Good Seed, Full Weight and a Fair Price. 
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PANSY. 
The Pans> is a popular flow- 
er with both florists and ama- 
teurs, giving abundance of bloom 
until after severe frosts, enduring 
our hard winters with safety, and 
greeting us in the earliest spring 
with a profusion of bright bloss- 
oms. It will flower better in the 
middle of the summer if planted 
where it is somewhat shaded from the hot sun, but especially if 
furnished with a good supply of water, but in almost any situation 
will give fine flowers in the spring and autumn. Pansy seeds may 
be sown in the hot-bed or open ground ; if sown in the spring, 
get in as early as possible, so as to have plants in blossom during 
the early rains. To have good flowers, the plants must be vigor- 
ous and make a rapid growth. Young plants give the largest 
flowers. Old, worn-out plants should be replaced. 
Pansy, mixed seeds, 15 cents. 
PEAS, FLOWERING. 
Peas should be sown four inches deep, and as early in the 
spring as possible. Don't wait for fair weather. Use plenty of 
seed, so that they will not be more than an inch apart. Hoe the 
earth toward the' plant a little, but do not form a ridge, and fur- 
nish support early. Ttie Flowering Sweet Peas are the sweetest 
of our climbing annuals, and as beautiful as any. 
Peas, Sweet, all colors mixed. Per pound, 75 cents ; 
ounce, 10 cents ; packet, 5 cents. 
PETUNIA. 
Petunia seed sown in the spring will 
produce flowering plants in June. Sec 
the plants about 18 laches apart. They 
come pretty true from seed, but are not 
reliable in this jespect, being inclined to 
sport. Sow in cold frame, hot-bed, or 
in the open ground. They do well 
either way. 
Few flowers will make a more showy 
bed than the Petunias, giving flowers 
from early summer until after frost. 
Petuiii«, fine mixed, 5 cents. 
POKTUUACA. 
The Portulaca is a 
popular, hardy creeping 
annual, each strong 
plant covering a space 
about a foot in diame- 
ter, with flowers of al- 
most every color im- 
aginable. It delights in 
a warm sun and sandy 
soil, and the drouth is _ ^ 
never too long nor the 
heat too intense for this beautiful little salamander. When 
everything else is perishing for lack of moisture, the Portulaca 
will give its largest flowers and brightest colors. The Portulaca 
does not like a clay soil nor black muck. It makes a brilliant 
bed on the lawn. Sow seed in the open ground early, or under 
glass. The perfectly double Portulaca forms no seed, so that 
seed must be saved from semi-double flowers, and from flf ty to 
seventy-five per cent, of plants from this seed will usually give 
double flowers. 
Portulaca, fine mixed, 5 cents. 
Double Rose-flowered, a perfectly double variety, as 
much as the most perfect rose, and of many brilliant colors, as 
well as striped. Mixed colors. 20 cents. 
