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PETUNIAS? 



RELIABLE 



Favorite, half- 

 hardy, succeed- 

 ing well in any 

 rich soil. For 

 the brilliancy 

 and variety of 

 the colors, and 

 the long duration 

 of their blooming 

 period, they are 

 indispensable in 

 any garden. Sow 

 seed early in 

 spring, scatter 

 thinly on an even surface, and barely cover 

 the seed with sand. If intended for the open 

 ground, prick out into a frame to be kept till 

 planting-out time. If lor pots, pot singly into 

 small pots in strong rich soil mixed with sand, 

 and shift as the plants grow larger. 



FINE MIXED — Good mixture of small free- 

 blooming colors. Packet, 5c. 



167. DOUBLE PETUNIA — About 30 per 

 cent, will produce double flowers. Pkt., 25c. 



168. PETUNIA — Double-Fringed Mixed — 



The flowers of this sort being double, together 

 with being fringed, are very beautiful. Pkt., 25c. 



175. PHLOX DRUMMONDII (A) — A most 

 brilliant and beautiful hardy annual, about 1 

 foot high, well adapted for bedding, making a 

 dazzling show through the whole season. It 

 succeeds well on almost any soil. Packet, 5c. 



176. PHLOX DRUMMONDII — (Nana Com- 

 pacta) (A) — Very fine mixed. This new strain 

 is of dwarf, compact habit, and makes desir- 

 able pot plants; 



also excellent 

 for ribbon lines 

 and raassin 



Packet, 10c 



RICINUS (Castor Bean). 



FLOWER SEEDS 



PINKS — (DIANTHUS). 



Seed may be sown in the open ground in spring after danger of frost is 

 past in the place where the plants are wanted to bloom. Use well-pulverized 

 soil, preferably sandy loam. Make the rows one foot to 15 inches apart, and 

 cover the seed with one-fourth inch of fine soil, firmly pressed down. When 

 2 inches high, thin 6 to 8 inches apart. 



180. FINK CARNATION, or FICOTEE. (Choicest Double Mixed Dianthus 

 Caryophylus) — Carnation and Picotee Pinks are generally favorites for their 

 delicious fragrance, richness of colors and profuse bloom. Perennial. Pkt., 10c. 



182. FINK CARNATION— MARGUERITE— These lovely, fragrant Carna- 

 tions produce fine double flowers. From seed sown in the garden early in 

 the spring, the plants begin to bloom in about four months. All colors mixed. 

 The finest strain. Per Packet, 10c. 



185. FINK — (CHINA OR INDIAN FINK) — Blooms in clusters, flowers 

 very double and bloom in a large range of bright colors. Packet, 5c. 



188. FINK — HEDDEWEGI (P) — Beautiful double flowers in a great vari- 

 ety of colors, with fringed white edges. Packet, 5c. 



200. POPPY-CARNATION (Papaver) (A) — A showy and easily cultivated 

 hardy annual, with large brilliant colored flowers, growing freely in any 

 garden soil. Packet, 5c. 



201. POPPY — PEONY FLOWERED (A) — A magnificent species, large, 

 showy, double globule flowers, resembling Peonies in shape. Packet, 5c. 



202. SHIRLEY POPPY (A) — These beautiful Poppies are generally single 

 or semi-double. The colors, extending from one extreme to the other, are so 

 varied that scarcely two are alike, while many are striped and blotched. The 

 blooms, if cut when young, will stand for two or three days. Packet, 5c. 



203. TULIP POPPY (A) — A magnificent species. The plants attain a 

 height of 14 to 16 inches, and produce from about 50 to 60 flowers of the 

 brightest scarlet. Packet, £c. 



204. ICELAND POPPIES, MIXED (A)— Although hardy perennials, 

 these Poppies bloom the first season from spring-sown seed. The 

 fragrant, elegant, crushed satin-like flowers are produced in never- 

 ceasing succession from the beginning of June to October. Packet, 5c. 



195. PORTULACA (Mexican Rose) (A) — One of the finest hardy an- 

 nual plants, of easy culture, thriving best in rather rich, light loam or 

 sandy soil; the single-flowering varieties are large and brilliant, of the 

 richest shades of color, and produced throughout the summer in great 

 profusion; fine for massing in beds or edgings of rock work. Pit., 5c. 



196. DOUBLE PORTULACA (A) — Packet, 10c. 

 RICINUS (Castor Bean). 



Stately, strong-growing plants, with very ornamental foliage, well 

 adapted as center plants of groups of Cannas, Dahlias, etc. Moles are 

 troublesome in many gardens, but they may be kept away by planting 

 Castor Beans in the borders. 



212. RICINUS, CAMBOGIENSIS (A)— Large leaves, dark bronzy- 

 maroon; stalk and stems nearly black; 5 feet. Packet, 5c. 



212^. RICINUS ZANZIBARIENSIS, MIXED (A) — Their immense 

 leaves and gigantic plants exceed all other varieties. Packet, 5c. 



213. SCABIOSA — GRAND IFLORA (P)— An old-fashioned but most 

 attractive flower. Its great abundance and long succession of richly 

 colored, fragrant blossoms on long stems make it one of the most 

 useful decorative plants of the garden. Seed may be sown in place as 

 soon as ground can be worked; or, for earlier blooming, sow in hotbed 

 early in spring and transplant one and one-half feet apart. Hardy an- 

 nual; 12 to 18 inches high. Packet, 10c. 



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