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JAMES VICKS SONS, ROCHESTER, N. K
FLOWER SEEDS 29
MARIGOLD.
The French and African Marigolds arc valuable for their flowers in autumn, and can be grown
to advantage in little clumps with other plants in the front of shrubberies or in the garden border.
The African varieties are the taller in growth, and produce large self-colored blossoms ; the
French varieties are smaller, some of them being elegantly striped and spotted. The dwart
glowing kind adapt themselves to spots where the taller varieties wotdd be unsuitable. Seeds
can be sown in a cold frame or in a seed bed in the open border and the young plants transplanted
late in spring where they are to remain. Annuals.
Marigold, Eldorado, flowers very large and double, all shades of yellow, and (ruilled like
a Dahlia 10
Lemon Queen, large lemon colored flowers 5
Prince of Orange, large orange flowers 5
African Marigold, mixed varieties, ounce 3ocents 5
French Marigold, striped, yellow and brown 5
" Tall Varieties, mixed, ounce 30 cents 5
" Dwarf Varieties, mixed, ounce 30 cents 5
Tagetes signata pumila, a beautiful dwarf plant, forming a globular, dense mass ; fine
for bedding and borders 5
One package 0/ each of the preceding, 40 cents.
Dwarf Marigold Little Brownie, or Legion of Honor. A charming single flowering
plant, about six inches high ; very effective in masses or borders; color a brilliant gold,
blotched with maroon 10
Gold Margin. New and fine 10
MARIGOLD.
LEMON QUEEN.
GOLD MARGIN.
LITTLE BROWNIE.
MALOPE.
Hnrdy plants of vigorous growth, branching freely, and producing large
flowers of brilliant crimson, or of pearl white, handsome as a Pelargonium.
Malope grandiflora, flowers single, purple 5
grandiflora alba, single, pure white 5
MESEMBRYANTHEMUM.
Ice Plant or " Midday Flowers are pretty half-hardy annuals; delicate,
succulent, almost transparent branches and leaves. Of drooping habit,
adapted to baskets, vase work and rockeries.
Mesembryanthemum crystallinum, prized for its singular icy foliage . 5
M1RABILIS— Four O'Clock.
Mirabilis is known as Four O'Clock because it opens its flower about that
time of the evening and fades the next morning. By the French it is called
Belle de Xuit, or Beauty of the Night. It grows two feet high, bright foliage,
fragrant flowers and desirable colors. Set plants two feet apart. Makes a
nice summer hedge if set a foot apart. Seed should be planted in the open
ground where plants are desired. Opens in the afternoon. The roots may be
taken up in the autumn and preserved through the winter for spring planting,
in the same manner as Dahlias. Annual.
Mirabilis, Marvel of Peru, mixed colors, ounce 20 cents 5
Variegated Foliage, flowers of a variety ol colors 5
Long Flowered, White, sweet-scented ; flowers 3 to 4 inches long ... 5
Long Flowered, violet, same as above, except color 5
Tom Thumb, very dwarf, covered with pure white flowers 5
One package 0/ each of the above, 20 cents.
MARTYNIA.
Robust, hardy annuals, about two feet high. Colors y ellou
Martynia, mixed varieties
.white and purple.
5
MIMULUS.
The Mimulus, or Monkey
Flowers (named from the re-
semblance of the corolla to a
mask or face), are beautiful,
tender looking plants, with
almost transparent branches.
Fine for baskets, vases, and
house culture, and do well
planted out where they will be
somewhat shaded. Perennial,
but bloom the first season.
Mimulus hybridus ti-
grinus, as beautifully
spotted as the Calceo-
larias 10
hybridus tigrinus
g r a n d iflorus, with
beautiful durable flow-
Musk Plant 5
All sorts mixed ... 5
MYOSOT1S.
MIRABILIS, OR FOUR O CLOCK.
Perennia* plant, flowering first season if sown early;
small white and blue flowers. Seed may be sown in a
hotbed and transplanted, or in open ground in spring.
Myosotis alpestris, blue; six inches 10
alpestris, white; six inches 10
alpestris rosea, rose; six inches 10