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PORTULACA 



Brilliant garden annuals, 6 inches high, luxuriating in warm situations, and blooming profusely 

 from early summer to autumn. For low beds and masses of color, from spring until frost, they 

 are indispensable; colors range through innumerable shades of red, yellow, pink, striped, white, etc, 



{See cut.) Single Mixed. Per Oz. 40c Pkt. Sc. 



DOUBLE PORTULACA. Mixed Colors. These make perfectly gorgeous masses of color; the 



flowers of the double sorts are like little roses. Per 1,000 seeds, 25c Pkt. 10c 



Collection of Double Portulacas, 12 separate colors 7Sc. 



PORTULACA PARANA 



This new giant-flowered type from South America produces immense single blossoms, 

 averaging 3 inches across; color bright ruby-red. The habit of growth and profuse flower- 

 ing characteristics vie with our ordinary Portulaca Pkt. 10c. 



PRIMULA MALACOIDES 



This new race of Primroses from the mountains of China has proven 

 most profuse-flowering for pot culture. The plants form rosettes of light 

 green leaves from which numerous wiry stems — -8 to 10 inches in 

 height — ^gracefnlly carry whorls of flowers ^2 to M of an inch across. 

 They are easily grown from seed and commence flowering in about 

 4 months from sowing and continue to bloom in increasing profusion 

 for many weeks. A cool situation indoors or in the conser- 

 vatory suits them to perfection. (See cul.) 



P. Malacoides. 



Lilac-colored 

 flowers. 



Pkt. 20c. 



P. Malacoides. 



Alba. New, 



pure white 



flowers. .25c 



Giant Fringed CHINESE PRIMROSES 



Chinese Primroses are among our finest winter and spring blooming pot plants; of healthy, sturdy 

 growth, 8 to 12 inches high, and free from insects; while they produce for weeks large trusses of flowers, 

 which, in our new Giant varieties, average from 4'4, to 6 inches in circumference. (See cut.) 

 Giant, Single. Mixed Colors Pkt. 25c. Giant, Double. Mixed Colors Pkt. 50c 



New Giant STAPv PP^IMPvOSES ^';™H';bn?Xn.a) 



This distinct and beautiful type should be better known, for it is an unrivaled winter and spring 

 flowering pot plant and for table decoration unique and effective. The attractive dark foliage on purple 

 stems makes a striking contrast to the innumerable star-shaped flowers borne in graceful pyramidal 

 clusters. The flowers of this new type are much larger than the old type Stellatas and of greater substance. 

 Giant Star Primroses. Mixed Colors Pkt. 25c. 



PRIMULA OBCONICA GIGANTEA 



These "Ever-flowering Primroses" are favorite 

 pot plants for house and conservatory. The 

 Chinese Primroses will have to look to their 

 laurels for this new giant Obconica race is 

 looming up in size of flowers.'many of them 

 measuring li inches across, equalling in 

 dimensions those of their Chinese rivals 

 with the added merit of being easier 

 grown and having a longer duration of 

 bloom. Several colors in mixture 

 white, crimson, rose, violet, lilac, pink- 

 eyed sorts, etc Pkt. 25c. 



tlARDY BLUE PRIMROSES 



A beautiful blue-flowered type of 

 the popular old English yellow Prim- 

 rose. Equally as hardy, and a fitting 

 companion for naturalizing among 

 shrubs, in turf or the herbaceous 

 border Pkt. 25c. 



Primula Japonica Hybrids 



These grand, new Japan Primroses 

 are perfectly hardy — forming stately, 

 robust plants that carry large trusses 

 of bloom standing 3 to 3}^ feet above 

 the ground. The colors range from 

 pure white through shades of pink 

 to deep crimson Pkt. 2Sc. 



PYRETHRUM HYBRIDUM 



Valuablehardy herbaceous garden plants with 

 large single or double flowers, 3 to 4 inches across, 

 of rose, flesh, pink, white, crimson, etc.; freely 

 borne on stems about 2 feet high; they remain 

 in bloom a long time. (See cut.) 

 Single, Large-flowering. Mixed Colors. Pfei. 10c. 

 Double, " " " 25c. 



For PYRETHRUM AUREUM (Golden Feather), 

 see page 104 



C D 1 1 zr i FOR INDEX OF FLOWER SEEDS, THEIR COMMON NAMES AND 1 o D 11 /T 



oee rage llo ] aid to selection for various purposes and situations / oee rage 110 



