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Flower Seeds 
Vick’s Garden and Floral Guide 
ANNUAL LARKSPUR —Delphinium 
Beautiful plants. They prefer a cool soil and season. Sow seed in fall, or early in spring. The 
branching varieties grow two feet high, and should stand eighteen inches apart. The Rockets should be 
thinned to five or six inches apart. The annual varieties are very free bloomers, and produce large spikes 
of flowers, white, pink, rose, light blue, dark blue, and violet. In some varieties the flowers are double, 
in others single. The beautiful plume-like foliage is very ornamental, and the whole series are excellent 
for bouquets and table decorations. 
Double Dwarf Rocket. One foot in height. Mixed colors, ounce, 25 cents. 5 
Double Tall Rocket. Large plant; very showy. Two feet. Mixed colors. 5 
Stock-Flowered. Double. Branching. Fine for cutting. Two feet. Mixed colors. 5 
Candelabrum. One foot in height; flowering late. Mixed colors. 10 
Emperor. Compact; brilliant. Two feet. Mixed colors. 5 
PERENNIAL LARKSPUR 
The perennial Larkspurs are valuable plants. Foliage clean and pretty; habit strong and good ; 
flowering branches of some varieties often four feet high; flower spikes six inches or more in length. Prop¬ 
agated by division of roots and from seed. Sow seed in open ground, early in spring, and strong plants 
will be produced by fall that will flower the next spring, and some of them the first season. 
Formosum. Brilliant blue, white eye. Three feet. 5 
Formosum ccelestinum. (Pillar of Beauty). Celestial blue ; flowers large ; spikes long. Plants 
three feet in height.. 10 
Nudicaule. Bright scarlet; native of California. One foot. 10 
Chinese. Fine. Two to three feet. Blue, white, and pink, mixed (home grown). 5 
Zalil (Hardy Yellow Larkspur). A lovely shade of sulphur-yellow, bearing spikes of forty to 
fifty blossoms each, one inch in diameter. Plants one to two feet. 10 
Large-flowering Hybrids. Three to six feet high. Flowers of various shades; very showy. 
Finest varieties mixed. Extra fine stock. 5 
MARVEL OF PERU 
Also known as Four O’Clock, because its flowers open about that time of 
the evening and fade the next morning. Two feet high, with bright foliage 
and fragrant flowers of desirable colors. Set plants two feet apart. Makes 
a nice hedge if set a foot apart. Seed should be planted in the open ground 
where plants are desired. The roots may be taken up in the autumn and 
preserved through the winter for spring planting, in the same manner as Dahlias. 
Marvel of Peru. Mixed colors, ounce 20cents. 5 
Variegated Foliage. Flowers of a variety of colors. 5 
Long-Flowered White. Sweet-scented flowers three to four inches long 5 
Long-Flowered Violet. Same as above, except in color. 5 
Tom Thumb. Very dwarf. Mixed colors. 5 
MAURANDYA 
Maurandyas are delicate and graceful free-blooming climbers, six to ten feet in 
height. Suitable for greenhouse or outdoor culture, but especially useful for bas¬ 
kets, vases, etc. The flowers are of good size ; colors white, and variousshades 
of rose, purple, and blue. Seed should be sown in the hotbed, greenhouse, 
or in pots in a warm sunny window. Annual. 
Finest mixed..10 
MARIGOLD 
T he African and French Marigolds are valuable for their flowers in autumn 
and can be grown to advantage in little clumps with other plants in the front 
of shrubbery or in the garden border. The African varieties are the taller 
in growth, and produce large self-colored blossoms. The French varieties are 
smaller, some of them being elegantly striped and spotted. The dwarf-growing 
kinds adapt themselves to spots where the taller varieties would be unsuitable. 
Seeds can be sown in a coldframe or in a seedbed in the open border, and the 
young plants transplanted late in the spring to where they are to remain. They 
succeed best in a light soil, with full exposure to the sun. Annual. 
AFRICAN MARIGOLDS 
Pride of the Garden. The immense flowers of this grand variety are 
densely double, and of a beautiful golden yellow color. A notable feature 
is the compact, dwarf habit of the plant, which forms dense bushes fifteen 
to eighteen inches high and two feet across. 5 
Eldorado. Flowers very large, ten to fourteen inches in circumference, 
and extremely double; quilled like a Dahlia; primrose, lemon, orange, 
and golden shades. Plant three feet in height. 5 
Lemon Queen. Large lemon-colored flowers. 5 
Prince of Orange. Large orange flowers... 5 
Mixed varieties. Ounce, 50 cents. 5 
FRENCH MARIGOLDS 
Striped, yellow and brown. . . 5 
Tall varieties mixed. Ounce, 50 cents.5 
Dwarf varieties mixed. Ounce, 50 cents. 5 
Dwarf Marigold Little Brownie, or Legion of Honor. A charming 
single-flowered plant, about six inches high. Very effective in masses or 
borders. Begins flowering extremely early, commencing in June. Color 
a brilliant gold, blotched with maroon. 5 
Gold Margin. Excellent. Flowers velvety maroon, margined with gold. 
Plant only eight inches high, bushy, compact, and free-flowering. 5 
Tagetes signata pumila. A beautiful dwarf pla .t, forming a globular 
dense mass. Fine for bedding or borders. 5 
MYOSOTIS —F orget-me-not 
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Perennial plants, flowering the first season if sown early. Small white and 
blue flowers. Seed may be sown in a hotbed, and transplanted, or in open 
ground in spring. 
Alpestris. Blue. Six inches. 5 
Alpestris Alba. White. Six inches.. 5 
Alpestris rosea. Rose. Six inches. 5 
Alpestris Indigo blue. New, very fine.10 
Alpestris robusta grandiflora (Eliza Fonrobert). Large-flowering, 
of pyramidal habit. Very fine. Blue, with clearly defined yellow eye . 10 
Alpestris Victoria. Sky blue, dwarf, strong-growing, globular, abun¬ 
dant. Fine for pots and cutting . ... .10 
Palustris (True Forget-me-not). Blue, with yellow eye.10 
I r ick*8 Perfection. The finest Myosotis known. Large, bright 
blue flowers, with twice as many petals as other varieties. Plant robust, 
nine inches high .15 
Azorica var. coelestina. Flowers sky-blue.20 
Mixed varieties. 5 
