WM. HENRY MAULE, PHILADELPHIA. PA. 



Flower Seeds— 139 



MIMULUS 



Tender Perennial 



Showy plants with profuse bloom, 

 bearing handsome gloxinia-shaped 

 flowers. The shades include white, 

 yellow, pink, crimson and maroon, 

 with spots and blotches. 1 foot high. 



1476 TIGRIDUS. Monkey Flow- 

 er. All colors and markings. Beau- 

 tiful and brilliant. Paclcet, 10 cts, 



1477 MOSCHATUS. Musk plant. 

 Six Inches; yellow. Pac&et, 10 cts. 



MINA LOBATA 



Tender Annual Climber 



1478 Flowers are vivid red, then 

 orange yellow, and finally a creamy 

 white. Adapted for trellis, veran- 

 das, arbors, etc. Grows 15 to 20 feet 

 high. Packet, 10 cents. 



MOMORDICA 



MoMORDicA, charantia. Tender Annual Climbcr 



Balsam Apple, Annual climbers with ornamental foliage; 10 to 12 

 feet. The large, golden yellow fruit is warted and roughened and is 

 attractive in appearance. It is made into a healing liniment and salve. 



1481 BAIjSAMINA. Apple-Shaped. Packet, 5 cts.; ounce, 35 cts. 



1482 CHARANTIA. Fruit long or pear-shaped. Pkt., Sc.; oz., 35c. 



MORNING GLORY 



HbxAy Annual Climber 



1484 MAMMOTH JAPANESE, MIKADO. A giant type, with 

 peculiar and handsome colors, shapes and markings. It is a develop- 

 ment or evolution from the highest form of Japanese Moi-ning 

 Glory, and represents the acme of beauty thus far secured in this 

 gi'aceful and favorite flower. The colors are exceedingly rich, and the 

 texture of the blossom is thick and heavy, indicative of high breeding. 

 Flowers 4 to 5 inches across. The Japanese do not willingly part with 

 their best morning glories, and this one is a great prize. Pkt., 10 cts. 



MSfflMPBR- 

 lAI. JAPA- 

 NESE, SIN- 

 GliE MIXED. 



My single 

 mixed have a 

 wide and truly 

 remarkable 

 range of mark- 

 ings, unex- 

 celled by any 

 other strain. 

 The shades and 

 colors are var- 

 ious— white, 

 pink, lilac, 

 rose, bronze, 

 garnet, crim- 

 son, etc. There 

 is leaf varia- 

 tion that can- 

 not fail to 

 please. Many 

 of their leaves, 

 are richly mar- 

 bled and varie- 

 gated white 

 and green, 

 which add to 



their beauty Morning Glory, Imperial Japanese, Single Mixed. 



Easy of growth, and quick to come into bloom. Sometimes the flower 

 comes in 3 weeks from sowing of seed. A rapid growing vine, produc- 

 ing gigantic blooms as large as moonflowers. Pkt., 5 cts.; oz., 30 cts. 



1483 ROCHESTER. A new and magnificent morning glory. The 

 vines make a growth of 12 to 20 feet, with leaves 8 to 10 inches in size. 

 The splendid flowers are 4 to 5 inches across, of a deep violet blue, 

 shading to azure and edged with white. Borne in clusters of from three 

 to flve, and are very showy. It is the greatest bloomer of all vines, a 

 single plant producing hundreds of flowers each day. It is also a quick 

 grower, producing a great mass of foliage. 



Paclcet, 10 cents; ounce, 35 cents. 

 1485 IMPERIAL JAPANESE, DOUBLE MIXED. This is one 

 of the most beautiful of all the famous Japanese Morning Glories, and 

 ofl"ers a curious and pleasing contrast to the ordinary domestic sort so 

 common. The flowers grow very double in form and of gigantic size, 



are charac- 

 terized by 

 peculiar col- 

 ors, shapes 

 a n d m a r ]c- 

 ings. .Some 

 colorings be- 

 yond descri])- 

 1 1 o n . The 

 vine is a 

 rapid grower 

 and in itself 

 makes an 

 ideal orna- 

 m e n t for 

 fence, portico 

 or trellis, 

 even befoi-e 

 flowering. It 

 produces 

 flowers in re- 

 m a r k a b 1 e 

 a b u n d a n ce 

 and of enor- 

 mous size. 

 Another cur- 

 ious feature 

 of this sort is 

 that the 

 leaves vary 

 in form, size and markings. 

 The self or solid colors of 

 the flowers range from 

 snow white to black pui'- 

 ple, while there is an eiul- 

 less n u m b e r of fl o e r s 

 spotted,* flaked, marbled, 

 striped, splashed, etc, and 

 margined in combinations 

 that would be thought im- 

 possible until seen. 

 Packet, 10 cts.; 3^ ounce, 

 Morning Glory, Imperial Japanese, mmce. 50 cts. 



