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Pansy, Super Swiss | 
NICOTIANA 
Flowering Tobacco. A very desirable, easily grown annual, making wonderful showy displays from 
June until frost. Sown outdoors in May and thinned to stand 9 inches apart, it thrives In rich soil 
and full sun. The flowers open toward evening, when they scent the air with delightful perfume. 
Affinis, White. Pkt. 10c; Woz. 25c; oz. 75; IIb. $2.25 
Pure white flowers, not unlike a Petunia, but with a longer tube and held in clusters on 21% to 3-foot plants. 
Affinis Hybrids. Pkt. 10c; 140z. 25c; 02. 65c; Ib. $2 
Clusters of sweet-scented trumpet flowers in shades of pink, red, blue, and pure white. Height 3 feet. 
Crimson Bedder. Pkt. 15c; Woz. 35c; oz. 65c; oz. $2 
This is a dwarf variety with clusters of bright pale crimson flowers on large-leaved plants, 15 inches high. 
NIEREMBERGIA 
Cup Flower. With the exception of Zinnia linearis, this will outbloom any other flower if properly 
grown. Fine for pot culture if started in early January, or for bedding plants if started in February. 
Hippomanica. Pkt. 20c; 1/128 0z. 40c; #702. 75c; woz. $1.25; 7,07. $2.25; léoz. $3.75 
The dwarf, compact plants, 6 inches high and 9 inches across, are literally covered with hundreds of blooms from 
15 weeks after sowing right up until frost. The foliage is light gray-green and very inconspicuous. The lavender- 
blue, yellow-centered, cup-shaped flowers are very attractive throughout the season. As It Is a half-hardy perennial 
it should be cut back and protected in winter. Is fine for edgings, borders, window-boxes and rock-gardens. 
Purple Robe. Pkt. 20c; Tr. Pkt. 55c; soz. $1; y0z. $3 
All-America Winner. A fine deep violet-purple resembling Hippomanica but the color does not fade 
even in hot summer. The 6-inch plants, 10 inches across, bloom very freely beginning 15 weeks from 
seed including the 3-week germinating period. Much admired as edging or rock-garden plants. 
NIGELLA 
Love-in-a-Mist. A fine annual for bedding and borders, but particularly as a cut-flower. It blooms 
from May to September and the seed may be sown outdoors in April. 
Miss Jekyll. Pkt. 10c; Yoz. 45c; Woz. 75c; oz. $1.25 
Bushy plants, 114 feet high, with slender, mist-like foliage and clear cornflower-blue flowers on long stems. 
PANSY 
These are strictly biennials, but as they flower easily the first season from seed they are often started 
indoors in February or March to bloom outdoors from July on. Most plants are grown from seed sown 
in frames during July and August, transplanted later and wintered over with protection, to give full- 
flowering plants by the following May. If Pansy seed Is sown in the garden bed in May, some beautiful 
flowers are produced on the plants by fall of the same year. They like a rich, loamy soi! and full sun. 
America. Pkt. 25c; -;0z. 85c; Moz. $1.60; 140z. $3; oz. $10; 14Ib. $35 
This is a special florists’ stram and meets the demand for very large flowers in lighter, brighter colors. 
The plants are strong and vigorous, yet compact and stocky. The flowers, of good substance, come 
extra early in an attractive array of bright color combinations and variations with different markings. 
Dwarf Swiss Giants. Pkt. 25c; j50z. 85c; Yoz. $1.60; oz. $3; oz. $10; Vlb. $35 
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All-America Winner. This strain has dwarfer, more compact plants than the regular Swiss Giants, but the flowers 
are large and come in the same range of colors as the original strain. These do quite well on muck soils. 
Engelmann’s Giant. . Pkt. 25c; soz. $1.15; Moz. $2.15; Moz. $4; oz. $13.75; M4Ib. $48 
This strain is very vigorous growing, compact, and early flowering. It produces very huge, well-formed 
flowers in a great variety of shades, both dark and light, all of the blotched type. Very fme. 
Forbes Big Beauties. _ Pkt. 25c; yg0z. 85c; Yoz. $1.60; 4oz. $3; oz. $10; 14Ib. $35; Ib. $120 
These are enormous flowers, often 4 inches across, with perfectly round, overlappmg petals, on strong 
stalks, above stocky, compact plants of great vigor. The wonderful array of co'ors mcludes bronze 
silver, gold and copper—wine-red, pink, salmon, silver-gray, brown, Indian red, steel blue, dark blue, 
and a good percentage of rich yellow. The blooms are beautifully blotched, mottled and bordered. 
Improved Swiss Giants. Pkt. 25c: +-0z. 70c: % 
; ; poz. 70c; Koz. $1.30; 1goz. $2.40; oz. $8.50; 44Ib. $30 
‘he flowers of this strain are enormous, from 3 to 4 inches across, well rounded, with overlapping eae xiok 
rich, velvety texture, and are held on strong stems above the luxuriant foliage. ‘The superb colors and color éoris 
binations—salmons, yellows, pinks, rich reds and blues—are their distinctive feature. 
Maple Leaf Giants. Pkt. 25c; ys0z. $1; Ygoz. $1.90; 140z. $3.50; oz. $12; Ib. $42.50 
das Se are Sh ongs heavy growth, with large leaves, and produce flowers of gigantic size, over 4 inches across 
of perfectly round form and heavy substance. They come in many attractive colors and color combinations. : 
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