Ross’ Fav 
Nierembergia 
NEMESIA 
* Long blooming annual with large flowers, 
varying from creamy white to deep orange and 
carmine. Most useful for bedding. 11% feet. 
756 Strumosa Suttoni. Pkt., 15c; 4% oz., 50c. 
NEMOPHILA (Baby Blue Eyes) 
An attractive hardy annual, bearing cup- 
shaped flowers about an inch in diameter 
usually in shades of blue and white, often 
spotted with brown. 
757 Insignis Blue. Pkt., 15c; 1% 02., 25c. 
NICANDRA 
757B Physaloides (Shoo Fly Plant). Pale blue. 
Pkt., 15c. 
NICOTIANA (Flowering Tobacco) 
Handsome, _ effective, half-hardy annuals, 
blooming profusely the entire season and thriv- 
ing in all soils. 
758 Affinis. White, star-like flowers, deliciously 
fragrant, expand fully in the evening. 2 to 3 
feet. Pkt., 15c; Ye oz., 30c. 
759 Daylight Sensation Mixture. Rich colors. 
Open all day. Pkt., 15c; 14 07., 75c. 
760 Sanderae Hybrids. New hybrids, compris- 
ing several distinct colors or shades. 
Pkt., 15c; 'g 02., 30c. 
NIEREMBERGIA 
(Dwarf Cup Flower) 
760B Hippomanica. Lavender-blue flowers on 
dwarf, compact plants, 4 to 6 inches high with 
a spread of 8 to 10 inches. Half-hardy peren- 
nial which will winter over if given some pro- 
tection. Pkt., 25c. 
NIGELLA (Love-in-a-Mist ; 
Lady-in-Green; Devil-in-a-Bush) 
The blue or white flowers are half hidden in 
the abundant, finely cut foliage, hence its com- 
mon names. | to 1% feet. 
761 Double Mixed. 
RHODANTHE 
One of the finest everlasting flowers and an 
excellent plant for garden decoration. If flow- 
ers are gathered before they are fully expanded 
and dried in the shade they will retain their 
color for years. 
920 Mixed Colors. 
crimson and white. 
RUDBECKIA (Coneflower) 
To this family belong the favorite plants 
Golden Glow and Black-Eyed Susan. 
923 Hirta Hybrids. Dark bronze to yellow. 
Pkt., 15c. 
924 My Joy. Giant Black-Eyed Susan. Large 
orange-yellow flowers, dark cone. 
Pkt., 15c; 1g 072., 40c. 
SANVITALIA 
940. Double; fine for bedding, borders or rock- 
eries. The flowers are bright yellow. 
Pkt., 15c; ¥g oz., 40c. 
Pkt., 15c; 14 02., 40c. 
All shades of pink, rose, 
Pkt., 15c. 
SALVIA (Scarlet Sage) 
A mass of bloom from late summer until 
killed by frost; tender perennial, treated as an 
annual. Seed should be sown early indoors, or 
in hotbed and the plants set out when the 
weather has become warm. 
933 Firebrand. (Early WHarbinger.) Between 
Blaze of Fire and America in earliness of flow- 
ering, bluish green foliage. 18 inches high. 
Pkt., 15c. 
934 America (Globe of Fire). Succeeds Fire- 
brand in flowering. Medium late type. 16 
inches. Pkt., 15c; 4 oz., $1.00. 
935 Splendens grandiflora. The well known 
Scarlet Sage. 2 feet. Pkt., 15c; 4 02., 75c. 
936 Bonfire (Clara Bedman). Compact, bushy 
growth. Blooms earlier and more profusely. 
Intense scarlet. 2 feet. Pkt., 15c; ¥g oz., $1.00. 
937 Farinacea, Blue Bedder. Compact, deep 
blue. 3 feet. Pkt., 15c; 6 02., 90c. 
938 Zurich. Dwarf, compact, brilliant scarlet 
flowers blooming in July. 12 inches. 
Pkt., 15c; ¥ oz., $1.00. 
SALPIGLOSSIS 
(Velvet Flower; Painted Tongue) 
Graceful, half-hardy annual, blooming from 
August to October. Seed may be sown in the 
house the last of March or in the open ground 
in May. 2 feet. 
928 Grandiflora. Choicest mixed. Extra large 
flowered strain. Pkt., 15c; 4 02., 35c. 
929 Emperor. Mixed colors. New type with 
one thick leading stem; flowers large and dis- 
tinct in their beautiful veinings of gold. 
Pkt., 15c; ¥g o7z., 35c. 
