114 III iHWADRBB •PHIIADELPHlAm- 1 ^ RELIABLE FLOWER SEEDS 



HARDY PERENMAL POPPIES. 



Oriental and Bracteatum Poppies should be sown in early 

 spring in the open ground as soon as it is fit to work. The 

 plants disappear during July or August, appearing again as soon 

 as the weather gets cool. When this fall growth starts is the 

 time they should be transplanted to their permanent flowering 

 quarters. It is well to mark the places they are planted with a 

 stake to insure the roots against disturbance during their annual 

 resting period. pfr pkt. 



3731 Bracteatum. Immense orange-scarlet flowers, very 



similar to the Oriental Poppy. J oz. , 20 cts 5 



3747 Orientale ( The L urge Oriental Poppy). A charm- 

 ing summer-flowering hardy plant, producing numerous 

 leafy stems about 2 1 . feet high, with large, deep crim- 

 son flowers, having a conspicuous black blotch on each 

 petal; exceedingly showy. J oz., 25 cts 10 



3748 Orientale "Mammoth." This new variety exceeds 

 in size all previous introductions. The plant is of 

 strong growth, bearing its enormous glowing scarlet 

 upright flowers on stems over 4 feet high. 3 pkts., 



.50 cts 20 



3759 Orientale Hybrids. Beautiful hybrids of the 

 Oriental Poppy, producing flowers of immense size, 6 

 inches and over in HH^^P^^JSi^ ^~ " • 381^5 



diameter, and of 

 many novel colors, 

 such as salmon, 

 cherry, etc. J oz. , 

 50 cts 1) 



ICELAND 



POPPIES. 



This charming class of 

 hardy Poppies are offered 

 on preceding page. 



Oriental Poppy. 



How to Grow 

 Flowers 



From Seed. 



This subject is fully 

 treated in the articles ap- 

 pearing on pages 55 to 57, 

 and we feel sure that if the 

 directions there given are 

 followed that success will 

 Single Poktulacas. be the rule. 



PORTULACA ^sun iw). 



One of our finest hardy annual plants, of easy culture, thriv- 

 ing best in a rather rich, light loam or sandy soil, and luxuriat- 

 ing in an exposed, sunny situation; the flowers are of the richest 

 colors, and produced throughout the summer in great profusion; 

 fine for massing in beds, edgings or rock work, and frequently 

 used to sow broadcast over sunny banks, etc., in any case it is 

 well to mix the seed with three or four times its bulk of dry sand 

 or soil which permits an easy and even distribution of the seed; 

 6 inches. 



All colors. Per oz., 40 cts 5 



A large percentage of the flowers 



Dnl'Bl.E PoKTULACAS. 



3770 Single Mixed. 



3700 Double Mixed. 



will come perfectly double, of the most brilliant scarlet, 

 crimson, white, yellow, etc. J oz., 50 cts 10 



3760 Imported Collection of 8 single varieties 25 



3759 Imported Collection of 8 double varieties 50 



PUERARIA THITNBERGIAPiA. 



i Japanese Kuduz Vine I 

 3835 To this must be awarded first place as the fastest- 

 growing hardy climbing plant. It will grow 8 to 10 

 feet the first year from seed, and afler it has become 

 established there seems to be no limit to its growth, 50 

 feet in a single season being not unusual. Its foliage 

 is large and covers well; it bears small racemes of rosy- 

 purple, pea-shaped blossoms towards the close of 

 August. A splendid subject for covering permanently 

 verandas, dead trees, etc. J oz., 40 cts 10 



N., . . 1 1 1. . and Specialties in Flower Seeds are offered on pages 58 to 68. 



