PORTLAND SEED COMPANY 
CALENDULA 
CALENDULA (Pot Marigold): (h A) An excellent flower 
of exceeding beauty. Fine for gardens, potted, or cut 
flowers. Blooms the entire year if climate permits. 
Radio: A novel development of great popularity. The 
flowers are deep orange, globular shaped with 
bristling quilled petals, which add materially to the 
grace of the blossoms. 
Ball’s Gold: Mammoth, double flowers of improved 
type. Deep golden yellow. 
Ball’s Orange: Double orange type of the above. Ex¬ 
cellent for cutting. 
Campfire: A beautiful dark orange and scarlet sheen. 
Double Mixed: Beautiful double blossoms of mixed 
colors. 
CALLIOPSIS: (h A) Very graceful for border plants, 
supplying throughout the summer an abundance of 
elegant showy flowers of: yellow, crimson and maroon. 
They are outstanding for cut flowers. Sow where plants 
are to remain. 
Tall Single Mixed. 
Tall Double Mixed. 
Dwarf Crimson King. 
Drummond’s Golden Wave: Dark brownish-red with 
golden yellow center. 
CANDYTUFT (Iberis): (h A) A very highly prized showy, 
branching plant. Excellent for beds, masses, rock gar¬ 
dens and cut flowers. Has very beautiful fragrant blos¬ 
soms. 
Coronaria: Giant white hyacinth flowered. 
Umbellata Type: Mixed, Crimson, Lilac, Rose, Cardi¬ 
nal, White. 
CANARY BIRD VINE: (h A) A rapid growing annual 
climber, the yellow blossoms bearing a resemblance to a 
bird with its wings half extended. 
CANTERBURY BELLS: These beautiful flowers are very 
popular with northwest “flower-lovers.” The real bell 
flowers of all sizes and colors. Every garden, small or 
large, has a spot for such lovely blooms. 
Campanula Medium: Imposing branching plants heav¬ 
ily loaded with large pendant bells. Two varieties: 
Single mixed and double mixed. 
Calycanthema (Cup and Saucer): (h B) A beautiful 
and distinctive type laden with flowers, each of which 
is a large cup-shaped bell with saucer. Comes in 
five varieties: light blue, dark blue, rose, white and 
mixed. 
CARDINAL CLIMBER: (h A) Considered by many gar¬ 
den lovers as the most beautiful annual climber. A strong, 
rapid grower with fern-like foliage. Literally covered 
with a blaze of circular cardinal red flowers, from mid¬ 
summer till frost. 
ALL FLOWER SEEDS 10c 
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CARNATION (Dianthus Caryophyllus): (t P) Beautiful, 
colorful, fragrant blooms with sturdy stems. Being easily 
winter killed should be sown indoors during March. 
Transplant to other boxes when 1 inch high. Transfer to 
open garden when soil becomes warm. COLORS: Pink, 
white, red. Height, 1 to IV 2 feet. 
Chabaud Double Giant: A new variety, blooms six 
months after seeded. COLORS: Double cardinal red, 
double deep rose, double flesh pink, and double mixed. 
Margaret: Very popular double mixed. Blooms four 
months after seeded. 
American Hybrids: Large flowering type. Very pop¬ 
ular with florists. 
CASTOR BEAN (Ricinis): (t P) Tropical appearing 
foliage plant. Highly ornamental, with bronzed metallic 
foliage and bright colored seed pods. Grown singly it 
forms a picturesque pyramid. From 3 to 5 feet high. 
Pkt. 5c. 
Gibsoni: Striking foliage of dark red. 
Outstanding mixed varieties. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM: (h A) Attractive long-stemmed 
summer flowering plant, wide varieties of color. Sow 
seed in flats and transplant when soil is warm. Height 
from 1 to 2 feet tall. 
Coronarium: Double, finest mixed. 
Carinatum: Single mixed. 
Carinatum: Tall double yellow and tall double mixed. 
CINERARIA: (t P) Magnificent and indispensable flower¬ 
ing plants for window gardens. White, blue, violet, crim¬ 
son shades, covering the plant with a sheet of blooms. 
Should be sown under glass in fine soil. 
Hybrida Grandiflora: Semi-dwarf, extra choice mixed. 
Pkt. 35c. 
Hybrida Grandiflora: Star flower mixed. Pkt. 25c. 
Hybrida: Ordinary mixed. Pkt. 15c. 
CLARKIA (Rocky Mountain Garland): (h A) A beautiful 
native flower of the Pacific Coast. Does very well in 
shady places and is excellent for cutting. Produces bright 
attractive flowers massed in beds. Height, 1 to 2 feet. 
Scarlet Queen: A brilliant bloom of distinction. 
Salmon Queen: A deep pink, with fine foliage. 
Firebrand: Deep orange scarlet. 
Brilliant: Bright carmine. 
COSMOS: (h A) The flower of beauty! These plants fur¬ 
nish an abundance of cut blooms during the early flower 
season. Seed sown in the open ground in April should 
bloom in July. Transplant not less than 18 inches apart 
in rows or mass beds. Pinching out top when plants are 
a foot high makes them bushy and sturdy. 
Extra Early Double Crested (Anemone Flowered): 
Pink Beauty and White Queen, and fine mixed. 
Extra Early Mammoth Flowering: Light pink and 
crimson. 
Klondyke: Large orange. 
Late Flowering Mammoth: Mixed. 
CYPRESS VINE (Ipomoea Quamoclit): (h A) A climber 
of rapid growth. Delicate, fern-like foliage and great 
numbers of star-shaped blossoms with long tubes. Does 
best in warm, sunny locations. Grows 10 to 15 feet. 
Scarlet and Mixed. 
COLUMBINE (Aquilegia): (h P) Every garden should 
have an assortment of this lovely, graceful plant. They 
look frail but are hardy and will thrive in almost every 
situation, preferring partial shade and considerable 
moisture. Pkt. 15c. 
Long Spurred Mrs. Scott Elliott: 
Blue Shades. Pink Shades. 
Copper Queen. Silver Queen. 
Double Mixed. Pkt. 10c. 
Other Varieties of Flower Seed 
Celosia Cristata (Cockscomb): Crimson and mixed. 
Celosia Plumosa (Cockscomb Feathered Type): Fiery 
red, yellow, mixed. 
Chinese Wool Flower: Crimson. 
Cerastium Tomentosum (Snow in Summer): White. 
Cobea Scanderns (Cathedral Bells): Purple. 
Coleus Hybridus Mixed. Pkt. 15c. 
Cheiranthus-Allioni (Siberian Wall Flower): Brilliant 
orange. 
PACKET (except where noted) 
