James Vick’s Sons, Seedsmen, Rochester, N. Y. 
Flower Seeds 51 
AGERATUM 
The Ageratum is interesting on account of its neat, bushy habit, and its pretty, 
brush-like flowers, which are produced in clusters constantly all through the 
summer. Seeds may be sown in a mellow seedbed in the open ground, or under 
glass early in the season. Annual. 
Grandiflorum album. A large-flowering pure white variety. The plant 
is of medium height and vigorous growth, and has luxuriant green foli¬ 
age, above which the relatively large flowers of beautiful shape are grace¬ 
fully upheld by long stalks. 5 
Conspicuum. Fine white, x8'inches .. 5 
Lasseauxii. Compact plant; flowers pink ; 18 inches. 5 
Stealth’IJ Mae. A fine, large-flowering dwarf variety; flowers deep 
blue. Ounce, 30 cents. 5 
Little Dorrit. Six inches high and one foot through, covered with a mass 
of azure blue flowers . . . . *. 5 
Little Dorrit White. Same as above, except in color of flower. 5 
Blue Perfection. A new and splendid dwarf dark blue bedding variety, 
the darkest of all blue Ageratums that can be grown from seed. 5 
Princess Victoria Louise. A beautiful Tom Thumb variety, differing 
from all others by its beautifully colored flowers, bright blue with white 
center, the contrast being really exquisite. 5 
Mixed varieties. Ounce, 30 cents. 5 
ANTIRRHINUM Snapdragon 
These showy, half-hardy perennials are usually treated as annuals. They 
grow two to three feet high, and arc covered with bloom. They are easily 
raised from seed sown early in spring in warm dry soil. If the plants are not 
weakened by blooming too much the first year, they will stand over winter. 
In poor dry soil they bloom best and last longest. To produce good flower¬ 
ing branches for the second season, cut back a number of the branches in mid¬ 
summer about one-half or two-thirds ; then new shoots will start out, which 
will be ready to bloom the following season. 
New Giant-Flowered. Fine flowers, double the size of ordinary sorts, 
of a rich velvety texture. 
Bright Crimson; Brilliant; Chamois; Deep Scarlet; Firefly; 
Galathe; Yellow; Rose; Striped; White; ounce, 70 cents; each. n> 
One packet each of the above ten varieties for 75 cents. 
Extra Fine Giant-flowered Mixed ; ounce, 70 cents ; each.10 
Fine Mixed; Ounce, 50 cents ; each. 5 
Queen Victoria. Very large, pure white, superb.10 
Tom Thumb. Very pretty dwarf plants, about six inches high, and of 
the usual colors described above. Mixed colors. 5 
SWEET ALYSSUM 
ALYSSUM 
These are plants which are striking on 
account of their foliage or peculiar inode of 
bloom. In rich ground the plants and 
leaves are of large size, but the coloring is 
apt to be less bright. The seed can be 
sown in the house, in a hotbed, a cold- 
frame, or in a seedbed in the garden, and 
the plants transplanted into place; or the 
seeds can be sown where the plants are to 
stand, if the soil is fine and the spots pro¬ 
tected. They should be given 
sufficient space to develop on 
all sides. Fine in borders of 
tall plants, or for center of 
large beds. Annual. 
Atropurpureus. A fine 
variety with blood-red 
foliage and racemes of 
flowers in erect masses. 5 
(Love Lies 
Bleeding.) Long, 
drooping “chains” of 
flowers. Pretty for dec¬ 
orating. Three feet high 5 
Henderi. Foliage beauti¬ 
fully variegated. Two 
feet. 5 
Tricolor (Joseph’s 
Coat/. Red,yellow,and 
green foliage. Two feet 5 
Sunrise. The most brilliantly colored of the Amarantus family, the 
lower leaves dark maroon, while the top of the plant is a glowing 
crimson-scarlet. The plant grows about four feet high, and takes on its 
most striking colors about the first of August. Seed may be sown out¬ 
doors where the plants are wanted, and plants should be thinned about a 
foot apart. A striking and ornamental plant when placed in front of 
shrubbery. 10 
All varieties mixed. 5 
AMARANTUS 
These small white flowers are delicately fragrant and valuable for cutting. It 
is a good basket and pot plant, and valuable for carpet bedding. In the border 
sow thickly, so as to make a mass. It is desirable to sow the seeds early in 
spring, or even in the previous autumn. To prepare a basket for winter bloom¬ 
ing, sow the seeds about the last of August. If the plants come up thickly, thin 
them out; a dozen plants are enough for a good-sized basket. When out of 
bloom cut back, and they will produce another crop of flowers. 
Sweet. Hardy annual. Flowers small and sweet. Ounce, 25 cents . . . 5 
Benthami compactum (Little Gem). A dwarf, compact, annual variety, 
not over six inches high, bearing its pure white fragrant flowers in the 
greatest profusion during the entire summer. Ounce, 70 cents. 5 
Carpet of Snow. Only two or three inches high. A profuse bloomer, 
showing as many as 300 heads of snow-white flowers at one time on one 
plant. Annual.10 
Saxatile compactum. Perennial, ten inches high, compact habit, golden 
yellow flowers. The popular name is Goid Dust. 5 
AQUILEGIA 
Aqtiilegias are probably known better as Columbines. Thrive well with or¬ 
dinary garden culture, but are quite at home under the spray of a fountain or by 
the water side. The plants are perfectly hardy and form large clumps from one 
to two feet in diameter, and produce a large number of flowers early in spring. 
Seeds may be sown ii? open ground. Plants can be increased by division 
of root. Perennial. 
Canadensis. Our native scarlet and yellow Columbine. 5 
Carnation or Striped. White, with red stripes; double. Eighteen inches 10 
Chrysantha. A beautiful, large-flowered, canary-yellow variety. Excel¬ 
lent. Three feet. 5 
Skinneri. Very beautiful. Colors scarlet and yellow. Two feet .... 10 
Ccerulea. (Rocky Mountain Columbine). Flowers large; sky-blue and 
white. Superb.10 
Glandulosa (major). Dark blue, very fine. 5 
Glandulosa vera. Large, erect, dark blue flowers; pure white corolla. . 10 
New Large-Flowering Hybrids. Large yellow, with orange spurs . 10 
Sulphur yellow, with blue spurs.10 
Nivea grandiflora. Large white,.semi-double flowers. 5 
Mixed varieties, single or double, each.. . 5 
