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Theodore Payne, Seedsman and Nurseryman 
CYCLAMEN PERSICUM. Perennial, 8 to 10 inches. 
Charming- plants with rich colored, fragrant flow- 
ers. Blooming in winter and spring. Generally 
grown as a pot plant. The seed may be sown in 
the spring or early in the fall in seed pans of rich 
soil mixed with leaf-mould and sand and potted on 
when large enough, 
persicum. Fine mixed. Pkt., 15c. 
gignnteum. Fine mixed. Pkt., 25c. 
Giant English. See Flower Seed Specialties, page 20. 
CYPRESS VINE. A popular annual climbing vine with 
delicate fern-like foliage and masses of small star- 
shaped flowers. Sow early in spring; soak the seed 
In warm water a few hours before sowing. Scarlet, 
white or mixed. Each, per pkt., 6c. 
DAISY. See BELLIS. 
DAHLIA. Perennial, 4 to 6 feet, flowering the first 
season from seed. Well known plants with large, 
showy flowers, useful for beds and masses. Sow the 
seed early in spring in seed boxes and afterwards 
transplant to the open ground. Dahlias like a rich 
soil with plenty of well rotted manure and should 
be watered freely. In raising Dahlias from seed 
many of them will come semi-double, although the 
seed is saved from the very best double varieties. 
The best varieties should be marked when in flower 
and at the end of the season the poor ones dis- 
carded and the better ones can be taken up and 
divided and again replanted. 
Cactus. Double, with long pointed petals; seeds 
saved from one of the finest collections. Mixed col- 
ors. Pkt., 15c. 
Double, Large Flowered. Mixed colors. Pkt. 15c. 
Paeony Flowered. Large, mixed colors. Pkt. 15c. 
Single. All colors; splendid mixed. Pkt., 10c. 
DIGITALIS. "Foxglove." Perennial, 3 to 6 feet. An 
old-fashioned flower with long suikes of tubular- 
shaped flowers. Sow the seed in spring or fall In 
seed pans and afterwards transplant, 
gloxiniaeflora. Beautifully spotted, fin* mixed. 
Pkt., 10c. 
DIMORPHOTHECA AURANTIACA. "African Orange 
Daisy." Annual, 12 to 15 inches high. One of the 
very best winter flowering plants yet introduced. 
By sowing the seed in September or October, it can 
be had in bloom as early as January and will flower 
continually until late spring or early summer. The 
marguerite-like blossoms, about two and a half 
inches in diameter, are of a unique, glossy orange- 
gold, this brilliant coloring being rendered more 
conspicuous by the dark colored disk, which is sur- 
rounded by a black zone. "When in full bloom on 
bright sunny days it is truly a magnificent sight, 
for brilliancy of color almost rivaling the California 
Poppy. It is especially adapted for planting in 
masses in beds or borders and parkings. Pkt., 10c; 
oz., $1.00. 
Hybrida. Splendid new hybrids, colors range from 
white, lemon yellow, golden yellow, orange to 
salmon. Pkt., 15c. 
ESCHSCHOLTZIA CALIFORNICA. "California Poppy." 
Annual, 1 to 1% feet high. A well known native 
flower with blossoms 2 to 3 inches in diameter. 
Yellow, Orange and White. Each, pkt., 10c; oz.,-35c. 
Burbank's Crimson-flowering. Crimson. Pkt., 10c. 
Rose Cardinal. White with rose on outside of petals. 
Pkt., 10c. 
Eschscholtzia californica, "California Poppy" 
BELPHINIUM, "Perennial Larkspur." Perennial, 3 
to 5 feet high. Beautiful summer flowering plants 
with long spikes of showy flowers. Sow the seed 
In spring or early fall in seed boxes and afterwards 
transplant to open ground. 
Belladonna hybrids. See Flower Seed Specialties, 
page 20. 
Gold Medal Hybrids. Extremely large flowers in all 
the richest shades of blue. Pkt., 15c. 
Gold Medal Hybrid.'!, Light blue shades. Pkt., 15c. 
Gold Medal Hybrids. Dark blue shades. Pkt., 15c. 
Blue Butterfly. Distinct variety growing about 
18 inches high, flowering first season from seed. 
Plants produce freely spikes of large, single, Salvia- 
blue flowers. Pkt. 15c. 
cardinale. "Scarlet Larkspur." A native California 
species, with long spikes of scarlet flowers. Pkt., 10c. 
DIANTHUS CHINENSIS. Biennial, but generally treat- 
ed as an annual; 1 foot high. Charming free- 
flowering plants with flowers of the most brilliant 
colors. "Very effective for planting thickly in beds, 
chlnensts. Fine mixed. Pkt., 10c. 
Heddewigi. Single fine mixed. Pkt., 10c. 
Crimson Belle. Single crimson. Pkt., 10c. 
Eastern Queen. Single, marbled carmine-rose 
mauve and lilac. Pkt., 10c. 
hybrldus. Double mixed. Pkt., 10c. 
lacinlatus. Single fringed, fine mixed. Pkt., 10c. 
plumarius. Perennial, 1 foot high. A beautiful sin- 
gle pink. Flowers with fringed edge, white with 
dark center. Pkt., 10c. 
Carmine King. Carmine rose on both sides of petals. 
Pkt., 10c. 
Golden West. Canary-yellow with orange blotch at 
base of each petal. Pkt., 10c. 
Mandarin. Inside of petals rich orange, outside or- 
ange-scarlet. Pkt., 10c. 
Mikado. Brilliant orange-crimson. Large Flowers. 
Pkt. 15c. 
Thorburni. Crimson outside, inside bright flame 
and gold. Pkt., 15c. 
FREESIA. See Flower Seed Specialties, page 20. 
GAILLARDIA PICTA. Annual, 1 to 1 % feet high. Sow 
in early spring. 
picta. Crimson and orange. Pkt., 5c. 
GAILLARDIA GRANDIFLORA. Perennial, 1% feet 
Large flowered varieties, fine mixed. Pkt., 10c. 
GERANIUM. Well known perennial, single varieties, 
splendid mixed. Pkt., 10c. 
GERBERA. See Flower Seed Specialties, page 20. 
GEUM COCCINEUM, Mrs. Bradshaw. Splendid peren- 
nial which blooms for the greater part of the year. 
Grows lYz, to 2 feet high and produces a profusion 
of large double bright scarlet flowers. Pkt. 15c. 
GLOXINIA HYBRIDA. Beautiful perennial green- 
house plant, height about 8 inches, with large hand- 
some foliage and Immense trumpet-shaped flowers 
which are of a texture like velvet, of the most bril- 
liant shades of violet, purple, crimson, scarlet, pink 
and lavender. Often beautifully blotched and spot- 
ted. Sow the seed in February or March in seed 
pans of light soil mixed with leaf-mould. Do not 
cover the seed, but sow on the surface and pre«» 
