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JAMES VICK’S SONS, ROCHESTER, N. Y 
DOUBLE ROSE-FLOWERED PORTULACA. FIRST QUALITY, MIXED. 
PORTULACA 
The Portulaca is a popular, hardy, creeping annual, each strong plant 
covering a space about two feet in diameter. It delights in a warm sun 
and sandy soil, and the drouth is never too long nor the heat too intense 
for this beautiful little salamander. When everything else is perishing 
for lack of moisture, the Portulaca will give its largest flowers and 
brightest colors. The Portulaca does not like a clay soil nor black muck. 
It makes a brilliant bed on the lawn. There is a great variety of colors 
both among the single and the double sorts. The flowers of the double 
varieties are like little roses. 
Sow seed in the open ground early or under glass. The plants can bo 
transplanted when in full flower, and in making a ribbon bed with Por¬ 
tulaca, we always wait until the first flower opens, so as to be entirely 
sure of the colors. The perfectly double Portulaca forms no seed, so 
that seed must be saved from semi-double flowers, and from lifty to 
seventy-five per cent, of plants from this seed will usually give double 
flowers. 
Portulaca alba, pure white; alba striata, white 6triped 
with rose; caryophylloides, rose striped with carmine; /Mew 
"Rose, fine rose color; Thel 1 usson ii, fine crimson; splend- 
ens, rosy purple; a urea, straw color; a urea vera, deep gold¬ 
en yellow; a urea striata, sulphur yellow, striped with gold. 
Each.5 cents. 
One package of each of the above nine . 35 
Fine Mixed from the above. 5 
Double Rose-flowered, a perfect double variety, as much so 
as the most perfect Hose, and of many brilliant colors, as well as 
striped. First quality, mixed colors . 20 
Double pose-flowered, seven different colors—crimson, yel¬ 
low, rosy purple, rose, white, rose striped with carmine, orange- 
each color . 20 
One package of each of these seven coloi's .$1.25 
RICINUS. 
The R i c i n u s has very 
ornamental foliage and 
showy fruit. Plant seed in 
open, very rich deep spaded 
ground, in a dry situation, 
as early as safe in the spring. 
Fine for center of beds, as 
it gives a magnificent semi- 
tropical appearance—state¬ 
ly in growth. When three 
or four are planted together 
the effect is luxuriant and 
conspicuous. The common 
Castor Oil Bean is cultiva¬ 
ted for the oil and grows 
about 20 bushels per acre. 
RICINUS. 
31ood red, scarlet fruit, one of the best; 
Picinus macro¬ 
carpus, whitish, 
beautiful; 0 feet... 
purple, magnifi¬ 
cent ; 6 feet. . 
Borbonien sis, 
beautiful, large 
leaves; 10 feet. 
5 feet. 
Duchess of Edinburg, dark purple stem and leaves; 10 feet.. 
African us hybrid us, fine, stalk and fruit rose, 0 feet. 
giga nteus, large, fine and showy; 6 feet. 
Philipinensis, very large leaves; 6 to 10 feet. 
10 
10 
10 
10 
10 
10 
10 
10 
Guyanensis nanus, dwarf, only 2 to 3 feet high ; fruit rose- 
colored; flue for outside of groups . 10 
Castor Oil Dean (Palma Christi), per lb., 40 cts.; per oz., 
10 cts. 5 
One package of each of above ten... . 75 
Mixed varieties 
10 
SALVIA 
Salvia, called Flowering 
Sage, grows freely in any 
light, rich soil; from eighteen 
inches to two feet in height. 
Plants should get a good 
start in the hot-bed, and not 
be planted out before the 
weather is warm. Thrifty 
plants may be potted in the 
fall for winter blooming. 
Salvia splendens, 
true; large scarlet... 10 
poemeria na, scarlet 10 
b i c o 1 o r , blue and 
white. 10 
patens, flowers of a 
delightful blue. 25 
SALVIA. 
“ 'Tivas a dainty little flower 
That was sleeping in a bower 
Underneath the spreading branches of the laurel and the pine; 
Where a shadow was in hiding 
Ft'om her sunlight-lover , gliding 
In his madly-merry seeking for his dusky sweetheart's shrine. 
Then the wind came gently drifting , 
And the leafy portieres lifting , 
Darted in and touched the sleeping flower with his magic art , 
When she ope’d her eyes so tender , 
Lighted all the place with splendor. 
And the sunlight clasped the shadow to his palpitating heart." 
—Frederick A. Bisbee, on the Anemone. 
