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SPECIAL COLLECTIONS.
None of these special collections can be changed or divided.

Trial Collection, Flowers.
Twelve full-sized packets choice flower seeds, including Iowa Beauty Pansy, all our own selection of varieties but all first class, making a nice assortment, for only 25 cents.

Trial Collection, Bulbs.
Ten choice summer flowering bulbs--a nice assortment. Includes gold-banded Lily of Japan for only 50 cents.

Mammoth Collection.
Everyone wants to grow some of these and take the prize at county fairs, or present them to the editor at their favorite newspaper, or exhibit them in the show window of some store with their names attached. We are always glad to see such competition, as it encourages high cultivation, and we are always pleased to hear of our customers' success.
Wonderful Yard Long Beans--Pods sometimes three feet long.
New Dignity Mangel--If you want to see a fifty pound beet try this.
Marblehead Mammoth Cabbage--Have been grown to the enormous weight of over 90 pounds.
Giant White Solid Celery--Sometimes four feet high.
Astro Cucumber--Immensely long; very curious.
Snake Cucumber--Attains a length of six feet; snake shape.
Hercules' Club Gourd--Very large; club shaped.
New Banana Musk Melon--Sometimes grows three and one-half feet long.
Mammoth Iron Clad Water Melon--Largest of all; 128 pounds; good quality.
New Copper King Onion--Just think of it: five pounds, six ounces; it beats the record.
Mammoth Golden Queen Pepper--Six to ten inches long.
King of Mammoths Pumpkin--Immense; 245 lbs.; have grown 640 lbs. on one vine.
Mammoth White Winter Radish--One foot in length, six inches in diameter.
Mammoth Sandwich Island Salsify--Double size of common.
Mammoth Chili Squash--Largest vegetable grown; has weighed over 300 lbs.
Mikado Tomato--Monster size; weighing 3 3/4 lbs.
Mammoth Russian Sunflower--Immense heads.
Seventeen kinds; one packet each for only 75 cents.

Trial Collection, Vegetables.
Twelve full-sized packets choice vegetable seeds, including some novelties; all our selection of varieties but all first class, sent postpaid for only 25 cents. This offer is simply to induce you to give our choice Iowa seeds a trial.

Trial Collection, Flower Plants
Twenty choice house plants for only $1.00. A splendid assortment, worth fully $2.50. Includes Moon Flower and some other novelties. If you want any plants be sure and order this collection.

The Best Collection.
Thirty packets Vegetable Seeds for the Family Garden for $1.00; all desirable varieties, sure to please.
Golden Wax Beans.
New Market Gardener's Beet.
Early Jersey Wakefield Cabbage.
Chase's Excelsior Cabbage.
New Oxheart Carrot.
White Plume Celery.
Perfect White Spine Cucumber.
Perry's Hybrid Sweet Corn.
Extra Curled Cress.
Mixed Varieties Lettuce.
Extra Early Hackensack Musk Melon.
Kolb Gem Water Melon.
Large Red Wethersfield Onion.
Mammoth Silver King Onion.
Champion Moss Curled Parsley.
Iowa's Challenge Peas.
Improved Table Guernsey Parsnip.
Ruby King Pepper.
Sweet Potato Pumpkin.
New Rosy Gem Radish.
White Strasburg Radish.
Early Bush Crookneck Squash.
Hubbard Squash.
Long Standing Spinach.
Mammoth Sandwich Island Salsify.
New Cardinal Tomato.
Beauty Tomato.
Early White Egg Turnip.
Purple Top Globe Turnip.
Mixed Varieties Herbs.
Total 30 packets for $1.00 postpaid.

$1.00. OUR CEMETERY PLANT COLLECTION. $1.00.
This collection is prepared expressly for planting in the cemetery, and will produce a constant show of white flowers throughout the summer and autumn.
1 White Heliotrope, 1 White Ageratum, 1 Double Feverfew, 1 Double White Pink, 1 Lily of the Valley, 1 White Violet, 1 Forget-me-not, 1 Hardy White Rose, 1 White Tea Rose, 2 New Polyantha Roses, 1 Double White Carnation, 1 White Chrysanthemum, 1 Double and 1 Single Geranium.
The above 15 plants, all labeled, by mail for only $1.00.

DOLLAR COLLECTIONS.
To meet the very popular demand for $1.00 collections, we have arranged the following. These collections cannot be divided or changed, but will be mailed on receipt of price. Price $1.00 for each collection, postage paid by us. These prices are net, no discount. Our selection of sorts, all labeled varieties.
No. 1--1 Black Prince Fuchsia, 1 Storm King Fuchsia, 1 Golden Marguerite, 1 Buttercup Carnation, 1 White Carnation, 1 Violet, 1 Miniature Rose, 2 Tea Roses, 2 Hardy Roses, 1 Hibiscus, 1 New Chrysanthemum, 1 Double Geranium, 1 Single Geranium.
No. 2--15 choice plants for hanging baskets or vases, different sorts.
No. 3--30 choice transplanted mixed pansies.
No. 4--20 splendid Verbenas, 10 different varieties.
No. 5--15 Geraniums, double, single, etc.
No. 6--2 Begonias (flowering), 2 Fuchsias, 3 Geraniums, 2 Heliotropes, 6 Pansies.
No. 7--12 Pansies, 6 Verbenas and 4 Geraniums. A good bedding collection.
No. 8--12 Roses, good blooming varieties.
No. 9--Our selection of 15 different house plants. This selection always pleases.

No. 10--Our selection of 15 splendid bedding plants, all different.
No. 11--Our selection of 18 splendid foliage plants; consists of 8 Coleus, 3 Achyranthes, 2 Alternantheras, 1 Centaurea, 1 Cineraria and 3 others.
No. 12--10 odd, curious and popular varieties of Cacti--our selection.
No. 13--20 summer blooming bulbs, consisting of 1 gold banded Lily of Japan, 6 Gladiolus, 3 tall Tuberoses, 2 Pearl Tuberoses, 1 Caladium, 2 Cannas, 1 Hyacinthus Candicans, 2 Tigridias and 2 Oxalis.
No. 14--31 winter blooming bulbs, consisting of 4 Hyacinths, 12 Tulips, 12 Crocus, 1 Chinese Sacred Lily, 1 Narcissus and 1 Easter Lily, with full directions for cultivation. Cannot ship until about September 15th, but order now so you won't forget it.

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