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Hart & Vick’s Seeds, Plants, Bulbs • Rochester, N. Y. 
Hart & Vick’s Poppies 
Sow seed as early in spring as possible and repeat at intervals to keep up a succession of 
bloom. Full cultural directions on every package of seed. If cut for the house just before 
they expand, they will last several days. 
Carnation-flowered Double Poppies 
Pennisetum * Fountain Grass 
Ruppelianum. Purple plumes and graceful, 
green foliage about 3 feet high. Commonly 
known as “Crimson Fountain Grass.” 
Brilliant and effective in masses. Pkg. 10c. 
Phacelia • California Bluebell 
Campanularia. An annual sometimes called 
the California Bluebell. The flowers are 
much like Canterbury Bells, of beautiful, 
cup-shaped form, and a lovely gentian- 
blue. The neat little bushes, about 1 foot 
high, are literally covered with these lovely 
flowers throughout the summer. Pkg. 15c; 
34 oz. 35c; 34 oz. 60c. 
Physalis • Chinese Lantern Plant 
A perennial plant growing about 2 feet 
high and bearing freely bright orange-scarlet, 
lantern-like pods used for winter house 
decoration. Pkg. 10c; large pkg. 30c. 
Primrose • Giant Polyanthus 
A very choice strain of these Giant Hardy 
Primroses whose colors range from white to 
deep maroon, the yellow, rose, and crimson 
shades being particularly fine. This splendid 
spring flower should be largely used in 
flower-beds and borders, also wild gardens 
and rockeries. Pkg. 15c; large pkg. 50c. 
Bugs and Beetles are not bugbears if they 
are treated with sprays and powders. See 
page 62 for list of materials needed to con¬ 
trol all these pests. 
Double Poppy 
Single Annual Poppies 
American Legion. The giant, orange-scarlet 
flowers of this Shirley Poppy, held erect 
on long, strong stems, make it a splendid 
sort for beds and for planting among the 
shrubbery. Pkg. 10c; 34 oz. 25c; 34 oz. 
40c; oz. 70c. 
Shirley, Wild-Rose-Pink. A new silky Poppy 
that is enjoying wonderful popularity. Its 
brilliant pink flowers make it a beautiful 
sort for beds and borders. Pkg. 10c; 34 oz. 
25c; 34 oz. 40c; oz. 70c. 
Shirley, Mixed. These are, by far, the best 
of all Single Poppies. They range in color 
from the purest white to the deepest crim¬ 
son and blood-red, through all the inter¬ 
mediate shades of pale pink, rose, and car¬ 
mine. Many are daintily edged and striped, 
and so varied are their colors that rarely are 
any two flowers alike. Pkg. 10c; 34 oz. 
20c; 34 oz. 30c; oz. 50c. 
Oriental Poppy 
Physostegia • False Dragonhead 
Virginiana. Strong, thrifty-growing, hardy 
perennials, 3 to 4 feet high, bearing freely, 
during the summer, spikes of delicate pink, 
tubular-shaped flowers. Pkg. 10c; large 
pkg. 50c. 
Platycodon 
Balloon Flower; Japanese Bellflower 
One of the best hardy plants for your 
garden, producing, all summer long, hand¬ 
some, deep blue, showy flowers in great pro¬ 
fusion. Excellent for the hardy border or 
for planting among the shrubbery. Height 
18 inches. 
Grandiflorum. Steel-blue. Pkg. 10c; large 
pkg. 40c. 
Grandiflorum album. White. Pkg. 10c; 
large pkg. 40c. 
Pyrethrum 
This beautiful perennial is so easy to grow, 
so perfectly hardy, and so satisfactory in 
every way that it deserves a liberal amount 
of space in every garden. Nothing can sur¬ 
pass Pyrethrums in profusion of flowers in 
June and in the fall. The blossoms are not 
injured by rain or sun, and their long, stiff 
stems and unusual keeping qualities make 
them ideal as cut-flowers. 
H. & V. Single-flowering Hybrids, Mixed. 
Grown for us by a European specialist in 
a splendid assortment of brilliant colors. 
Pkg. 10c; large pkg. 45c. 
H. & V. Double-flowering Hybrids, Mixed. 
Similar in color to the singles, but with 
crested centers, very like Crested Cosmos. 
Pkg. 25c; large pkg. 75c. 
Double Annual Poppies 
Carnation-flowered. Large, double flowers, 
ruffled and finely fringed at the edges. 
The many wonderfully brilliant colors, 
and combinations of colors, make them very 
popular in every garden. Grow 3 feet high. 
Salmon-Pink Heliotrope 
White Mixed 
Each of above, pkg. 10c; 34 oz. 25c; oz. 40c. 
Double Shirley. Many silky petals; the inner 
rows fluted and frilled. The same range of 
brilliant colors as the Single Shirleys. Pkg. 
10c; 34 oz. 25c; 34 oz. 40c; oz. 70c. 
Sweet Briar. A new double Shirley type; 
flowers the pink color of wild roses. Pkg. 
10c; 34 oz. 50c. 
Oriental Poppies • Papaver orientate 
Nothing excels these giant perennials for 
gorgeous display in the garden during May 
and June. Their large flowers and freedom of 
bloom make them conspicuous whether 
planted singly or in masses. Sow the seed 
early in April. The plants disappear during 
July and August, appearing again when the 
weather is cool. When fall growth starts, 
transplant to their permanent bed. 
Scarlet. Gorgeous orange-scarlet. Pkg. 10c. 
Deep Crimson. Large deep crimson flowers. 
Pkg. 10c. 
Princess Victoria. Salmon-pink. Pkg. 15c. 
Hybrids, Mixed. All kinds of Oriental 
Poppies in many colors. Pkg. 15c. 
The New Sunbeam Poppies 
A new strain of hardy Poppy, with larger 
and more brilliantly colored flowers and 
longer and stouter stems than the ordinary 
Iceland variety. We offer these in three 
colors this year: 
Orange. Salmon-orange. White. Pure white. 
Yellow. Bright yellow. Mixed. All colors. 
Each of above, pkg. 15c; large pkg. 60c. 
Collection: One pkg. of each of above 3 
colors for 35c. 
Single-flowering Pyrethrum Hybrids 
