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PORTULACA (Rose Moss or Sun Plant) 
Hardy Annual 
A favorite for edgings, rock work, etc. Will grow and bloom profusely 
in a dry, hot, sunny location, where almost any other plant would die. 
Blooms profusely from early summer until autumn. Only 6 inches high. 







1696 SINGLE LARGE FLOWERED MIXED, ALL COLORS. 
Many striped and variegated sorts will be found in this mixture. 
Packet, 5 cents; 4 ounce, 25 cents; ounce, 75 cents. 
1697 DOUBLE LARGE FLOWERING MIXED. Brilliant shades, 
including white, yellow, salmon and carmine. Seed saved from perfect 
double flowers, which will, at times, produce some singles. 
Packet, 10 cents; 14 ounce, 30 cents; 4 ounce, 50 cents. 





















4710 Purple FEATHER GRASS. 
PRIMULA (Primrose) 
Half Hardy Perennial 
For winter or spring decorations in the home, the Chinensis and 
Obconica primulas are indispensable. Fine, free flowering plants. 
1699 OBCONICA. These are of the easiest culture in window or con- 
1709 PRimuLaA CHINENSIS, FINEST MIXED. 
servatory; flowering profusely and continually with little care. Finest 
Mixed. Allcolors. Packet, 15 cents; 2 packets, 25 cents. 
PRIMULA CHINENSIS. Also called Chinese Primrose. Profuse 
bloomers and among the finest and mosttpopular of the winter and 
spring flowering window or greenhouse plants, doing well in cool 
rooms. Plants are sturdy and robust; the flowers cut and fringed. 
1705 BLUE. A violet blue. Packet, 25 cents; 3 packets, 60 cents. 
1706 CRIMSON. Arichcolor. Packet, 25 cts.; 3 packets, 60 ets. 
1707 ROSE. A delicate shade. Packet, 25 cts.; 3 packets, 60 cts. 
1708 WHITE. Pure white. Packet, 25 cents; 3 packets, 60 cents. 
1709 FINEST MIXED. Allshades and colors. Packet, 20 cents. 
PURPLE FEATHER GRASS 
Half Hardy Perennial 
1710 
A very beautiful and popular ornamental grass of the easiest culture. 
As useful for hall or table adornment as a palm, and unequalled as 
an edging toa bed of cannas or other tall plants. The long, graceful, 
recurving green foliage is overtopped by elegant, feathery, purplish 
plumes a foot long, which are also useful in a dried state for winter 
bouquets, Packet, 10 cents, 


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RICINUS (Castor Oil Bean) 
Hardy Annual 
A stately, strong-growing and highly ornamental treelike annual 
plant; 6 to 14 feet high. Very effective as a foliage plant. Highly desira- 
ble for centres of beds or for backgrounds. By planting Ricinus beans 
on the borders of gardens moles may be Kept away, as they will leave 
as soon as they get a scent of the plant. 

1714 ZANZIBARENSIS. 
Leaf sometimes 2 feet across, with stem rising 8 to 12 feet. 
The handsomest strain of castor oil bean. 
The different 
varieties in a mixture have light and dark green leaves as well as 
coppery bronze, changing to dark green with reddish colored ribs. 
Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 20 cents; 14 pound, 60 cents. 
1715 MIXED. 
ture. 
All the best plain and fancy varieties in a grand mix- 
Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 15 cents; 14 pound, 50 cents. 

LitTLeE MIDGET. 1721 
Rose, 
ROSE SEED (Miniature Fairy Roses) 
Hardy Perennial 
1716 LITTLE MIDGET. 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 begins to bloom a few | 
months after the seed issown. Packet, 10 cents. 
SALPIGLOSSIS (Painted Tongue) 
Hardy Annual al 
Height, 18 inches to 2 feet, bearing many orchid-like flowers 2 to 2% it 
inches across, with odd and beautiful velvety markings; the colors red, | 
blue, yellow, pink, etc., in various shades are pencilled and veined with }| 
golden yellow or other colors. Easily grown, flower profusely and are} 
fine for cutting as well as being showy in beds or borders. 
1720 HYBRIDS MIXED. Exquisitely veined and marbled. 
pink, purple, blue, yellow, white, ete., beautifully pencilled. 
DA AG SALPIGLOSSIS, EMPEROR. 
Red, | 
1721 
colors. 
EMPEROR. 
Packet, 10 cents; 14 ounce, 30 cents; 14 ounce, 50 cents, 2 
