VEGETABLE AND FLOWER SEEDS, ETC. 
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PERILLA. 
PORTULACA. 
This popular flower stands unrivalled for 
richness and brilliancy of color, and delights 
in a warm situation and light, gravelly soil; 
is particularly attractive in beds on the lawn, 
and also for baskets, edging, and similar de¬ 
corative purposes Sow seed in a hot-bed or 
open ground early in spring, and thin or trans¬ 
plant to eight or ten inches apart; hardy 
annual. 
Finest double, so perfect are the flowers that they look like little roses; mixed 
colors..15 
Finest single varieties, mixed colors. 5 
A highly ornamental, half-hardy annual’ 
prized for its beautiful bronze foliage. Its 
habit of growth is neat and shrubby; grows 
well in any good soil. 
Nankinensis, leaves dark purple or deep 
mulberry; very desirable. 5 
RICINUS, (Castor-Oil Bean.) 
A magnificent and highly ornamental class of half-hardy annuals, remarkable 
for their stately growth and tropical appearance; their picturesque foliage com¬ 
bined with the brilliant fruit of the giant varieties, imparts a tropical aspect to our 
lawns, plantations and pleasure grounds. They are also very attractive if grown as 
singie specimens. Seed should be planted as early in spring as safe from fro3t. 
Succeeds in any garden soil; grow from six to fifteen feet in height. 
Duchess of Edinburgh, dark purple stem 
and leaves ; very fine ; 6 feet. 5 
Sanguineus, blood-red stalks, scarlet fruit; 
one of the best; 10 feet.5 
Borboniensis arboreus, very showy foli¬ 
age ; 15 feet.5 
SENSITIVE PLANT. (Mimosa.) 
Mimosa pudiea, a tender annual; curious 
from the fact that when slightly touched its 
leaves close and droop. It is absolutely nec¬ 
essary that the seed be started in heat under 
glass. Succeeds best in pots and on warm 
borders. 5 
SALPIGLOSSIS. 
A tribe of beautiful, half-hardy annuals, with 
curious penciled and marbled funnel-shaped flow¬ 
ers, producing a striking effect in beds borders, 
edgings and ribbons : of easy culture, and delight 
in a light, sandy soil; about eighteen inches high. 
Sow seed in a frame under glass, or in the open 
ground. 
Choicest varieties mixed.5 
SALPIGLOSSIS. 
SCABIOSA. (Mourning Bride.) 
Handsome, showy plants, excellent for beds a_ad mjxed ho^ere ^flowers^beauj 
The flowers 
tifully variegated ; very valuable for bouquets and floral 
varieties are about two feet in height, and the dwarf about one foot, 
are supported on long, wiry stems, and embrace almost every color from black to 
white. Seed may be sown in the open ground early in spring ; transplant to one 
foot apart; easy of culture. Hardy annual. 
Scablosa, dwarf varleiles, mixed. . 
tall varieties, mixed. 
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