104 RICHARD FROTSCHER’S ALMANAC AND GARDEN MANUAL 
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Primula Veris 
Tagetes Patula 
Portulaca. <A small plant of great 
beauty, and of the eisiest culture. Does best 
in a well exposed sitiation, where it has 
plenty of sun. The tlowers are of various 
colors, from white to bright scarlet and crim- 
son. The plant is good for edging vases or 
pots; or where large plants are kept in tubs, 
the surface can be filled with this neat little 
genus of plants. Half foot high. February 
till August. 
Portulaca grandifiora, fi. pl. 
Double Portulaca. The same variety of colors 
with semi-double and double flowers. Half 
foot high. February till August. 
Primula veris. Cowslip. An herba- 
ceous plant of various colors, highly esteemed 
in Europe. Half foot high. December till 
April. 
Primula chinensis. Chinese Prim- 
rose. A green-house plant, which flowers 
profusely and continues to bloom for a long 
time; should be sown early to insure the plant 
flowering well. Different colors; mixed, per 
package, 25 cents. One and a half feet high. 
October till February. 
Petunia Hybrida Double. 
Vinea Rosea and Alba. 
Reseda Odorata. 
Pyrethrum aurea. Golden Feather. 
The flowers resemble Asters. It has bright 
yellow leaves which make it very showy as a 
border if massed with plants, such as Coleus, 
etc. 
Reseda odorata grandifiora. 
Sweet Mignonette. A fragrant plant with 
large spikes of yellowish red flowers and a 
favorite with everybody. Fifteen inches high. 
December till April. 
Scabiosa 
Bride. 
colors. 
nana. Dwarf Mourning 
Plants of double flowers of various 
One foot high. December till April. 
Saponaria calabrica. Soapwort. 
A very free flowering annual, of easy culture, 
resembles somewhat in leaves the Sweet 
William. One anda half feet high. Decem- 
ber till April. 
Salvia Splendens. Scarlet Salvia 
or Red Flowering Sage. A pot or greenhouse 
plant, but which can be grown as an annual, 
as it flowers freely from seed the first year. 
‘ Two to three feet high. February till April. 
