160—F lower Seeds 
THE MAULE SEED BOOK FOR 1910 

QUEEN MARGARETS 
See Asters. 
RAGGED SAILOR 

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Ricinus, ZANZIBARENSIS. 
RICINUS 
Tender Annual 
Castor Oil Bean. A stately and highly ornamental tree-like annual 
plant; 6 to 14 feet high. Very effective as a foliage plant. Highly desira- 
ble for centres of beds or for backgrounds. 
ZANZIBARENSIS. The handsomest strain of castor oil bean. Leaf 
sometimes 2 feet across, with stem rising 10 to 14 feet. our varieties in a 
mixture—green, copper brown, brownish purple and bronze. Finest 
mixed. Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 40 cents. 
RED HOT POKER 
See Tritoma. 
ROSE MOSS 
See Portulaca. 
ROSE OF SHARON 
See Althaea. 
ROSE SEED 
Hardy Perennial 
Midget roses. Only an inch across; 
mostly double. They are borne in 
clusters, and embrace all the tints of 
the larger roses. The blossoms are 
followed by bright red hips or seed 
pods that are very pretty. The bush 
grows only 10 inches high, and be- 
gins to bloom a few weeks after the 
seed is sown. 
LITTLE 

SAN Ee 
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Ole 
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MIDGET. Pkt., 15c. 


Mrs. Bert Wolverton,-Millville, N. J.— 
Our flower garden was more beautiful 
this summer than ever. 
handsome, 
Rose, Littte MipGer. 
RUDBECKIA 
Hardy Annual 
BICOLOR SUPERBA. 
The asters were 
A fine, 
feet high, forming a dense bush. The 
brown, and the florets orrays (petals) 
petal there is a patch of velvety 
rich effect. The long-stemmed 
flowers are excellent for cutting. 
Packet, 5 cents. 
Hardy Perennial Rudbeckia 
PURPUREA. Great Purple Cone 
Flower. <A fine hardy perennial, 
flowers, reddish purple, 4 
across, with cone-shaped brown cen- 
tre. Blooms midsummer to late 
autumn. Packet, 5 cents. 
GOLDEN GLOW. A handsome 
hardy perennial rudbeckia with 
double yellow flowers. See the bulb 
department. 
Mrs. Albert White, Fenton, Mich.—My 
asters and balsams from your seed were a 
grand sight; pansies are beauties, and the 
salpiglossis is a marvel. 


RubBeckiA, BICOLOR SUPERBA. 
free-blooming cone flower, about 2) 
cone or disc of the daisy-like bloom is | 
golden yellow. At the base of each | 
brown, producing a handsome and | 
inches | 

New Hysriobs. 
SALPIGLOSSIS 
Tender Annual 
Painted Tongue. Annual. Height, 18 inchesto2feet. Pretty. Flow- 
ers 2 to 24% inches across, with odd and beautiful velvety markings. 
NEW HYBRIDS MIXED. Exquisitely veined and marbled. Red, 
pink, purple, blue, yellow, white, etc. Packet, 5 cents. 
EMPEROR. A new variety less spreading than the older types: 
Flowers larger, more richly colored and more numerous than any other 
sSalpiglossis. Mixed colors. Packet, 10 cents. 



SALPIGLOSSIS, 
SALPIGLUSSId, Emrenun. 


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Satvia (ScARLET SAGE), Droopina Spikes. 
SALVIA 
Tender Annual 
Scarlet Sage, etc. A famous and fashionable annual bedding 
Blooms in lavish profusion until frost. Succeeds everywhere, and is in 
universal favor. 
DROOPING SPIKES. The very best Scarlet Sage obtainable. The 
flowers of this magnificent scarlet sage are produced so abundantly 
as to bend the branches and give them a leaning habit, hence the 
name of Drooping Spikes. It is a magnificent bloomer, far more flori- 
| ferous andshowy than the old form. The plant blazes in dazzling scar- 
let all through the summer and fall, and cannot be excelled for decor- 
ative purposes. My seed is grown on my own grounds, and I can highly 
recommend the strain. Packet, 10 cents; 4 ounce, 40 cents. 
| BONFIRE, NEW DWARF. One ofthe finest for bedding. Compact, 
oval bpetes: oe icel igh with jong 
BS WW QO0 spikes of scarlet flowers. e spikes 
: SSNS SNS stand stiff and erect. Over 200s} ikes 
to a bush is not rare; and the spikes 
bear from 20 to 30 flowers each. 
Pkt., 10 cents.; 4 oz., 30 cents. 
LORD FAUNTLEROY, NEW 
DWARF. A charming and showy 
variety of salvia noted for its uni- 
formly dwarf habit, as it seldom ex- 
ceeds 20 inches. The foliage is dark 
green and the flowers are of a rich 
crimson. Spikes larger than the av- 
erage. An exceedingly free bloomer 
and a most desirable bedding plant. 
Pkt., 10 cents; 1, oz., 40 cents. 
SILVERSPOT. A new and 
pretty strain, with the dark green 
leaves covered with cream white or 
yellow spots. It has the same large, 
intense’y scarlet flower as the Droop- 
ing Spikes, and is high'y desirable 
as an ornamental bedding plant. 
Pkt., 10 cents; 1 oz., 40 cents. 
lant. 


Mrs. Jas. Kearney, Woodsville, N. H.— 
From the aster seed purchased from you 
this year I bad some of the most beau- 
tiful asters I have ever seen. 



SALVIA, BONFIRE 




