98 EVEMTHIMG FOM. THE (GAIROIEM => Flower Seeds 
DIMORPIIOT H EC A or African Daisy 
2185 Golden African Daisy. ( D. Aurantiaca.) An ex¬ 
tremely showy annual of neat branching habit; 
grows about 12 inches high, flowering during the 
summer in continuous profusion. The single, 
Daisy-like blossoms, 2\-> inches in diameter, are 
brilliant orange, with a dark-colored disk, zoned 
black; well adapted for groups or borders; it stands 
the heat finely and produces its pretty flowers 
very early in sunny situations and will continue to 
flower during the summer. (See engraving .) 
Per 500 seeds, 35c.; Pkt., 10c. 
2186 Hybrid African Daisies. In growth and flower 
these new hybrids are like the parent, but they 
vary in color from white to red and tints of sulphur 
lemon and golden-yellow, orange, reddish-yellow 
salmon shades; many are marked with different 
colored zones. Per 500 seeds, 40c.; Pkt. 10c. 
GAILLARDIA, Giant Hardy Hybrid 
2250 These are hardy perennials, compact in growth, and 
produce a succession of flowers summer and fall. As 
cut flowers they last in water for days. The flowers 
are often 4 to 5 inches across, colored in great 
diversity of variations and blendings, including such 
combinations as scarlet with gold edge, blood-red 
with yellow edge, yellow with orange disk, golden 
with scarlet border, pure yellow, - fiery crimson, and 
many others. (See engraving.) 
Giant Hardy Hybrid, Mixed Colors. 
Per 500 seeds, 50c.; Pkt., 10c 
DIGITALIS or FOXGLOVE (Gloxinia-Flowered) 
These improved Foxgloves arc very showy, hardy plants; they are easy to 
grow and produce freely spikes 4 to 5 feet high, well furnished with large, 
Gloxinia-like flowers of various colors, including white, cream, rose, red and 
other shades, all of which have beautiful throat markings, spots and blotches 
of purple, maroon, etc They are more robust than the ordinary garden 
Digitalis, have stouter stems and larger flowers. 
2162 Purple, Spotted. Pkt. 10c. 
2163 Rose, Spotted. 10c. 
2164 White, Spotted. 10c. 
2166 Grandiflora, Yellow. Charming flowers of soft chrome-yellow. 10c. 
2170 Mixed Colors. (Gloxinoidcs.). Per 1,000 seeds, 35c.; Pkt., 10c. 
2180 Monstrosa. A very unique and beautiful type, producing long spikes of 
large flowers of various colors, many of which are beautifully spotted, etc., 
but the striking feature of t his strain is the enormous bell shaped blossom 
that tops each spike of flowers. 
Mixed Colors. .Per 1,000 seeds, 50c.; Pkt., 15c. 
DOLICIIOS or HYACINTH BEAN 
Annual climbers, of rapid growth, 10 feet high, with Wistaria-like clusters 
of flowers, followed by bronzy-purple seed pods. 
2192 Japanese Giant Crimson. Blush, deepening with age to dark red. 
Pkt. lOo. 
2193 Japanese Giant White. Long spikes of clear white flowers. 10c. 
ESCHSCHOLTZTA — BUSH 
(Ilunneinannia fumaria^folia) 
2212 Grows into a bush 2 feet high. Large, cup-shaped flowers, 3 inches 
across, on long stems; the color is bright yellow, contrasting vividly with 
the bunch of golden stamens in the center. Per 1,000 seeds, 30c.; Pkt., 10c. 
EUPHORBIA 
MARGINATA 
or “Snow-on-the-Mountain” 
2235 This native annual is quite 
popular as a garden plant on 
account of its showy appear¬ 
ance* and ease of culture in 
almost any soil — even the 
poorest—if in a sunny loca¬ 
tion. It is of rank branching 
growth, about 2 ft. high. The 
foliage of light green being 
broadly margined with sil¬ 
very-white, giving the effect, 
in miniature, of ‘‘Snow-on- 
the-Mountain.” (See erf- 
graving.) Pkt. 10c. 
•For other varieties of Eschscholtzia see page 120 and colored plate page 121. 
GAILLARDIA, Annual Varieties 
Very showy garden annuals, 1 to 2 feet high. Grown in masses they are 
especially effective; large flowers, 2 to 3 inches across, produced from early 
summer until frost; unrivaled for cutting. 
2255 Lorenziana, or Double-flowering. Large round heads, composed of 
numerous fibrets of crimson, garnet, lemon, orange, etc. Pkt. 10c. 
2260 Mixed Single Varieties. Per 500 seeds, 25c.; Pkt., 10c 
Edition “PICTURESQUE GARDENS” by Charles Henderson '^ti^Z£ remeluinlereslino $1. 00 ^ 
CARLETO N R. BALL, Agrgstologist, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 
