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BUTZER’S SEED STORE, PORTLAND, OREGON 
PRIMULA or PRIMROSE ‘ROMNEYA 
Few people realize the beauty there is in Primroses 
in flower gardens. They are about the first flowers 
that bloom in the spring. Their colors of blue, red and 
yellow and growing from 8 to 12 inches high are one 
of the best flowers for Rock Gardens and along shady 
paths. (Seeds germinate very slowly). 
2668—Auricula—6 in. Flowers in early spring in 
colors of yellow, brown and red. Per pkt. 20c. 
2670—★Primula Veris Coerulea—Dark blue shades. 
Pkt. 20c 
2672—★Primula Veris Kleynii—Rich golden yellow 
shaded apricot, the best yellow on the market. Pkt. 15c. 
2674—*PrimuIa Veris—Red shades. Pkt. 25c. 
2679—Primula Butzer’s Pride—This strain of extra 
large flowered varieties, mixed of wonderful colors. 
We wish to tell you more about these varieties, but 
the space is limited. Pkt. 25c. 
2682—★Primula Malacoides Mixed. 
Pkt. 15c, 2 for 25c 
2685—*Veris Polyanthus Mixed—An extra choice 
large flowered mixed strain. Pkt. 10c. 
—2688—*Veris Acaulis Mixed—Pkt. 10c. 
2691—*Vulgaris (English Primrose)—Canary yel¬ 
low, fragrant. Pkt. 15c. 
2695 — ★Japonica Mixed — Several superimposed 
whorls of flowers on stems 8-24 in. high. June. 
Per Pkt. 15c 
‘PYRETHRUM (Painted Daisy) 
One of the most valuable of our early summer 
flowers. Charming color, and wonderful lasting prop¬ 
erties as a cut flower; flowers in May and June, and 
frequently in August and September. 
2700—Double Pink—Pkt. 25c. 
2704—Double Red—Pkt. 25c. 
2708—Extra Choice Double Mixed—Pkt. 25c. 
2713—Hybridum Double and Single Mixed—Pkt. 10c. 
RHODANTHE (Everlasting) 
A charming annual; succeeds in a light rich soil 
and a warm sheltered situation ; valuable for pot cul¬ 
ture ; flowers everlasting. 
2730—Maculata Alba—White. Pkt. 10c. 
2732—Maculata Rosea—Rose. Pkt. 10c. 
2735—Mixed—Pkt. 10c. 
RICINUS 
Castor Oil Bean (Ricinus)—This has large leaves 
and a tropical appearance. All it requires to flourish 
is heat. It is a quick growing annual, 6 to 15 feet tall. 
Leaves are green or reddish. Commercial castor beans 
are of a different variety. 
2740—Red Spire—The shapely, bushy plants attain 
a height of about 6 feet, with pretty palmate leaves of 
a bronzy green with prominent red ribs and veins, and 
producing through the summer and autumn. Pkt. 10c. 
2743—Sanguineus—Tricolor. Has blood-red stalks 
and green leaves with red veins. Pkt. 10c; oz. 25c. 
2746—Zanzibarensis—Mixed—A very large leaved 
variety, deep green and bronze, growing 10 to 15 ft. 
high. Pkt. 10c; oz. 25c. 
2750—Mixture of all varieties—Pkt. 10c; oz. 20c. 
2755—Coulter! (California Tree Poppy)—5 ft. 
Flowers all summer. Beautiful snowy white fragrant 
flowers. Pkt. 15c. 
SALPIGLOSSIS (Painted Tongue) 
These showy, half-hardy annuals bear beautiful fun¬ 
nel-shaped flowers having dark veins in a ground 
which varies from white to crimson, yellow, orange, 
etc., and intermediate shades. They are easily grown, 
require a light, rich, sandy loam and will respond to 
liberal treatment. Bloom from late summer until 
frost. 2 feet. 
2760—Brown and Gold. 2773—Scarlet and Gold. 
2764—Crimson. 2776—Yellow. 
2767—Purple and Gold. 2779—White and Gold. 
2770—Rose and Gold. 
Price, any of above, pkt. 10c 
2785—Extra Fine Mixed—Flowers of many beauti¬ 
ful shades, finely veined or penciled. A choice mixture 
of large flowering varieties. Pkt. 10c; oz. 80c. 
SALVIA 
Salvia or Flowering Sage—A tender perennial 
blooming the first season from seed and growing two 
to three feet high. The blossoms are borne on long 
stems in racemes or spikes, and are fragrant. The 
plant forms a bunch and blooms profusely during the 
whole summer and fall. 
2790—America, or Globe of Fire—This is the freest 
and most continuoue bloomer; also the most uniform 
in habit of growth, which makes it particularly val¬ 
uable for bedding or planting in lines. Pkt. 20c. 
2793—Clara Bedman (Fireball)—The plants form 
handsome globular bushes about two feet in diameter. 
The spikes grow upright and stand clear above the 
foliage, completely enveloping the plant, and are of 
a most brilliant dazzling scarlet. Pkt. 10c. 
2796—Salvia Splendens (Scarlet Sage)—One of the 
handsomest flowering plants we have for garden dec¬ 
oration. Excellent for filling large beds or borders in 
the garden; continuously in bloom from early August 
until the first killing frost. Beautiful scarlet; large 
flowering. Pkt. 10c; Vi oz. 75c. 
2799—Zurich—A splendid dwarf variety, growing 
about 2 feet high, and is especially valuable on ac¬ 
count of being the earliest to bloom, flowering ten days 
in advance of any other sort. Pkt. 10c; Vi oz. 75c. 
2802—Pratensis Atro-Violacea—Dark violet, 20 in. 
Pkt. 15c 
SANVITALIA 
2807—Procumbens FI. PI.—6 in. Sanvitalia flowers 
are much like tiny Zinnias, being golden yellow with 
very dark purple centers, some of them single and 
others double. The plants grow only six inches tall, 
or rather they are prostrate and spread over the soil 
instead of growing upward. They start blooming in 
June and continue until frost. Pkt. 10c. 
‘SAPONARIA 
2809—Ocymoides Splendens—6 in. A showy dwarf 
trailing plant, producing a sheet of vivid crimson 
flowers. June-August. Per pkt. 10c. 
Seeds—The Kind That Grow—You Can’t Keep Them in the Ground. 
