Website/Catalog  (1908)  Page(s) 8.  
 
The following list includes those Wonderful Glowing Suns termed
JAPANESE VARIETIES.
All the varieties presented here made their advent in my gardens, and their singularity consists in their being entirely destitute of pollen, and sometimes Nature asserts herself by showing a variety entirely destitute of any pollen or glandulous formation whatever, a mere mass of filaments like
A CROWN OF THORNS surrounded by a guard of petals.
Bobbie Bee (1907) reddish in color, new, fine ...$1.50

Book  (1907)  Page(s) 11.  
 
There will occasionally be one of Japanese form, one of those strange flowers blazing like a mid-day sun among the green foliage, waiting for us to do it homage. Two of these appeared in my this year's harvest of bloom, Flashlight and Bobbie Bee....Geo. Hollis...

Website/Catalog  (1907)  Page(s) 5.  
 
Japanese Varieties $1.00 each, except noted.
These were all originated by me. In these varieties the outer or guard petals are large, and the inner ones are transformed into golden stamens, (without pollen,) or very narrow fillimentaceous petals; making them very unique flowers.
Bobbie Bee, reddish in color, new. ...$2.00