
NORTHRUP, KING & CO..S VEGETABLE AND FLOWER SEEDS 

African Marigold 
Job’s Tears, Coix Lachrymae 2 feet 
A hardy annual ornamental grass with 
broad corn-like leaves and seeds of a light 
slate color. These seeds have medicinal value 
and are used as beads. The leaves are used 
as greens in making bouquets. 
Kochia Childsii, Summer Cypress 
2% feet. This hardy annual, known also 
as “Mexican Fire Bush” is an excellent 
hedge or background plant. It grows into 
dense bush form, very symmetrical and with 
very fine cut, green foliage. After a frost 
the foliage turns a beautiful bronze red. 
Larkspur, Giant Imperial or Base 
Branching, Blue Spire 4 feet 
Annual, with spreading branches, pro- 
ducing fine spikes of dark blue bloom. 
Larkspur, Giant Imperial or Base 
Branching, Los Angeles 4 feet 
An annual larkspur with salmon rose 
bloom in spikes. Excellent for cutting. 
Larkspur, Giant Imperial or Base 
Branching Mixed 4 feet 
The base branching of this variety pro- 
vides many stems to cut. An annual with 
fine flower spikes which are very graceful 
and attractive. 
Larkspur, Tall Double Stock Flowered 
Mixed 3 to 4 feet 
Very popular annual of branching growth 
and with soft green finely cut foliage and 
tall spikes of blue, pink and white flowers. 

An early bloomer staying in flower all sum- 
mer. Excellent for several kinds of garden 
planting and a most attractive cut flower. 
This is the annual Delphinium. 
Linaria, Maroccana Excelsior 
Hybrids Mixed | foot 
An annual commonly known as a minia- 
ture snapdragon. Very charming, free flow- 
ering border plants in bright and pastel 
shades. 
Lobelia Compacta, Crystal Palace 
4 inches 
A hardy, annual with dark stems and 
leaves tinged with reddish brown. Blue flow- 
ers somewhat resembling tiny butterflies. 
Excellent for edgings and rock gardens. 
Lupins, Annual Mixed 2 feet 
A hardy annual which is especially popu- 
lar for mixed borders, beds and for cutting. 
The foliage is a handsome green, leaves be- 
ing in the form of many long narrow shoots 
radiating from a center. Plants are of 
robust branching habit, and the spikes con- 
tain pea-shaped flowers over most of their 
length. Blue, rose, yellow. If spikes are 
picked as they mature, the plants will con- 
tinue in bloom for a long time. Semi-shade 
preferred and seeds should be sown where 
plants are to remain. 
Marigold, African Mixed 2'\4 feet 
A hardy annual of dense, bushy habit 
with finely cut bright green foliage. The 
blooms are large, frequently 3 inches across, 
globular in shape, composed of a compact 
mass of tubular or quilled petals in very 
regular arrangements. Predominating 
shades are orange and lemon. A very satis- 
factory garden flower for summer and 
autumn. Also excellent for cutting, but 
emits an extra pungent odor if stems or 
flowers are bruised. 
Marigold, Collarette or Crown of Gold 
2 feet 
Plants odorless, branching. Annual. Flow- 
ers bright golden orange with crested cen- 
ter and broad guard petals, 2% inches in 
diameter. 
Marigold, French, Tall Double Mixed 
24 inches. A hardy annual of the same gen- 
eral family as the variety above, but with 
smaller flowers borne more profusely and in 
shades of red, brown and yellow. The plants 
are symmetrical, bushy and attractive for 
bedding and edging. Bear flowers over a 
long period. 
Marigold, Guinea Gold 2 to 2! ft. 
An unusual type of marigold, one plant 
producing 30 to 40 blooms of brilliant orange 
flushed with gold. Nearly all flowers are 
double or semi-double and their odor is much 
less pungent than that of other marigolds. 
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