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FLOWER SEEDS 
VICK’S GARDEN AND FLORAL GUIDE 
EUPHORBIA HETEROPHYLLA 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS 
The glorious and showy autumn-blooming Chrysanthemums, so much admired and cultivated, have their 
relatives among summer annuals, which are easily raised from seed. There are many very elegent flowers 
among these annual varieties that would be quite a surprise to those who know the Chrysanthemum only by 
the lute introductions. They are free-blooming, showy border plants, and the flowers are very desirable for 
cutting. Seeds can be sown in the open seedbed, or where the plants are to stand, provided the plants are 
thinned out to eight or twelve inches apart. A little shade, or shade in the after part of the day, is desirable 
for them. Pinch them back until July 15th, to make them grow branching and stocky. 
ANNUALS—Single Varieties 
Golden Feather. Plants semi-dwarf, with yellow foliage. Mixed colors. ^ 
Single varieties. White, dark red, white and rose, brown and yellow, purple, rose, and mixed 
colors, each. ^ 
ANNUALS—Double Varieties 
Double White, Double Yellow, and Double Mixed, each. 5 
Carinatum plenissimum. Foliage yellow. A notable golt’cn-lcavcd annual Chrysanthemum. The 
large and double flowers arc of all colors, the red shades being especially represented. . 
PERENNIALS—Single Varieties 
Seed of Perennial Chrysanthemums should be sown in February or March, in the house. If slightly 
covered, and placed in a warm temperature, they will soon germinate. If the seedlings are pricked off at 
once into pots and placed near the glass, good plants will soon be obtained. By the middle of May they 
may be planted out of doors. For after treatment see Plant Department. 
Marguerite, or Paris Daisy. Elegant bushy plant, one to two feet high. Blooms all summer in 
the garden, and fine for winter flowering. Flowers white, star-shaped. . 
PERENNIALS—Double Varieties 
Maximum filiforme. A fine variety, having long, thin florets of pure white, with yellow disk. Long 
stems; highly prized for cutting .. . 
Maximum Triumph. Magnificent free-flowering variety, with large flowers about four inches in 
diameter. Fine for bouquets.. i 0 
Japanese Ostrich Feather. . 
Early Flowering Japanese (Dclaux). . 
Greenhouse varieties. Mixed seeds selected from a choice collection. . 
For illustrations 0/Double Varieties 0/ Chrysanthemions, see J’lant Department. 
COtLINSIA 
Free-flowering, hardy annuals, the flower-stalks being twelve to eighteen inches in height. The 
flowers are in whorls,' handsomely variegated in crimson, purple, and white. Seed may be sown in the 
open ground in the spring or in the fall. Mixed varieties. 
COB (I; A SCANDENS 
One of the most beautiful annual climbers, of rapid growth, with fine foliage, flowers bell-shaped, almost 
inches across and two inches long. In good soil the stems often grow twenty or thirty feet long and 
cover a large surface. Plants begin flowering when quite young. Put the seed in barely moist earth, edge 
down and merely cover with light soil. Do not water until the plants appear, unless the soil is very dry. 
Purple.10 White. . 
DATURA 
Large, strong-growing plants, with large, trumpet-shaped flowers. Roots can be preserved in the cellar 
like Dahlias. Three feet in height. 
Wrightii. The best single variety; white, tinged with lilac, sweet-scented. - 
Double varieties mixed. 5 
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 
DOUBLE DAISY 
Sow the seed very early. The flowers are abundant in early spring, and may be continued later by the 
use of water. Plants can be removed safely even when in flower. Set about six inches apart in a cool 
border. Perennial. 
Best German Seed, mixed colors.10 
White. Constant.. 
Longfellow. Fine, large, rose-colored flowers.. • • •.10 
Snowball. Of all Daisies grown from seed this is decidedly the best. An unusually large type. 
Flowers perfectly double and pure white, having long stiff stems. Valuable for cutting for bouquets . 10 
EUPHORBIA 
Heterophylla. Known as “ Fire on the Mountain,” c< 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 
EVENING PRIMROSE 
The Evening Primroses arc very fine hardy plants, opening their flowers suddenly in the latter part of 
the day, and making a brilliant exhibition during the evening and early morning. 
Acaulis alba. Dwarf. A marvel of beauty. Pure white.10 
Lamarckiana. Flowers yellow; four inches in diameter. Plants grow four feet in height. 5 
