. Orient.\l Poppy Portulaca (Sun Plant) One of our showiest annual plants, of easy culture, thriving best in light loam or sandy soil and exposed sunny situation; the flowers are of the richest colors. Fine for massing in beds, edgings or rock-work, and frequently used to sow broadcast over sunny banks, etc. Seed should not be sown until the weather is fairly warm and it is well to mix the seed with three or four times its bulk of dry sand or soil, which per- mits an even and easy distribution of the seed; 6 inches. per pkt. 3770 Single Mixed. A fine mixture of all colors. Per f oz., 25 cts.;
. Orient.\l Poppy Portulaca (Sun Plant) One of our showiest annual plants, of easy culture, thriving best in light loam or sandy soil and exposed sunny situation; the flowers are of the richest colors. Fine for massing in beds, edgings or rock-work, and frequently used to sow broadcast over sunny banks, etc. Seed should not be sown until the weather is fairly warm and it is well to mix the seed with three or four times its bulk of dry sand or soil, which per- mits an even and easy distribution of the seed; 6 inches. per pkt. 3770 Single Mixed. A fine mixture of all colors. Per f oz., 25 cts.; 75 cts $0 1" 3760 Double Mixed. A good percentage of the flowers will come perfectly double, of the most brilliant colors. Any singles. which usually come into bloom first, can be pulled out and a cutting from a double flowering plant put in to fill the space. i oz., 75 cts.; oz., 10 P. aureum is the well-known Golden Feather so much used for edging, carpet bedding, etc., while the others are most attractive hardy plants. 3841 Aureum (Golden Feather). Yellow foliage; 1 foot. Per j oz., 25 cts 3846 Hybridum, Single Mixed. Hardy perennial, bearing large daisy-like flowers, ranging in color from white to deep red, with bright yellow centres; blooms in May and June, and again in the fall; and is one of the most graceful and long- lasting cut flowers; 2 feet. (See cut on page 107.) Per j oz., 75 cts 3847 Hybridum Grandiflorum. A large flowering form of the above: mixed colors: 2 feet, i oz., $ 3845 Hybridum Fl. PI. Seed saved from the finest double flowers; only a small percentage can be expected to come double the first year; mixed colors; 2 feet oz., 40 cts $0 10 — Oriflamme. A gorgeous orange-scar- let; very large 15 — Princess Vic- toria. A beautiful salmony-pink 15 3750 Oriental Mixed Hybrids. Saved from a large number of named sorts, em- bracing all of the col- ors. J oz., 50 cts Iceland Poppies This charming class of hardy Poppies is offered on precedi
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