Ribsam’s Manual 
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Martin C. Ribsam & Sons Co. 
German Poppy 
NEPETA (Italian Catmint) 
Mussini. An excellent plant for any position but especially 
useful in rock gardening. Flowers are light violet blue in 
color and are formed in dense tufts. Blooms more or less 
throughout the season; beautiful, gray green foliage. Pkt. 10c. 
NICOTIANA (Tobacco or Tobacco Flower) 
Pink and White. With tubular flowers, blooming continually; 
sweet-scented. Pkt. 10c. 
NIGELLA 
Damascena ( Love-in-a-mist or Devil-in-the-bush). Has finely 
cut foliage with peculiar flowers of Cornflower blue shade. 
Pkt. 10c. 
PENTSTEMON (. Beardtongue ) 
Perennial. A very hardy border plant, ranking with the 
best of bedding plants. 
Grandiflora Mixed. Pkt. 10c. 
PANSIES 
Everyone loves Pansies and no flower responds more quickly 
to careful attention. It should be the desire of every gardener 
to grow large Pansies with long, strong stems in a wide range of 
colors. For best results, Pansies should be sown in July or 
August for early Spring bloom and in the Spring for Autumn 
bloom. 
FRENCH GIANT TRIMARDEAU MIXTURE. This variety 
produces the largest flower. Pkt. 10c. 
GERMAN. Fancy brilliant colors in variety of faces. 
Fine Mixed. Pkt. 10c. 
ENGLISH. Large flowers of blue, black, yellow, in varying 
shades. 
Fine Mixed. Pkt. 10c. 
PETUNIAS 
Sow seed lightly and gently press into the soil. Transplant 
when large enough, being careful to save even the smallest 
seedlings, for oftentimes the smallest, frailest seedlings produce 
the finest blooms. Petunias delight in a sunny position. 
Single Ruffled Giant. A ruffled single Petunia of exceptionally 
beautiful form and colors, extraordinary size and substance. 
Our strain is a well blended mixture of all colors including 
pink and those varieties with richly colored throats and 
veinings. All are beautifully fringed and ruffled. Pkt. 25c. 
Fringed Double Giants. A mixture of the best large flowering, 
fringed, double Petunias. Some are 5 in. across, fluted, frilled 
and ruffled in bewildering beauty. Pkt. 25c. 
Balcony Blue. A splendid, free flowering type, either for 
bedding or window boxes, vases, hanging baskets, etc. Rich 
indigo blue. Pkt. 15c. 
Purple Prince. A large flowering, rich velvety purple blue 
variety. Pkt. 15c. 
Rosy Morn. Soft crimson pink with white throat. Pkt. 10c. 
Scarlet Beauty. Flowers large fringed scarlet. Pkt. 10c. 
Snowball. Pure satin white flowers. Pkt. 10c. 
Mixed Colors. Pkt. 5c. 
PHLOX 
DRUMMONDI. Annual. This popular plant will grow in any 
soil provided it is given sun. Flowers all Summer. 
Mixed Colors. Pkt. 5c. 
HARDY. Perennial. 
Mixed Colors. Pkt. 10c. 
PHYSALIS 
Francheti {ChineseLantern Plant). Hardy Perennial. Bushy. 
2 ft. high, producing freely bright scarlet lantern or balloon 
which can be cut and dried for Winter bouquets. Very in¬ 
teresting. Pkt. 10c. 
POLYANTHUS 
Elatior {English Primrose or Cowslip). Various colors, from 
white to crimson. Mixed. Pkt. 20c. 
POPPY ( Papaver ) 
ANNUAL VARIETIES 
Shirley. This is the best of all single Poppies, making a mag¬ 
nificent profusion of color in the garden. Pkt. 10c. 
Carnation-flowered Mixed. Very fine mixture that produces 
large, double, fringed flowers. Pkt. 10c. 
PERENNIAL VARIETIES 
Iceland. These are very suitable for cutting bloom first season. 
Should be picked when in bud; foliage fernlike. Pkt. 10c. 
Oriental. Large, single, scarlet flowers, blotched with black at 
the base of each petal. Height 2 to 3 ft. Pkt. 10c. 
Oriental Hybrids. A mixture of beautiful named varieties in 
many shades. Pkt. 10c. 
PORTULACA ( Sunplant) 
Annual. A beautiful plant for massing in beds or in rock 
work, producing a riot of color. 
Single Flowering Varieties. Pkt. 10c. 
Double Flower Mixed. Pkt. 10c. 
Single Mixed. Pkt. 5c. 
PHYSOSTEGIA 
Vivid {False-dragonhead). Perennial. Excellent for edging 
around evergreens. Pkt. 10c. 
PRIMROSE (English) 
See POLYANTHUS. 
PYRETHRUM 
Single Mixed. Perennial. Daisylike flower in various'colors. 
Summer bloomer. Pkt. 10c. 
Double Mixed. Perennial. Pkt. 25c. 
Oriental Poppies 
