56 
Flower Seeds 
Vick’s Garden and Floral Guide 
THE PANSY is, 
everywhere and with 
everybody, a very popu¬ 
lar flower. Its modest and 
innate sweetness endears it in 
the heart of young and old alike. 
It gives an abundance of bloom until 
after severe frosts, endures our hard win¬ 
ters with safety, and greets us in the early 
spring with a profusion of bright blossoms. 
Pansy seed may be sown in the hotbed or open 
ground. If sown in the spring, get it in as early as 
possible, so as to secure flowers during the early rains. 
Seeds sown in a cool place in May or June, and well 
watered until up, will produce fall-flowering plants. To 
have good flowers, the plants must be vigorous, and make 
a rapid growth, as it will in rich moist loam. Young plants 
give the largest flowers. The old worn-out plants should be 
replaced. If the plants come into bloom in the heat of sum¬ 
mer, the flowers will be small at first, but as the weather 
becomes cooler they will increase in size and beauty. They 
will flower better in mid-summer if planted where it is some¬ 
what shgded from the hot sun, and especially if furnished 
with a good supply of water; but in almost any situation will 
give fine flowers in the spring and autumn. 
Bugnot's Superb Blotched. French strain ; a beautiful class. Large flowers, broad blotches, and 
from the large spots extend delicate pencilings to extreme edge of petals. Seed of our own growing, 
saved from selected plants. Packet, 25 cents. 
Bugnot’s Exhibition. Saved from plants obtained from the grower’s original seed. Packet, 75 cents. 
Cassier’s Giant Blotched. A magnificent strain of the popular Odicr type. Flowers extra large, of fine form 
and good substance. Each petal is marked with a large, clearly defined blotch. Packet, 25 cents. 
Giant Orchid-Flowered. A distinct new race, embracing many rare shades. Packet, 25 cents. 
Odier, or Large-eyed. A superb strain of various colored, perfectly formed flowers, with dark blotches on the petals. 
Very showy. Packet, 20 cents. 
VicK’s Giant Superb Pansies 
For years our Superb Mixture has been unapproaclied; in fact, no 
grower has as yet succeeded in producing a Pansy so fine in color, deli¬ 
cate in penciling and so uniformly large in size as our own. To this superb 
mixture we arc constantly adding the newest ar.d most expensive strains, which 
we know will please all lovers of the Pansy. If you want the best Pansies grown 
get our Superb Mixture. Packet, 50 cents ; tw’o packets, 80 cents ; >4 ounce, gi.25; 
ounce, $9.00. 
VicK’s Peerless 
Comprises the choicest of the standard large-flowering sorts, including many of the 
rare and expensive varieties, such as Bugnot, Odicr, Gassier, and Trimardeau types. 
For immense size, perfect form,ftccdom and durability of bloom, and gorgeous colorings, 
the Peerless stands second only to our New Giant Superb Mixture. For a charming display 
of show or exhibition Pansies you should try at least a packet of Vick’s Peerless. Packet, 
25 cents; *4 ounce, 90 cents ; ounce, £5.00. 
Parisian Large Flowered Striped. Extra large flowers. A very showy strain. Packet, 10 cents. 
