THE MAULE SEED BOOK FOR 1906 
“SWEET WILLIAM, HOLBORN GLory. 
SWEET WILLIAM. 
Well Known, free blooming, hardy 
perennial plants. Old-fashioned favor- 
ites, now greatly improved. They pro- 
duce masses of lovely, brilliant, sweet | 
scented tiowers through a long period, 
making a splendid effect in beds. 
foot high. Flowers borne in heads or 
umbels, with individual florets nearly an 
inch across. Colors, white, pink, crim- 
son, carmine, purple, ete. Should be 
Teplaced by new seedlings, every few 
years, in fresh soil. 
Mammoth Holborn Glory. A 
beautiful new strain with large flowers 
and bushy compact habit of growth. 
Single florets have measured over 1 inch 
across. Embraces many shades and 
markings. 244 feet high. Pkt., 10 cts. 
Fine Double Mixed. A splendid 
strain. Allcolors. Packet, 5 cents. 
Auricula Eyed. A highly orna- 
mental strain, with large eyes. 
colors. Packet, 5 cents. 
Fine Single Mixed, Various 
beautiful shades and markings. Pkt., dc. 
THUNBERGIA. 
Black-Eyea Susan. An ornamental, 
rapid growing annual climber; an old 
favorite. Excellent for vases, trellises, 
rustic work or greenhouse decoration. 
Flowers buff, orange, white, etc.; height, 
6 feet. Fine mixed. Packet, 5 cents. 
TORENIA. 
A tender annual available for vases, 
hanging baskets or out of door purposes; 
6 to 12 inches. Very free flowering. 
Start in window or greenhouse. 
Mixed. Colors, blue with yellow 
centre, white with rose centre, etc. 
Packet, 5 cents. 
\ TROP EOLUM. 
See Nasturtium. 
TRITOMA. 
Red Hot Poker. Torch Flower. Hardy 
perennial plant, producing tall spikes of 
orange red fiowers 3 to 4 feet high. 
Blooms from August until late autumn. 
Very showy in beds or masses. 
Uvaria. Varies from yellow to scar- 
let. Packet, 5 cents. 
Hybrida Express. Theearliest to 
bloom. Some of the seedlings of this 
class will flower the first year, if sown 
early. An interesting and valuable 
strain. 
Packet, 25 cents. 
UMBRELLA PLANT. 
UMBRELLA PLANT. 
Cyperus. As handsome and graceful as 
a palm, yet of easiest culture. It will grow 
and flourish in rooms that have only 
| Mauch water. 
It needs rich soil and 
It is a perennial. 
Alternifolius. Packet, 10 cents. 
VALERIANA. 
Hardy heliotrope. A showy perennial 
border plant, producing large corymbs 
of red and white flowers suitable for bou- 
quets or decorations. Very fragrant, re- 
sembling heliotrope. Two to three feet. 
Should be generally grown, as it succeeds 
almost everywhere. 
Mixed. Rcseand white. Pkt., 5 cts. 
VERONICA. 
Speedwell. The group includes a 
number of hardy perennial varieties, 
| growing 13s to 2 feet high, with graceful 
heads or spikes of fiowers. 
Syriaca. Blue. Packet, 10 cents. 
Wirginiea. Tall, with long spikes 
of white flowers. Packet, 10 cents. 
VIRGIN’S BOWER. 
See Clematis. 
partial light. 
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| the flowers in masses. 
VWISCARIA. 
Handsome annuals, 1 foot high, with 
large, round, single flowers of white, 
scarlet, blue, flesh color, etc., variously 
margined and marked. Allied to Lych- 
nis. Sow early in the spring, and grow 
Packet, 5 cents. 
VERBENA, AURICULA AND ITALIAN. 
VERBENA. 
See Novelties. A choice annual, 6 to 12 
inches high, in universal favor and in- 
dispensable for bedding purposes. Flow- 
ers, white, scarlet, red, crimson, purple, 
etc. Verbenas raised from seed are 
usually fragrant. To hasten bloom it 
is better to start the seed in a window 
box or hot bed. The plants should stand 
about a foot apart in the open ground, 
and the flowers cut frequentiy. Seedling 
verbenas are stronger and less liable to 
disease than others. 
Auricula Eyed. Various colors. 