SCABIOSA (Mourning Bride) 
The flowers are large and double, with a 
great variety of colors. Of easy culture and 
blooms freely from July until hard frost. Hardy 
annual. 2/2 feet. 
941 Imperial Giants, Blue Moon. Extremely 
large, well formed flowers with fully double, 
broad, frilly petals, rounded beehive shape. 
Pkt., 15c; 14 02., 50c. 
941A Heavenly Blue. About 18 inches tall, 
free flowering, with fully double 11-inch flow- 
ers. Very early, azure-blue, distinct. Pkt., 15c. 
942 King of the Blacks. Large flowered, tall, 
double, reddish black. Pkt., 15c; 14 02., 50c. 
943 Rosette. Large flowered, tall, double. Deep 
rose, heavily suffused with salmon. 
Pkt., 15c; 14 02., 50c. 
944 Shasta. Large flowered, tall, double. Pure 
white, very large. Pkt., 15c; 14 02., 50c. 
945 Large Flowered. Mixed colors. Fine, 
large, double flowers in a wide range of colors. 
Pkt., 15c; 14 02., 50c. 
SCARLET RUNNER. See Beans—Ornamental 
Varieties. 
SCHIZANTHUS 
(Butterfly, or Fringe Flower) 
Showy, half-hardy annuals, very decorative 
for garden beds and unsurpassed in pots for the 
conservatory. 
948 Grandiflorus Hybrids. Very fine varieties. 
Pkt., 15c; Ye oz., 75c. 
949 Wisetonensis. Containing the most beau- 
tiful shades of white, pink, rose and crimson. 
Excellent for pot culture. Pkt., 15c; 1 0z., 60c. 
SENSITIVE PLANT 
(Mimosa Pudica) 
950 Pudica. Globular heads of small pink flow- 
ers. Tender annual. 1% feet. Pkt., 15c. 
orite Salvia and Scabiosa 
SNAPDRAGON. See Antirrhinum. 
SMILAX 
955. A climbing plant, unsurpassed for its 
graceful foliage and orange blossom fragrance 
of its flowers. Pkt., 15c; ¥ oz., 60c. 
STATICE 
Beautiful everlasting with spreading panicles 
of tube-like flowers that are decorative either in 
the garden or when cut. 
956 Suworowi Pink. Pkt., 15c; Yg oz., 40c. 
956A Sinuata Blue. Pkt., 15c; 14 02., 40c. 
956B Sinuata Yellow (Bonduelli). 
Pkt., 15c; 14 02., 40c. 
956C Sinuata White. Pkt., 15c; 44 02., 40c. 
956D Sinuata, Choice Mixed. 
Pkt., 15ce; 14 02., 35c. 
SWEET WILLIAM 
1310 Annual Finest Mixed. 
Pkt., 15c; Yg oz., 40c. 
STOCK (Gilliflower) 
One of the most popular annuals, remarkable 
for its profusion of bloom, brilliancy and 
diversity of colors and lasting quality of its 
flowers. 
957 Beauty of Nice. Mammoth flowering. 
Delicate flesh-pink, extra large spike. 
Pkt., 15c; Ye oz., 50c. 
958 Mont Blanc. Purest white. 
Pkt., 15c; 1/16 o2., 35c. 
959 Monte Carlo. Canary-yellow. 
Pkt., 15c; 1/16 02., 35c. 
961 Summer Night. Rich deep blue. 
Pkt., 15c; 1/16 02., 35c. 
Perpetual Branching 
(Giant Perfection) 
(Cut-and-Come-A gain 
A perpetual blooming class of branching 
habit; double, fragrant flowers. 2 feet. 
967 Choicest Mixed. 
Pkt., 15c; 1/16 0z., 35c; Ye oz., 60c. 
971 Large Flowered Double Ten Weeks 
Mixed. Seeds grown in the open ground in- 
stead of in pots, therefore cheaper. A good 
range of colors. 11% feet. 
Pkt., 15c; 6 02., 35c; 14 02., 60c. 
972 Double Early Giant Imperial Mixed. 
(Imp. Bismarck.) Pkt., 15c; Ye oz., 50c. 
DOUBLE GIANT COLUMN 
Immense, fully double, close-spaced flowers, 
one 2-foot to 2¥2-foot spike per plant. This is 
a strictly non-branching strain. 
972A Mixed Colors. 
Pkt., 25c. 
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Salpiglossis Scabiosa 
Sy? Annual Seeds 
ROSS BROS. CO., Worcester, Mass. 
