Salpiglossis 
Sensitive Plant 
(.Mimosa Pudica ) 
A curious plant with globular-shaped 
heads of small pink flowers. The leaves 
close and droop at the slightest touch, 
also in cloudy, damp weather, and during 
the night. Tender annual; height one 
and a half feet. 
Straw Flower 
See Rhodanthe also 
Helichrysum 
SENSITIVE PLANT 
A very showy bedding or border plant. Producing handsome, 
vigorously colored, funnel-shaped flowers. The seed may be sown 
indoors early in the spring or outdoors later. Blooms from August 
to October. Half-hardy annual. 
Fine Mixed, Hybrid Varieties. 
SALVIA 
or Antirrhinum , 
An old border plant. 
Leaves grow dark and 
glossy. Produces spikes of 
oddly shaped, beautifully 
colored flowers. Our seed 
is grown from plants which 
have been greatly improved 
by careful selection and 
blossom the first season 
from seed sown in the 
spring, especially if under 
frames and transplanted. 
If early flowers are desired 
sow the seed in September 
and cover the plants with 
a mulch before freezing. 
They may be transplanted 
into pots and flowered in 
the house. Tender peren- 
nial ; one and a half to two 
feet high. 
Fine Mixed 
(Flowering Sage.) 
Among the most brilliantly colored 
of garden flowers and extremely useful 
for bedding; also valuable for pot cul- 
ture. Blooms are borne in long spikes 
well above the foliage and are of firey 
red, crimson, or blue color continuing 
in flower for a long time. Start early 
in heat and transplant into light soil 
one or two feet apart. Tender peren- 
nials, but bloom the first season ; 
height two to three feet. 
SPLENDENS 
Large, brilliant scarlet flowers are 
in these plants afforded a rich, dark 
green background of dense foliage. 
This variety is most generally used in 
parks and on extensive lawns, as in 
growth it is more vigorous than the 
more dwarf varieties. 
SALVIA 
SNAPDRAGON 
STOCK 
( Mathiola .) 
The Stocks, though not thriving 
so well in America as they do in 
England, are indispensable where a 
fine display of flowers is wanted. To 
such perfection has selection brought 
them that good seed will give a large 
proportion of exceedingly double 
flowers. Average height one and a 
half feet. 
DOUBLE GERMAN 
TEN WEEKS 
These favorite summer flowers are 
excellent for bedding out and afford 
fine blooms for cutting. Mixed. 
Schizanthus 
Known as 
Butterfly Flower or 
Poor Man’s Orchid. 
The variety we offer is superb 
in size of flower and beauty of 
color, Petals bright yellow 
with margins and tube of pur- 
ple rose, shading from lighter 
to darker shades. Half hardy 
annual ; two to three feet high. 
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