SEED CATALOGUE • 1934 
Flower Seeds 33 
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LAVATERA • Annual Mallow 
Beautiful annual, producing profusely the entire summer, large, cup-shaped flowers. Sow in 
the garden in May and thin out 1 foot apart. 2 feet. 
Trimestris grandifiora rosea. Brilliant pink. Pkt. 10 cts.; J£oz. 25 cts. 
LAVENDER ( Lavandula vera) 
True Lavender. Popular sweet-scented hardy perennial; fine for mixed border. 3 feet. Pkt. 
10 cts.; 34 oz - 30 cts. 
Munstead Strain. Dwarf, compact, early-flowering variety with deep lavender flowers. A 
good rock-plant. 1 foot. Pkt. 25 cts.; large pkt. 75 cts. 
LANTANA 
One of the most desirable half-hardy perennial greenhouse or bedding plants, constantly in 
bloom. Verbena-like heads of Orange, White, Rose, and other colored flowers. 2 feet. Pkt. %oz. 
Mixed Colors .$0 10 $0 25 
New Dwarf Bedding Hybrids. Excellent for bedding and pot culture. Will 
b^om freely all summer, and can be transferred to the greenhouse for the winter. . 25 50 
LATHYRUS LATIFOLIUS 
(Everlasting or Hardy Sweet Pea) 
Flowers re- 
Perennial Sweet Pea (Lathyrus) 
LIMNANTHES 
Douglasi. A very showy Californian 
species bearing white and yellow, 
fragrant flowers in profusion from June 
to August. It is of dwarf habit, not 
exceeding 6 inches in height, and makes 
a most attractive display when grown 
in masses in beds, or as edgings to 
borders. Bees are very partial to its 
flowers. Pkt. 10 cts.; &oz. 30 cts. 
LINUM • Flax 
.$010 
Grandiflorum rubrum (Scarlet Flax). An elegant, free-flowering hardy Pkt. 
annual, valuable for bedding; brilliant scarlet flowers. 1 foot. . 
)4oz. 25 cts.; oz. 40 cts... 
Flavum. A splendid, hardy variety for the rock-garden. Golden yellow flowers 
from June to September. 1 foot.Large pkt. 50 cts.. . 2 
Perenne. A graceful, hardy perennial, producing bright blue flowers the entire 
summer. 1}/% feet.Large pkt. 25 cts... 1 
Perenne album. A fine white-flowered form of the above. Large pkt. 25 cts. .. 1 
LINARIA 
Maroccana Hybrida, Excelsior. This is a hardy annual with small, dainty Pkt 
flowers resembling miniature antirrhinums, and in addition each flower has a 
long columbine-like spur. It blooms in about eight weeks from seed. Makes 
a nice cut-flower and the colors range through crimson and gold, pink, mauve, 
dark blue, chamois and rose, with many lighter art shades. 12 to 18 inches. 
Large pkt. 25 cts.. 
Grandifiora. See Novelties and Specialties, page 7. 
Cymbalaria (Kenilworth Ivy). Beautiful trailing plants with violet flowers; 
useful for vases, baskets, etc.Large pkt. 25 cts. .. 
LYCHNIS 
Handsome hardy perennial plants of easy culture, for massing in beds and borders, 
blooming the first year if sown early. Pk t _ Large pkt. 
Alpina. Close tufts of olive-green foliage and clusters of rose-colored 
flowers. 4 inches.$0 25 
Arkwrighti. A cross between Chalcedonica and Haageana. In May it 
bears an abundance of large, brilliantly colored flowers varying from 
orange-scarlet to soft salmon-pink. 2 to 3 feet.. 
Chalcedonica. Fine scarlet flowers. 2 feet. 
Chalcedonica, Salmon Queen. Very pretty salmon-pink. 15 
Haageana. Brilliant orange, scarlet, crimson, in mixture. 1 foot. . . . 
See Flower Seed Novelties, pages 6 to 9 
A hardy perennial climber, flowering the first year if seed is sown in the fall 
semble sweet peas. Is not fragrant, but is hardy and showy. Height, 6 feet. 
White Pearl Pink Beauty Red Mixed 
Each, pkt. 10 cts.; large pkt. 25 cts. 
LEPTOSYNE 
Maritima. Large, golden yellow flowers on long stems, greatly resembling coreopsis, with very 
fine fern-like foliage. Good for cutting and forc- 
•Jl, ing- 2 feet. Pkt. 15 cts.; large pkt. 40 cts. 
Us ♦ jEfaillf Stillmani. One of the quickest growing 
’> MgpBpj annuals, blooming within live weeks from 
, ^ 9 ^ date of sowing, and the golden yellow flowers 
jgfPHHcontinue in perfection for a long time. Excel- 
- s t lam lent for cutting. Height, 18 inches. Pkt. 
^ cts.; ^ arge P^ t- 40 cts. 
Hybrids. Free-flowering hardy annuals, useful 
' "‘'A K # for edging and rockwork. Plants are thickly 
L * studded with charming bright flowers of 
* J various colors. Pkt. 10 cts.; large pkt. 25 cts. 
«•;M4 % Spicata. A hardy perennial that grows in long 
iK^L. * \ * -*» spikes, 4 to 5 feet tall, densely covered with 
slender, grass-like leaves of a light green. The 
small flowers are rosy purple. A peculiar habit 
of the Liatris is that the succession of bloom 
is from the top downward rather than from the 
lowest blooms up to the highest, as in all other 
spike flowers. Pkt. 15 cts.; large pkt. 40 cts. 
Linum perenne 
$0 25 
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