FAMOUS ROCK RIVER VALLEY SEED FARM 
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HELIOTROPE 
Half Hardy Annual 
GIANT HYBRIDS — Easily raised from seed. Grand flowers 
double the size of the older sorts. Bushed, compact, about 18 
inches high; heads of mammoth blossoms often measure a 
foot across. Mixed, including purple, white, lavender and 
blue. Packet, 4 cents. 
HUMULUS 
Hardy Annual Climber 
JAPANESE HOP (.JAPONICUS) — One of the most rapid 
climbers grown. Seed can be sown in the open ground in 
spring and it will attain enormous dimensions very quickly. 
The foliage is luxuriant and it is one of the best plants for 
covering verandas and trellises. Packet, 4 cents. 
NEW LEOPARD- LEAVED — Dark green leaves blotched 
with gray. Packet, 4 cents. 
Giant Flowered Heliotrope 
HOLLYHOCKS 
Hardy Annual 
Condon's Giant Prize Mixed 
Bloom first year from seed. These are the 
largest flowered and most perfectly double 
Hollyhocks we have been able to produce after 
many years of the most painstaking selection 
of only the best varieties. The colors are rich 
and brilliant. We believe our strain to be un- 
surpassed in every respect. Packet, 4 cents. 
Chater's Double Mixed 
Hardy Hollyhocks. Bloom second year from 
seed and last for many years. Packet, 5 cents. 
LOBELIA 
Hardy Annual 
FINEST MIXED — Annual plants of dwarf 
compact growth, four to six inches in height, 
covered with numerous small star-like flowers. 
Very pretty when grown as an edging for flower 
beds, also for hanging baskets and vases, and 
as house plants in pots in winter. Seeds should 
be sown in boxes in a warm, sunny window, or 
in shallow drills outdoors, when the trees are 
starting out in leaf. Packet, 4 cents. 
LARKSPUR 
Hardy Annual 
AMERICAN BANNER — Well- 
known annuals of great beauty and 
noted for the richness of their colors 
— particularly in blue shades. This 
is distinct from the Delphinium or 
hardy Larkspur. Packet, 4 cents. 
PRIZE HOLLYHOCKS 
LOBELIA 
Sky Blue — Finest Mixed 
HITMULTJS 
(Japanese Hop) 
LINARIA 
(KENILWORTH IVY) 
Hardy Perennial Trailer 
Coliseum Ivy. Mother of thousands. A widely 
loved, hardy, perennial trailing plant, with 
small lavender and purple flowers. For baskets, 
vases and rockeries. A charming little vine, 
racket, 5 cents. 
ICE PLANT 
(MESEMBRYANTHEMUM) 
Tender Annual Trailer 
A singular plant of spreading habit, and very 
effective in beds, rockwork or hanging baskets, 
etc. The plants have a peculiar icy foliage, and 
the sun gives to them the appearance of being 
covered with icy crystals. The flowers are white 
and pink, racket, 3 cents. 
LANTANA 
Tender Perennial 
Shrubby plant, 1 to 3 feet high, bearing flowers 
of various shades and colors. Especially adapted 
to greenhouse or window culture, though thriv- 
ing nicely in the open. Flowers 
large and verbena-like. All shades 
of pink, red, orange, yellow, orange- 
scarlet and white. Finest hybrids. 
Mixed. Packet, 5 cents. 
Our Flower Seeds 
GROW and BLOOM 
ANNUAL LARKSPUR 
LINARIA OR KENILWORTH IVY 
LANTANA 
