. Burpee's farm annual. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Pennsylvania Catalogs; Vegetables Pennsylvania Catalogs; Seeds Pennsylvania Catalogs. MOLUCCA BALM or Shell Flower (.Moluccelln Ilev is). Although robust and easily grown every- where, this interest- ing annual from Syria is so little known and excites so much atten- tion when growing at our seed grounds that we have had an illus- tration engraved, in order to introduce it to many new friends. It grows from two to three feet high, send- ing up a strong cen- tral stem,with numer- ous branches, each of which is so
. Burpee's farm annual. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Pennsylvania Catalogs; Vegetables Pennsylvania Catalogs; Seeds Pennsylvania Catalogs. MOLUCCA BALM or Shell Flower (.Moluccelln Ilev is). Although robust and easily grown every- where, this interest- ing annual from Syria is so little known and excites so much atten- tion when growing at our seed grounds that we have had an illus- tration engraved, in order to introduce it to many new friends. It grows from two to three feet high, send- ing up a strong cen- tral stem,with numer- ous branches, each of which is so completely surrounded hy flowers as to leave scarcely any room for the leaves. The flower is very curious, unlike anything else; its large, shell-like calyx is green and delicately veined, con- taining within it the very small corolla, which is white, striped with purple. When cut or broken it emits a delightfully strong fragrance of balm. So easily grown, so interesting and curious a plant should be in every garden 10 NASTURTIUM. Few annuals can vie with this in beauty. See Special Flon-er Seeds, page 104. NEMOPHILA (Love Grove). Of neat, compact habit, blooming freely all summer. If thinned to four inches apart the plants will present a dense mass of flowers. Mixed, many rich, bright colors 5 NICOTIANA afiinis. A most ornamental plant with beautiful, long, tubular white flowers of surpassingly rich fragrance, and yet as easily grown as the common Tobacco. The flowers are so fragrant that a few plants will perfume the whole surrounding atmosphere. . 5 NIGELLA (Love-in-a-Mist). These old garden favor- ites are very showy in foliage flowers and seed pods. The pretty flowers are surrounded by a delicate wreath of fine mossy green fibres—hence the name, " Love^n- a-Mist," or "; per pkt. Damascena, Double Mixed. Very showy, with finely-cut leaves and curious blue and white flowers. 5 Dwarf Double. Of compact, neat habit of growth. 5 A little
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