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JAMES VICK’S SONS, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
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BALSAM 
LADY SLIPPER. 
This beautiful and popular flower needs no Introduction, but a few 
words may cause some who plant it to treat it with more care than is 
often given it. No plant will give more in return for the care bestowed 
on it, and yet none is more frequently ncg-leeted. The seeds arc often 
sowed in the garden and the plants left to take care of themselves, save 
keeping the weeds from them. This is all wrong, for the young plants 
need just a little of the right kind of nursing. 
The Garden Balsam is a native of India and likes a bright sun and warm 
weather, and our seasons usually are well suited to it. The seeds should 
be sown in the house, the hot-bed, cold-frame, or in a warm, sheltered 
spot in light soil in the garden. If sown in the open ground it should not be 
done until the ground has become warm in the latter part of spring. The 
seeds quickly germinate and the young plants make a rapid growth. 
When they are an inch or two high, transplant the seedlings four or five 
inches apart so that they may have light and air on all sides, and by the 
time they are about four inches high transplant them to their perma¬ 
nent place. 
By this time they will have made numerous roots and they can be moved 
with a small ball of soil attached, especially if watered a short time pre¬ 
viously. In this way they will never feel the move and will go on grow¬ 
ing without interruption. Set the plants at least a foot apart, in soil 
that has been well enriched, and they will branch out in every direction, 
making handsome little pyramids which will soon be covered with flow¬ 
ers. To raise plants in this manner is the perfection of Balsam growing, 
and plants afoot in diameter at the base should be the aim of every one. 
The flowers are of great beauty and variety. — Annual. 
Balsam, Improved Camellia-flowered, flowers very 
large, extra double; superb strain . 2o 
Camellia-flowered, 12 colors, 12 separate packages; each color 10 
Camellia-flowered, Extra Choice White, double _ 15 
Camellia-flowered, "Deep Dlood "Red, very double; ex¬ 
tra fine . 15 
CamelHa-flowered Spotted, very double; spotted with 
white; mixed colors . 10 
Camellia-flowered Spotted, twelve colors, each in separ¬ 
ate package; each color . 10 
Dwarf Camellia-flowered, Spotted, eight or nine inches 
in height; splendid for a border or outside row of a bed . 10 
One package of each of the above seven . 80 
Ca mellia-flowered, very double, perfect form; mixed colors 10 
Double Dwa rf, very double; five inches. 10 
Half Dwarf, eighteen inches in height . t . 10 
Carnation, double; striped like the Carnation . 10 
Solferino, white, striped and spotted with red . 10 
Common Double, occasionally only semi-double . 5 
One package of each of the above five . 40 
BRAOHYCOME. 
The Brachycome or Swan River 
Daisy is a charming flower, which is 
offered in white and blue varieties, the 
blue being the original color, or that 
of the wild plants, while the white has 
been produced under cultivation. The 
plants grow about eight inches in 
height and bloom freely. The 
seeds can be sown in the house 
early in spring, and the plants 
afterwards set out in the 
ground where they are to 
bloom, or the seeds can be 
sown in the ground after the 
fine weather in spring has 
come. This flower is an orig¬ 
inal simple beauty and needs 
no art to heighten its charms. 
Flowers fine for cutting. Give 
it a chance, and you will be 
delighted with it.— Annual. 
Brachycome iberi- 
difolia (Swan Riv¬ 
er Daisy), blue and 
white, separate or mixed. 5 
SWAN RIVER DAISY. 
Campanula 
C a r p a tica, 
perennial, blue 
and white mixed 5 
Med i u m (Ca n - 
t e r b u r y 
Dell), flowers 
large, plant two 
feet in height; 
single varieties 
mixed . 5 
Double varie¬ 
ties mixed.. 5 
CAMPANULA CALYCANTHEMA. calycanthe- 
m a , beautiful biennial variety. See engraving.. 10 
gran diflora, perennial, large, deep blue. 10 
pyramidalis, biennial fine large flower, white and blue__ 5 
CAMPANULA. 
The well known, popular, large, 
bell-shaped flower, known every- 
aihere as Canterbury Bell, is a 
biennial Campanula. 
There are double varieties of 
every color,but though curious, 
are not really so beautiful as the 
old single bell. They 
lose that light trans¬ 
parent grace that is so 
attractive in a flower. 
We never yet saw a 
bell-shaped flower im¬ 
proved by doubling. 
