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Nasturtium 
Few plants are more easily grown or remain longer in bloom. In favorable soil 
flowers are produced in abundance throughout the season. Sect! is usually sown 
outdoors as soon as the weather is warm and settled, in the row where the plants are 
to remain. AN ell pulverized soil, preferably well drained and moderately rich, should 
, . . , , be used and the seed covered with about one inch of fine soil flrmly pressed down. 
For earlier blooming, start indoors and transplant to the open ground after danger of frost is over. 
Nasturtium 
pv r \r • .• (Tropceolutn viinor) The flowers 
1-Jwarr V aneties are very brilliant and attractive. 
Plants evenly dwarf and are often used for a border. 
When about two inches high, thin so as to give each 
plant about one foot of room. Hardy annual; about one 
root high. 
Aurora. Light reddish-orange, veined with car¬ 
mine. Oz. 15c.pkt. 5c. 
Bronze Colored. Bronze-orange. Oz. 15c. ** 5c. 
Crimson. Dark crimson. Oz. 15c. " 5c. 
Empress of India. Small, compact plant; deep scar¬ 
let flowers; very dark foliage. Oz. 15c. ** 5c. 
King Theodore. Scarlet maroon. Oz. 15c. *' 5c. 
Pearl. Pale yellow. Oz. 15c. “ 5c. 
Rose. A warm rose pink. Oz. 15c. “ 5c. 
Scarlet. Scarlet-orange. Oz. 15c. ** 5c. 
Schilling's Striped. Bright yellow, maroon blotches. 
(>/. 15c. “ 5 c. 
Yellow. Rich golden yellow. Oz. 15c. " 5c. 
Mixed Dwarf. Oz. 15c; y A Lb. 30c; Lb. 85c. ** 5c. 
T \r • •• (Tropceohnn Lobbianum) The 
* railing V aneties Lobbianum differs from the 
common tall, climbing or running nasturtium in being 
a little smaller in leaf, more compact in growth, more 
floriferous and having richer, more varied colored 
flowers. When about two inches high thin to six inches 
apart. Give some support to ihe vines as soon as they 
begin to run and they will usually grow six to eight feet 
during the season. Fine for covering arbors ami trel¬ 
lises. Half hardy annual. 
Bright Yellow. Yellow with carmine stain. Oz. 15c: 
34 Lb. 50c.Pkt. 5c. 
Brilliant. Intense scarlet-red, dark foliage. Oz. 20c; 
34 Lb. 50c. 
Chestnut Brown. Rich red maroon. Oz. 15c. 
Giant of Battles. Sulphur, red blotches. Oz. 20c.. 
Hemisphaericum. Straw, blotched and suffused 
scarlet-orange; very large, foliage, very strong 
growing, usually twelve to fifteen feet high. 
Oz. 15c; 34 Lb. 40c.,*>. 
Jupiter. Very large, deep golden-yellow flowers; 
very large foliage, very strong growing, usually 
twelve to fifteen feet high: free blooming. 
Oz. 15c; Ya Lb. 40c.. 
King of the Blacks. Flowers of crimson maroon, 
with darker markings. Oz. 20c; Ya Lb. 60c. 
Light Yellow. Yellow with maroon stain. Oz. 20c; 
Ya Lb. 50c . 
Queen Wilhelmina. Foliage variegated, being 
marbled and veined with light green and white. 
Flowers rosy scarlet. Oz. 20c. 
Rose. Bright, distinct and attractive. Oz. 20c; 
Ya Lb 50c. 
Spitfire. Bright, fiery scarlet, very floriferous. 
Oz. 15c; 34 Lb. 50c. 
Mixed Trailing. Lobbianum varieties. Oz. 15c; 
34 Lb. 25c; Lb. 75c... 
“ 5c. 
“ 5c. 
” 5c. 
5c. 
“ 5c. 
5c. 
" 5c. 
** 5c. 
Madame Gunter’s Hybrid Nasturtiums The 
flowers are striped or blotched with shades of red 
on yellow and orange ground, forming a com¬ 
bination of exceeding brilliancy and beauty. 
About four feet high. Half hardy annual. Oz. 15c; 
$4 Lb. 40c. “ 5c. 
Chameleon Nasturtiums Almost every shade 
of color and marking known to nasturtiums; 
continually changing from day to day. A very 
attractive strain. 
Dwarf Chameleon. Oz. 20c; 34 Lb. 50c. 5c. 
Trailing Chameleon. Oz. 15c; Y\ Lb. 40c.... . 5c. 
Nicotiana 
Handsome garden plants of the tobac¬ 
co family, valuable for long and free 
blooming. Flowers salver shaped, with 
long tubular corollas. Seed may be sown outdoors when ground 
is warm and dry or for earlier blooming start in boxes indoors 
early in spring and transplant to open ground after danger 
of frost is past. Half hardy annuals; about three feet high. 
Affinis. Flowers large, white and fully expanded only in even¬ 
ing or cloudy days. Very fragrant. Oz. 30c.Pkt. 5c. 
Sanders, mixed. Flowers white, carmine-rose or violet, a little 
smaller than Affinis and unlike it, in full bloom during the 
day. Very floriferous.Pkt. 10c. 
NIG ELLA— (See Ix>ve-in-a Mist) 
CENOTHERA— (See Primrose) 
niQ^nrlm- (Nerium Oleander) This well-known shrub 
V-/I6<lHCier lowers freely the greater part of the year. In 
a warm climate it requires no protection, growing to a good- 
sized tree. Flowers are white or different shades or red .Pkt. 5c. 
/~\volL Very pretty, herbaceous plants with richly colored 
vJXallS blossoms. They thrive well in a mixture of loam 
and sand. Desirable for greenhouse decoration, rock work or 
baskets. Half hardy perennial. 
Rosea. Rose colored.Pkt. 10c. 
