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52. SEED CATALOGUE AND GARDEN GUIDE.

--Bronze-Colored--Handsome... 5.
--Cliveden Purple--A very rich color... 5.
--Violet Margined with White... 10.
--Pure White--Appropriate for cemeteries. 5.
--Golden Yellow--Best of the yellow varieties; desirable as a contrast... 10.
--Faust--(King of the Blacks)--Jet Black. 5.
--Snow Queen--Flowers of a delicate, pure, satiny white, handsome and attractive... 10.
--Emperor William--Ultra-marine blue... 10.
--Odier, or Blotched--This superb, large variety of pansies has been much improved... 15.
--Lord Beaconsfield--New, large flowers of deep purple violet, shading off in the petals to a white hue... 10.
--Quadricolor--New and distinct; fine... 10.
--Choice German Mixed--Magnificent large velvety flowers of richest hues and colors... 15.
--Choice Large-flowering Mixed--Very fine... 10.
--Fine Mixed--Choice varieties; per oz. $2. 5.
--One packet each of the twenty varieties, $1.50.
Parsley--Beauty of the Parterre--This new and very handsome variety we list here as being very useful and valuable for lines and edgings in the flower garden... 5.
Perilla Nankinensis--An elegant, finely cut leaved foliage plant... 5.

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Phlox Drummondi--If we could have but one flower for our garden, that one would be the Phlox. Its brilliant shades of color, ranging from clear white to brilliant scarlet, make an almost dazzling how [show]; continualy [continually] in bloom: (See cut.)
--Cuspidata, or Star--See Novelties... 25.
--Double Pearl--See Novelties... 10.
--Alba--Pure white... 5.
--Coccinea--Brilliant scarlet... 5.
--Grandifiora Mixed--Has a much larger flower than the common, and preferable in every way; all colors... 5.
--Grandifiora Occulata--Very large flowers with a distinct, well-defined eye... 10.
--Grandifiora Stellata Carminea--Very handsome carmine flowers, with pure white, star-like eye... 10.
--Nana Compacta Mixed--Dwarf, compact growing class; very fine for borders and ribbons... 10.
--Fireball--Brilliant, dazzling scarlet... 10.
--Snowball--Delicate, pure white... 10.
Petunia--Are easily grown from seed and succeed in any common soil. The double varieties require more care and should be started in the house. The great variety of bright colors, beautiful stripings and markings and constant show of bloom make them general favorites:
--Fine Mixed Colors... 5.
--Hybrida--Extra fine striped and blotched varieties; mixed colors; handsome... 10.
--Grandifiora Fimbriata--Finest fringed variety in mixture combining elegance of form with great diversity of delicate and charming colors. Extra large flowers... 15.
--Double Inimitable--Splendid mixture; our seed is Benary's best and will produce a large per centage of fine double-flowering plants... 25.
Portulaca--This old favorite is brightest in the hot, dry weather when other flowers are drooping; they are of almost every conceivable shade of color, and will make one of the brightest spots in the garden:
--Single Varieties Mixed... 5.
--Double Mixed--Very handsome, double as a rose and contains a color and shading unknown in the single... 10.
Pyrethrum, Golden Feather--A very handsome foliage plant... 5.
--Golden Gem--A beautiful plant for edgings or ribbon beds; double flowering... 5.

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Poppies--The dear old flower which our grandmothers loved so much again occupies one of the first places in our gardens. For brilliant, dazzling colors, these new Poppies are equalled only by the Tulip. Some of the flowers are as large and double as the Paeony, others with strange and handsome markings. (See cut.)
--The Shirley--These exquisitely handsome new poppies have been exhibited in London and made quite a sensation in England. The are all single and semi-double varieties of the common European field poppy and the result of ten years' assiduous selection. In color they run from the purest white through the most delicate shades of rose and pink and carmine to deepest crimson, and some of the intense colored flowers are bordered with white and some white flowers with a colored border and flaked and marbled flowers. Full double flowers are weeded out of this select race. They are very hardy. As cut flowers for home use nothing can be prettier; if cut in the forenoon before they are fully expanded they [continued next page]

Remember that $1.00 pays for seeds in packets to the amount of $1.35, and to deduct 10 cents per lb. if you have seeds sent at your expense.