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Primula 
Primula Malacoides. This new race of Primroses from the 
mountains of China has proven most profuse-flowering for 
ot culture. The plants form rosettes of light green leaves 
rom which numerous wiry stems—8 to 10 inches in height— 
racefully carry whorls of flowers 4% to % of an inch across. 
hey are easily grown) from seed flowering in about 4 months 
from sowing, and continue to bloom for many weeks. A cool 
situation indoors suits them to perfection. 
3522 P. Malacoides Alba. Pure white flowers........ Pkt. 25c. 
3524 P. Malacoides. Lilac-colored flowers............. Pkt. 25c. 
3525 Primula Obconica Gigantea. These ‘Ever-flowering 
Primroses”’ are favorite pot plants for house and conservatory. 
This new giant Obconica race produces flowers of great size, 
many of them measuring 1% inches across, equaling the 
flowers of the Chinese Primrose, with the added merit of 
being more easily grown and having a longer duration of 
bloom. Several colors in mixture, white, crimson, rose, violet, 
Macipink-evyed! sortivetescps Vikan een enn oes Pkt. 25e. 
3542 Primula Acaulis or Hardy Blue Primrose. A beautiful, 
blue-flowered type, hardy, and splendid for naturalizing 
among shrubs, in turf or the herbaceous border... Pkt. 25c. 
3545 Primula Japonica Hybrids. These grand new Japan 
Primroses are perfectly hardy—forming stately, robust 
plants that carry large trusses of bloom peending 3 to 3% 
feet above the ground. The colors range from pure 
white through shades of pink to deep aoe 5 
t. 25c. 
Pyrethrum 
on 3552 Aureum or Yellow-Leaved Golden 
Feather. Dwarf plants about 8 inches 
high, extensively used for ribbon and 
carpet, bedding foliage of bright yel- 
low. Usually grown as annuals, al- 
though perennials. Yellow foliage, 
3% foot. 
Per 1,000 seeds, 25c.; Pkt. 10c. 
Pyrethrum Hybridum 
or Painted Daisy 
Valuable, hardy, herbaceous 
Rarden lants with large single or 
ouble flowers, 3 to 4 inches across, 
of rose, flesh, pink, white, crim- 
son, etc., freely borne on stems 
about 2 feet high; they remain in 
bloom for a long time. 
3555 Double, Large-flowering, 
xed Colors.........Pkt. 25c. 
3560 Single, Large-flowering, 
Mixed Colors........: ’. Pkt. 15. 
Hardy Poppy, 
Giant Oriental 
(Papaver Orientale) 
Among hardy perennials these 
hold an unrivaled position for 
gorgeous effectiveness in gardens 
and hardy borders; height, 2 to 3 
feet; flowers immense, often 6 
inches or more across. They are 
also grand, cut in bud state, for 
vases. The seed should be sown 
in the open ground in June or July 
in order to bloom the following 
summer. (See illustration.) 
3482 Beauty of Livermere. 
Crimson with Black blotch. 
Pkt. 18¢. 
3483 Colosseum. Flowers 8 inches 
across. Color, rich, shiny, dark 
scarlet, with a black spot at the base 
of each petal’..,..... 000.00. Pkt. 15. 
3485 Princess Victoria Louise. Salmon- 
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3487 Rembrandt. Orange-scarlet...... Pkt. 
3489 Salmon Queen. Salmon-yellow..... 
3490 Oriental Hybrids. Mixed Colors. 
Per 1,000 seeds, 60c.; Pkt. lic. 
Portulaca 
Brilliant garden annuals, 6 inches high, luxuriating in warm, dry, sunny situa- 
tions and blooming profusely from early summer to autumn. For low beds and 
masses of color, from spring until frost, they are indispensable; colors range 
paren innumerable shades of red, yellow, pink striped, white, etc. (See illus- 
ration. 
3500 Double, Mixed Colors. These make penectly gorgeous masses of color; 
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the flowers of the double sorts are like little roses. 
Per 1,000 seeds, 50c.; Pkt. 15c. 
3505 Parana. Immense single blossoms, averaging 2 inches; color bright 
RUD Vane aise ee eM MEN N el Pht er hain MICRON. < wle wade re ye Pkt. 10c. 
3510 Single, Mixed Colors. Per % 0z., 50c.; per 1,000 seeds, 25c.; Pkt. 10c. 
3501 Imported Collection of Double Portulaca, 8 varieties........ .60c. 
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Primrose 
Giant Fringed Chinese. (Primula Sinensis Grandiflora Fimbriata.) 
Chinese Primroses are among our finest winter and spring blooming pot plants; 
of Bealthy, sturdy growth, 8 to 12 inches high, and free from insects; while they 
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produce for weeks large trusses of flowers, which, in our new Giant varieties, 
average 4% to 6 inches in circumference. 
3520 Giant, Double, Mixed Colors...................-....5- .. Pkt. 50c. 
3540 Giant, Single, Mixed Colors.............5.. 0.000000 cues Pkt, 25c. 
Giant Star. (Primula Stellata Hybrida Gigantea.) This distinct and beauti- 
ful type is an unrivaled winter and spring ues erine pot plant for table decora- 
tion. The dark foliage on purple stems makes a striking contrast to the innumer- 
able star-shaped flowers borne in clusters. The flowers are much larger than the 
old type Stellatas and of greater substance. 
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Henderson Collection of 17 Hardy Perennials for $1.25. Shown in colors on back cover. 
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