FAMOUS ROCK RIVER VALLEY SEED FARMS 
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BALSAM OR LADY SLIPPER 
BUTTERFLY FLOWER 
Hardy Annual 
Poor Man's Orchid. Fringed flower 
of rich and varied colors. It blossoms 
in lavish profusion. Colors, purple, 
white, and rose. Packet, 4 cents. 
BURNING BUSH OR 
KOCHIA 
Hardy Annual 
Makes a beautiful specimen plant, or 
grown in hedge form is equally attrac- 
tive. Grows about three feet high, 
forming a perfect pyramidal-shaped 
cypress bush, with fine feathery, light 
green foliage. Packet, 4 cents. 
BEANS, SCARLET 
RUNNER 
A FAVORITE OLD-FASHIONED 
CLIMBER. One of the very few beans 
tliat are both ornamental and useful. 
It grows to a height of 10 to 12 feet 
and is covered from July until heavy 
frost with clusters of beautiful scarlet 
flowers. Packet, 5 cents. 
BALLOON VINE 
Hardy Annual Climber 
LOVE-IN-A-PUFF. A rapid-grow- 
ing annual climber: succeeds best in 
light soil and warm situation: flowei'S 
white; seed vessels look like miniature 
balloons and of great interest to chil- 
dren. Packet, 3 cents. 
BACHELOR'S BUTTON 
The national flower of Germany, 
where they call it the "Corn Flower." 
or "Kaiser Blumcn," also known as 
the "Blue Bottle," and "Ragged .Sail- 
or." Double Mi.\ed. Packet, 3 cents. 
BALSAM 
Tender Annual 
Sometimes known as 
Touch- Me- Not 
CONDON'S DEFIANCE 
BALSAMS are distinctly 
Camellia-flovi/ered ; with 
the broad petals finely re- 
tle.xed or curved outward 
as in the Camellia Japon- 
Ica. The individual flowers 
frequently meBSure two 
and a lialf inches across. 
The plants, when grown 
in rich soil and given suf- 
ficient room, form sym- 
metrical, Avell-branched, 
erect bushes, tlie branches 
being almost literally cov- 
ered with tlie fine, lai'ge, 
and very double flowers. 
Condon's Defiance Mixed, 
Packet, 5 cents. 
BRACHYCOME 
Tender Annual 
SWAN RIVER DAISY. 
Free-flowering, dwarf- 
growing annuals, covered 
during the greater part of 
the summer witli a pro- 
fusion of pretty blue or 
white flowers; suitable for 
edgings, small beds or pot 
culture. Packet, 4 cents. 
COBAEA SCANDENS 
• COBAEA 
Hardy Annual Climber 
CUPS AND SAUCERS VINE. A 
climber of rapid growth, attaining a 
heiglit of AO to 50 feet during the sea- 
son, valuable for covering trellises, ar- 
bors, trunks of trees, etc.: will cling to 
any rough surface. In sowing place 
seeds edgewise and merely oovei- \^'ith 
light soil. (See cut.) Packet, 5 cents. 
LARGE FLOWERING CANDYTUFT 
CANDYTUFT 
Hardy Annual 
EMPRESS OR GIANT HYACINTH- 
FLOWERED. An improved strain, 
producing immense trusses of pure 
white bloom frequently measuring 4 
inches in length by 2 inches through. 
Fine for bedding and cutting. Height 
1 foot. Packet, 5 cents. 
MIXED ANNUAL SORTS. Our mix- 
ture contains all the best varieties and 
colors. Packet, 3 cents. 
CALLIOPSIS 
Hardy Annual 
Produce flowers in nearly every 
shade of yellow, orange, crimson, red, 
brown. It is one of those flowers which 
will grow in any situation and always 
be admired. Fine Mixed Colors. Packet, 
3 cents. 
CANTERBURY BELLS 
Hardy Perennial 
Beautiful large bell-shapjd flowers, 
whicli make a glorious display when 
planted in large beds. Packet, 4 cents. 
MARGUERITE 
CARNATIONS 
Hardy Annual 
These lovely fragrant Carnations pro- 
duce fine double llowers. Seed may be 
sown in the spring, and the plants will 
bloom in about four montlis. All Col- 
ors Mixed. Packet, 5 cents. 
WILD CUCUMBER VINE 
Hardy Annual Climber 
Rapid climber, will come up 5'ear af- 
ter year in the same place. Packet, 3 
cents. 
CYPRESS VINE 
Hardy Annual Climber 
QUAMOCLITT. Delicate Fern-like 
foliage and slar-like flowers, all colors. 
Mixed. Packet, 3 cents. 
CLEMATIS 
Hardy Perennial Climber 
LARGE FLOWERING MIXED. 
Beautiful climber with lovely flowers, 
blue, white and purple, etc. Hardy, 
can remain in permanent situation. 
Packet, 5 cents. 
