. Annual illustrated catalogue of seeds. Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Commercial catalogs Ohio Cleveland. POPPY. —\Papaver. Old fashioned flow- ers but very popular. There are a few species of great beauty-, which are an ornament to anj' garden. Hard}-peren- nials, blooming first year from seed, if sown early; will not bear transplanting well. Poppy, Carnation, double, mixed,. .05 Poppies RICINTJS.—Castor Bean. SAI/VIA.—{Flowering Sage.) This is a ver\- ornamental plant, flowering in spikes of fier\- red. crimson and blue, and co
. Annual illustrated catalogue of seeds. Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Commercial catalogs Ohio Cleveland. POPPY. —\Papaver. Old fashioned flow- ers but very popular. There are a few species of great beauty-, which are an ornament to anj' garden. Hard}-peren- nials, blooming first year from seed, if sown early; will not bear transplanting well. Poppy, Carnation, double, mixed,. .05 Poppies RICINTJS.—Castor Bean. SAI/VIA.—{Flowering Sage.) This is a ver\- ornamental plant, flowering in spikes of fier\- red. crimson and blue, and continues in blos- som in open ground till frost, when the plants can be removed to the green-house, and will continue in bloom a long time. Start the plants in hot-beds, and transplant into light, rich soil, about one foot apart. Salvia, Splendens, fScarlet Sage) .05 SENSITIV:^ FI^ANT.—(Mimosa.) A verA- curious plant, with elegant foliage and globular heads of pink flowers : well known for the extreme irritability- of its leaves and foot stalks which close and droop at the slighest touch, or in cloudy-, damp w^eather. and during the night. Tender an- nul, one and a half feet high. Sensitive Plant, (^Mimosa Pudicai .05 SCABIOSA.—(.1/(3Bride.) flowers of exceeding sweetness, in hemi- spherical heads on long stems. The colors are deep and light purple, scarlet, white and dark mulberry- red ; some of the dark shades are tipped with white. With proper protection of the roots they will bloom two or three years. Very useful for bouquets, as their long stems work easily, and their striking colors as well as fragrance, are desirable. Plant in hot bed, and transplant one and a half feet apart. Tender perennial, one to two feet high. Scabiosa, dwarf, mixed .05 being cut. without wilting : nothing is finer for cloth- ing statuettes, vases, etc. Soak the seed in warm water for twelve hours, and plant in pots, in hot bed or green house, in February, and keep in a warm, moi
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