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(Cheiranthus maritimus. Malcomia maritima) The plants are of more branching and decidedly 
more open in habit than the common Stock ( Mathiola) and are very useful for border or edging. 
Wallflower 
Virginian Stock 
Sow early in spring, or for very early blooming sow in fall or start indoors and transplant. A continual succession of blossoms 
maybe kept up by sowing at intervals through spring and summer. Hardy annual: about nine inches high. 
Red and white, mixed. Clusters of beautiful single cruciform flowers. Pkt. 10c. 
( Cheiranthus cheiri) This is a favorite European garden flower. The long, fragraut terminal 
spikes of the Wallflower when properly grown are very conspicuous in beds and borders and are 
very useful in making bouquets. 
Sow seed early in hotbed and while plants are small prick them out into pots and sink in the earth. On approach of cold 
weather remove the potato the house and the plants will blocin all winter. Tender bushy biennial or perennial that will live 
through the winter in a mild climate: height of plants about one and one-half feet. 
Early Brown. Brownish-red, fragrant single flowers; large, thick spikes; early. Tender biennial. Oz. 25c .Pkt. 10c. 
Golden Tom Thumb. A variety of dwarf and compact habit. The blossoms are single and of an attractive golden yellow 
color. Tender biennial . .. Pkt. 10c. 
Double Mixed. Deliciously fragrant, perfectly double, and combine many shades of color, the orange, purple and chocolate 
predominating. Oz. $2.50 .Pkt. 10c. 
\X7I1J PupnrnKpr (Echinocystis lobata) This is a useful climber where a rapid and vigorous growth of vine is desired. 
▼ v UU i^ucuiiiuci To cover or to screen an unsightly building, there is perhaps no annual climber better adapted for 
the purpose. The vine has abundant foliage and is thickly covered with sprays of small white, fragrant flowers, followed by 
numerous prickly seed pods. 
Sow late in fall or very early in spring. Usually the plauts are produced from year to year by self sown seed. Hardy annual. 
Oz. 20c; Lb. $1.50.. . .. .. . .Pkt. 10c. 
One of the most beautiful and rapid growing of the hardy perennial climbers. When well 
» * I 0 I 0.1 id V/illllCllola established in good soil it will often grow fifteen t<> twenty feet during the season and frequent¬ 
ly blooms both in spring and fall. The flowers are very fragrant., single, pale blue, pea-shaped and are borne in long, drooping 
grape-like clusters, often over a foot in length. Foliage light green, pinnate. The seed should be sown in mellow loam early 
in tne spring, or in greenhouse or hotbed in winter and when plants are one foot high transplanted into permanent situa¬ 
tions . .. ..Pkt. 20c. 
WOOLFLOWER (See Celosia Childsi ) 
Zinnia 
Sometimes called Youth and Old Age. The well known bush-like plants of Zinnias produce apor 
fusion of large double imbricated flowers, borne on stiff stems. They are much used for bedding and 
are suitable for borders and for cutting 
There is much satisfaction in abed of Zinnias with their twisted and recurved petalled flowers in 
many bright colors, and when nearly every other flower has 
been killed by frost this plant is still in full bloom Few 
flowers are more easily grown or bloom more abundantly 
throughout the season, and the wide range of color is not 
less r< markable than their unusual depth and richness. 
Sow the seed early in spring, in open ground in good 
rich soil, preferably in rows one and one-half feet apart and 
covering about one-fourth inch deep. When the young 
plants are one to two inches High thin to six inches apart. 
Start under glass for earlier blooming. Half hardy annual; 
tall growing, usually about one and one-half to two feet high. 
xj • . An improved strain which produces 
fNeW Vaiant immense double flowers 8 to 4 inches in 
diameter in an extremely wide range of 
x hjwcicu colors. The plants are hardy, of very 
vigorous growth, often 3 feet high, and remain in bloom 
from early summer until killed by severe frost. (See colored 
plate in Supplement) 
Giant Flowered Crimson.Pkt. 10c. 
44 “ Golden Yellow..*••••••••.. “ 10c. 
“ “ Orange . M 10c. 
" M Pink (Several Shades). " 10c. 
44 44 Purple 44 44 " 10c. 
44 Scarlet. ** 10c. 
44 44 White. " 10c. 
44 “ Mixed — A choice mixture of the 
above shades and colors. Oz. $1.00 . “ 10c. 
Elegans Double Yellow. 
44 Scarlet. 
Oz. 40c .Pkt. 10c. 
Oz. 40c . 44 10c. 
Deep Red. Oz. 40c . 44 10c. 
Magenta. Oz. 40c . 44 10c. 
Orange. Oz. 40c . 44 10c. 
White. “ 10c. 
Black Purple. Oz. 40c . 44 10c. 
Dark Crimson. Oz. 40c . 44 10c. 
Striped or Zebra Mixed. Oz. 60c. 44 10c. 
Elegans Double Choice Mixed. 
a very line mixture. Oz. 40c; 
Includes the above colors; 
Lb. $4.00.Pkt. 5c. 
Zinnia. Elegans 
Lilliput Double Mixed. This strain grows about one foot 
high and bears a profusion of comparatively small, very 
double, globular flowers about one Inch in diameter, very 
brilliant in color.Pkt. 10c. 
Pompon Double Mixed. The globular flowers are fully as 
varied and brilliant in color as the ordinary Zinnia and 
about half its size.Pkt. 10c. 
Haageana Double. Dwarf variety with double flowers of 
adeeporange color, about one and one-qunrter inches in 
diameter; tine for cut flowers; height one foot.. .Pkt. 10c. 
Mexicana Hybrida Variegated. Distinctive in its well- 
formed single flowers of dee]) maroon and golden yellow 
strikingly contrasted. The flowers are similar to those 
of French Legion of Honor Marigold, but are earlier and 
more easily grown. Hardy annual; one foot high. .Pkt. 15c. 
