Sensation Pentstemon 
PENTSTEMON 
Like foxglove, but with white throats. 
Start in light soil and transplant. 3 ft. 
Sensation, Mixed. Is a bedding plant like 
petunia, phlox, etc. Gloxinia-like flowers 
in rose, red, carmine, cherry, pink, lilac, purple, etc. 
Not quite hardy; best treated like petunias, verbenas, 
and salvia, yjoz. 35 cts.; M oz - 95 cts.; oz. $3; 
KIb. $10. 
POPPY • Papaver 
For flaming brilliancy, Poppies have no rivals 
among the flowers. They make colorful flower-beds. 
Single Annual 
Shirley Improved, Mixed. In rose, apricot, pink, 
crimson, red with white margin, etc. 2 ft. Oz. 
25 cts.; MIb. 75 cts.; Ib. $2.40. 
Hardy Perennial 
This class produces useful flowers, increasing in 
size and beauty each succeeding season. There is 
always a demand for plants of perennial Poppies, 
particularly the Orientale varieties. 
Orientale. Large orange-scarlet blooms, each petal 
being blotched with black. Sow seed in the open 
ground where plants are to remain, early in spring. 
34oz. 30 cts.; oz. $1; J4Ib. $3.25. 
Orientale Hybrids. These include white, blood-red, 
Physostegia virginica salmon, scarlet. 34 oz. 30 cts.; oz. $1; 341b. $3.25. 
Iceland, Single Mixed. Dwarf, tufted plants flower¬ 
ing throughout the summer, in white, yellow, sal¬ 
mon, and orange. Free flowering. 34 oz * 20 cts.; 
34oz. 30 cts.; oz. 90 cts.; 341b. $2.90. 
PRIMULA » Primrose 
Among the best of the early spring-blooming plants for 
pot-culture. Stand the winter, if protected by a coldframe. 
Polyanthus, Munstead Strain. This is the very finest 
strain of Polyanthus obtainable, and is produced for us by 
one of the best English growers with whom Polyanthus is a 
great specialty. The sturdy plants grow 1 foot high and 
bear bunch-headed flowers of good substance in beautiful 
colors ranging from white to deep maroon, through shades 
of yellow, rose, and crimson, r^oz. 65 cts.; 34 oz - $3; oz. $7. 
Vulgaris (English Primrose). Fragrant, canary-yellow. 
9 in. ygOz. 40 cts.; J4 oz - $1-05; oz. $3.50. 
PHYSOSTEGIA 
Virginica. Hardy perennial forming 
dense bushes, 3 feet high, bearing freely 
during the summer, spikes of lilac 
tubular flowers. 34 oz - 25 cts.; 34 oz - 
40 cts.: oz. $1.25. 
SALPIGLOSSIS 
Showy, funnel-shaped flowers, succeeding in any good soil 
in a sunny position. Bloom freely from midsummer until 
frost. Sow outdoors in spring; thin to stand 1 foot apart. 
Candelabra, Mixed. The plants send up a strong center 
stem with branches full of petunia-like flowers in light 
blue, brown, chamois, crimson, lilac, violet and yellow. 
Moz. 30 cts.; oz. 90 cts.; 341b. $2.90. 
Single Hybrid Pyrethrum 
PYRETHRUM 
No hardy border should be without these delightful sub¬ 
jects for the garden. 
Atrosanguineum. Daisy-like, dark scarlet hardy flowers 
are elegant for cutting. 2 ft. ^oz. 35 cts.; 34oz. 95 cts.; 
oz. $3; 341b. $10.50. 
Select Single Hybrids. The cosmos-like flowers of this 
beautiful hardy perennial range from the palest pinks to 
deep red, the bright yellow centers forming a lovely con¬ 
trast. They bloom during May and June and again in the 
fall. 2)4 ft. 34oz. 40 cts.; oz. $1.25; J^Ib. $4.40. 
Select Double Hybrids. Like the above, except centers 
are tufted, like a double China Aster. 234 ft. rjoz. 50 cts.; 
34oz. $1.35; oz. $4.50; 341b. $15.50. 
Forbes Fine 
Flower Seeds 
Our Flower Seed Strains will 
prove, by comparison, to be not 
only unexcelled in quality, but 
priced much lower for such 
high quality. Try them this year. 
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Double Hybrid Pyrethrum 
Candelabra Salpiglossis 
