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RELIABLE FLOWER SEEDS, 



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Highly useful and attractive perennials in the hardy border 



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3532 Gloxinioides "Sensation." As a bedding plant 

 this takes ranlc with the Petunia, Phlox, etc. It grows 

 about 2 feet high, every branch being a spike of large. 

 Gloxinia-like flowers in a very wide range of bright 

 colors, including rose, red, carmine, cherry, pink, lilac, 

 purple, etc. 2 pkts., 25 cts SO 



3533 Barbatus Torreyii. Spikes of brilliant coral red. 

 vcn,' cfTcctive; June to August; 3 to 4 feet 



3540 Mixed. A great variety of kinds and colors 



15 



Hardy Perennial Phlox (p. ixecussata) 



3641 Hardy herbaceous perennials. The .seed we sen<l out 

 has been saved from our own unrivalled collection, and 

 is supplied in mixture only. Per } oz., 75 cts l.> 



Physalis (Chinese Lantern Plant) 



3646 Francheti. An ornamental plant, forming dense 

 bushes about 2 feet high, producing freely its bright 

 orange-scarlet lantern-like fruits, which can be cut and 

 dried for winter bouquets; highly interesting 10 



Platycodon 



(Balloon Flower, or Japanese Bell Flower) 



One of the best hardy perennials, producing very showy flowers during the whole 

 season. They form large clumps, and are excellent for planting in permanent borders 

 or among shrubbery; easily raised from seed. 



3663 Grandiflonim. Large steel blue flowers, i oz., 40 cts SO 10 ^ 



3662 Mariesi. Large, open, bell-shaped flowers of a rich violet-blue; H. 



Oriental Poppies 



(Papaver Orientale) 



Oriental Poppies can be sown any time during the summer and 

 early autumn. The plants disappear during July and 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. 



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3747 Orientale \Thc Lari:r Ori-.iila! Poppy). A charming 

 summer-flowering hardy plant, producing numerous 

 leafy stems about 21 feet high, with large orange 

 scarlet flowers; having a conspicuous black blotch on 

 each petal, exceedingly showy. J oz., 40 cts $0 10 



3741 — Oriflamme. A gorgeous orange-scarlet; very 



large 15 



3744 — Princess Victoria. A beautiful salmony pink. . IS 



3750 Oriental Mixed Hybrids. Saved from a large 

 number of named Sdrts, embracing all of the colors. 

 J 02., 50 cts IS 



Iceland Poppies (Papaver Nudlcaule) 



Hardy [XTennials of graceful neat habit, with bright green fern- 

 like foliage, formed in tufts, from which issues slender stalks about 

 12 inches high, bearing their brilliant flowers in endless profusion; 

 most useful for cutting, for which purpose pick when in ijud, and, 

 if the seed pods are picked off, continue in flower the entire season. 

 They remain evergreen throughout the winter, coming into Ijloom 

 early the following spring. 



3733 Bright Yellow . . ,S0 10 



3734 Pure White 10 



3736 Orange Scarlet 10 



3740 Finest Mixed. .\11 colors, i oz., SO cts 10 



3738 New Hybrid Iceland. The latest development in 



this lovely species, varying in color from sulphur yellow 

 through different shades of orange to chamois and 

 salmony-rose, some of which are very striking IS 



plant dwarf and compact. J oz., 60 cts. 



PolemOnium (Jacob's Ladder) 



3671 Coeruleum. Popular hardy perennial border [jlant, with bell-shaped 

 bluish-purple flowers nearly 1 inch across; 2 feet; May to July. . . 



10 



10 



Polyanthus (PrlmuIa Elatior) 



Showy, early spring, free-flowering plants, fine for either pot or outdoor culture; 



hardy perennials; 9 inches. 



3677 Invincible Giant. A magnificent strain of this perfectly hardy and 

 easily grown spring-flowering Primrose, representing the work of years of 

 painstaking cross-breeding and selection by a Scotch specialist. Of strong, 

 sturdy habit, and bearing immense trusses of large flowers on self-supporting 

 stems 10 to 16 inches in length. L'nquestionably the finest strain in culti- 

 vation, containing all colors from purest white to the richest crimson. 5 pkts., 

 $1.00 25 



3680 English Mixed. A fine grade; all colors 15 



Iceland Poppies 



For Complete List and Cultural Notes see our Garden Book for 1925 



