Pad eg 
Gaillardia (Mexican Blanket Flower) 
A hardy annual easily cultivated and very satisfactory for 
| mixed borders and cutting. These daisy-like flowers are large, 
) beautiful and colored brilliant golden-yellow, crimson, orange, 
/amaranth and claret. They bloom throughout the entire season. 
| 980. Picta. Large single crimson and orange colored 
flowers. Pkt. 10c. 44 Oz. 30c. Oz. $1.00. 
981. Lorenziana. Gaily colored double 
| flowers with 
_ tubular florets., Pkt. 10c. Y% Oz. 40c. Oz. $1.25. 
1030. Gomphrena (Globe Amaranth) 
This everlasting is popularly known as Bachelor’s Button. 
| The white, rose and purple-covered flower-heads look like 
| those of red clover. It is an excellent flower for bedding or 
| dried for the winter bouquet. Cut before the flowers are fully 
| matured and hang up to dry. Pkt. 10c. Oz. 60c. 
1020. Godetia (Satin Flower) 
A most attractive, bushy little annual plant, bearing 
| brightly colored flowers of a satiny texture. The plants bloom 
profusely and are very effective in gardens. Choice Mixed. 
Pkt. 15c. 
1040. Gourds 
Annual climbers, rapid growers, 20 to 25 feet high. The 
vines bear ornamental fruit in most peculiar shapes. Very 
suitable for covering arbors, fences and trellises. Pkt. 10c. Oz. 
50c. 
Gypsophila (Baby’s Breath) 
Delicate, graceful little plants with small flowers. Much 
| in demand for cutting and combining with other flowers for 
| bouquets and vases. 
1050. Elegans alba Grandiflora. A large emenine an- 
| nual white variety. Several sowings should be made a season. 
| Pkt. 10c. Oz. 40c. 
1051. Elegans Rosea. An annual form with delicate pink 
' flowers. Pkt. 10c. Oz. 50c. 
Ice Plant 
MESEMBRY ANTHEMUM CRYSTALLINUM 
1350. A. dwarf, annual, trailing plant with small white 
flowers. Its foliage is covered with glistening dots or elevations, 
which make the plant highly ornamental for window gardens 
and hanging baskets. Pkt. 10c. 
| The J. Bolgiano Seed Company, Baltimore, Md. 43 
Helichrysum Monstrosum 
Straw Flowers 
Attractive for beds and borders, but especially grown to dry 
and use in vases and baskets throughout the winter. When 
grown for the purpose of drying and using for winter decoration, 
the flowers should be cut when about one-third open and with 
as long stems as possible. The foliage should be striped off. 
then tie in bunches and hang heads downwards in a dark dry 
place to cure. The plants should be given plenty of room to 
grow, at least 12 inches apart. Most any soil is suitable. 
The named varieties offered below will give a wonderful 
assortment of colors and brighten your garden with their glitter- 
ing blooms. 2% feet high. 
1090. Fireball 
1091. Golden Ball 
1093. Rose Carmine 
1094. Salmon Queen 
1092. Silver Ball 1095. Violet Queen 
Any of the above colors. Pkt. 10c. %4 Oz. 50c. 
1096. Collection of a packet each of the above 6 varieties, 
50c. 
1099. Mixed colors. Pkt. 10c. 
A Oz. 40c. Oz. $1.00. 
Heliotrope 
A half-hardy perennial, flowering during the whole season. 
Its delightful perfume makes it a most desirable bouquet 
flower. A splendid bedding plant. Seed started indoors in the 
spring will make fine plants for summer blooming. Large; 
dark blue. Pkt. 15e. %4 Oz. $1.00. 
Humulus (Annual Japan Hop) 
A rapid summer climber which attains a height of 20 to 
30 feet. The foliage is luxuriant, making a dense covering. 
It is one of the best plants for covering verandas, trellises, etc., 
producing grateful shade and being very ornamental. Heat, 
drought and insects do not trouble it. 
Japonicus. Pkt. 10c. %4 Oz. 30c. Oz. 75c. 
Hunnemannia 
(Giant Yellow Tulip Poppy; Bush Eschscholtzia) 
1165. Fumarizfolia. This is by far the best of the poppy 
family for cutting purposes, the flowers keeping fresh in water 
for over a week. These bushy plants with beautiful, feathery 
glaucous foliage are covered with large, clear, brizht yellow 
cup-shaped flowers from July until frost. Pkt. 10¢. % Oz. 40c. 
Kochia Trichophylla 
(Summer Cypress or Mexican Fire Bush) 
1190. An old-fashioned, popular annual. It is easily 
grown from seed, forming oval bushes 2 to 2% feet high 
with dense feathery foliage. This foliage deepens in color as 
the summer advances until the whole “plant assumes a fiery 
crimson hue. Pkt. 10c. Oz. 25c. 
