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Flower Seeds 
Vick’s Garden and Floral Guide 
MIGNONETTE 
Seeds of Mignonette may be sown at any season, so that by having pots 
prepared at different times, a succession of flowers can be secured. Seeds 
sown early in the garden will give flowers through the summer. Plant in a Cool 
place and it will continue to bloom all through the fail. For winter blooming 
keep in a cool room till buds are formed and begin to show, then bring into 
a temperature not exceeding fifty degrees at night. Very few cultivate the 
Sweet Mignonette compared with the many that might show their love for this 
sweet little flower. Annual. 
Sweet, (Reseda odorata grandiflora.) A well-known fragrant plant. 
Ounce 15 cent s. 5 
Grandiflora Ameliorata. A large variety, with reddish tinge to the 
flowers. Ounce 20 cents. 5 
Giant Pyramidal. A mammoth variety. Ounce 20 cents. 5 
Golden Queen. A very fine and distinct variety, with flowers of a golden 
hue. Ounce 30 cents. 5 
Machet. Plant dwarf and vigorous, of good habit, producing large spikes 
of very sweet-scented flowers. Fine for pot culture. Ounce 60 cents . . 10 
Golden Machet. This variety has all the excellencies of the popular 
Machet Mignonette, recognized by all as the best for forcing and pot 
culture. Plants are of strong, compact habit, bearing long massive spikes 
of golden yellow flowers.10 
Allen’s Defiance. Spikes from twelve to fifteen inches long, deliciously 
fragrant. Spikes have been kept three weeks after cutting, retaining the 
fragrance till every bud opened.10 
Goliath. Of all the new varieties of Mignonette that have been intro¬ 
duced within the last few years this is the best and most distinct. The 
plants are compact in habit, with rich green foliage, and the immense 
trusses of highly-scented flowers are borne on erect, strong, stiff stalks, 
surpassing all others in fragrance. It is especially suited to house culture 25 
New Large-flowering Bismarck. Very large, true pyramidal shape. 
Reddish-colored flowers borne on strong stems, well elevated above the 
dark green, slightly crumpled foliage.10 
Parson's White. Nearly white ; strongly scented. Ounce 60 cents . . 5 
New Hybrid Spiral. Robust plant, long spikes. Ounce 20 cents ... 5 
MAURANDYA 
Maurandyas are delicate and graceful free-blooming climbers, six to ten feet 
in height. Suitable for greenhouse or outdoor culture, but especially useful 
for baskets, vases, etc. The flowers are of good size: colors white, and various 
shades of rose, purple, and blue. Seed should he sown in the hotbed, green¬ 
house, or in pots in a warm sunny window. Annual. 
Finest mixed.>° 
MIGXOMTTK 
MORNING GLORIES 
Convolvulus Major 
The old Morning Glory. Annual. One of the most free-flowering and rapid-; 
growing plants in cultivation. The richness and delicacy of the brilliant 
flowers is unsurpassed. The seeds germinate so readily that they can be grown 
in the garden anywhere the plants are needed, and almost at any time. 
White ; white and violet striped ; white striped with rose ; light 
blue; dark blue; carmine; lilac; incarnata, bright red ; atrosan- 
guinea, dark red ; each color.5 
One packet of each of the above nine varieties for 30 cents. 
All the above mixed. Ounce, 15 cents. 5 
New Double-Flowering. Very fine. About eighty per cent, of the 
plants will produce double flowers ; the remainder semi-double or single . 10 
Large-Flowered Morning Glory, Rochester 
This grand Morning Glory is remarkable for the large size and beautiful color, 
of the flower. Vines strong, growing quickly twelve to twenty feet high, with* 
magnificent foliage, leaves measuring from eight to ten inches across, and remain-j& 
ing on the vines close to the ground during the entire summer, blowers four to: 
five inches across, deep violet-blue in tne throat, blending out to an azure-blue,H 
bordered with a wide white band around the edge. The flowers form in clusters^ 
of from three to five, from the ground to the top of the vines.10 
Brazilian Morning* Glories 
Ipomcea setosa. A most interesting climber, with rose-colored flowers* 
from three to four inches in diameter, and leaves eight to twelve inches across.* 
It presents a remarkable appearance, branching in all directions, and intertwin-* 
ing so as to make it impenetrable to the sun’s rays. The large seed-pods, with 1 
short, reddish hairs on the stems, make it unusually ornamental and attractive.' 
After planting pour on scalding water.10 
Imperial 
Japanese Morning*' Glories 
OUR OWN SPECIAL STRAIN 
These Morning Glories have given great satisfaction. Their exquisite beauty 
and enormous size (from four to six inches across), with their innumerable 
markings and shadings, command the admiration of all flower lovers. We have] 
given considerable labor and space to the cultivation and improvement of these* 
large and desirable Morning Glories, and as a result are able to offer a very fine ; 
mixture of choice colors, ranging through white with pink throats, white spotted, 
with violet, white spotted with rose, mauve with white throat, lavender with ^ 
central band of crimson, cobalt-blue with rose bands, violet with blood-red 
bands, crimson with carmine bands, and purple with maroon bands. The vines; 
are strong and robust, attaining a height of thirty to fifty feet. The foliage is 
large and finely cut ; somet’nics•plain green, and occasionally green beautifully 
mottled with creamy buff. Sold in mixed colors only. Ounce, 50 cents . 10 
MARVEL OF PERU 
Also known as Four O’Clock, because its^flowers open about that time of 
the evening and fade the next morning. Two feet high, with bright foliage and 
fragrant flowers of desirable colors. Set plants two feet apart. Makes a nice 
hedge if set a foot apart. Seed should be planted in the open ground where 
plants are desired. The roots may be taken up in the autumn and preserved 
through the winter for spring planting, in the same manner as Dahlias. 
Marvel of Peru. Mixed colors, ounce 20cents. 5 
Variegated Foliage. Flowers of a variety of colors. 5 
Long-Flowered White. Sweet-scented flowers three to four inches long 5 
Long-Flowered Violet. Same as above, except in color. 5 
Tom Thumb. Very dwarf. Mixed colors. 5 
MYOvSOTIvS Forget-me-not 
Perennial plants, flowering the first season if sown early. Small white and 
blue flowers. Seed may be sown in a hotbed, and transplanted, or in open 
ground in spring. 
Alpestris. Blue. Six inches. 5 
Alpestris Alba. White. Six inches. 5 
Alpestris rosea. Rose. Six inches. 5 
Alpestris Indigo blue. New, very fine. 
Alpestris robusta grandiflora (Eliza Fonroberf. Large-flowering, 
of pyramidal habit. Very fine. Blue, with clearly defined yellow eye . 10 
Alpestris Victoria. Sky blue, dwarf, strong-growing, globular, abun¬ 
dant. Fine for pots and cutting ... .10 
Palustris 'True Forget-me-not . Blue, with yellow eye.10 
I'/VA ;*# Perfection. The finest Myosotis known. Large, bright 
blue flowers, with twice as many petals as other varieties. Plant robust, 
nine inches hich . *5 
Azorica var. coelestina. Flowers sky-blue.20 
Mixed varieties. 5 
