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Old, 



VIRGINIAN STOCK [hA-6in.] This was a favorite in gardens 

 in the old days, and modem flower lovers should make use 

 of it more often than they do. It can be sown quite early, 

 and as simamer comes on it will provide a pretty, fresh 

 effect as an edging or in a low border. The dwarf plants 

 are light green and produce quantities of four-petaled 

 single flowers with a faint perfume. These come in shades 

 of red and white. The plants bloom for many weeks. 



Mixed Oz. 3oc; pkt. 5c 



VISCARIA (Rose of Heaven) [hA-12 in.] Another of the 

 colorful annual flowers which the older generation may 

 recall in gardens when they were young. The neat tufted 

 plants with pale green leaves bear terminal flowers resem- 

 bling tiny single wild roses. Throughout the summer there 

 is a wealth of blossoms in shades of red, white, and blue. 



Mixed Pkt. 10c 



Pompon Zinnias mal<e a pretty border planting for the taller 

 varieties. These are Double Liliiput. (See page 89.) 



VIOLA CORN UTA (Tufted Pansies) [hP-R-6 in.] Those 

 who do not know the Viola often mistake it for a small- 

 flowered Pansy. It belongs to the same great Violet 

 family, but it is distinctly different. It is very hardy, and 

 for that reason it is one of the best edging plants for the 

 permanent border or rock garden. Over neat tufts of foli- 

 age the dainty flowers are gracefully poised on slender 

 stems. Frequently the petals of the blossoms do not over- 

 lap as they do in many Pansies, and the spur or horn of 

 the lower petal is more pronounced. 



White Ghstening white. Yellow Bright gold. 



Blue' Perfection A fine Ught blue. 

 Any one of the above: M oz- 45c; pkt. loc 



Jersey Gem The best deep violet-blue Pkt. 2oc 



Mixed An assortment of many rich colors which blend 

 admirably i^ oz. 40c; pkt. 10c 



WALLFLOWER [hhB] This branch of the Stock or Gilliflower 

 family is a great favorite throughout Europe ; it should be 

 one of the garden's treasures in the milder secrions of this 

 country. In our Northern States even the early varieties 

 may not flower out of doors before frost, but Lf taken up and 

 potted they will furnish beautiful blooms indoors. 

 They come in wonderfully rich tones of red, yel- 

 low, and brown and are deliciously perfumed. 



Double [20 in.] Many shades of orange, yellow, and 

 mulbern,^ are to be found in this type of Wall- 

 flower. Each plant normally produces a single 

 vigorous stalk -nith drooping dark green leaves 

 and a tapering spike thickly set with double flow- 

 ers. It makes a fine accent plant in the front of 

 the border. 

 Mixed H oz. 50c; pkt. 10c 



WHITLAVIA (California Canterbury Bell) [hA.12 in.] 

 This native of CaUfomia is a blue flowering plant 

 that does well everj'where, and it should be grown 

 more generally. The leaves which are heart-shaped 

 and toothed form a dense group above which rise 

 deUcate hairy stalks with curving sprays of flowers 

 at the top. The blossoms are little bells, their flat, 

 five-lobed margins of violet-blue intensified by 

 their clear white interiors. Each flower soon fades, 

 but the continued succession of bloom keeps the 

 plant in color for many weeks. 



Gloxinoides Blue K oz. 40c; pkt. 10c 



Wind Flo^t;h (See Anemone) 

 WooLFLo^VER (See Celosia) 



XERANTHEMUM (Everlasting) [hA-18 in.] When 

 winter comes, the person who has planted this 

 dainty strawflower may have a lasting remembrance 

 of his garden's summer beauty. The erect plants 

 are graced with silvery foliage and carry on long 

 slender stems double flower heads about 1 Yi inches 

 across. These have one or two rows of ray petals 

 around a dense central tuft of shorter, tubular 

 florets. The exterior ray petals come in shades 

 of white, pink, and purple, while the tufts are 

 usually ivory white. 



Double Mixed Yi oz. 50c; pkt. 10c 



Yarrow (See Achillea) 



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