JAMES VICK’S SONS, ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
FLOWER SEEDS 
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VicK’s “Banner Collections” 0/ Sweet Peas 
THE GRANDEST OFFER. EVER MADE 
20 Varieties 2 5 Cents 40 Varieties 40 Cents 
The following varieties compose the cream of the list, and as these collections were all put tip and packed before the busy 
season we can in no instance make changes. 
Each in a Separate Packet 
A Perfect Rainbow of Colors 
Experience has taught that Sweet Peas should always be grown in separate 
colors, both for the satisfaction of comparing the different sorts and the facility 
of making proper groupings of colors in cut flowers. Oftentimes some special 
color is desired for decorations, and if your Sweet Peas are grown in this way, 
all you have to do is to gather what you desire, instead of sorting them from 
mixtures of many colors. 
We make this offer to enable our customers to grow their Sweet Peas in this 
most satisfactory manner at a cost to them not greater than they usually pay 
for their Sweet Peas in mixed varieties, or at the best a few named sorts. Our 
large collection of forty varieties covers all the most desirable; the smaller, of 
twenty varieties, all the range of colors; so that with either you are sure to 
receive unbounded satisfaction; and if you care to make exhibits at the fairs, 
are pretty sure to gain a prize. 
A booklet with complete descriptions and cultural directions will be sent with 
each order. You can by this work compare the different sorts and post your¬ 
self quite well on the different varieties of Sweet Peas. 
40 Packets, 40 cents. 20 Packets, 25 cents. 
America. 
Aurora. 
Blanche Burpee. 
Blanche Ferry. 
Blushing Beauty. 
Brilliant. 
Butterfly. 
Captain of the Blues. 
Captivation. 
Coquette. 
Countess of Powis. 
Crown Jewel. 
Crown Princess of Prussia 
Cupid White. 
Cupid Pink. 
Dorothy Tennant. 
Emily Henderson. 
Golden Gleam. 
Gray Friar. 
Her Majesty. 
Juanita. 
Katherine Tracy. 
Lady Penzance. 
Lottie Eckford. 
Lovely. 
Maid of Honor. 
Mikado. 
Mrs. Eckford. 
Mrs. Gladstone. 
Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain 
New Countess. 
Prima Donna. 
Ramona. 
Royal Robe. 
Royal Rose. 
Salopian. 
Senator. 
Shahzada. 
Stanley. 
Venus. 
America. 
Blanche Burpee. 
Captain of the Blues. 
Captivation. 
Countess of Powis. 
Crown Jewel. 
Cupid—Dwarf White. 
Dorothy Tennant. 
Duke of Clarence. 
Emily Eckford. 
Ex. Early Blanche Ferry. 
Golden Gate. 
Golden Gleam. 
Gray Friar. 
Her Majesty. 
Katherine Tracy. 
New Countess. 
Salopian. 
Senator. 
Shahzada. 
SCABIOS A - Mourning' Bride 
The Scabiosa is an old 
favorite, and of late years 
has been greatly improved. 
The flowers are borne on 
long, wiry stems, in white, 
yellow, pink, scarlet, crim¬ 
son, and maroon. Beauti¬ 
ful in the garden, and ex¬ 
cellent for bouquets. 
Twelve to eighteen inches 
high. Annual. 
The Pompadour, New 
Double. A remarkable 
improvement in the 
Scabiosa, with florets very 
much increased in size, 
variety, and brilliancy ot 
color, making it doubly de¬ 
sirable for use as a border 
plant and for cut flowers for 
decorative purposes.io 
Double Tall. Mixed colors . . 5 
Double Dwarf. Very pretty 
compact plant. Mixed colors . 5 
Double Yellow. A distinct new 
color, obtained after many years 
of careful selection.10 
Double White (Snowball). Pure white. 5 
Royal Purple. Large-flowered double. Color rich claret . . . ... 5 
TORENIA 
Beautiful annual plants for vases, hanging baskets, etc., or for the flower 
garden. They are constantly covered with a profusion of bloom, whether grown 
out of doors during summer or in the greenhouse in winter. The giant-flowering 
varieties are especially fine, having flowers one and one-half inches in diameter. 
Fournieri. For moist, shady locations. Velvety blue flowers. Plants 
six inches high. 10 
Bailloni. Deep yellow and maroon.10 
GIANT-FLOWERED VARIETIES. 
The Bride. Upper petal pure white; side petals and lower lip pink; 
bottom of corolla yellow. Grand. *5 
Princess of Montenegro. The finest of all the dark colored varieties. 
The leaves and side petals are of a deep velvety indigo-purple, the upper 
petals deep lavender, throat yellow. *5 
Violetta. This is perhaps the lovliest of all. The immense flowers are 
pure white, tinted with a delicate shade of lavender-blue, and having a 
violet-blue spot on each of the three lower sections of the flower.25 
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. 1 he 
plant, with fair culture, will grow eighteen inches high. Seed will germinate 
readily in open ground. Sweet Purple and Sweet White, each ... 5 
SALVIA 
Salvia, called Flowering Sage, 
grows freely in any light, rich 
soil. From eighteen inches to two 
feet in height. Plants should get 
a good start in a hotbed, and not 
be planted out before the weather 
is warm. Thrifty plants may be 
potted in the fall for winter bloom¬ 
ing. 
Clara Bedman (Bonfire). This 
variety is the very best for bed- 
ding ever introduced. The 
plants are more compact than 
others and produce long spikes, 
of which there are sometimes 
two hundred to a plant, bear¬ 
ing from twenty to thirty flowers 
each. The spikes stand out 
stiff and erect, showing clear 
above the dark green foliage, 
completely covering the plants, 
For masses on the lawn or in 
the garden, or in rows along 
the walks, its brilliant, dazzling 
scarlet flowers are simply gor¬ 
geous, and claim the immediate attention of all lovers of flowers. Per¬ 
ennial, but blooms the first season from seed.10 
Burning Bush (Salvia splendens gigantea prostrata). This 
magnificent new variety has extraordinary capacity for blooming. The 
flowers are produced in such great numbers that they cause the spikes to 
droop gracefully with their weight, the effect being showy and attractive. 
The flowers are of a brilliant, dazzling scarlet, and borne in endless 
profusion all summer and fall. 
New Golden. Foliage a rich golden.yellow, constant and distinct. 
Flowers brilliant scarlet, the spikes large and full, making a striking 
contrast. Plant only eighteen inches high. Two packets for 25 cents . . 15 
Splendens. True; large, scarlet.10 
Coccinea lactea. Pure white.10 
Rcemeriana. Scarlet. x° 
Patens. Flowers of a delightful blue.15 
WALLFLOWER 
The c e deliciously fragrant half-hardy perennials should be better known. By 
growing plants in the garden and transplanting to pots in the autumn ; or better, 
by placing plants in pots when taken from the seedbed, and sinking the pots to 
the rim in earth, good plants will be secured for winter flowering in the house. 
Give a cool room and plenty of water, or they may be protected in a coldframe 
during winter, and planted out in May. Where winters are not very severe the 
Wallflowers make most desirable plants, giving plenty of early spring flowers. 
Fine mixed colors, double .xo 
Flowering first season, fine mixed colors, single . . . 5 
