Bedding Petunias: Varicties: Balcony Blue, 
Balcony White, Balcony Red, Rosy Morn, 
Single Mixed. Packet, 10c. 
Taller Varieties: Elk’s Pride, deep purple, 
Packet, 25c; Pride of Portland, pink, Packet, 
25c; Double Choice Mixed, Packet, 25c; 
Double Fringed Mixed, Packet, 35c. 
(hA). One of the 
PHLOX DRUMMOND! most beautiful 
and easiest grown of our hardy garden annuals. 
The flowers are produced in large trusses. 
Grows 8 to 10 inches. Requires a sunny posi- 
tion. Bushy, branching plant with linear-lance- 
olate, bright-green leaves. Sow seed in March 
in a rich, moist, well fertilized, light loam for 
best blooms. Blooms from July to October. 
Used as a cover plant in rose beds, in the fore- 
ground of the shrub border, in large mass plant- 
ings in the flower border, or combined with 
Verbenas, Petunias, Gypsophila, Snapdragons. 
Varieties: Rose, carmine eye; Scarlet; White; 
Crimson; Mixed. Packet, 10c. 
(P) 2G 2 to 4 
BHLOACDECUSSATA §f)..tows 2 fo * 
bearing long, dark-green, smooth, oblong- 
lanceolate leaves; great trusses of soft to brilli- 
antly colored flowers of white, pink, salmon, 
scarlet, that bloom from June to November. The 
secret of success in growing Perennial Phlox is 
to keep the soil moist during the dry season, to 
provide a mulch of straw, peat, or of leaf mold 
during winter and summer, and to supply well 
balanced fertilizers, cut down after flowering. 
Combine with Scabiosa, Pyrethrum, Michael- 
mas Daisy, Sweet Williams, Petunias. Mixed. 
Packet, 10c. 
PHYSAL l / Ss (Chinese Lantern). Growing 
to 2 feet, bears small white 
flowers followed by large brilliant red calyxes 
becoming 2 inches long when the plant is in 
fruit. It is a perennial and forms long tuberous 
roots which are not killed by frost and spread all 
over flower beds. The bright red “lanterns” are 
valued for winter bouquets, but the plants 
should be grown only on waste spots where their 
aggressive attempts to occupy the earth will not 
become objectionable. Francheti. Packet, 10c. 
PINKS (Dianthus). (A). Grows from 10 to 
14 inches high, and bear beautifully 
colored single and double blossoms in profusion 
all summer. Blooms are very sweet smelling. 
For best results seed should be sown in flats and 
transplanted when soil is warm. Requires a 
rich, light, fairly moist garden loam well fer- 
tilized. Largely used for borders or massed in 
beds. Excellent for cut flowers. Grouping—can 
be planted in separate beds or with Snap- 
dragons, Stocks, Carnations, Sweet Williams, 
Petunias. Varieties: (Annuals) Chinensis, flow- 
ers produced in clusters, medium sized, fragrant 
flowers with fringed petals. Single Mixed; 
Double Mixed. Heddewigi, velvety flowers, 
Double Scarlet, Double White, Double 
Mixed, Single Mixed. Packet, 10c. 
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POPPY (Papaver). (A&P). Flowers growing 
from 6 inches to 4 feet, according to 
type. Erect plants with usually hispid, coarsely 
toothed pinnafied leaves. Small to globular, 
brightly colored flowers, blooming in spring and 
summer. Perennials are planted in fall and 
annuals in early spring. All kinds require a 
well drained, moderately rich, light loam, and 
not too moist soil. Grouping—effective by them- 
selves or grouped in a mixed border with yellow 
and orange Snapdragons, Lobelia, etc. Vari- 
eties: (Annuals) Shirley, height 1 to 2 feet, 
branching plant with gray-green finely divided 
leaves; fringed flewers, white, through shades 
of pink or deep scarlet. Single Mixed; Double 
Mixed. 
Carnation Flowered, flowers are very double, 
ball-shaped and well fringed. Plants grow 3 to 
4 feet high bearing blooms of brilliant colors. 
Tall Double Mixed. 
American Legion, a brilliant orange-scarlet 
with contrasting yellow anthers. Flowers are 
very large and the plants grow to a height of 2% 
to 3 feet. 
California Poppy (Aurantisca), the true Cali- 
fornia Poppy—color is deep orange. 
(Perennial) 
Elmonte Tangerine, deep orange, grows 2 feet 
high. 
Iceland, grows | to 1% feet, slender stemmed, 
with a tuft of bright green leaves; leafless stems 
bearing single, medium large, delicately fra- 
grant flowers in light yellow, orange, orange- 
scarlet, rose pink. 
Stanford Giant Mixed; Oriental Mixed, 
grows 3 to 4 feet, stout, leafy stems, rough hairy, 
large leaves; very large, terminal flowers, mixed 
colors in salmon, red, orange, pale pink. 
Packet, 10c. 
(Rose Moss). (hA). An ex- 
P ORTULACA ceptionally fine flower for 
dry sunny spots where most plants are unable to 
thrive. A dwarf plant only 6 inches in height 
that blooms profusely from June to August. 
Brilliant colors of red, yellow, pink, white, and 
striped. Sow seed in May, when the ground is 
thoroughly warmed. In sowing mix seed with 
many times its bulk in dry sand. Requires a 
fairly rich sandy loam and the hottest position to 
give the best results. Used on narrow borders 
or on dry embankments. Plant alone. Varieties: 
Single Mixed and Double Mixed. 
Packet, 10c. 
PRIMUL A (Primrose). (hP). A favorite for 
growing outdoors in mild cli- 
mates and very fine for potting, window boxes 
and rockeries. Seeds sown in early fall usually, 
or in early spring. Requires a rich, light, moist, 
acid moderately fertilized loam. Best in a cool, 
somewhat shady spot. Use Ortho Nursery Volk 
