James Vick’s Sons, Seedsmen, Rochester, N. Y. 
Flower Seeds 
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Vick’s Superb Pansies 
T HE PANSY is, everywhere and with everybody, a very popular flower. Its 
modest and innate sweetness endear it to the hearts of young and old alike. It gives 
an abundance of bloom until after severe frosts, endures our hard winters with 
safety, and greets us in the early spring with a profusion of bright blossoms. Pansy 
seed may be sown in the hotbed or open ground. If sown in the spring, get it in as 
early’as possible, so as to secure flowers during the early rains. Seeds sown in a cool 
place in May or June, and well watered until up, will produce fall-flowering plants. 
To have good flowers, the plants must be vigorous and make a rapid growth, as they will 
in rich moist loam. Young plants give the largest flowers. The old worn-out plants 
should be replaced. If the plants come into bloom in the heat of summer, the flowers 
will be small at first, but as the weather becomes cooler they will increase in size 
and beauty. They will flower better in mid-summer if planted where somewhat shaded 
from the hot sun, and especially if furnished with a good supply of water; but in 
almost any situation will give fine flowers in the spring and autumn. 
Vick’s Giant Superb Pansies 
For years our Superb Mixture has been unapproaclied; in fact, no grower 
has as yet succeeded in producing a Pansy so fine in color, delicate in penciling and 
so uniformly large in size as our own. To this superb mixture we are constantly 
adding the newest ar.d most expensive strains, which we know will please all lovers of 
the Pansy. Ifyou want the best Pansies grown, get our Superb Mixture. Packet, 50 
cents ; two packets,80 cents ; J4 ounce, $1.25 ; ounce, $9.00. 
Vick’s Peerless Pansies 
Comprise the choicest of the standard large-flowering sorts, including many of 
the rare and expensive varieties, such as Bugnot, Odier, Gassier, and Trimardeau 
ypes. For immense size, perfect form,freedom and durability of bloom, and gorgeous 
colorings, the Peerless stands second only to our New Giant Superb Mixture. For a 
charming display of show or exhibition Pansies you should try at least a packet of 
Vick’s Peerless. Packet 25 cents; two packets, 40 cents; J 4 ounce, 90 cents; 
ounce, $5.00. 
Bugnot’s Superb Blotched. French strain ; a beautiful class. Large flowers, broad 
blotches, and from the large spots extend delicate penci lines to extreme edge of petals. 
Seed of our own growing, saved from selected plants. Packet, 25 cents. 
Bugnot’s Exhibition. Saved from plants obtained from the growers’ original seed. 
Packet, 75 cents. 
Cassier’s Giant Blotched. A magnificent strain of the popular Odier type Flowers 
extra large, of fine form and good substance. Each petal is marked with a large, 
clearly’defined blotch. Packet, 25 cents. 
Giant Orchid-Flowered. A distinct new race, embracing many’ rare shades. Packet, 
25 cents. 
Odier, or Large-eyed. A superb strain of various colored, perfectly formed flowers, 
with dark blotches on the petals. Very showy. Packet, 20 cents. 
Parisian Large Flowered Striped. Extra large flowers. A very showy strain 
Packet, 15 cents. 
President Carnot. A strikingly beautiful variety. Petals pure white with a deep 
violtt blotch Packet, 20 cents. 
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