JAMES VICK’S SONS, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
FLOWER SEEDS 
55 
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 
Abrobra 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. 3 
One package each 0/ the above ten, jj cents. 
The following are some of the most valuable of the common varieties. The 
fruits, when allowed to ripen, can be kept for years. 
Large, long. 
Hercules’ Club. 
club-shaped. 
Smallest Lemon. Yellow . . 
Pear-formed. Yellow and green 
cream striped. 
Gooseberry. Small, bright green 
Egg-formed. Nest Egg Gourd 
One package each 0/ the above nine 
Mixed, per ounce, 30 cents. 
The well-known Mock 
Orange. 
Orange. 
Striped Apple. Small, yellow, 
beautifully striped. 
Calabash. The old-fashioned 
Dipper Gourd. 
Sugar-Trough, or Sap-bucket 
o cents. 
HOCHIA SCOPARIA 
Although this is not a new plant, it is so little known, and so attractive in ap¬ 
pearance, that we consider it worthy a place in the garden. It grows two to 
two and a half feet high, with many slender branches pressed close to the main 
stem, and resembles a small, closely-shearedevergreen, the slender foliage being 
light green until September, when the whole plant is a solid mass of crimson. 
Seeds germinate readily, and may be sown in the open ground about the first 
of May. The plants should stand about two feet apart. 5 
KOCH IA SCOPARI A 
ORNAMENTAL GOURDS 
heliotrope: 
This class of plants is one of the finest for cutting, as the delicious fragrance 
of all the varieties is very durable. For the same reason they make excellent 
house plan.Seed sown early in the spring in the house will make fine plants 
for summer oedding. 
Queen Marguerite. Bears immense clusters of large, deep dark blue 
flowers, with an exceptionally rich and spicy perfume. 10 
Dr. Livingston. Fine dark blue clusters. 10 
Louise Delaux. Rose-tinted flowers. 10 
White Lady. Large pure white flowers. 10 
Giant-flowered. Choicest mixed. 10 
All varieties mixed. 10 
HUNNEMANNIA FUMARLEFOLIA 
HUNNEMANNIA 
FUM ARIASFOLIA 
This most beautiful plant forms 
a shrubby bush two feet in height, 
with finely-cut foliage similar to 
that of the Eschscholtzia, and pro¬ 
duces its large tulip-shaped flowers 
on long stiff stems, from August 
till November. The color is a 
clear, brilliant yellow, the petals 
resembling crushed satin. The 
flowers will keep in water for sev¬ 
eral days. Seed should be sown 
quite early in spring, in shallow 
drills, where the plants are to 
bloom, as they do not bear trans¬ 
planting. The Hunncmannia will 
always give satisfaction, and we 
heartily recommend it . . . 5 
LYCHNIS 
To obtain good flowers the first 
summer, start under glass and 
transplant as early as possible. 
Chalcedonica. Two feet 
high, with heads of brilliant 
scarlet flowers. Perennial. 5 
Haageana hybrida. The 
finest of the Lychnis family. 
One foot in height. Mixed 
colors. s 
LI NU M 
Grandifiorum rubrum. 
Briliant crimson flowers, 
an inch or more across, 
and a continuous bloomer. 
Annual. 5 
Perennial varieties mixed 5 
