James Vick’s Sons, Seedsmen, Rochester, N. Y. 
Flower Seeds 
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the, gourd family 
The following plants are prized for their rapid growth and their odd-shaped 
and highly - colored fruits. They are very useful for covering arbors, old 
fences, stumps, etc. 
Dish-rag, or Sponge. When ripe the inside resembles fibrous cloth, and 
is used for bathing, scouring, etc. 5 
Balsam Apple and Balsam Pear have ornamental foliage. When ripe 
the golden yellow fruit opens, displaying the carmine interior. Each . . 5 
Benincasa cerifera. Pretty wax gourd. 5 
Serpent Gourd. 5 
Abobra viridiflora. Beautiful climber, with delicate foliage, and oval, 
scarlet fruit. 5 
Bryonopsis laciniosa. Foliage elegant; fruit scarlet, striped with white 5 
Cucumis odoratissimus. Fruit orange-yellow, fragrant. 5 
Coccinea Indica. Handsome, glossy foliage, and scarlet fruit. 5 
Echinocystis lobata. Wild Cucumber. A fast-growing climber, running 
30 feet in a season. White fragrant flowers, prickly seed pods. 5 
One packet of each of the above ten varieties for 35 cents. 
The following are some of the most valuable of the common varieties, 
fruits when allowed to ripen, can be kept for years. 
Hercules’ Club. Large, long, 
club-shaped. 
Pear-formed. Yellow and green 
cream striped. 
Gooseberry. Small, bright green 
Egg-formed. Nest Egg Gourd 
One packet of each of the 
Mixed, per ounce, 30 cents . . . 
Orange. The well-known Mock 
5 I Orange. 
Striped Apple. Small, yellow, 
beautifully striped. 
5 Calabash. The old-fashioned 
5 I Dipper Gourd. 
5 i Sugar-Trough, or Sap-bucket 
above eight varieties for 30 cents. 
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ORNAMENTAL GOURDS- 
DIGITALIS—Foxglove 
The Foxgloves are quite stately and highly ornamental plants when well 
grown, with flower-stems at least three feet in height. They are fine for the 
mixed border, or planted singly in half-shady places near a walk or drive. 
The racemes of flowers are often two feet in length, containing scores of the 
prettily-spotted thimble-shaped flowers. Perfectly hardy. Sow seed in spring 
in the garden, and transplant as desired. Perennial. Mixed varieties . . 5 
EUPHORBIA 
Heterophylla. Known as “ Fire on the Mountain,Mexican Fire Plant,’ 
“ Annual Poinsettia,” and “ Painted Leaf.” A bushy plant two to three feet 
high, with highly ornamental leaves, which become flared with dark fiery scarlet, 
leaving only a small tip of green. Easy of cultivation, growing in places fully 
exposed to the sun, which brightens and hastens the coloring. It can also be 
grown in pots and then moved about at pleasure. Annual. 5 
Marginata. Two feet high ; leaves light green and white-margined ; called 
“ Snow on the Mountain.” Annual. 5 
GAILLARDIA 
Gaillardias, known as Blanket Flowers, arc good bedding plants, being strong, 
constant bloomers, through the whole summer. Flowers large and showy, two 
to three inches across; fine for cutting, as they last a long time in water. Set 
plants twelve to eighteen inches apart. I lalf-hardy. 
Picta Lorenziana. Fine double variety. Heads two inches in diameter. 
Annual. 5 
Aurora. Double. Red, tipped with yellow. Fine large flower.10 
Grandiflora. Perennial. Very large and brilliant flowers of richest colors; 
crimson, scarlet, orange, and yellow ; excellent for cutting. Mixed colors 10 
Mixed single annual varieties . 5 
GYPSOPHILA 
Gypsophilas are valuable for bouquet making, either green or dried. They are 
very graceful, and easily cultivated. Should be in every garden. All flower 
the first season. G. paniculata continues to bloom several years. 
Muralis. Beautiful, hardy annual; six inches high, forming a dense mass. 
Fine for edgings. Blooms profusely. Flowers pink. 5 
Paniculata. (Baby’s Breath). Perennial. White. Fine for cutting . . 5 
HOLLYHOCK 
In situations suitable for tall flowers we know of nothing better than the Holly¬ 
hock ; and yet the improved varieties do not grow very high—from four to six 
feet being about the range. New plants are obtained from seed and by dividing 
the root. Seeds sown in the summer will give plants that will endure winter. 
The plants may be protected during the winter with a little straw and ever¬ 
green boughs, or leaves. Biennial. See also Plant Department. 
Hollyhock, Double. Very double and fine, from the best named collcc 
tion in Europe.*0 
New Fringed Mammoth Allegheny. This grand new flower is a 
decided improvement on the old-fashioned single Hollyhock. Flowers 
are single, semi-double, and double, fringed, seldom less than five inches 
and often seven inches across. Perpetual bloomer. Has from two to 
four buds where the old style has only one. All colors mixed.10 
At Prices quoted in this Catalogue we Prepay Postage or 
Express Charges, unless otherwise noted 
DOUBLE HOLLYHOCK 