Flower with large white eye. Pkt., 10c. 
Italian Striped. Showy, striped 
sorts; many colors. Packet, 10 cents. 
Bush. Much like the common sorts, 
but less procumbent. It makes an erect 
and compact bush. Many bright colors; 
one foot. Mixed. Packet, 10 cents. 
Commandant Marchand. The 
flowers are remarkably large, of a dark 
purplish red color. and produced in 
great abundance. One of the most desir- 
able verbenas in my entire list. Packet, 
10 cents. 
Mammoth Show. Absolutely all 
the finest colored verbenas ever offered 
in a single packet. Packet, 10 cents. 
Erinoides. Moss Verbena. Covers 
the ground with a mat of moss-like 
foliage. Packet, 10 cents. 
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Hybrida Scarlet. Brilliant; 
fine for bedding. Packet, 10 cents. 
Hybrida White. 
quets. Packet, 10 cents. 
Hybrida Mixed. 
Packet, 10 cents; ounce, $1.50. 
Fine for bou- 
All colors. 
VERBENA, HYBRIDA MIXED. 
VIRGINIA CREEPER. 
See Ampelopsis quinquefolia. 
VINCA, PERIWINKLE. 
WIENCA,. 
Periwinkle. A tender perennial plant 
blooming the first season. Adapted to 
window or open garden, making a fine 
show in the border; 18 inches. Flowers, 
132 inches across. Colors, white and 
rose. Mixed. Packet, 5 cents. 
Viota, BUTTERFLY. 
VIOLA. 
Violet. The popular fragrant sort, 
blooming very early in the spring. Per- 
fectly hardy perennial. It will bloom 
earlier if protected during extremely 
severe weather. Easily grown from 
seed. The double violets are multiplied 
by division of the roots. See the Plant 
Department. The following are single: 
The Czar. Rich blue; very large 
fiowers. Packet, 10 cents. 
Butterfly. 
delicately sweet 
called bedding pansy. 
Handsome new type, 
scented. Sometimes 
Double the size 
of the older sorts. Lovely lilac color, 
with dark eye. Flower of peculiarly 
graceful shape, lightly poised on the 
stem. Packet, 10 cents. 
Fine Mixed. All the new and old 
varieties. Packet, 10 cents. 
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WALLFLOWER, SINGLE PARISIAN. 
WALL-FLOWER. 
Cheiranthus. 
A hardy or half-hardy perennial bear- 
ing long spikes or heads of exquisitely 
fragrant flowers. It is very ornamental 
in the border or in forming groups. Sow 
thinly in shallow drills in early spring. 
Yellow, brownish, purple, etc. 
Single Parisian. This variety is 
extremely early. Sown in cold frames 
in March, this plant is in full bloom 
before the end of September. The mag- 
nificent golden yellow flowers are ex- 
ceedingly welcome for bouquets as well 
as for bunching, especially at that late 
season when the fiorist’s shop usually 
contains nothing but chrysanthemums. 
Packet, 10 cents. 
Double Mixed. The best double 
German sorts. Packet, 10 cents. 
Single Mixed. Fine mixture. 
Very desirable. Packet, 5 cents. 
WALL-FLOWER. 
WHITE ROCKET. 
See Candytuft; also Sweet Rocket. 
WHITLAYVIA. 
Same as Phacelia. 
WILD CUCUMBER VINE. 
Eechinocystis Lobata. A fast 
growing annual vine, of the gourd fam- 
ily. Grows 20 or 30 feet in a season. 
Excellent for trellises, fences and arbors. 
White fragrant flowers; prickly seed 
pods. Packet, 5 cents. 
WISTARIA. 
A hardy perennial shrubby climber, of 
great value on arbors, trees or buildings. 
Bears great panicles of purple or white 
blossoms in profusion in spring. One of 
the most satisfactory of the hardy climb- 
ers. I offer a mixture of the best blue 
and white Chinese sorts. Packet, 10 cis. 
XERANTHEMUM. 
Beautiful, free-blooming annual. 1 foot 
high, highly prized as-an everlasting. 
Large, double, globe-shaped flowers. 
Seeds germinate easily in open ground. 
White, purple, yellow. Fine mixed; alk 
colors. Packet. 5 cents. 
YELLOW FLOWERING PEA. 
See Crotalaria. 
