HELIOTROPE 
A half hardy perennial. Blooms the first year from 
seed. Especially desirable for the fragrance of its 
flowers and the long time it stays in bloom. 
Dark Varieties. 
Very Choice Mixed. 
FOXGLOVE 
GOURDS 
These climbers grow ten to twenty feet high, 
producing curiously shaped and colored fruit. 
Very useful and ornamental for covering stumps, 
etc. A tender annual. 
Mixed. 
GOURDS 
Japanese Nest Egg 
Used as nest eggs, fruits are white, do 
not crack and are not injured by heat or 
cold. 
Should be planted on soil not too rich or 
the Gourds grow too large. 
FOXGLOVE 
GAILLARDIA 
HOLLYHOCK 
“j Queen Hollyhock , with butterflies for crowns." 
In situations suitable for tall flowers we know of 
nothing better than the Hollyhock ; and yet the im- 
proved varieties do not grow very high — from four 
to six feet being about the average. New plants are 
obtained from seed and dividing the root. Seeds 
sown in summer will give plants that will endure 
winter. The plants may be protected during winter 
with a little straw and evergreen boughs, or leaves 
Biennial. 
Best Double Varieties Mixed. 
HELIOTROPE 
( Digitalis ). Grows to the height of three or four 
feet, affording dense spikes of brilliantly colored 
flowers which are terminal and half as long as height 
of plant. Colors white, lavender and rose. A valuable 
flower in every perennial garden; does not usually 
blossom until the second year. Hardy biennial or 
perennial. 
Fine Mixed. 
Showy plants, flowering the first year and among 
the gayest ornaments of the garden. 
Picta. One foot high ; flowers crimson and yellow; 
petals tubular. Hardy annual ; with root protection in 
winter is a perennial. 
Fine Mixed. 
GYPSOPHILA BREATH S 
Delicate, free flowering little plants covered with a 
profusion of small, star-shaped flowers. Well adapted 
for hanging baskets or edgings and valuable with 
other flowers for making bouquets. 
Choice mixed. White and pink flowers. Hardy 
annual; one foot high. 
HELICHRYSUM 
GAILLARDIA 
( Everlasting ) Sometimes 
called Straw Flower. Large 
full, double daisy like 
flower heads with prominent centers and stiff over lapping 
scales, produced in various shades of bright yellow and scarlet 
on stems of good length. Desirable as dried specimens and 
for use in making winter bouquets. For this purpose the 
flowers should be gathered when on the point of expanding. 
Sow early in spring; thin to one foot apart each way. Hardy 
annual; two to two and one half feet high. 
Monstrosum, fl. pi., mixed. Largest double flowered. 
GOURDS 
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