SWEET PEAS (a) 
Sweet Peas do best where the nights are 
cool and days moderately warm. Plant in 
open, sunny location, in deep rich soil, which 
must be well drained. Cover with 1 inch of 
fine soil. Do not water till all the seeds are 
up 1% inch out of the ground, then water 
freely twice a week. If not sown in the fall. 
SOW as early as the ground can be prepared 
in the spring. The varieties listed have the 
largest and best formed flowers, the longest 
and strongest stems and the most desirable 
blooming and growing habits. 
Giant Spencer (Waved and Frilled) 
Ambition. Lavender lilac. 
Amethyst. Clear amethyst blue. 
Brilliant. Rose. Tyrian rose suffused bronze. 
Melody. Golden salmon and pink on cream 
ground. 
Pinnacle. Deep rose-pink. 
_ Red Boy. Bright deep crimson. 
Ruffled White. Pure white, ruffled and du- 
- plexed. 
Smiles. Salmon to shrimp pink. 
Pkt., each 15c 
_ Sweet Pea Collection. One packet each of 
the eight colors 85c 
Giant Ruffled Mixture. Flowers large and so 
much ruffled that they appear double. 
Includes many named varieties as well 
as many other colors of which there is 
not, as yet, sufficient stock to offer sepa- 
rately Pkt. 25c 
THALICTRUM, Meadowrue (p) 
Dipterocarpum. Dainty rose purple flowers 
produced on lacy fern-like sprays. Espe- 
cially useful in informal] gardens and fine 
as a filler in cut flower arrangements. 
4% to 6 feet. May to October. Blooms from 
July to September. Best in partial shade 
and moist ground. Plant out of doors or 
in flats Pkt. 25c 
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VIOLA (a) 
Like small pansies but blooming more freely 
and for a longer time. Do best in full sun. 
Start seed from August to March. 4 to 6 
inches. 
Brilliant Mixture. A new strain that is much 
brighter, gayer, larger, and generally im- 
proved. Far ahead of any other viola 
strain that we have seen Pkt. 15c 
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VIRGINIAN STOCK 
French Forget-Me-Nots (a) 
A hardy annual that can be sown in the 
open ground at frequent intervals through 
spring, summer and autumn. In California 
autumn sowings do best. Blooms in 60 to 90 
days. Dwarf compact little plants. Fine for 
edgings and ground cover. 6 inches. 
Finest Mixture. Small red, rose and white 
flowers about % inch across. 
Pkt. 10c; 3 Pkts. 20c; 1 0z. 35¢ 
VISCARIA, Rose of Heaven (a) 
A single pink-like flower, free blooming, 
making bright clumps in the border. Sow 
in well-drained, loose soil and a sunny or 
half-shady exposure. Fine for edgings, pot 
culture and cutting. March to May for sum- 
mer flowering; September to October for 
early spring flowering. 1 foot tall. 
Brilliant Mixed. Pink, rose, red, blue, and 
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ZINNIAS (a) 
March’ to July. Zinnias are hot weather 
flowers, bright and colorful in the garden 
and without peer in cut-flower arrange- 
ments. March is early enough to start seeds 
in boxes. When the ground gets warm the 
seeds may be sown where plants are to 
flower. Dig a trench alongside the row of 
plants and let the water run slowly for sev- 
eral hours, watering only once a week or 
every two weeks. Cultivate after each irri- 
gation to conserve moisture. Blooms from 
early summer till hard frost. 2 to 3 feet. 
Lilliput or Pompon Type 
Blooms the size of, and resembling pompon 
dahlias. Small, round, compact flowers on 
strong stems. All shades of pink, rose, yel- 
low, lilac, buff, crimson. 
Lilliput Full Color Mixture 
Pkt. 15c; 14 oz. 35c 
Tall Large Flowering Varieties 
Super Crown O’Gold. Pastel tints. The very 
finest large flowered zinnia introduced 
since the original dahlia flowered zinnia. 
Pkt. 25c; % oz. 75c 
Dahlia Flowered 
Huge fully double flowers, resembling deco- 
rative dahlias. 
Canary Bird. Canary yellow. 
Cherry Queen. Very large cherry red. 
Crimson Monarch. Deep crimson. 
Dream. Lavender. 
Exquisite. Light rose. 
Golden Dawn. Golden yellow. 
Illumination. Deep rose. 
Orange King. Large orange scarlet. 
Oriole. Orange, gold bi-color. 
Polar Bear. White. 
Scarlet Flame. Bright scarlet. 
All 15c Per Pkt. 
Group Collection. All 11 varieties..... $1.00 
Gold Medal Mixture... .Pkt. 25c; % oz. 75c 
