For Room Decoration Try the Salpiglossis. An Excellent Cut-flower 
Shirley Poppies 
Single Annual Poppies 
American Legion. This new single Shirley 
is a dazzling orange-scarlet of enormous 
size, borne on long, stout stems. The plants 
are of very erect, robust growth. Highly 
commended by the Royal Horticultural 
Society of Great Britain. Pkt. 15 cts., 
Yoz. 75 cts., oz. $2.50. 
Shirley Poppies 
The Shirley or ghost type is beautiful and 
graceful. It attains a height of 2Yi feet. 
Salmon-Pink Wild-Rose-Pink 
Pure White Deep Apricot 
Picotee. White cup, scarlet edging. 
Blue Shades. Gray-blue. 
Each, pkt. 10 cts., Vi oz - 50 cts., oz. $1.50 
Finest Mixed, pkt. 10 cts., V4o z - 30 cts., oz. $1 
COLLECTION: Pkt. each, above 6 colors, 50c. 
Fairy Mixture. These have flowers measur¬ 
ing up to 6 inches in diameter, each having 
a Maltese cross of varying tint, and the 
mixture contains all art' shades of pink, 
rose, salmon, and scarlet. Pkt. 35 cts., 
3 pkts. $1. 
Admiral. A peony-flowered variety, having 
large flowers of glistening white, with a 
broad band of brilliant scarlet around the 
top. 3 ft. 
Dainty Lady. Immense flowers 4 to 5 inches 
across, of rosy mauve, with a large dark 
metallic blotch at the base of each petal. 
3 ft. 
Danebrog (Danish Cross). Large flowers 
of brilliant scarlet, with a silvery white 
spot on each petal, forming a white cross. 
3 ft. 
King Edward. Deep scarlet, shaded crim¬ 
son-red, each petal marked with a black 
blotch against which the yellow anthers 
stand out in bold relief. 3 ft. 
English Scarlet (Flanders). The scarlet 
Field Poppy of Europe. 
Tulip Poppy (Papaver glaucum). Flowers 
are 3 inches across and closely resemble 
the brilliant scarlet Gesneriana tulip. 20 in. 
Above 6 sorts, pkt. 10 cts., Vi oz - 25 cts. 
Hardy Perennial Poppies 
Oriental Poppies (Papaver orientate) 
Sow early in spring. Plants disappear in 
July and August, appearing again in cool 
weather. When this fall growth starts trans¬ 
plant to their permanent flowering quarters. 
Scarlet. Pkt. 15 cts., Y oz - 50 cts. 
Oriflamme. Gorgeous orange-scarlet. Pkt. 
15 cts., Y oz. 50 cts. 
Princess Victoria. Immense salmon flowers. 
Pkt. 25 cts., Y% oz. 75 cts. 
Finest Mixed. Pkt. 10 cts., Y oz - 50 cts. 
Double Orientale. It blooms in June. The 
plant is of bushy habit, with thick, feathery 
foliage, and bears numerous flowers of a 
glowing, very striking orange-scarlet. When 
fully expanded, the double flowers measure 
6 inches across and are borne on stems 3 
feet high. Pkt. 50 cts., 3 pkts. $1.25. 
Iceland Poppies (Papaver nudicaule) 
Although perennials, these will flower the 
first year from seed. They are of graceful 
habit, with bright green, fern-like foliage, 
formed in tufts, from which issue slender 
stalks about 1 foot high, bearing brilliant 
flowers in endless profusion. 
Tangerine. This is a deep tangerine-orange, 
with flowers of enormous size. They are 
borne on long, wiry stems. 
Coonara Pink. Rose-pink and salmon are 
blended to give us flowers of rare shades, 
while the petals are slightly ruffled. 
Fakenham Hybrids. You will be surprised 
at the wide range of color when you see 
this mixture in bloom. Brilliant and cheerful. 
Sanford’s Giant Strain. New and much 
talked about in Europe. The unusually 
long, extra-stout stems, bearing exception¬ 
ally large flowers, make this kind valuable. 
All colors. 
Each, pkt. 25 cts., Vsoz. $1.25, Vioz- $2 
Iceland, Scarlet Iceland, Yellow 
Iceland, White Iceland, Mixed 
Each, pkt. 10 cts., ^oz. 50 cts., oz. $1.75 
Mixed Double, pkt. 15c., Vioz. 75c., oz. $2.50 
Alpine Poppies (Papaver alpinum). This 
hardy perennial Poppy is one of the most 
beautiful rock and alpine plants with 
blooms in a marvelous color-range. 10 in. 
Mixed. All colors. Pkt. 25 cts., (Hjoz. $1. 
Royal Poppy (Meconopsis regia). Hardy 
perennial from western Nepal. During late 
autumn and early spring the plants have 
flat rosettes of very beautiful silvery leaves. 
