FAMOUS ROCK RIVER VALLEY SEED FARMS 
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PETUNIA 
Hardy Annual 
CONDON'S GIANT MIXTURE. ..For freedom of bloom, variety of 
color ease of culture and effectiveness, these rank with Asters Phlox 
and Verbenas. If only a little care Is bestowed upon them. Petunias 
will produce their handsome, sweet-scented flowers in their delicate 
and gorgous colors throughout the whole summer. For freedom of 
blooms, exquisite colors and markings, this mixture heads them 
all. Packet, 4 cents. 
PRIMULA CHINENIS 
Tender Perennial 
Also called Chinese Primrose. Profuse bloomers and among the 
finest and most popular of the winter and spring flowering window or 
greenhouse plants, doing well in cool rooms. They are 8 or 10 inches 
high, and the flowers are variously cut and fringed. Finest Mixed. 
Packet, 7 cents. 
GUARANTEED 
TO PLEASE. All 
our flower seed 
packets are well 
filled; far larger 
than most dealers 
put out. EVERY- 
THING FRESH. 
CONDON'S EXQUISITE POPPIES 
POPPIES 
Hardy Perennial Poppy 
The recent development of these old-fashioned flowers has 
brought them into great and deserved popularity. No flower 
in our garden 'affords a more pleasing display of gorgeously 
brilliant coloring during the blooming season. Poppies of the 
various varieties grow about 2 feet in heiglit. 
ORIENTAL PERENNIAL HYBRIDS. Great flowers of 
gorgeous brilliancy. For brightness of color jnotliing can 
eclipse these beautiful Oriental perennial poppies. The colors 
range from soft flesh and rose to most brilliant dazzling 
scarlet and richest maroon purple. Flowers enormous: 6 
inches across. Mixed. See painting from nature outside 
back cover. Packet, 10 cents. 
A DAZZLING MIXTURE of beautiful double Poppies, in- 
cluding the improved double, giant-flowering kinds of the 
richest and brightest colors, as well as the daintiest and 
softest tints. When grown in masses, it is brilliant beyond 
description. The plants are sturdy, thrifty growers from 2 
to 3 feet high, producing immense flowers sometimes 4 inches 
in diameter. Colors are truly ^wonderful, including as they 
do the most gorgeous shades — striped, blended and rayed In 
innumerable tints, down to purest white. Sow In early spring 
In sandy soil. See cut. Packet, 4 cents. 
PORTULACA OR MOSS ROSE 
Hardy Annual 
A favorite annual for beds, edgings, rock work. etc. Thrives 
best in rich light loam or sandy soil. Blooms profusely from 
early summer until autumn. Only six inches high. Large 
flowers mixed. All colors; many striped and variegated. 
Packet, 4 cents. 
SMILAX 
Tender Perennial Climber 
A popular indoor climber. Leaves a 
deep, glossy green. Habit of growth 
e.xtremely graceful. Soak the seed in 
water for a day, and keep the plant 
rather moist. Packet, 4 cents. 
SCABIOSA OR MORNING 
BRIDE 
Hardy Perennial 
This Is one of the most attractive 
of old-fashioned flowers. Its great 
abundance and long succession of rich- 
ly colored fragrant blossoms borne on 
long stems make it one of the most 
useful of the decorative plants of the 
garden. It has been greatly improved 
of late years, producing larger and 
more double flowers of greater va- 
riety and brilliancy of color than did 
the old type. Twelve to eighteen inches 
high. Finest Mixed. Packet, 3 cents, 
RICINUS 
Annual 
Castor Oil Bean 
ZANZIBARIENSIS GIANT MIXED. 
From seeds sown in the open ground 
in May the plants are in full foliage 
early in .luly, and attain a heiglit of 
12 to 14 feet. Packet, 4 cents. 
PHLOX DRUMMONDI GRANDIFLORa 
RICINUS (Castor Oil Bean) 
PHLOX DRUMMONDI 
Hardy Annual 
LARGE-FLOWERING. Unequalled 
in the magnificent display of their 
many and brilliantly colored flowers. 
They will grow even in poor soil, but 
In order to develop to their highest 
perfection, must have rich soil and 
must be given room. Plants from seed 
sown in open ground in fall or early 
spring will begin flowering about July 
1, and be covered with bloom until 
autumn. Extra Choicest. Mixed. See 
cut. Packet, 4 cents. 
"STARRED AND 
FRINGED" 
In the Fringed flowers the petals are 
distinctly bordered with white, which 
together with the bright eye of the 
center, contrasts with the magnificent 
velvety colors. In the Starred Phloxes 
the central teeth are five or six times 
as long as the lateral ones. Finest 
mixed. Packet, 4 cents. 
BABY ROSE SEED 
Hardy Perennial 
Only an inch across; mostly double. 
They are borne in clusters, and em- 
brace all the tints of the larger roses. 
The blossoms are followed by bright 
red hips or seed pods that are very 
pretty. The bush grows only 10 inches 
high, and begins to bloom a few weeks 
after the seed is sown. Packet, 4 cents. 
