ANNUAL AND PERENNIAL FLOWER SEEDS 
SWEET PEAS 
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SALMON 
Smiles. Clear glistening- salmon, best describes this exquisite 
variety. The large flowers are beautifully waved and fluted. 
Award of Merit. 
SCARLET 
Welcome. By far the best and most brilliant, dazzling, scarlet 
Sweet Pea. For exhibition or gardens it is supreme. Absolutely 
sunproof. Silver Medal. Scottish National Sweet Pea Society 
Trials. 
WHITE 
Sextet Queen. Pure white flowers of perfect form and of great 
substance. Normally produces five-flowered stems when 
grown under ordinary conditions. When grown for exhibition 
on the Cordon system, will give six flowered stems with quite 
a number of sevens. Black seeded. Award of Merit, National 
Sweet Pea Society Trials. 
Avalanche. Immense glistening white flowers. The blooms 
are very frilled. White seeded. 
Special Mixture Spencer Sweet Peas. This is our special 
mixture and is a blend of all the most beautiful colors in 
Spencer Sweet Peas. Pkt. 10c; oz. 15c; M lb. 50c. 
CULTURE OF SWEET PEAS 
Sow as early in the spring as the ground can be prepared in 
rich, deeply worked soil with good drainage. Cover the seeds 
about 2 inches deep with fine soil and supply support to the 
growing vines before they grow too large. Keep well watered 
during dry periods. One ounce of seed will plant a row about 
15 feet long. 
SAGE (See Salvia) 
SALPIGLOSSIS, Painted Tongue 
For delicate grace, richness of coloring, and velvety tex¬ 
ture, the regal Salpiglossis has practically no equal. From 
a low base of leaves rise slender wiry stalks which bear one 
or more large Lily-like flowers in a magnificent range of 
colors. 
Blue and Gold. Rose and Gold. 
Brown and Gold. Crimson. 
Purple and Gold. Superb Mixed. 
SALVIA, Flowering Sage 
Brilliant flower spikes from late Summer until frost. The 
"Blues” are as attractive as the “Reds” and valuable as cut 
flowers. 
Bonfire or Clara Redman. Scarlet red. Very erect and glob¬ 
ular. 2 feet. 
Splendens. Scarlet red. Loosely arranged flowers. 2% to 
3 feet. 
Farinacea. Pale blue flowers on long stems. 3 feet. Pkt. 
15c. 
SCHIZANTHUS, Butterfly Flower 
One of our finest hardy annuals. Of easy culture in any 
good garden soil. Showy flowers of various colors, closely 
resembling some species of Orchids. Also useful as pot 
plants for late Winter and Spring blooming; for this purpose 
sow in Autumn. 
Butterfly Mixture. Fine bright mixture, free flowering, com¬ 
pact pyramidal plants, 12 to 15 inches. 
SHASTA DAISY, Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum 
It is a hardy plant bearing large white, single blooms with 
handsome yellow centers. They are valuable for border dec¬ 
oration and especially pleasing in bouquets. 
Alaska. Pure white, extra large flowers. Excellent for 
cutting. Perennial. 2 feet. 
SNAPDRAGON (See Antirrhinum) 
STATICE, Sea Lavender 
Splendid plants, either for the border or rockery, producing 
all Summer, panicles of small flowers, which can be dried 
and used for Winter bouquets. 2 feet. 
Rosea Superba. 
Snow White. 
Kampf's Tall Improved. Deepest blue. 
Yellow. 
Mixed Colors. 
STOCKS, Gilliflower 
These popular flowers are easily grown, are so highly fra¬ 
grant, and of such great beauty that they deserve a place 
In every garden. The Early Giant Imperial class are half- 
hardy annuals. Beauty Stocks are biennials, but if sown in 
early Spring will bloom the same year. They are also valu¬ 
able for Winter forcing. 
BEAUTY OF NICE. It follows the Ten Weeks class in sea¬ 
son of bloom. The plants are pyramidal in shape, branching 
above the base. This sort is excellent for bedding and for 
cutting. 16 inches. 
Canary Yellow. 
Crimson. 
Lavender. 
Rose Pink. 
White. 
Mixed. 
DWARF TEN WEEKS. This early class forms dwarf com¬ 
pact plants that are excellent for edgings or low beds. They 
often do well in sections where plants of the later types 
cannot be grown. 12 inches. 
Bright Pink. 
Canary Yellow. 
Crimson. 
White. 
Lavender. 
Mauve. 
Purple. 
Mixed. 
GIANT IMPERIAL. Long stems and imposing spikes of 
large flowers make this the outstanding variety for florists. 
It is about as early as Beauty of Nice and resembles it in 
habit, except that the plant is somewhat less spreading and 
considerably taller. 2 feet. 
Crimson. 
Golden Rose. 
Lavender. 
Old Rose. 
White. 
Yellow (Golden Ball). 
Mixed. 
STRAWFLOWER (See Helichrysum) 
SUNFLOWER (See Helianthus) 
SWEET SULTAN (See Centaurea) 
SWEET WILLIAM, Dianthus Barbatus 
A well known, attractive, free-flowering hardy perennial, 
producing a splendid effect in beds and borders with their 
rich and varied flowers. 
Newport Pink. Watermelon pink or salmony rose color. 
Very beautiful. 
Scarlet Beauty. Rich, deep scarlet. A rare color in hardy 
plants and very effective. 
Single Varieties, Mixed. 
Double Varieties, Mixed. 
THUNBERGIA, Black-Eyed Susan 
Beautiful, rapid-growing annual climber, preferring a warm, 
sunny situation; used extensively for hanging baskets, vases, 
low fences, etc. Very pretty flowers in buff, white, orange, 
etc., with dark eyes. 4 feet. 
Mixed Colors. 
TRITOMA, Red Hot Poker 
A perennial, not strictly hardy, but will live through the 
Winter with a protective covering of leaves or short manure; 
or the roots may be lifted and carried over Winter in sand 
in a cellar. 
Mixed Hybrids. Pkt. 15c. 
VALERIAN, Garden Heliotrope 
Hardy perennial. Pinnate foliage and panicles of flowers 
with odor of heliotrope. 5 feet. June and July. 
Red. Mixed. 
VERONICA, Speedwell 
An elegant hardy perennial plant of easy culture and free 
flowering habit. Of value as a cut flower or for the garden. 
Spicata. Bright blue flowers. 18 inches. 
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