James Vick's Sons, Seedsmen, Rochester, N. Y 
Flower Seeds 67 
CORNFLOWER ASTER 
Stokesia Cyanea 
This is one of our most charming and beautiful native hardy plants. The 
plant grows about 18 inches high, bearing freely, from early July until frost, 
its handsome lavender-blue Centaurea-like blossoms, each measuring from four 
to five inches across. It is of the easiest culture, succeeding in any open sunny 
position, and is not only desirable as a single plant in the mixed hardy border, 
but can be used with fine effect in masses or beds of any size. We have no 
hesitation in saying that the Cornflower Aster is one of the most valuable and 1 
desirable hardy plants offered. 
Seed, per packet, io cents. Plants, each, 20 cents. 
SUNFLOWER —Helianthus 
Coarse tall plants, from four to eight feet in height, with bright yellow flowers. 
The double varieties produce a very good effect among shrubbery, and when 
used as screens. Sometimes reproduced from self-sown seed. The seeds of the 
single varieties are of considerable value for oil as well as for feeding poultry. 
Globosus fistulosus (Chrysanthemum Flowered'. Best of the 
Sunflowers Very large; double. 5 
Double Green-centered. Large flower, green center when young ; when 
old perfectly double. Five to eight feet in height. 5 
Dwarf Golden. Variegated foliage, five to six feet high. Very effective 
as single specimens. Seventy to eighty per cent, true from seed. 10 
Extra Double Dwarf. About four feet high. Each branch, from the 
ground to the top of main stem, bears a golden flower. 10 
One packet each of the above four double varieties 
20 cents 
Mammoth Russian. Very large. Usually grown for feed. Per pound, 
30 cents ; y, lb., 15 cents : y K lb., 10 cents ; oz. 5 
White Beauty. Most prolific variety grown Per pound, 35 cents ; oz. 5 
SWEET WILLIAM 
The best varieties of Sweet William arc of exceedingly beautiful colors, very 
large and almost perfect in form, with trusses of great size. Treatment as for 
Carnation. The plants are perfectly hardy, and may be increased by division 
of the roots. The colors pass from white to pink, crimson, carmine, and purple ; 
with distinct eye encircled with color differing from the rest of the flower, like: 
Phlox or Verbenas. They make very durable cut flowers. It is well to raise 
new plants every year from seed, for old plants become debilitated and un¬ 
sightly, and the flowers decrease in size. 
Holborn Glory. New. Magnificent large flowers of the most beautiful 
shades. ao 
Perfection (Auricula-flowered). Single varieties mixed. 5 
Double varieties mixed. 5 
Dunetti. Single. Blood-red, velvety texture. 5 
White. Single. Constant. 5 
SALVIA—or Flowering Sage 
The Scarlet Salvias are among the most brilliant red-flowering bedding plants 
in cultivation. They bloom from middle of July to frost. Sow seed early in¬ 
doors or in a frame in time to get good plants to set out of doors the latter part 
of May, or when the weather is suitable. Massed in a bed, or a row or two 
around the verandah, they make a beautiful show. Set plants one foot apart. 
Clara Bedman (Bonfire'. The plants are compact and produce long 
spikes, of which there are sometimes two hundred to a plant, bearing from 
twenty to thirty flowers each. For masses on the lawn or in the garden, 
or in rows along the walks, its brilliant, dazzling scarlet flowers are sim¬ 
ply gorgeous.10 
HurniufJ Hush (S. Splendens gigantea prostrata) 
This magnificent variety blooms eailier than any other Salvia, and the 
flowers are produced in such great numbers that they cause the spikes to 
droop gracefully with their weight, the effect being showy and attractive. 
The flowers are of a brilliant, dazzling scarlet, and borne in endless 
profusion all summer and fall.20 
Alfred ltaguenau . A new dwarf Salvia. The plants grow only 
eighteen inches high, compact, and covered with flower spikes of a brilliant 
scarlet, clear above the foiiage. Fine for massing or for border around 
beds of other plants . .10 
New Golden. Foliage a rich golden yellow, constant and distinct. 
Flowers brilliant scarlet, the spikes large and full, making a striking 
contrast. Plant only eighteen inches high. Two packets for 25 cents . . 15 
Splendens. True; large, scarlet .... .10 
Patens. Flowers of a delightful blue.15 
SWEET WILLIAM 
