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JAMES VICKS SONS, ROCHESTER, N. Y.
FLOWER SEEDS 27
DIGITALIS — Foxglove.
The Digitalis is quite a stately plant when well grown, with flower stems
at least three feet in height. It is a fine plant for the mixed border, or
planted singly near a walk or drive. The racemes of flowers are often
two feet in length, containing scores of the prettily spotted thimble-shaped
flowers. Perfectly hardy, and seed may be sown in the spring in the garden
and transplanted as desired. Perennial.
Mixed varieties 5
EM MEN AN THE PEN DU LI FLORA
ESCHSCHOLTZIA.
(CALIFORNIA POPPY.)
California Yellow
Bells.
The Yellow Bells of
California, as it is called,
forms a broad bush 18
inches to two feet high.
Each of its numerous
branches is fairly loaded
with bell-shaped pend-
ulous flowers, a half incli
long, and of a delicate
cream color. The flowers
are almost everlasting,
the persistent corolla dry-
ing and retaining its
shape until the seed
has ripened. The seed
may be sown where they
are to grow, in mellow
soil, early in spring, or
as soon as frosts are past.
Annual.
California Yellow
Bells 10
EUPHORBIA.
Euphorbia heterophylla. Known as "
"Mexican Fire Plant," "Annual Poinsettia
Fire on the Mountain,"
and '* Painted Leaf."
Bushy plants three to four
feet high, with highly or-
namental leaves, which
become flared with dark
fire-scarlet, leaving only
a small tip of green. Easy
of cultivation, growing in
places fully exposed :o the
sun, which brightens and
hastens the coloring. It
can also be grown in pots
and then moved about at
pi e a sit re. Interspersed
with palms, etc., the ef-
! feet is fine. Annual . 10
) Euphorbia mar-
ginata, two feet
in height ; leaves
light green and
white margined ;
called " Snow on
the Mountain."
Annual 5
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CLAUCIUM CORNICULATUM. (Horned Poppy leaves
silvery white, something like " Dusty Miller." Hardy 5
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HEDYSARUM. Perennial, scarlet 5
HON EST Y, PURPLE. Lunaria biennis isaplantthat isknownas
Honesty 10
This is California's lately
chosen State flower, now we
known as California Poppy.
The plants grow to about a
foot in height; the leaves are
of a grayish green color, finely
cut and divided. The large,
handsome flowers, two inches
or more in diameter, are
produced in great profusion
all summer. Seeds can be
sown where
the plants are
to bloom. An-
nual.
Eschscholt-
zia, Cross
of Malta, t
Foliage s i 1-
ver-gra y
with large
fl w e r s of
bright yel-
low, with a
broad, dark
orange cross,
in the shape
of the Cross of
Malta ....
Mandarin. 1
flowers, inner
of petals a 1
orange, the on
a very bri
scarlet
Golden West, a new
beautiful variety orig:
ing in California ; c.
light orange yellow .
Rose Cardinal. A charm- eschscholtzia, cross of mai.ta and golden west.
ing variety, producing freely, large intense carmine flowers 10
Orange, yellow, and white, separate colors, each 5
Double Orange 10
Double White 10
All varieties mixed, single 5
GA1LLARDIA.
Gaillardias, known as Blanket Flow-
ers, are good bedding annuals, being
strong, constant bloomers through the m
whole summer. Set plants twelve
to eighteen inches apart. Ha!
hardy. Flowers large and showy
2 to 3 inches across.
G a i 1 1 a r d i a picta
Lorenziana, fine
double variety; heads
two inches in diam-
eter. Annual . . .
Aurora. Double,
red tipped with yel-
low, large fine flower 10
Grandiflora, peren-
nial ; very large and
brilliant flowers, of
richest colors ; crim-
son, scarlet, orange
and yellow; excellent
for cutting: mixed varieties 10
Mixed single varieties,
annual 5
HARDY HIBISCUS,
Crimson Eye. See
description in PlantDepart-
ment. Flowers from seed
the second season zo