56 Flower Seed 
Vick’s Garden and Floral Guide 
THE GOURD FAMILY 
The following plants are prized for their rapid growth and their odd-shape 
and highly - colored fruits. They are very useful for covering arbors, ol 
fences, stumps, etc. 
Dish-rag, or Sponge.- When ripe the inside resembles fibrous cloth, and 
is used for bathing, scouring, etc. 
Balsam Apple and Balsam Pear have ornamental foliage. When ripe 
the golden yellow fruit opens, displaying the carmine interior. Each . . 
Benincasa cerifera. Pretty wax gourd. 
Serpent Gourd. 
Abobra viridiflora. Beautiful climber, with delicate foliage, and oval, 
scarlet fruit. 
Bryonopsis laciniosa. Foliage elegant; fruit scarlet, striped with while 
Cucumis odoratissimus. Fruit orange-yellow, fragrant. 
Coccinea Indica. Handsome, glossy foliage, and scarlet fruit. 
IVild Cucumber, Echinocystis lobata. A fast-growing climber, rui 
ning 30 feet in a season. White fragrant flowers, prickly seed pods. . . . 
Momordica Elaterium. Squirting Cucumber. 
One packet of each of the above eleven varieties for 40 cents. 
The following are some of the most valuable of the common varieties. TI 
fruits, when allowed to ripen, can be kept for years. 
Hercules’ Club. Large, long, 
club-shaped. 
Pear-formed. Yellow and green 
cream striped. 
Gooseberry. Small, bright green 
Egg-formed. Nest Egg Gourd 
Orange. The well-known Mock 
Orange. 
Striped Apple. Small, yellow, 
beautifully striped. 
Calabash, The old-fashioned 
Dipper Gourd. 
Sugar-Trough, or Sap-bucket 
One packet of each of the above eight varieties for 30 cents. 
Mixed, per ounce, 30 cents. 
HOLLYHOCK 
DIGITALIS, or FOXGLOVE 
A Beautiful and 
Useful Hardy Plant 
In situations suitable for tall flowers we know of nothing better than the Holl 
hock ; and yet the improved varieties do not grow very high—from four to s 
feet being about the range. New plants are obtained from seed and by dividi: 
the roots. Seeds sown in the summer will give plants that will endure wint» 
The plants may be protected during the winter with a little straw and ev< 
green boughs, or leaves. Biennial. See also Plant Department. 
Hollyhock, Double. Very double and fine, from the best named collec¬ 
tion in Europe, ounce, $1.25. 
New Fringed Mammoth Allegheny. This grand new flower is a 
decided improvement on the old-fashioned single Hollyhock. Flowers 
are single, semi-double, and double, fringed, seldom less than five inches 
and often seven inches across. Perpetual bloomer. Has from two to 
four buds where the old style has only one. All colors mixed. 
DIGIT ALIS—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 
EUPHORBIA 
Heterophylla. Known as *' Fire on the Mountain," “ Mexican Fire Plant," 
" Annual Poinscttia," 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 
Gypsophilas are valuable for bouquet making, either green or dried. They are 
very graceful, and easily cultivated. Should be in every’ garden. All flower 
the first season. G. paniculata continues to bloom several years. 
Muralis. Beautiful, hardy annual; six inches high, forming a dense mass. 
Fine for edgings. Blooms profusely. Flowers pink. 5 
Paniculata. (Baby’s Breath). Perennial. White. Fine for cutting . . 5 
HUNNEMANNIA FUMARIAEFOLIA 
Save a Spot in the Garden for this Beautiful Flower 
This most beautiful plant forms a shrubby bush two feet in height, with 
finely-cut foliage, similar to that of the Eschscholtzia, and produces 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 several days. Seed should be sown quite early in the spring, 
in shallow drills, where the plants are to bloom, as they do not stand trans¬ 
planting ... 10 
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 
plants. Seed sown early in the spring in the house will make fine plants for 
summer bedding. 
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. jo 
White Lady. Large pure white flowers.10 
Giant-flowered. Choicest mixed. to 
All varieties mixed. i° 
IPOMOEA 
The Ipomccas are climbers of rapid growth. Succeed best if started in the 
hotbed and transplanted as soon as all danger of frost is past. 
Bona Nox(Good Night or Evening Glory, Moon Flower). Flowers 
large, white. 10 
Giant Pink Hybrid. A new variety of marvelous growth. Seeds ger¬ 
minate quickly, and plants begin to bloom nearly as early' as those of the 
Morning Glory. The soft lilac-pink flowers are produced abundantly all 
summer and fall. They remain open from about four o’clock in the after¬ 
noon until near noon, of the next day'. The vine branches freely, and 
the foliage is abundant .*0 
Grandiflora superba. Fine, large flowers, sky-blue, bordered with white 5 
For other varieties o/Ipmoea , see Cypress Vine ami Morning Glory. 
