
flowers, then large seeds of brilliant red. Pot culture. The 
leaves fold in stormy weather. 3 seeds for 25c; 14 for $1.00. 
2 ABUTILON or FLOWERING MAPLE 
Showy with brightly colored bell-flowers through most of the 
year. Easy, satisfactory house plants with maple-like leaves. 
May be plunged in outside border in sum- 
mer. “‘w” culture. Illustrated opposite. 
ABUTILON SOUVENIR DE BONN—Blos- 
soms of rose-hinting orange; white-edged 
“maple” foliage. Plants, each $1.00. 
ABUTILON GRANDIFLORUM MIXED— 
The big blossoms may be yellow, buff, 
orange, apricot, pink, rose or red. Foliage 
of diverse forms, at times marbled. Seeds, 
pkt. 30c; 3 pkts. for 80c. Plants, (no eolor 
choice, but all good), each 90c; 3 for $2.50. 
ABUTILON VITIFOLIUM—w. A _hand- 
some, rather rare Chilean species with 
pretty blossoms of blue-lavender. The foliage 
becomes golden in autumn. Fairly garden- 
hardy, but give protection North, or grow 
as pot plant. Pkt. 30c. Also can supply A. 
VITIFOLIUM PURE WHITE—PKt. 35c. 
3 ACHIMENES FOR LONG BEAUTY 
Brilliantly hued blossoms in the Gloxinia reminder, but more 
gracefully formed, smaller, more profuse, and with an intensi- 
fication of velvety colorings, mostly in delightful tones of 
lavender, but with excursions into blue, 
4 mauve, rose, white and violet. In constant 
bloom from spring into late autumn. A 
fine pot plant, several tubers in a pot 
4 for best effects, or it is wonderful in a 
somewhat shady window or porch box. It 
thrives, too, in the garden in any position 
where Begonias will make a good showing. 
The tubers are small, those of some colors 
always smaller than of others. Plant tubers 
at once upon reecipt ; then, in a few weeks, 
flowering will begin. You can grow from 
: seeds also, for new and pleasant color sur- 
prises. Of course that takes a little longer 
to bring flowers than does planting of 
i tubers. Seeds, “‘w’”’ culture, finest hybrids, 
a pkt. 75c; 3 pkts. for $2.00. Tubers, bloom- 
aid ing size, fine color mixture, supplied packed 
in peat and wrapped in wax paper. 5 tubers for 90c; 10 for 
$1.75 ; 25 for $3.95; 100 for $14.75. Illustrated above. 
ACHIMENES UNDER NAME—Tubers can be supplied sepa- 
rately of the following fine named sorts at UNIFORM PRICES 
of 5 tubers for $1.00; 10 of one kind for $1.85; 25 of one kind 
for $4.25. LITTLE BEAUTY—Brilliant pink, throat flushed 
red-orange. Dark foliage. VENUSTA—Semi-double deep violet. 
Profuse. JAUREGUIA MAXIMA —Large, lavender-dotted 
white flowers, marked purple in throat. LONGIFLORA MA- 
JOR—Big flowers in cobalt blue, with white throat. AMBROSE 
VERSCHAFFELT — Suffused white, with purple lacing. 
ADELE DE LA HAUTE—Shell pink, deeper at center. CAR- 
MENCITA—Striking cherry red, yellow at center. OFFER 
387A N—Five tubers each of above, names marked (7 kinds, 35 
bulb total) for $6.00. Ten each of the 7 for $11.50. 
