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Nasturtium 



Few plants are 

 more easily 

 grown or re- 

 main longer in 

 bloom than the 

 Tropoioluni, with its large shield-shaped leaves and beauti- 

 fully irregular flowers having long spurs and brilliantly 

 colored petals. In favorable soil flowers are produced in 

 abundance throughout the season. Much used for window 

 boxes. If the black aphis appears spray the foliage vigor- 

 ously with tvater. 



Seed is usually sown outdoors, as soon as the weather 

 is warm and settled, in the row where the plants are to 

 remain. Well pulverized soil, preferably well drained and 

 moderately rich, should be used and the seed covered with 

 about one inch of fine soil firmly pressed down. A sunny 

 situation is essential for free blooming. If the soil is very 

 rich the plants give a large amount of foliage but few flowers. 

 For earlier blooming, start indoors and transplant to the 

 open ground after danger of frost is over. 

 tpw £ \r • J.* (Tropceolum minor) Sometimes 

 JJWarr Varieties called Tom-Thumb sorts. The 

 flowers are brilliant and attractive. The plants are evenly 

 dwarf and are often used for a border. When about two 

 inches high, thin so as to give each plant about one foot 

 of room. Hardy annual; about one foot high. 

 Aurora. Flowers light reddish orange, veined with 

 carmine. Oz. 20c Pkt. 10c. 



Bronze Colored. Bronze-orange. Oz. 20c... 



Crimson. Dark crimson. Oz. 20c 



Empress of India. Small, compact plant; deep 



scarlet flowers; very dark foliage. Oz. 20c 



King Theodore. Scarlet-maroon or brown-red 



flowers . Oz. 20c 



Pearl. Pale yellow. Oz. 20c 



Rose. A warm rose-pink. Oz. 20c 



Scarlet. Scarlet-orange. Oz. 20c 



Schilling's Striped. Bright yellow with brownish 



red or maroon blotches and stripes. Oz. 20c 



Yellow. Bright rich yellow. Oz. 20c 



Dwarf Mixed. Many desirable shades and colors. 



Oz. 20c; X Lb. 60c; Lb. |2.G0 , 



10c. 

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T •!• \r * M.* (TropcEolum Lohhianum) The 



trailing Varieties Lobblanum differs from the 



Nasturtiums 



common tall, climbing or running nasturtium in being a 



little smaller in leaf, more compact in growth, more florif- 



erous and having richer, more varied colored flowers. When about two inches high thin to six inches apart. Give some 



support to the vines as soon as they begin to run and they will usually grow six to eight feet during the season. The trailing 



sorts are much used for covering arbors and trellises. Half hardy annual. 



Bright Yellow. Yellow with purplish carmine stain. Oz. 20c; J4 Lb. 60c Pkt. 10c. 



Brilliant. Intense scarlet-red, dark foliage. Oz. 20c; 14 Lb. 60c " lOc. 



Chestnut Brown. Rich red-maroon. Oz. 20c; 14 lb. 60c " 10c. 



Giant of Battles. Sulphur, red blotches. Oz. 20c; M lb. 60c. " lOc. 



Hemisphsericum {Majus'^ Straw, blotched and suffused orange- scarlet; very large foliage, very strong growing, usually 



twelve to fifteen feet high. Oz. 20c; M Lb. 60c " lOc. 



Jupiter (Majlis) Very large, golden-yellow flowers; very large foliage, very strong growing, usually twelve to fifteen 



feet high; free blooming. Oz. 20c; M Lb. 60c " lOc. 



King of the Blacks. Black-red or crimson-maroon, with darker markings; dark foliage. Oz. 25c; 14 Lb. 60c " 10c. 



Light Yellow. Attractive light yellow or yellowish white with maz'oon stain. Oz. 25c; 14 Lb. 60c " 10c. 



Queen Wilhelmina. Foliage variegated, being marbled 



and veined with light green and white. Flowers rosy 



scarlet. Oz. 20c; 34 lb. 60c Pkt. 10c. 



Rose. Bright and attractive. Oz. 20c; 14 Lb. 60c 



Spitfire. Bright, fiery scarlet flowers; very floriferous. 



Oz. 20c; 34 Lb. 60c 



Trailing Mixed. Lobbianum varieties. A wide range 



of colors and shades. Oz. 20c; 34 Lb. 60c; Lb. $2.00. . . 



10c. 



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10c. 



Madame Gunter's Hybrid Nasturtiums The flowers 

 are striped or blotched with shades of red on yellow and 

 orange ground, forming a combination of exceeding brilliancy 

 and beauty. About four feet high. Half hardy annual. 

 Oz. 20c; 34 Lb. 60c Pkt. 10c. 



Chameleon Nasturtiums Almost every shade of color 

 and marking known to nasturtiums; continually changing 

 from day to day. Attractive strains. 



Dwarf Chameleon. Oz. 20c; 14 Lb. 60c Pkt. 10c. 



Trailing Chameleon. Oz. 20c ; 34 Lb. 60c " 10c. 



Nicotiana 



Handsome bedding plants of the tobac- 

 co family, valuable for long and free 

 blooming. The flowers are salver- 

 shaped, with long tubular corollas. 



Sow outdoors when ground is warm and dry covering 

 the fine seed one-eighth inch deep or for earlier blooming start 

 in boxes indoors and transplant to open ground when danger 

 of frost is past. Allow at least eighteen inches to each plant for 

 proper development. Half hardy annuals; about three feet high. 

 Affinis. Flowers large, white and fully expanded only 

 in the morning or evening or on cloudy days. Very 



fragrant. Oz. 30c Pkt. 10c. 



Sanderae, Mixed. Flowers white, carmine-rose or violet, 

 a little smaller than Affinis and unlike it, in full bloom 



during the day. Very floriferous " 10c. 



NIGELLA— (See Love-in-a-Mist) CENOTHERA— (See Primrose) 



Nicotiana Affinis 



