“FLOWER SEEDS FOR FLORISTS” 
MISCELLANEOUS ANNUALS—Continued 
SCABIOSA 
4500 s. No retail grower should be without a liberal planting 
of annual Scabiosa. Long-stemmed, pleasing colors, and free 
flowering make them valuable. Do very well for spring flowering 
in a cool house or outdoors during the summer where they are 
considerably improved by cloth house protection. Respond 
very well to electric lights in spring for earlier flowering. For 
a complete variety of attractive colors in the large flowered class, 
use our Giant Hybrid Mixture. 
*Blue Moon (New). Received Honorable Mention in the past 
season’s All-American triads. Attractive lavender-blue color 
with extra large fully double flowers and long wiry stems. See 
novelty list page 3 for further description. 
Tr. pkt., 35c; ^/4 oz., $1.25; 1 oz., $4.25. 
*Ageratum Blue. Standard large flowered azure blue. 
Fire King. A bright scarlet. 
King of the Blacks. Deep rich maroon. 
*Loveliness. Extra large flowered deep salmon-pink. First-class 
commercial color. 
Shasta Improved. Fine pure white. 
* Giant Hybrid Mixture. A special strain containing only the 
new large flowered varieties. Well balanced in good cut flower 
colors. 
Tom Thumb. 10 in. Compact, dwarf plants for bedding and 
edging. Mixture of colors. 
Each: Tr. pkt., 15c; 1 oz., 50c. 
For Perennial Scabiosa, see page 49. 
SENECIO elegans 
Double Mixture. (Jacobea). 18 in. An old-fashioned garden 
plant. 
Tr. pkt., 25c; ^ oz., 50c; 1 oz., $1.75. 
For Sensitive Plant, see Mimosa, page 36. 
SHAMROCK 
38,000 s. (Trifolium Minor or True Irish Shamrock). Sow 
Jan. 1st in Carnation house temperature (cooler after germina¬ 
tion) for 2 in. St. Patrick’s Day plants. Use 3 or 4 seedlings per 
pot. 
Tr. pkt., 15c; 1 oz., 50c. 
SILENE 
New Sinuata or Annual Statice, Lavender Queen. An attractive 
clear pastel lavender with excellent growth. 
Christmas Cherry. 12,000 s. (Ball strain). A compact even 
strain, with large, full heads of large round red fruit. 
Tr. pkt., 25c; oz., 40c; 1 oz., $1.50. 
Bird’s Eye Pepper. 12,500 s. Not quite so compact as above 
strains. Produces many very small red berries. 
Tr. pkt., 25c; % oz., 50c; 1 oz., $1.75. 
Royal Crown. A reselected Xmas Pepper strain. Tr. pkt., 50c. 
Miniature Bell. Interesting 1 to 2 in. bell-shaped fruit. Large 
plants. Tr. pkt., 35c; % oz., $1.00. 
Penduia Mixed. 38,000 s. 6 in. Nice dwarf edging or bedding 
plant. 
Tr. pkt., 15c; 1 oz., 40c. 
SMILAX 
7800 s. Well known greenhouse climber. 
Tr. pkt., 20c; 1 oz., 50c; 4 ozs., $1.50. 
For Snow-on-the-Mountain, see Euphorbia, page 33. 
SOLANUM 
To insure an even, first-class strain of this valuable pot plant 
we grow our own seed crop of these varieties at West Chicago 
where we can personally supervise selection and rogueing. 
For well grown 4 in. specimens, sow seed in June, carry along 
indoors. Larger plants must be started earlier, of course. 
Some growers summer plants outdoors in frames, lifting and 
shifting into 5’s and 6’s in Sept.; a 50 deg. house should 
then set them up well for the holidays. 
Christmas Pepper (Ball Reselected strain). 9,000 s. Com¬ 
pact plants with a profusion of brilliant purple and red cone- 
shaped fruit. Selected for absolute evenness and large bril- 
liar tly colored fruit. See novelty list page 3 for further 
description. 
Tr. pkt., 25c; % oz., 50c; 1 oz., $1.75. 
STATICE 
Valuable annual cut flower varieties. 
Bonduelli Superba. 350 seed heads. Similar in type to Sinuatas 
but with large yellow flowers. 
Tr. pkt., 15c; 1 oz., 30c; 1 lb., $2.75. 
Sinensis. 17,000 s. 18 in. Pure white with small canary-yellow 
flowers. Quite attractive. 
Tr. pkt., 25c; 1 oz., 75c; 4 ozs., $2.50. 
Suworowi. (Russian or Rat Tail Statice). 12,000 s. Sow in 
Jan. for a late spring crop of this familiar Rat Tail Statice. 
Tr. pkt., 15c; 1 oz., 60c; 4 ozs., $1.90. 
SINUATA. 350 seed heads. A midwinter sowing brings this attrac¬ 
tive class into flower in late spring. Flowers grown outdoors 
for drying extensively in southern climates. 
* Market Grower’s Blue. Fine even deep blue. Excellent stock. 
Kampf’s Tall Improved. The standard long-stemmed blue. 
Atrocoerulea. Fairly compact deep blue. 
True Blue. The standard blue. 
*Lavender Queen. A very pleasing shade of pastel lavender. 
Fine new color and good grower. 
Rosea Superba. Rosy-lavender. White. 
*New Hybrids Mixture. A very attractive mixture of all the 
standard colors as well as many new hybrid shades. 
Each: Tr. pkt., 15c; 1 oz., 25c; 1 lb., $2.50. 
For Perennial Statice, see page 49. 
For Strawflower, see Acroclinium, page 28 and Helichrysum, 
page 34. 
fTky is it that one grower fails and another reports perfect germination from the saime lot of seed? 
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