. Cole's garden annual. Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Iowa Catalogs; Garden tools Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs. 72 COLE'S GARDEN ANNUAL. Salvia Bonfire SALVIA (Flowering Sage) The Salvia is one of the most beautiful of all flow- ers; Hie brilliant spikes of the scarlet flowers pro- duce for months a dazzling effect. Of easy culture and fine for massing and bouquets. Half-hardy an- nual. New Dwarf, or Bonfire. (Large Flower- ing scarlet Sage). A splendid new sort bloom- ing much earlier than old variety. The plants are dwarfer and more co
. Cole's garden annual. Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Iowa Catalogs; Garden tools Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs. 72 COLE'S GARDEN ANNUAL. Salvia Bonfire SALVIA (Flowering Sage) The Salvia is one of the most beautiful of all flow- ers; Hie brilliant spikes of the scarlet flowers pro- duce for months a dazzling effect. Of easy culture and fine for massing and bouquets. Half-hardy an- nual. New Dwarf, or Bonfire. (Large Flower- ing scarlet Sage). A splendid new sort bloom- ing much earlier than old variety. The plants are dwarfer and more compact in habit, while the flowers are larger and more numerous and are of the brightest scarlet imaginable, lasting until late in the fall; 2 ft 10 Coccinea Splendens. (Small Flowering Scarlet Sage). Spikes of scarlet ficwers; 2 5 VERBENA A well-known favorite, and is valuable for bedding on account of their low trailing habit, and the daz- zling brilliancy of their beautiful flowers; blooms freely tlie first season from seed, and are more healthy and make larger and hardier plants than if grown from cuttings; requires a verj- rich, mellow soil. The seeds sprout very unevenly, and some will not be started at the time others must be removed, hence the soil should be disturbed as little as possible. Half-hardy perennials. Hybrida Compacta, or Tom Thumb. The plants form almost circular bushes of about two feet in diameter, throwing up in a singularly compact manner, on stiff and erect stems, a great number of flowers. The mixture contains a great \ariety of color 8 Mammoth, or Large Flowering. Flowers of this Mammoth Variety when well grown l): ing frequently larger than a silver quar- ter. Plant more vigorous than the ordinary var- iety, and far excel them in dazzling richness and variety of colors. The distinct white eyes adds greatlv to their striking and beautiful appear- ance 10 New Italian Striped. Brilliant colors, striftcd (in \arious colored grounds, best 5
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