130 — Flower Seeds 



THE MAULE SEED BOOK FOR 1916 



DELPHINIUM 



Hardy Perennial Larkspu 



An old garden favorite 

 Seed sown In the earl; 

 spring will produce bloom 

 the same year, but the flow- 

 ers -will be more profuse in 

 subsequent years. 



1291 K E W HYBRIDS 

 MIXED. Far exceeding 

 the old-fashioned sorts In 

 size and beauty: tall, stately 

 and highly ornamental; 

 many colors and shades. 

 Packet, 10 cents. 



1290 NE^V BELLADOA- 

 KA. Everblooming Hardy 

 Larkspur. A new giant 

 flowering variety, and 

 blooms more freely and con- 

 tinuously than any hardy 

 larkspur grown, never being 

 out of flower from the mid- 

 dle of June until frost. The 

 turquoise-blue color of the 

 bloom is not equalled for 

 delicacy and beauty by any 

 other flower. Plant grows 

 to a height of 3 feet with 

 finely cut foliage. 



Packet, !20 cents. 



1288 BELIjADONIVA HY 



BR 



Delphinium, New Belladonna 

 IDS. The plants are dwarf in growth, 

 and unlike the old larkspur, 

 require no staking. They 

 branch freely from the crown 

 and bloom without intermis- 

 sion from early spring until 

 late autumn, with Increasing 

 vigor to plants each succeed- 

 ing season. Contains all 

 shades from the palest to the 

 darkest blue, and the various 

 intervening shades of sap- 

 phire, turquoise, indigo, etc., 

 are rich and beautiful beyond 

 description. Pht., 15 cts. 



1289 CHOICE MIXED. 

 The blossoms are ofimmen.se 

 size, dressing the graceful, 

 towering spikes for 2 to 5 

 feet of their length. The 

 colors range from white and 

 lavender through every shade 

 of blue from azure to indigo 

 and purple, several shades 

 being blended in some of the 

 varieties. The plants grow 

 from C to 8 feet in height. 

 Packet, 5 ceuts. 



DtLPHlM jNi, Z.'aiL. 



1287 ZALIL. An attractive and 

 entirely distinct species, forming 

 pyramidal bushes about 4 feet high; 

 of stifif, -wiry stems, covered during 

 June and July with pure sulphur- 

 yellow flowers, making it beautiful 

 and eflfectlve. The several branches 

 or flower spikes are 8 to 10 inches in 

 length, making an excellent variety 

 for cutting. Packet, 10 cents. 



DIAMOND FLOWER 



Tender Annual 

 1292 A charming little plant for 

 edgings or window boxes, growing 

 2 or a Inches high. The seed may be 

 sown In the pots of other plants, re- 

 sulting In a mass of minute green 

 leaves and starry flowers which shine 

 like diamonds. Colors white and 

 violet blue. Packet, 10 cents. 



Everyone that saw the asters that 1 

 raised from the seed 1 got of you 

 last summer, pronounced them to 

 be the most beautilui they had ever 

 seen- Some that attended the ex- 

 position at Toronto, Can., and the 

 county lairs saw nothing as line. 

 Phoebe E. Badgers, Dayton, N. Y. 



DIANTHUS 



Hardy Annual Pinks 



Dianlhus are quite hardy, and often give a greater profusion of 

 bloom the second year than the first. The plants spread rapidly, and 

 make ornamental masses of growth with rich, and varied colors. 



1294 HEDDEWIGII. _ 

 Double Japau Pink. Seed 



from the best double flow- ^^^^^\"V /^ o- ^ ' ( 

 ers only. Flue colors. ^S^a^ ^^ - ^ , \ 



Packet, 5 cents. 



1295 IMPERIALIS. 

 Double Imperial Pink 



Fine assort ment of colors. 



Packet, 5 cts.: !^ oz., 

 30 cts.; oz., 60 cts. 



1305 WHITE FRILLS. 

 Single flowered, with 

 blooms of pitre, dazzling 

 white, 2;^ inches across. 

 The petals are so deeply 

 lacinlated or fringed that 

 flowers appear double. 

 Packet, 10 ceuts. 



U06 M O U R IV I N G 

 CLOAK. A double dian- 

 thus of so dark a maroon 

 as to be almost black 

 Kvery petal is faintly bor- 

 dered with white, whollj 

 relieving the flower of a 

 sombre appearance. The 

 size is about 2J.^ inches, 

 and extremely rich. 

 Packet, 10 ceuts. 



DiANTHus, White Frills and Mourning Cloak. 



DiANTHUS, Luc FER 



1301 LUCIFER. Double Fringed Pinks. Flowers of a beautiful 

 orange scarlet color, nearly two inches across, on long stems, which 

 makes it very valuable for cutting. Plant grows about 12 to 15 inches 

 high. A fine bedder. Packet, 18 cents; 3 packets, 25 cents. 



Diamond Flower 



DiANTHUb Royal Pinks Dianthus. Heddewigii. 



1293 RO\ \L PIXKS. It i=; derived from selected forms of the pop- 

 ulai Miiyrle flowering Japan iniiks, producing blossoms of a new shape, 

 the petals being curled, waved and twisted, each covering half of an- 

 other; beautifully fringed. The colors vary from white to intense red. 

 The flowers are from 2 to 4 inches across, with large eyes, and are ex- 

 ceedingly showy. Mixed colors. Packet, 10 ceuts. 