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4 RED JAPANESE MAPLE 
e Maple, ACER PALMATUM ATROPUR- 
PURRUM, Ha pee vate in both leaf form and colora- 
tion. Seedlings will run through green and attractive bronzings, 
to rich reds and maroons. Soak seeds before sowing. Culture 
“Kt?, Pkt. 25c; 3 pkts. for 70c; 10 pkts. for $2.00 
3 FLOWERS GIGANTIC 
smusocscerassorinees 
Great flowers like shallow, 
upfacing bells with edges 
fluted and ruffled, may some- 
times reach diameters of 25 
inches. Maroon, with white 
splashes, deepening to rosy 
violet. The flowers are cen- 
tered with a spadix like a 
convoluted mound of rich 
purple. AMORPHOPHAL- 
LUS CAMPANULATUS, il- 
lustrated opposite. It blooms 
in late winter from the dry . 
tuber. Plant in garden for summer. In winter, store in dry 
frostproof place until bud growth begins, then bring to the 
light. Tubers 2 inches up, each $1.75; 3 for $5.00. These may 
take 2 years to reach bloom size, but meanwhile compensate 
in decorative summer foliage. Tubers 3 inches up, each $2.50. 
Be rich in spring days of gaining sun and rising green 
In summer days of sky deep blue and silver shade 
In autumn days of pheasant call and ripening leaf 
In winter days of creaking snow and sunset glory. 
This is the wealth to gather and guard 
While time still stands. 
2 ACACIA BLEND—w. Fluffy ball-flowers, pale primrose to 
golden. Large pot plant, north. Pkt. 25c; 3 for 70c. 
ACANTHUS MOLLIS—kt40. Purple flower-spikes above deco- 
rative foliage. Needs winter protection. Pkt. 25c. 
2 ACALYPHA FOR WINDOW SHOW—Easy pot plants. 
CHENILLE PLANT—Acalypha hispida. Many trailing spikes 
of fluffy, silky red, to 15 inch lengths. Plants, each 85c; 3 for 
$2.85. FIREDRAGON PLANT—Acalypha Wilkesiana. Croton- 
bright foliage of crimson, flushed bronze and rose. Easy. Each 
75¢e; 3 for $2.00. 
1 ACHILLEA (Flower of Achilles) 
Decorative, fully hardy perennial for rock garden, hardy 
border, or cutting. “‘k”’ culture. 
ACHILLEA AGERATUM—14 inches. Sweet Nancy. Dense, 
golden flowers, sweetly aromatic. Pkt. 20c. Plants, each 65c. 
A. ANGEL BREATH—Big clusters of fully double, pure white. 
Cutting or border. Plants, each 70c; 3 for $1.85. 
A, FILIPENDULINA—45 inches. Cloth of Gold. Wide, showy 
golden sprays. Pkt. 20c. Plants each 65c; 3 for $1.70. 
A. _SERBICA—10 inches. Masses of decorative, silvery gray 
foliage, set profusely in June with pretty white blossoms. 
Always attractive. Particularly cffective with Phlox divaricata. 
Pkt. 25c. Plants, each 70c; 3 for $1.80 
A. ROSE BEAUTY—25 inches. Rose to carmine flowers above 
fern foliage of deep emerald. It cuts. Pkt. 20c; 146 oz. 40c. 
Plants, each 65c; 3 for $1.65. 
A. TAYGETEA—16 inches. Wide sprays of primrose yellow. 
aes sage-green foliage Pkt. 25c. Plants, each 70c; 3 for 
AS PTARMICA THE PEARL—25 inches. Massed sprays of 
double flowers, like clusters of white pearls. Fine for cutting. 
Pkt. 20c; Ye oz. 40c. Plants, each 60c; 3 for $1.60. 
A. TOMENTOSA AUREA—7 inches. Beauty in silver and 
gold. Curly, ferny mats of silver-glinting, downy foliage. 
Sprays of golden flowers. For dry, sunny places. Pkt. 25c. 
Plants, each 70c; 3 for $1.85; 10 for $5.00. 
A. TOMENTOSA SULFUREA—8 inches. Dense fern-foliage 
in downy soft green, sprays of pale yellow above. Fine edger. 
Pkt. 20c. Plants, each 65c; 3 for $1.65; 10 for $4.75. 
OFFER 37B—One pkt. each of the 8 in seed form, for $1.50. 
OFFER 37CN—One plant each of the 9 so-offered, for $5.50. 
