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jS FLOWER SEEDS
JAMES VICKS SONS, ROCHESTER, N. Y.
VERBENA,
VERBENA.
"White, Striped, Scarlet,
and Blue, White Eye.
The Four for 30 cents.
TORENIA.
Trailing plants for vases, baskets, etc. Annual.
Torenia Fournieri, for moist, shady, location; velvety-blue flowers,
six inches. .10
Bailloni, deep yellow and maroon 10
The Bride, new, large flowers, upper lip white; side segments and
lower hp pink ; bottom of corolla yellow 25
VINCA.
Periwinkle. Annual. The past summer Vincas have
been grown successfully as bedding plants in the Rochester
parks, and if better known would be more extensively used
for this purpose. Seeds can be started in the house or
under glass; bloom from early summer until destroyed by
frost ; and may be potted for the house before frost.
Vinca rosea, rose 10
rosea alba, white, red eye 10
rosea nova species, white 10
Mixed varieties 10
WALLFLOWER.
By growing Wallflower plants in the ground and trans-
planting to pots in the autumn, or better, by placing plants
VINCA in pots when taken from the seed bed, and sinking the pots
to the rim in earth, good plants will be secured for winter
flowering in the house. Give a cool room and plenty of
water. Where winters are not very severe the Wallflowers make most desirable plants,
giving plenty of early spring flowers.
Wallflower, Fine mixed colors, fragrant; double; perennial 15
Flowering first season, fine mixed colors, single 5
Very few annuals will make such a gorgeous display during the summer
months, or furnish more flowers for cutting, than the Verbena. Start seed in
the house or under glass early in the spring, and transplant after three or four
inches of growth. Good healthy plants can be produced from seed as readily
as almost any tender annual. They flower in July and continue strong and
healthy until destroyed by frost. A strange fact, that is not generally known,
is that nearly all the Verbenas raised from seed are fragrant, the light colored
varieties particularly so. The past quarter of a century we have made a spe-
cialty of Verbenas, and our stock to-day stands at the head.
Verbena, Auricula-flowered, or White-eyed, mixed colors xo
Striped, excellent flowers, with broad Carna-
tion-like stripes 10
Scarlet, brightest scarlet, quite true 10
Pure White, quite true from seed . ..... 10
Cloth of Gold. iThe golden yellow leaves
present a unique appearance (fine mixed) . 10
Ccerulea. Blue with white eye 10
Lutea (Primrose), yellow 10
Purplish Violet, with large white center . . 10
One package of each of above eight, OO cents.
^ dX, S \ Z £ . Verbena hybritla, extra large flow-
ers, fine mixed colors, choice seed,
saved only from the most beautiful named flowers, ounce $2 . 10
Mixed colors 5
VIOLETS.
Viola Odorata is the well-known English Violet, a free flowering, hardy
perennial. Easily grown from seed, though somewhat slow in germinating; suc-
ceeds best in a partially shaded, moist place.
Viola odorata semperflorens, deep rich violet blue, and deliciously
fragrant 10
The Czar, in blue or white, sweet scented, each 10
Viola COrnuta. This is a beautiful old border flower which, since its
introduction into the summer flower-garden, has been taken in hand by the hybri-
dizer, and many lovely forms of it now enrich our collections. It commences
flowering early in the season and continues until frost. Habit and constitution
robust; flowers large and delicately fragrant.
Viola cornuta, Admiration, magnificent flowers of a beautiful dark blue, xo
Mixed colors, dark blue, lavender and white 10
Viola lutea grandiflora 10
splendens, large, yellow 10
VALERIANA. Fine for borders 5
VIRGINIAN STOCK. Hardy annual; fine for small beds or edgings.
Mixed colors, ounce 35 cents 5
WILD GARDEN- Mixed seeds, per ounce 20 cents 5
VVHITLAVI A. Annual, with delicate foliage and drooping clusters of blue and white
bells. Mixed varieties .... 5