ANNUALS 17 
Annuals 
PHACELIA 
The fiddle neck phacelia (Phacelia tenacetifolia) is 
an annual of easy culture and the flowers are covered 
with bees from morning till night. This plant is na- 
tive to California but has been widely cultivated in Eu- 
ropean gardens as a honey plant, also grown to some 
extent for forage. It reaches a height of about two 
feet, with blueish or pink flowers. A famous bee plant. 
Seed, per packet, 20c; postpaid. 
CALIFORNIA POPPY 
The California poppy is a familiar plant to those who 
have visited the West Coast in springtime. In the East 
it is grown as an annual. It reseeds freely and is eas- 
ily grown in gardens or naturalized in sunny situations. 
The bees visit the flowers in large numbers for pollen. 
It blooms over a long period. 
Seed, per packet, 15c; ounce, 60c; postpaid. 
GOLDEN CLEOME 
(Cleome lutea) 
Golden Cleome or Yellow Spider Flower makes a 
large growing ornamental in one _ season growth. 
Though native to a dry region (the Southwest), this 
annual proves worthy of 
garden cultivation in our 
more humid climate. Given 
cultivation and plenty of 
room, it reaches a height 
of six or seven feet and 
blooms from July until frost 
with a constantly increasing 
number of flower clusters. 
A single plant with plenty © 
of room may resemble a 
young tree with much yel- 
low bloom all late summer ~ 
and fall. It is ideal for background, self sows freely. 
Although this may not be true in all localities, we find 
it one of the finest of honey plants, very attractive to 
bees and other insects, continuing well into the fall 
when there is not much other bee forage. 
Seed, per packet, 20c, per ounce $1.00; postpaid. 
NOTE: Seed of cleomes is perishable and should be sown in the fall after 
the seed is harvested or early the following spring. 
BORAGE 
Borage has long been famous as a bee plant and has 
been much planted in European honey plant gardens. 
It is an annual native to Europe and North Africa. 
Although the honey is dark and not of the best qual- 
ity, the bees visit the flowers so freely that it should 
be included in every extensive collection of honey 
plants. It is a hardy plant, blooming for a long period. 
Seed, per packet, 15c, postpaid. 
