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Portulaca. 
Portulaca. A small plant of great 
beauty, and of the easiest culture. Does 
best in a well exposed situation, where 
it has plenty of sun. The flowers are of 
various colors, from white to bright 
scarlet and crimson. The plant is good 
for edging vases or pots’ or where large 
plants are kept in tubs, the surface can 
be filled with this neat little genus of 
plants. Half foot high. February till 
August. 
Portulaca Grandiflora, fl. pl. Double 
Portulaca. 'The same variety of colors 
with semi-double and double flowers; 
half foot high. February till August. 
Primula Chinensis. Chinese Primrose. 
A green-hcuse plant which flowers pro- 
fusely and continues to bloom for a long 
time; should be sown early to insure the 
plant flowering well. Different colors 
mixed; per package, 25 cents. One and 
a half feet high. October till February. 
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Primula Veris. 
Primula Veris. Cowslip. An _her- 
paceous plant of various colors, highly 
esteemed in Hurope. Half foot high. 
December till April. 
Pyrethrum Aurea. Golden .Feather. 
The flowers resemble Asters. It has 
bright yellow leaves which make it very 
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Reseda Odorata. 
Reseda Odorata Grandiflora. Sweet 
Mignonette. A fragrant plant with large 
spikes of yellowish red flowers and a 
favorite with everybody. Fifteen inches 
high. December till April. 
Scabiosa Nana. 
Scabiosa 
Bride. 
colors. 
April. 
Saponaria Calabrica. ‘Soapwort. A 
very free flowering annual, of easy 
culture, resembles somewhat in leaves 
the Sweet William. One and a half feet 
high. December till April. 
Salvia Splendens. Scarlet Salvia or 
Red Flowering Sage. <A pot or green- 
house plant, but which can be grown as 
an annual, as it flowers freely from seed 
the first year. Two to three feet high. 
February till April. 
‘Silene Ameria. Lobel’s Catchfly. A 
free blooming plant of easy culture; flow- 
ers almost anywhere; red and white. 
One and a half feet high. 
Nana. Dwarf Mourning 
Plant of double flowers of various 
One foot high. December till 
Frotscher’s Improved Large Passion Lettuce is Reliable. 
