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“Flower Seeds for Florists” 
MISCELLANEOUS ANNUALS—Continued 
SHAMROCK 
True Irish Shamrock. 38,000 S. Sow Jan. Ist in Carnation 
house temperature (cooler after germination) for 2-inch St. 
Patrick’s Day plants, use 3 or 4 seedlings per pot. Tr. pkt., 20c; 
Y% oz., 40c; 1 oz., $1.35. 
SMILAX 
7800 S. Well-known greenhouse climber. 
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For Snow-on-the-Mountain, see Euphorbia, page 40. 
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 
srown “ 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). 9000 S. Com- 
pact plants with a profusion of cone-shaped fruit that are 
first green, later turning purple and then red. Selected for 
absolute evenness and large brilliantly colored fruit. 
*Christmas Cherry (Hlavecek’s Masterpiece—Ball Strain). 
12,000 S. A uniform, bushy strain without the wild growth 
of the original Cherry varieties. Large round red fruit is 
very freely produced. 
Prices on the above varieties each: Tr. pkt., 35c; 14 oz., 
85c; 1 oz., $3.00. 
Royal Crown. A reselected Xmas Pepper Strain. 
*Patterson Variety. A compact strain of Christmas Cherry. 
Fruit medium sized and freely produced well above foliage. Be- 
cause of its compact growth, well suited for the smaller-sized 
pot specimens. 
Variegated Pepper. Produces attractively variegated green and 
white leaves with long narrow suspended fruits that are first 
purple then red. A nice novelty item. 
Bird’s Eye Pepper. 12,500 S. Of fairly uniform bushy habit with 
small leaves. Produces many very small red berries. 
Cleveland Cherry Yellow. Butter yellow colored fruit. 
Prices on the above five varieties each: Tr. pkt., 35c; ™%4 oz., 85c; 
1 oz., $3.00. 

STATICE SUWOROWI 
The pleasing rose-pink color of this 
“rat tail” type of Statice gives it 
distinctive cut flower and pot plant 
value. 
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New Sinuata or Annual Statice, Lavender Queen. An attractive 
clear pastel lavender with excellent growth. 
*Love Apple. Produces brilliant, orange-red fruits 1% in. across; 
popular recently on wholesale flower markets. An annual shrubby 
plant growing to 3 ft. with long thorny branches of fruit. Deco- 
rative and colorful. Tr. pkt., 50c; % oz., $1.75. 
STATICE 
SINUATA. 350 seed heads per oz. A midwinter sowing brings this 
attractive class into flower in late spring. Flowers grown out- 
doors 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. 
True Blue. Good Blue. 
“Lavender Queen. A very pleasing shade of pastel lavender. 
Fine color and good grower. 
Rosea Superba. Rosy-lavender. 
Snow Witch. A clear white selection from the old Sinuata White. 
“New Hybrids Mixture. A very attractive mixture of all the 
standard colors as well as many new hybrid shades. 
Bonduelli Superba. 350 seed heads per oz. Similar in type to 
Sinuatas but with large yellow flowers. 
Each; Tr. pkt., 15c; 1 oz., 25c; 1 Ib., $3.00. 
Suworowi. (Russian or Rat-Tail Statice). 12,000 S. A very 
useful Statice for greenhouse forcing. Seed sown in Janu- 
ary will produce fine artistically curved rose pink “rat- 
tails” that work in splendidly with center-pieces, etc., in 
late spring. Not suited for drying. Tr. pkt., 15c; ™%4 oz., 
40c; 1 oz.,. $1.35. 

For Perennial Statice, see page 43. 
For Strawflower, see Acroclinium, page 20 and Helichrysum, 
page 27. 



