UNUSUAL ANNUAL FLOWERS 
Here are kinds that will show quick blossoms 
from spring planted seeds. Sowings made even 
as late as July will still give a good season of 
bloom with most of them. Try them for a “dif¬ 
ferent” and more delightful garden. 
NIEREMBERGIA HIPPOMANICA — A lovely 
and dainty thing, with open chalices, sky-blue to 
richest violet, produced in excessive floriferous- 
ness for many months. About seven inches high, 
and through: mounds of blossom-hidden ferni- 
ness. Though usually grown in the garden, it 
will make a delightful pot plant also. Illustrated. 
Pkt. 25c. 
HIBISCUS TRIONUM—Trailing Hollyhock. 
Great ivory-hued cups, violet patched at the 
base, and with golden anthers. The center of 
the plant is an upright, flower-laden spire, but 
the basal branches, floriferous also, trail off in 
half procumbent effect. A quick and handsome 
species of easiest culture. Pkt. 10c. 
TITHONIA SPECIOSA—Here is the giant of 
Daisies, and a row of it is a wall of living green, 
to some seven feet. In autumn come great gor¬ 
geous flowers of orange scarlet, with golden re¬ 
verse. Called the Great Aztec Daisy, being orig¬ 
inally from Mexico. Pkt. 15c. 
MALVA MAURITANIA—Great pyramids of 
splendid bloom all summer long. Large flowers 
of rosy lavender, striped gaily v/ith crimson. 
Always good. Six feet. Pkt. 10c. 
GAZANIA LQNGISCAPA—From wide rosettes 
of pinnately slashed leaves, these green above 
but cotton-white below, spread many great flow¬ 
ers with golden petals, varying, though, at times 
from primrose to orange. The petals are banded 
with wide and precisely serrated rings that may 
be either an autumn brown or the palpable blue- 
black of midnight. This Gazania, will flower for 
many months, even in periods of summer 
drought. Give full sun. Pkt. 15c. 
ARGEMONES MIXED—Great satin-petalled 
blossoms, crinkly and shining, in whiteness of 
new snow, tyrian rose, palest yellow or golden 
orange. The foliage, too, is attractive, rich 
green, holly-pointed, and often with marblings 
of white. Argemone grows from two to four 
feet, likes full sun, and blooms all summer long. 
It withstands drought wonderfully. Pkt. 10c. 
OXALIS SUNSHINE MIRROR—Another name 
for it, equally fitting, is Cloth of Gold. The 15- 
inch plants are mantled in a glorious profusion 
of little bells that glow like molten gold. Easy, 
and flowers for months. Pkt. 10c. 
PARSONSIA LANCEOLATA—Curiously formed 
flowers in pansy suggestion. The two large up¬ 
per petals are richest maroon, veined with vel¬ 
vety black, but the four lower are brilliant crim¬ 
son. Branching plants to three feet or more, 
blooming excessively early and late. Pkt. 10c. 
ANNUAL PUZZLE GARDEN 
A blend of kinds that bloom first year. Many 
really rare and unique sorts are included. Sur¬ 
prise your friends with kinds they do not know. 
Vs oz. 15c; % oz. 25c; 1 oz. 75c. 
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