
CALENDULA — ORANGE KING MARIGOLD — ROYAL SCOT 
LOBELIA is a trailing plant with tiny bright blue flowers, very useful for window 
boxes or hanging baskets. 
Annual LUPIN has long spikes completely covered with Pea-like flowers of shades 
of red, blue and white. MARVEL OF PERU or FOUR O’CLOCKS are bushy, 
hedge plants covered with bright trumpet-like flowers, which open in the afternoon. 
The CELOSIAS consist of the Cristata or COCKSCOMB, which resembles a 
rooster’s comb; the PLUMOSA, with long silky plumes; and the CHILDSII or 
WOOL FLOWER which bears large, woolly flower-heads. All of these are varied 
shades of red and yellow. The CLARKIA has blossoms like flowering almonds in 
all colors borne on long wiry stems, while the newer COSMOS are all large, single 
flowers in pink, red and white, on dwarf, rapid growing plants. The CRESTED 
type has an inner crest like an anemone. 
A new and attractive Cosmos is ORANGE FLARE which has rich, green foliage 
and numerous brilliant orange flowers. 
Quite a novelty for winter decoration is ORNAMENTAL CORN, which bears 
ears with vari-colored kernels. 
Beautiful DAHLIAS are easily grown from seed in various forms, but the seed 
must be started early. Many amazing forms and color combinations may be obtained. 
The DIANTHUS or PINK family has many forms and color combinations from 
the HARTWEGGIS, or cluster of florets type, and the CHINESE, with immense 
single and double flowers, to the exotic MADAM BUTTERFLY with its long droop- 
ing petals and the vivid SPLENDENS, a bright crimson with a large white eye. 
DIDISCUS or BLUE LACE FLOWER has umbrels of tiny, bright blue flowers 
and DIMORPHOTHECA or AFRICAN DAISY has glossy, orange-gold flowers 
edged with black. 
Justly one of the most popular of all garden flowers more new forms have been 
added to the MARIGOLD group than any other flower. The familiar AFRICAN 
type with its round balls of orange and lemon and single and double FRENCH 
types with small vivid blossoms in various shades and combinations of orange, brown, 
red and mahogany are being displaced by the more graceful and artistic forms such 
as AMERICAN BEAUTY with its incurved petals and shaggy Chrysanthemum-like 
flowers; SUNSET GIANTS with its tremendous five-inch fluffy, double flowers in 
shades from orange to primrose and EARLY SUNRISE with blossoms of small 
five-pointed florets giving the appearance of Pompon Chrysanthemums. Other new 
forms are the Scabiosa-flowered HARMONY, a maroon red with a central crest of 
golden yellow, CROWN OF GOLD, with crested centers and broad guard petals 
and FERDINAND, a saucy little flower with a neat, round, crested center of golden 
yellow and guard petals of mahogany red. 
GUINEA GOLD and YELLOW SUPREME have broad, loosely placed, fluffy 
petals of graceful appearance and the lovely CALIFORNIA SUNSHINE is a trial 
ground mixture of all the newer shapes and types. 
A delightful novelty is the MINIATURE or BABY MARIGOLD, a compact 
little six-inch plant covered with tiny, bright yellow flowers for borders. 
MIGNONETTE has large spikes of deepest red and a delightfully pleasing 
fragrance. It is splendid for combining in bouquets. Another sweet-scented flower 
is NICOTIANA or FLOWERING TOBACCO, with long, tube-shaped Petunia-like 
flowers which form a beautiful five-pointed star. 
The familiar CLIMBING and DWARF NASTURTIUMS have earned a place 
in every garden, of course, but the new GLORIOUS GLEAM HYBRIDS should 
replace them for their delightful fragrance and the beauty of their overlapping, 
incurved double petals. For borders, the bright and vivid GOLDEN GLEAM and 
SCARLET GLEAM are splendid. 
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