James 
Vick’s Sons, Seedmen, Rochester, N. Y. 
Flower Seeds 
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PORTULACA 
\ popular hardy creeper, each strong plant covering a space about two feet in 
diameter. It delights in a warm sun and sandy soil, and the drouth in never too 
long nor the heat too intense for this beautiful salamander. It makes a brilliant 
bed on the lawn. The flowers of the double varieties arc like small roses. Sow 
seed in the open ground as soon as the weather is warm, or in a hotbed earlier. 
The plants can be transplanted when in full flower; and in making a ribbon bed 
with Portulaca, wait until the first flower opens, so as to be sure of the color. 
Annual. 
Alba, pure white; alba striata, white, striped with rose: caryophylloides, 
rose, striped with carmine; New Rose, fine rose color; Thellussoni, fine 
scarlet; splendens, crimson ; Thorburni, straw color ; aurea vera, deep 
yellow ; aurea striata, sulphur yellow striped with gold. Each of the single 
varieties.• • • ■ • • • • ■ \ • .. 5 
One packet each of the above nine for 30 cents. 
Fine mixed single varieties, ounce, 50 cents. 5 
Double Rose-Flowered. A perfect double variety, as much so as the Rose, 
and of many brilliant colors, as well as striped. First quality, mixed colors . 10 
Double Rose-Flowered. Seven different colors—crimson, scarlet, 
rose white, rose striped with carmine, orange, yellow—each color . ... 15 
One packet each of the above seven for 75 cents. 
SWEET WILLIAM 
The best varieties of Sweet William are of exceedingly beautiful colors, very 
large and almost perfect in form, with trusses of great size. Treatment as for 
Carnation. The plants are perfectly hardy, and may be increased by division 
of the roots. The colors pass from white to pink, crimson, carmine, and purple ; 
with distinct eye encircled with color differing from the rest of the flower, like 
Phlox or Verbenas. They make very durable cut flowers. It is well to raise 
new plants every year from seed, for old plants become debilitated and un¬ 
sightly, and the flowers decrease in size. 
Wolborn Glory. New. Magnificent large flowers of the most beautiful 
shades. 10 
Perfection (Auricula-flowered). Single varieties mixed . .. 5 
Double varieties mixed. 5 
Dunetti. Single. Blood-red, velvety texture. 5 
White. Single. Constant. 5 
SALPIGLOSSIS 
Grandiflora. This has long been one of our favorite flowers,but has never 
attained the popularity to which it is entitled. Our illustration shows 
its forms and veinings, but nature only can paint its colors. It is a 
splendid half-hardy annual, with flowers of a peculiar richness, very deli¬ 
cately and beautifully penciled. Very effective in the sunlight, which 
brings out the beautiful tints and veinings. Unsurpassed for cutting. 
Plants about two feet in height. Mixed colors. 5 
New Emperor. This variety shows 
a very marked and striking distinc¬ 
tion in habit of growth as well as in 
its flowers. It forms only one thick 
main stem about thirty inches high, 
which is thickly covered with flow¬ 
ers considerably larger than those 
of the old type, and presents acorn- 
pact bouquet, in the various rich 
velvety colors usual to the species 
purple, crimson, scarlet, rose, etc. 
elegantly veined with gold. Mixed 
colors.. 
SINGLE 
AND DOUBLE 
PORTULACA 
RICINUS 
The Ricinus has very ornamental foliage and beautiful showy fruit. Fine for 
the center of a bed, as it gives a magnificent semi-tropical appearance; or, 
planted thick, it makes a fine screen or hedge. Plant seed in open, very rich, 
deep-spaded ground, in a dry situation, as soon as safe in spring. The common 
Castor Oil Bean is cultivated for the oil, and grows about twenty bushels per 
acre. Annual. 
Macrocarpus. Whitish; beautiful. Six feet. 5 
Purpureus. Purple stems and leaves. Magnificent. Six feet.5 
Borboniensis. Very beautiful large green leaves. Fifteen feet. 5 
Cambodgensis. The finest dark-foliaged Ricinus. Leaves maroon; 
stem nearly black; fruit bronzy purple. Five feet .. 5 
Duchess of Edinburgh. Dark purple stem and leaves. Ten feet ... 5 
Africanus hybridus. Fine. Stein and fruit rose. Six feet. 5 
Giganteus. Large, fine, and showy. Six feet. 5 
Philippinensis. Very large, beautiful leaves. Ten feet . . ...... 5 
Ricinus Sanguineus. Blood-red stalk and clusters of red fruit. Eight feet. 
Ounce 15 cents. 5 
Communis (Castor Oil Bean, Palma Christi). Pound, 40 cents ; oz., 
10 cents. 5 
One packet each of the preceding ten varieties 
for 85 cents . 
Mixed varieties of preceding. Ounce, 15 cents. 5 
Zanzibariensis (Zanzibar Castor Oil Plant). New and distinct. 1 he 
gigantic leaves, two to two and one-half feet across, and the great size 
of the plant, surpass any other known Ricinus. The luxuriant tropical 
appearance when planted singly or in masses is matchless. Mixed vari¬ 
eties, ounce 15 cents. 5 
SWEET ROCKET 
The Sweet Rocket is a very hardy perennial, bearing clusters of single 
flowers, which are fragrant during the evening. Colors purple and white. I he 
plant, with fair culture, will grow eighteen inches high. Seed will germinate 
readily in open ground. Sweet Purple, Sweet White, or mixed, each . 5 
NIEREMBERCIA CR AC8 LIS. Tender perennial. Suitable 
for house culture, or may be treated as a tender annual. 1* inc for baskets, 
vases, etc. Light blue saucer-shaped flowers . 5 
