66 Flower Seeds 
Vick’s Garden and Floral Guide 
w FLOWER OF SINGLE PORTULACA PLANTS OF DOUBLE PORTULACA 
PORTULACA 
A popular hardy creeper, each strong plant covering a space al>out two feet in 
diameter. It delights in a warm sun and sandy soil, and the drouth is never too 
long nor the heat too intense for this beautiful salamander. It makes a brilliant 
bed on the lawn. The flowers of the double varieties are like small roses. Sow 
seed in the open ground as soon as the weather is warm, or in a hotbed earlier. 
The plants can be transplanted when in full flower; and in making a ribbon bed 
with Portulaca, wait until the first flower opens, so as to be sure of the color. 
Annual. 
Alba, pure white; alba striata, white, striped with rose: caryophylloides, 
rose, striped with carmine; New Rose, fine rose color; Thellussoni, fine 
scarlet; splendens, crimson ; Thorburni, straw color; aurea vera, deep 
yellow ; aurea striata, sulphur yellow striped with gold. Each of the single 
varieties. 5 
One packet each of the above nine for 30 cents. 
Fine mixed single varieties, ounce, 50 cents. 5 
Double Rose-Flowered. A perfect double variety, as much so as the Rose, 
and of many brilliant colors, as well as striped. First quality, mixed colors . 10 
Double Rose-Flowered. Seven different colors—crimson, scarlet, 
rose, white, rose striped with carmine, orange, yellow—each color . ... 15 
One packet each of the above seven for 75 cents. 
SAI.PIGLOSSTS CRANDIFLORA 
How to Grow Asters 
A booklet giving comprehensive 
directions for growing Asters 
from seed sowing to blooming 
time; also diseases and the 
remedies. Price, 10 cents. Free 
with an order for 25 cents 
worth of Vick’s Aster Seed. 
RICINUS 
The Ricinus has very ornamental foliage apd beautiful showy fruit. Fine for 
the center of a bed, as it gives a magnificent semi-tropical appearance; or, 
planted thick, it makes a fine screen or hedge. Plant seed in open, very rich, 
deep-spaded ground, in a dry situation, as soon as safe in spring. T he common 
Castor Oil Bean is cultivated for the oil, and grows about twenty bushels per 
acre. Annual. 
Macrocarpus. Whitish; beautiful. Six feet, ounce, 20 cents. 5 
Purpureus. Purple stems and leaves. Magnificent. Six feet, ounce, 
20 cents. S 
Borboniensis. Very beautiful large green leaves. Fifteen feet, ounce, 
20 cents. 5 
Cambodgensis. The finest dark-foliaged Ricinus. Leaves maroon; 
stem nearly black; fruit bronzy purple. Five feet, ounce, 20 cents . . 5 
Duchess of Edinburgh. Dark purple stem and leaves. Ten feet, ounce. 
20 cents. 5 
Africanus hybridus. Fine. Stem and fruit rose. Six feet, ounce 20 cents . 5 
Philippinensis. Very large, beautiful leaves. Ten feet, ounce, 20 cents . 5 
Sanguineus. Blood-red stalk and clusters of red fruit. Eight feet, ounce, 
20 cents. .5 
Communis (Castor Oil Bean, Palma Christi). Pound, 50 cents; 
ouuce 20 cents. 5 
One packet each of the preceding nine varieties 
for 35 cents 
Mixed varieties of preceding. Ounce, 15 cents. 5 
Zanzibariensis (Zanzibar Castor Oil Plant). New and distinct. The 
gigantic leaves, two to two and one-half feet across, and the great size 
of the plant, surpass any other known Ricinus. The luxuriant tropical 
appearance when planted singly or in masses is matchless. Mixed vari¬ 
eties, ounce 15 cents. 5 
SALPIGLOSSIS 
A beautiful flower, delicate in color , 
and peculiarly rich in its markings 
Grandiflora. This has long been one of our favorite flowers,but has never 
attained the popularity to which it is entitled. Our illustration shows 
its forms and veinings, but nature only can paint its colors. It is a 
splendid half-hardy annual, with flowers of a peculiar richness, very deli¬ 
cately and beautifully penciled. Very effective in the sunlight, which 
brings out the beautiful tints and veinings Unsurpassed for cutting. 
Plants about two feet in height. Mixed colors. 5 
New Emperor. This variety shows a very marked and striking distinc¬ 
tion in habit of growth as well as in its flowers. It forms only one thick 
main stem about thirty inches high, which is thickly covered with flow¬ 
ers considerably larger than those of the old type, and presents a com¬ 
pact bouquet, in the various rich velvety colors usual to the species— 
purple, crimson, scarlet, rose, etc.—elegantly veined with gold. Mixed 
colors. 10 
NIEREMBERCIA CRACILIS. Tender perennial. Suitable 
for house culture, or may be treated as a tender annual, h me tor baskets, 
vases, etc. Light blue saucer-shaped flowers. 5 