In spring three to four stems are produced, 
bearing large, handsome, yellow flowers on 
short stalks. High awards, R. H. S., Eng¬ 
land. Pkt. 50 cts. 
Tibetan Poppies (Meconopsis Baileyi). 
Recently discovered; believed to be the 
most beautiful Tibetan Poppy. A perennial 
4 feet high, and producing sky-blue flowers. 
Sow in pans or boxes in a coldframe. 
Transfer to small pots when large enough, 
and when the plants are well established 
put into deep loam and leaf-soil in a moist, 
well-drained, half-shady position. Very 
slow to germinate, sometimes taking six 
months or more for the seedlings to appear. 
Pkt. 50 cts. 
See also Argemone, Bocconia, Eschscholt- 
zia, Hunnemannia. 
QUEEN ANNE’S LACE. See Didiscus. 
RED-HOT POKER. See Tritoma. 
_ RHODANTHE _ 
Annual; Everlasting. Pretty edging plant. 
The flowers are useful for dried bouquets for 
winter decoration. Easily grown. 1 ft. 
Mixed. Pkt. 10 cts., Y oz - 75 cts., oz. 75 cts. 
RUDBECKIA 
Annual Varieties 
Kelvedon Star. A striking annual, and a 
valuable one for cut-bloom. As a specimen 
plant in the border it is a rampant grower, 
developing into a bush 3 feet high. The 
flowers vary somewhat, but all have dark 
brown centers, surrounded by a shining 
chocolate-mahogany zone, with deep or¬ 
ange or yellow on the outermost part of the 
florets. Pkt. 35 cts., 3 pkts. $1. 
My Joy. A new annual sort having bright 
orange flowers sometimes 5 inches across, 
with small centers. Pkt. 20 cts., Jdjoz. 
50 cts., Y oz - 90 cts. 
Perennial Varieties 
Bicolor, Solfatare. Sulphur-yellow. 3 ft. 
Pkt. 15 cts., Moz. 75 cts. 
Bicolor superba. Yellow with brown cen¬ 
ter. 3 ft. Pkt. 10 cts., f4°z. 50 cts. 
Fulgida. Orange-yellow. 5 ft. Pkt. 15 cts., 
Yoz. 60 cts. 
Newmani. Orange with purple cone. 3 ft. 
Pkt. 15 cts., J4°z. 75 cts. 
Purpurea. Reddish purple. 4 ft. Pkt. 15 
cts., Yoz. 75 cts. 
_REHMANNIA_ 
Angulata. Greenhouse Plant. A biennial 
plant, 2 to 3 feet high. Flowers 3 inches in 
diameter, rosy purple with yellow throat, 
spotted with deep purple. Blooms nine 
months from sowing. Pkt. 25 cts. 
RICINUS. See Castor-Oil Plant. 
SAGE BUSH. See Artemisia. 
ST. JOHN’S-WORT. See Hypericum. 
SALPIGLOSSIS ( Painted Tongue') 
Annual. Contributes a wealth of bloom 
from summer until cut down by frost. Highly 
prized as a cut-flower. The funnel-shaped 
blooms reveal their exquisite markings of 
either gold or silver veins running through 
the groundwork of the flowers. 
Seeds may be sown in the open ground in 
spring, or for earlier flowering sow in a hot¬ 
bed or sunny window, and when all danger 
of frost is past, place in the garden, allowing 
9 inches between the plants. 
New Superbissima Hybrids 
ORCHID-FLOWERING (Height 2 feet) 
Brown and Gold Purple and Gold 
Crimson Scarlet and Gold 
Light Blue and Gold Rose and Gold 
Primrose Velvety Violet 
Each, pkt. 15 cts., Vi oz - 75 cts., oz. $2.50 
COLLECTION: Pkt. each, above 8 colors, $1 
Finest Mixed. A mixture of all the above 
shades. Pkt. 10c., Y oz - 50c., oz. $1.75. 
SAPONARIA ( Bouncing Bet) 
Caucasica fl.-pl. (Double-flowering Bounc¬ 
ing Bet). Perennial. A hardy sort with 
double, white flowers tinted rose, all sum¬ 
mer and fall. 15 in. Pkt. 10 cts. 
Ocymoides. Perennial. A hardy rock-plant 
producing, during the summer, masses of 
small, bright rose flowers. 9 in. Pkt. 10c. 
Vaccaria, Rose. Annual. Pretty and useful 
annual variety, 2 feet high, and bearing 
satiny pink flowers somewhat like an en¬ 
larged gypsophila. Pkt. 10 cts., oz. 75 cts. 
Vaccaria, White. Pkt. 10 cts., oz. 75 cts. 
F lower Seeds 
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