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SELECT SEEDS FOR THE PARTICULAR GARDENER 
HOLLYHOCK (Superb Double Mixed)—This King of Flow¬ 
ers, growing from six to eight feet tall, cannot be excluded from 
the old-fashioned garden. It forms a splendid background for 
other hardy perennials and shrubbery. Seeds sown in the spring 
will produce blossoming plants the next summer. 
HOLLYHOCK (Annual Single Mixed)—This Hollyhock differs 
from the perennial variety in that it blossoms the first year it 
is planted. Immense single flowers in all shades known in holly¬ 
hocks. 
HELICHRYSUM (Straw Flower)-—Of all everlastings the 
straw flower is the best known. The plants grow 2 to 3 feet high 
and are covered with fine large flowers of white, pink, yellow 
or scarlet. Flowers intended for drying should be gathered when 
partially unfolded and suspended with their heads downward in 
a cool place. 
HIBISCUS (Marshmallow)—Showy ornamental perennial plants 
for mixed beds or shrubbery borders with large and beautifully 
colored flowers. 
HELENIUM (Sneezewort) — Strong-growing hardy perennials, 
succeeding in any soil, and useful in the hardy border, giving an 
enormous crop of yellow flowers in late summer. 
HELIOTROPE —Flowering during the whole season, and its 
delightful perfume makes it a most desirable bouquet flower. 
LINUM (Grandiflora Rubrum “Scarlet Flax’’)—A very effec¬ 
tive and showy bedding plant having fine foliage and delicate 
stems. The flowers are a brilliant scarlet crimson. Plant about 
one foot. 
NASTURTIUM —One of the easiest flow¬ 
ers to grow and at the same time one of 
the most popular and pleasing of all varieties. Blos¬ 
soms a few weeks after it is sown and continues to 
be a mass of glorious colors until frost. California 
Giant, tall mixed, and Fine Dwarf Mixed. 
NASTURTIUM (Tall Variegated Foliage Type) — 
Not only do these varieties produce flowers of the 
most varied and brilliant color but the foliage adds 
an additional charm of its own. The leaves have 
markings of green, white and golden yellow. 
NASTURTIUM (Ivy Leaved Foliage Type)—An¬ 
other charming variety producing foliage different from 
the ordinary type. The leaves are of a dark green, 
veined with white. Resembles the foliage of the hardy 
English Ivy. Flowers are of a medium, size. Tall or 
Nasturtiums Dwarf Mixed. 
LUPINE (Annual Sorts Mixed)—Easy growing annuals pro¬ 
ducing long spikes of various colors, pea-shaped flowers. They 
are splendid for mixed borders and also valuable for cut flower 
purposes. Will do best in a slightly 
shaded location. They attain a height 
of about 2 feet. 
Mignonette 
LYCHNIS —Handsome plants of easy 
culture, for beds and borders; bloom 
the first, year if planted early; hardy 
perennials. 
LOBELIA —A valuable and beautiful 
class of mostly dwarf-growing plants; 
their delicate drooping habit and the 
profusion of their charming little blue 
and white flowers render them exceed¬ 
ingly ornamental for vases or hanging 
baskets. 
MATRICARIA (Feverfew)—A free- 
flowering bedding plant, bearing all sea¬ 
son double Avhite flowers. 
MIMOSA (Sensitive Plant)—Curious 
and interesting plants, pinkish-white 
flowers, leaves close and droop when 
touched. 
MARTEL OF PERU OR FOUR 
O’CLOCKS —An old favorite. A very 
brilliant showy annual which may be 
sown in the open border or 
beds. Does well in any kind of 
soil. Fine mixed colors. 
MIGNONETTE! —A very popu¬ 
lar flower for cutting. Sowings 
may be made in April and again 
in July which will furnish cut 
flowers for the entire season un¬ 
til frost. They may also be 
grown in pots for winter flower¬ 
ing. Choice mixed. 
MORNING GLORY —Flowers 
all colors from the lightest to 
the darkest shades of pink, red 
and blue and some pure white. 
The vines grow to an unusual 
height. 
Morning Glory 
MARIGOLD (African Mixed) 
—Large, compact flowers in the 
different shades of yellow and 
gold. Plant grows to a good 
height and forms a bush about 
18 inches across. Begins to blossom the latter part of 
the summer and continues blooming until frost. 
MARIGOLD (Legion of Honor)—A bush 
about a foot high producing flowers of a 
golden yellow with markings of velvety 
crimson near the base of each petal. It be¬ 
gins blooming in June and continues until 
frost. 
MYOSOTIS (Forget-Me-Not)—Neat and 
beautiful little plants with star-like flow¬ 
ers; succeed best in a shady situation; for 
in or outdoor planting; half-hardy peren¬ 
nials; blooming the first year from seed. 
Six inches. 
