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The Blue Book of Gardening 
Sinuata True Blue. A nice blue quite dis¬ 
tinct from the blue offered in the general list, 
which is more of a larender. Pkt. 15c. 
Sinuata White. Each, pkt., 10c. 
Perezi. -Perennial. Strong grower, produc¬ 
ing immense pannicles of heliotrope blue. 
Flowers can be cut and dried for bou¬ 
quets.. The most showy of all the Statice 
for Southern California. Send for pkg., 
25c. Plants in pots, 25c each. 
SOLANUM PSUEDOCASTRUM CAPSI- 
CASTRUM (Jerusalem Cherry). For 
house or garden culture. The flowers are 
followed by small, brightly colored fruit 
or berries, which almost completely cover 
the plant. Package, 10c. 
SEAFORTHIANUM. Tender perennial. Blue 
climber. Package, 15c. 
SNAPDRAGON. Snapdragons are biennial 
and may be sown in the fall or in the 
spring, outdoors where they are to re¬ 
main, or they may be sown in boxes and 
transplanted. They are fine cut flowers, 
easily raised. You cannot afford to leave 
them out of your garden. They flower 
very freely for a long time. 
TALL, LARGE FLOWERING TYPE 
24 to 30 inches high. 
Blood Red. Dark crimson maroon, with 
dark foliage. Package, 15c. 
Crescia. Scarlet. Package, 15c. 
Katharine Morse. Color golden rose, calys 
and stem dull gray-green, a good florist 
variety. Package, 15 c. 
Lilac Queen. Beautiful soft lilac. Pack¬ 
age, 15c. 
Old Rose. Package, 15c. 
Princess Patricia. Beautiful flesh pink. 
Package, 15 c. 
Queen Victoria. Pure white. Package, 10c. 
Vermillion Brilliant. Fine orange scarlet. 
Package, 15 c. 
Yellow. Large; golden yellow. Pkg., 15c. 
Giant Striped, Mixed. Finest Scotch strain, 
unsurpassed for size, beauty, and variety 
of coloring. Package, 10c. 
Giant Flowered, Mixed. Package, 10c. 
INTERMEDIATE TYPE 
15 to 24 inches high, for bedding. 
Black Prince. An even wine maroon color. 
Package, 10c. 
Bull Queen. Lovely shade of rose with 
shaded orange lip. Package, 10c. 
Crimson Queen. Very dark, velvety red 
with dark tube. Package, 10c. 
Diana. Beautiful clear, bright pink, with 
white throat. Package, 10c. 
Fascination. Deep flesh pink. Package, 10c. 
Golden Queen. Large; rich yellow. Pack¬ 
age, 10c. 
Grenadier. Novelty. Orange scarlet face 
with yellow lip, white tube. Whole effect 
is bright flame, deep yellow and white. 
Package, 10c. 
Mauve Beauty. An entirely new and rare 
color. A lovely shade of pale, clear 
mauve. Package, 10c. 
Vesuvius. Orange or flame color. Pkg., 10c. 
White Beauty. The finest white. Pkg., 10c. 
Grandiflora, Mixed. Package, 10c. 
8MILAX. A climbing perennial with beau¬ 
tiful, bright green glossy leaves, much 
esteemed for its long, delicate sprays of 
foliage. Package, 10c. 
8TEVIA SERRATA. A tender perennial, 1J£ 
feet high, bearing clusters of small, white, 
fragrant blossoms. Suitable for summer 
or winter blooming and for pot culture or 
open air. Package, 10c. 
8TOKESIA CYANEA (Cornflower Aster). 
A hardy perennial, 2 feet high, and bear¬ 
ing large blue flowers on long stems. 
Blooms freely all summer and fall, and is 
of easy culture, but is hard to start from 
seed. Package, 10c. 
SUNFLOWER (Helianthus). Hardy annuals, 
growing from 3 to 6 feet high. Of the 
easiest culture and suitable for a stately 
row or background. Plant when ground 
is well warmed, in light or sandy soil. 
Chrysanthemum Flowered. Large, densely 
double, bright golden yellow flowers. The 
plant branches and affords fine, long, 
stout stems for cutting. This is the best 
variety in existence. Height 6 to 8 feet. 
Package, 10c. 
Cucumerifolius, Perkeo (Minature Sun¬ 
flower). The Cucumerifolius Sunflowers 
are small, both in flower and plant, and 
are often called “Cut and Come Again” 
Sunflowers. Perkeo is only 2 feet tall, 
but is covered with small (3 inch) golden 
yellow flowers with a dark eye. Pack¬ 
age, 10c. 
Cucumerifolius, Stella. Is considerably taller 
than Perkeo and has larger single flowers 
(6 inches across) yellow with black cen¬ 
ter. Package, 10c. 
