THEODORE PAYNE 
-Beauty of Nice. A splendid new stock, growing 
1% to 2 feet high, forming robust, well branched, 
free flowering plants. Flowers a soft, delicate pink. 
Pkt. 15c. 
-Queen Alexandra. Similar to Beauty of Nice ex¬ 
cept in color, which is a delicate shade of rosy- 
lilac. Pkt. 15c. 
-Brompton. Biennial, forming bushy plants. 2 to 
2y 2 feet high. Sow seed late in spring. Mixed 
colors. Pkt. 15c. 
I have been growing Stocks for 
over thirty years, and can truth¬ 
fully say that your Giant Perfec - 
tion (flesh color) is the best stock 
I ever grew. EDW. KIRBY, 
Redondo Beach, Cal. Florist. 
Sunflower. See Helianthus. 
Sweet William. Perennial 1 foot. An old fashioned 
flower for beds or borders, producing a great dis¬ 
play of showy and varied colors. Sow the seed 
early in spring, the plants will flower the follow¬ 
ing year. 
-Auricula-flowered. Beautifully ringed and 
margined, mixed colors. Pkt. 10c. 
-Single, all colors mixed. Pkt. 5c. 
-Double, all colors mixed. Pkt. 10c. 
Tagetes signata pumila. A miniature Marigold, 
forming compact little plants 6 to 8 inches high 
and completely covered with flowers, which are 
bright yellow with brown stripe down the center 
of each petal. Annual flowering during the sum¬ 
mer season, very striking for edgings. Sow the 
seed in spring in boxes and transplant. Pkt. 5c. 
Thunbergia alata. Annual climbing vine 5 to 6 feet, 
useful for low fences also for hanging baskets. 
Sow the seed in spring. Flowers white, yellow, 
orange and buff, with dark centers, mixed. Pkt 
10c. 
Tropaeolum canariense. “Canary Bird Flower.” An¬ 
nual climbing vine 8 to 10 feet. It does best in 
California in a rather moist, partially shaded situa¬ 
tion. Pretty pale green, deeply cut foliage and 
canary yellow, fringed flowered. Sow early in 
spring. Pkt. 10c. 
Verbena. Perennial of reclining habit, height 9 to 
12 inches. The plants bloom the first season from 
seed and are unsurpassed for bedding where a dis¬ 
play of color is desired. After they are established 
they grow with scarcely any attention and a small 
amount of water, prefering a sunny situation. Sow 
the seed in winter or early spring in seed boxes 
and when large enough transplant. 
-Mammoth, white, pink, purple, or Scarlet Defi¬ 
ance. Each per pkt. 10c. 
-Mammoth, all colors mixed. Pkt. 10c. 
-Ordinary mixed. Pkt. 5c. 
Viola odorata. “Sweet Violet.” A favorite fragrant 
flower, perennial 6 inches. Succeeding best in a 
rather shady situation. Sow the seed in winter or 
early spring, in seed boxes of good loam mixed 
with some leaf mold, covering the seed lightly, or 
they may be sown in a well prepared bed in a 
shady situation. Violet seed is slow to germinate. 
MAMMOTH ZINNIA 
-odorata. The old fashioned Sweet Violet. Pkt. 
10c. 
-The Czar. A large flowered Russian va¬ 
riety. Pkt. 10c. 
-Princess of Wales. The largest violet in 
cultivation and the one so largely used for cut¬ 
ting. Pkt. 10c. 
Wallflower. An old fashioned fragrant flower; bien¬ 
nial 1 to iy 2 feet. Sow the seed in spring and 
transplant. The plants will flower the following 
winter. 
-Blood red. Dwarf compact plants. Pkt. 10c. 
-Single mixed. Pkt. 5c. 
-Double mixed. Pkt. 10c. 
Zinnia elegans. A favorite summer flowering an¬ 
nual for beds and borders, thriving best in a sunny 
situation. The seed can be sown early in spring 
in seed boxes and transplanted or later on in the 
open ground. 
- Double, All colors mixed. Height 1 y 2 to 
2 feet. Pkt. 5c. 
- Mammoth. Flowers of immense size, very 
double and of the most striking colors, height 2 
to 2 y 2 feet. Mixed colors. Pkt. 10c. 
CALIFORNIA NATIVE FLOWER SEEDS 
Special Souvenir Collection of California Native Flower Seeds. 
Twelve varieties in separate packets, mailed free to any part of the world upon 
receipt of 50 cents, together with my special booklet, describing over fifty of 
the most beautiful California Wild Flowers. 
