VEGETABLE AND FLOWER SEEDS, ETC. 
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DOLICHOS. 
Pkt. CW. 
Dolichos Lablab, (Hyacinth Bean), is a beautiful climbing tender annual, of 
rapid growth, often attaining the height of 12 to 15 feet; flowers produced 
in clusters ; the seed pods are also highly ornamental. Seed may be planted 
about the time of planting the common bean, where they are designed to 
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IPOMCEA. 
Very beautiful climbing plants, suitable for greenhouse, or for warm sheltered 
out-door situations ; does best when started under glass. Tender annuals. 
MOON FLOWER. 
Coccinea (Star Ipomoea), scarlet; profuse bloomers, very fine. 
Quamoclit (Cypress Vine), mixed.... 
Noctiflora (Moonflower), immense white flowers in profusion, and from 5 to 6 
inches in diameter, with five-pointed star in center ; blooms expand best at 
night, hence its name. The vine often grows 40 feet in a single season, if 
properly supported; rather tender, but can be kept in the house over winter 
very easily; delicious in perfume. 
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GOURDS, ORNAMENTAL. 
A highly interesting class of plants, of rapid growth, with luxuriant and 
ornamental foliage, and bearing fiuit of the most varied and fantastic forms ; very 
desirable for covering old trees, walls, fences, arbors, etc. Tender annuals. A rich 
soil is preferable. Treatment as for squashes. 
Calabash, the old-fashioned Dipper Gourd. 
Hercules’ Club, club shape, large and long. 
Orange, commonly called Mock Orange. 
Pear-Shaped, yellow and green, finely striped. 
Striped Apple, small, yellow; beautifully striped.. . 
Egg-Formed, resembling the fruit of White Egg Plant, fine- 
Trichosanthes Colubrina, True Serpent-Gourd, very handsome 
Mixed Varieties... 
