26 MILE HIGH SEED CO. 
FLOWERS 
CULTURE 
A good sandy loam soil supplemented with well rotted manure 
and a small portion of commercial fertilizer is the ideal soil for 
flowers. Flowers will always do better if watered from a small 
trench dug along the sides of the plant. 
DO NOT LET THE GROUND DRY OUT OR CRUST. 
The following symbols are used in connection with each item: 
A—Annuals: The plants live and bloom one season only. 
B—Biennial: The plants live two seasons, often blooming the 
first year when planted early. 
P—Perennial: The plants usually live frm year to your. 
H—Hardy: Plants that are easily grown and resist average 
seasonal extremes of temperature. 
A-H—Half-hardy. 
T—Tender. 
Approximate height of each plant is also given. 
FLOWERS BEST ADAPTED TO VARIOUS USES 
For Cut Flowers Carnation Verbena 
Antirrhinum (Snap Centaurea For Partial Shade 
Dragon) Petunia Balsam 
Aster Stock Campanula 
Calendula Sweet Peas Clarkia 
Candytuft Sweet William Columbine 
Carnation For Window Boxes Godetia 
Sweet Sultan Geranium Pansy 
Clarkia Morning Glory Sweet William 
Columbine Nasturtium For Withstanding 
Cosmos Petunia Drought 
Gypsophila Phlox Candytuft 
Marigold Verbena Cosmos 
Nasturtium For Rock Gardens Four O’Clock 
Shasta Daisy Alyssum Hollyhock 
Stock Columbine Petunia . 
Sweet Peas Carnation Portulacca 
Zinnia Campanula Verbena 
Candytuft Zinnia 
For Fragrance Gypsophila For Climbing 
Alyssum Phlox Cypress Vine 
Candytuft Portulacca Morning Glory 
We offer on the following pages a list of worthwhile flowers 
that are grown from seed. You will enjoy a flower garden. 
Piant one. 
ALYSSUM 
822 Little Gem. (HA)Small white flowers completely cove 
the dwarf compact vlants, which grow ineteartall: 
Wonderful for edgings. Pkt. 106. Bete es pga Cools 
823 Gold Dust. (P-12 In.) Brilliant olden 11 
borne so profusely as to hide the ents PEt. 100. GE, 
824 Alyssum Violet Queen. (HA 
4-In.) Edging plant with a 
color peculiarly its own, being 
of a very pretty violet tint 
much deeper in color than the 
Alyssum Lilac Carpet offered 
previously, does not fade in 
hot weather. Has the usual 
honey-like odor of the white 
variety. Pkt. 10c 
825 Snow Cloth. The pure white 
flowers are so freely produced 
on dwarf plants as to give the 
impression of a .white carpet. 
A, favorite variety for edging. 
While plants seldom grow over 
2 to 3 inches in height, they 
825 Snow Cloth spread considerably. Pkt, 10c. 
