Verbena 
English Daisies 
Pansies 
Bedding Plants 
Many bedding plants can be grown in the lower South. The most important thing is to make a 
proper selection of varieties to meet the soil conditions and plant them at the right season. To make 
this plain, it may be pointed out that pansies, for instance, do well in winter, but are worthless in 
summer, while California poppies are fine in summer and useless in winter. It is not always easy 
to place a plant in its best season—some are good through all the year—and a few miles farther 
north or south may change the seasonal conditions a great deal. The following lists have been based 
in the main upon such conditions as prevail in the latitude of north Florida. 
The soil for plant beds should be well prepared with plenty of well-rotted stable manure and 
fertilizer. Water must be supplied freely, for the plants should grow vigorously if satisfactory 
results are to be secured. 
Many of the bedding plants are fine for window- and porch-boxes. 
SUMMER-FLOWERING 
Ready March 1 to April 15 
Prices, except as otherwise listed, 40 cts. for 10, 
$3.50 per 100 
ALTERNANTHERA. Dwarf, compact plants, 
good throughout the year, with bright foli¬ 
age, much used for the edging of beds and 
for carpet bedding. We offer two varieties: 
aurea nana. With bright red foliage. 
rosea nana. With rosy crimson foliage. 
BEGONIA. Very fine bedding plants, particu¬ 
larly adapted to shady or half shady loca¬ 
tions. Of easy culture and very satisfactory. 
We have the following varieties: 
15 cts. each, $1.25 for 10, $10 per 100 
Gloire de Chatelaine. Dwarf, compact 
grower, bearing a profusion of rose-colored 
flowers. Hardy; satisfactory for pot-culture 
or beds. 
luminosa. Foliage reddish tinted; flowers 
red. Very fine. 
Vernon. Pink-flowered; good bedding variety. 
COREOPSIS. Fine hardy plants, with showy 
bright yellow flowers. Blooms throughout 
the summer. 
COLEUS. Rapid-growing plants, valuable for 
their handsome colored foliage. Desirable 
for bedding out-of-doors or for growing in 
boxes. We can furnish the following: 
Beckwith Gem. Edge of leaves scalloped, 
center bright maroon, bordered with a com¬ 
bination of green and gold shadings. 
Golden Bedder. Leaves solid yellow; the 
best of its color. 
Lord Palmerston. Leaves dark maroon 
with crimson ribs. 
Verschaffeltii. Leaves crimson; very bright. 
CUPHEA. These bedding plants are well 
adapted for the edge of larger plantings or 
for carpet bedding. Easily grown and 
succeed under trying conditions. 
ignea. Dark green leaves with elongated 
bright scarlet tubular flowers. Sometimes 
called Cigar Plant. 
hyssopifolia. Shrubby, with pale lilac flowers 
and slender stems with small leaves. 
ESCHSCHOLTZIA (California Poppy). A 
plant with divided, fern-like foliage, bluish 
green in color, and bright yellow, orange 
or white, cup-shaped flowers. It blooms 
profusely and continuously throughout the 
summer. 
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