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RELIABLE FLOWER SEEDS 



HARDY PERENNIAL POPPIES. 



Oriental 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. 



PER 1'KT. 



3731 Bracteatum. Immense orange-scarlet flowers, very 



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



3717 Orientale i the Large Oriental Poppy). Acharm- 

 ing summer-flowering hardy plant, producing numerous 

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

 son flowers, having a conspicuous black blotch on each 

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



URGE ORIENTALE HYBRID 

 POPPIES. 



\\ e offer four of the best and most distinct sorts. Seedlings 

 are liable to vary somewhat. 

 3748 Mammoth. Glowing scarlet; very large 15 



3744 Princess Victoria Lou- 

 ise. Salmon-pink 15 



3745 Psyche. Delicate rosy k - 'j$ 

 blush 15 



3746 Trilby. Brilliant red. . . 15 

 A packet each of the 4 sorts, 



50 cts. 



3750 Mixed Hybrids. Saved 

 from a large number of 

 named sorts. } oz., 50 cts. 15 



Single Portulaca. 



Double Portulacas. 



Oriental Popfs 



ICELAND 



POPPIES. 



This charming class of hardy 

 Poppies is offered on preced- 

 ing page. 



PORTULACA. 



'Sun Plant.) 



One of our finest hardy an- 

 nual plants, of easy culture, 

 thriving best in a rather rich, 

 light loam or sandy soil, and luxuriating 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 per- 

 mits an easy and even distribution of the seed; 6 inches. 



PER PKT. 



3764 Single Rose. \ oz., 'JO cts 5 



3765 •« Scarlet. \ oz., 20 cts 5 



3766 " White. \ oz., 20 cts 5 



37<:7 " Yellow. } oz., 20 cts 5 



3770 " Mixed. All colors. Per oz., 40 cts 5 



37ti!» Imported Collection of 8 single varieties 25 



3760 Double Mixed. A large percentage of the flowers 



will come perfectly double, of the most brilliant scarlet, 



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



3759 Imported Collection of 8 double varieties 50 



PUERARIA THUNBERGIANA. 



(Japanese Kudzu Vine. I 

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

 ing hardy climbing plant. It will grow 8 to 10 feet the 

 first year from seed, and after 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. \ oz., 40 cts 10 



Novelties and Specialties in Flower Seeds are offered on pages 58 to 68. 



