. Goodell's seed catalog. Nursery stock Massachusetts Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. (h natural size.) NICOTIANA affinis {Evening Stars J. One of the finest annuals of recent intro- duction. The plants grow about three feet tall and bloom profusely all summer. The flowers are white, two or three in- ches long and about as much in diameter, and are very sweet-scent- ed, a small bed filling a whole garden with fra- grance. 11 also succeeds admira- bly as a house plant. The plants can be taken up in the fall, cut back and potted for the house,
. Goodell's seed catalog. Nursery stock Massachusetts Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. (h natural size.) NICOTIANA affinis {Evening Stars J. One of the finest annuals of recent intro- duction. The plants grow about three feet tall and bloom profusely all summer. The flowers are white, two or three in- ches long and about as much in diameter, and are very sweet-scent- ed, a small bed filling a whole garden with fra- grance. 11 also succeeds admira- bly as a house plant. The plants can be taken up in the fall, cut back and potted for the house, where they will bloom freely all win- ter. Seeds are rather slow and uneven of germination and should be sown in a frame or box 10 OENOTHERA Lamarckiana grandiflora (Evening Primrose). A magnificent, hardy biennial, blooming the first season if sown early. Flowers are four iuches across and of a rich sulphur yellow opening about six o'clock in the afternoon and so suddenly that they can almost be seen to open. About five feet tall and well covered with flowers ... 5 POPPY (Papaver). This old and well- known flower, like many other old. fashioned flowers, has been much im- proved of late, and those who have not seen the mod- ern varieties would be surpris- ed at the great im- provement made- The flowers are now as large and showy as P seonies, very double, and of great variety of colors- Sow seeds early where they are to grow, and thin to ten inches apart; 38 varieties mixed 5 umbrosum, a gorgeous variety with large single flowers of an intensedark scarlet with black blotches 5 ICINUS (Castor Oil Bean). A class of orna- mental foliage plants of great beauty and quite a tropical appear- ance; plant 10 to 15 feet tall; leaves very large, sometimes two feet in diameter; fine as single specimens, or in small groups. Plant the seed in the open ground ricinus. about the middle of May, in this latitude, in hills three feet apart and thin to one plant in each hill. Make the soil very ri
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