Red Sunflower. Some are solid red, of a 
deep maroon shade; others are red with 
petals gold tipped, and a variety of other 
pleasing combinations of red and gold. 
Package. 10c. 
STOCKS (Gilliflower). A favorite annual 
succeeding best in California during the 
winter season. Largely grown for cut 
flowers, lasting a long time in water. 
Very effective for planting in beds or bor¬ 
ders. To obtain the best results the seed 
should be sown in August, September, or 
early part of October, in seed boxes of 
rather light soil, and afterwards trans¬ 
planted to the open ground. In trans¬ 
planting stocks care should be taken to 
save the small or weak-growing plants, as 
these generally produce double flowers, 
while the strong, robust growing seedlings 
often come single. The seed we offer is 
obtained direct from one of the best spe¬ 
cialists in Europe and can be relied upon 
to produce a large percentage of double 
flowers. 
Dwarf Large Flowering Ten Weeks. Our 
strain of these has great rosettes set 
closely together so that the entire plant is 
hidden in the mass of bloom. Plants 12 
to 15 inches tall; early; the best for bed¬ 
ding effects or edges. Ours is a selected 
strain. 
Blood Red. Package, 15c. 
Light Blue. Package, 15c. 
White. Package, 15c. 
Canary Yellow. Package, 15c. 
Pink, Package, 15c. 
Purple. Package, 15c. 
Mixed. Package, 10c. 
Giant Stock* 
Giant Perfection. An early or Ten Weeks' 
Stock, with tall spikes of large very dou¬ 
ble flowers. This Stock branches into a 
pyramidal form and is 2 feet tall. Mixed 
Package, 20c. 
SOUVENIR DE NICE 
STOCKS 
We call the attention of the amateur and 
professional growers to our Giant Strains of 
Nice Stocks, and can furnish them a seed 
that will produce 75 per cent double flowers. 
The Giant Nice Strain is an exceptionally 
vigorous growing stock, bearing quantities of 
double flowers of all shades and colors. 
The strain is called after the town of Nice 
in Southern France, and we obtain our seeds 
direct from the growers at that place. 
This strain of stock seed has brought us 
many new customers, for it has been very 
difficult of late years to secure stock seed 
where the percentage of double flowers is 75 
per cent. 
Separate colors or mixed; per package 25c ; 
per ounce $5.00. 
Almond Blossom. Bluish pink, shaded 
deeper. Package, 15c. 
Beauty of Nice. A beautiful flesh pink 
Package, 15c. 
Crimson King. Splendid crimson color 
Package, 15c. 
Mont Blanc. Improved pure white. Pack 
age, 15c. 
Monte Carlo. A good yellow. Package, 15c 
Purple. Purple or violet color. Pkg., 15c 
Queen Alexandra. Light- lilac, shading 
deeper at bottom of petals and lighter on 
the new flowers. Package, 15c. 
Mixed. Package, 15c; % oz., 85c. 
GIANT STOCKS—BISMARK 
This class of Giant-Ten-Week stocks is of 
great merit and only needs a trial to be thor¬ 
oughly appreciated by every flower grower. 
The plants grow from 2 to 2'A feet high and 
are of branching habit, producing numerous 
large spikes measuring 12 to 16 inches long. 
They are especially desirable for cutting and 
produce a high percentage of double flowers. 
We offer them in white, flesh pink, rose, blood 
red, lavender and mixed. Each, per Pkt., 25c. 
WINTER STOCKS 
Handsome, late flowering sorts. 
White Lady. Our new pure white winter 
Stock. Grows about 20 inches high, has 
large branches bearing lustrous, snowy 
white, double flowers, most freely. The 
grandest white stock. Package, 20c. 
SWEET ROCKET (Hesperis). A hardy per 
ennial, growing to 3 feet high. This old 
fashioned, fragrant flower is of the easiest 
culture, and bears clusters of white and 
purple blossoms. Mixed. Package, 10c. 
SWEET SULTAN. -See Centaurea moschats 
SWEET WILLIAM (Dianthus Barbatus). A 
beautiful sweet scented, old fashioned per¬ 
ennial. Grows 1 to 2 feet high and bear* 
its flowers in clusters at the end of a stiff 
stem. The individual flowerets are hand¬ 
somely colored and marked. It makes a 
beautiful bedding plant, and is of easy 
culture. Hardy perennial. 
Crimson Bedder. Beautiful crimson variety 
especially suitable for massing in beds or 
borders. Package, 10c. 
Pink Beauty. A truly wonderful pink 
Package, 10c. 
Scarlet Beauty. Intense scarlet. These 
new sorts should be planted by everyone 
Package, 10c. 
Single Varieties, Mixed. More attractive 
than the double. Package, 10c. oz., 
40c. 
Double Varieties, Mixed. Package, 10c. 
