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60. SEED CATALOGUE AND GARDEN GUIDE.

[image] GIANT EMPRESS CANDYTUFT.

ALYSSUM--Sweet.--Pretty little white flowers, useful for bouquets and borders. Pkt. 3c.
Little Gem.--Very dwarf and compact, making a mass of white flowers. Pkt. 5c.
ASPERULA.--Azurea Setosa.--Light blue fragrant flowers. Pkt. 5c.
AMOBIUM.--Alatum Grandiflorum.--A pretty everlasting, double white flower. Pkt. 4c.
AMPELOPSIS.--Veitchii.--(Boston Ivy.)--Pkt. 5c.
ACROCLINIUM.--Mixed Colors.--An everlasting bearing large double flowers. Pkt. 3c.
ABUTILON.--Mixed Colors.--Beautiful bell-shaped flowers of various colors. Pkt. 10c.
ADLUMIA.--Cirrhosa.--A hardy perennial vine with fern-like foliage and pretty flesh-colored blossoms. Pkt. 10c.
AQUILEGIA.--Chrysantha.--(Columbia.)--A hardy perennial; large, beautiful canary yellow flowers. Pkt. 5c.
Coerulea.--Violet blue and white. Pkt. 7c.
Double Mixed.--Pkt. 5c.
AGROSTEMMA.--Coeli Rosa.--Deep rose color. Fine for bouquets. Pkt. 3c.
Alba.--White; fine for cemetery. Pkt. 5c.
AMARANTHUS.--A handsome foliaged plant of many colors.
Tricolor.--Leaves yellow, red and green; well known as "Joseph's Coat." Pkt. 3c.
Salicifolius.--Known as "Fountain Plant." Pkt. 7c.
Caudatus.--(Love Lies Bleeding.)--Producing long, drooping chains of brilliant colored flowers. Pkt. 5c.
Mixed Varieties.--Pkt. 5c.

[image] EARLY DAWN COSMOS.

CANDYTUFT.--Considered indispensible [indispensable] for cutting, and looks best in beds or masses; hardy, easy to cultivate, and blooms profusely; one foot in height.
Giant Empress.--One of the finest varieties in cultivation, of very branching habit, and when fully grown and covered with its pure white flowers resembles a floral candelabra. Pkt. 7c.
Snow Queen.--An extra fine dwarf pure white variety, grows rapidly, remaining in full flower for about three months. Pkt. 5c.
Best Mixed.--A mixture of all varieties and colors. Pkt. 3c, oz. 40c.
Semper Virens.--Profuse white blooming perennials adapted for rockeries, baskets, etc. Flowers early. Pkt. 10c.
CANARY BIRD FLOWER.--One of the most beautiful climbers with delicate finely cut foliage and curious bright yellow flowers resembling the canary bird in shape and color. Pkt. 5c.
CACALIA.--Coccinea.--A handsome free flowering little plant; owing to the peculiar form of the flower it is sometimes called Tassel Flower or Flora's Paint Brush. Scarlet. Pkt. 5c.
CANNA.--Unquestionably one of the finest of bedding plants. Their handsome leaves combined with their varied and richly colored flowers have an extremely fine effect. Seeds should be soaked in hot water for several hours.
Fancy Large Flowered.--This is a very large flowering strain of dwarf, compact growth. They flower freely and the first year from seed. Our seed is a mixture of the finest varieties. Pkt. 5c, oz. 25c.
CARNATION.--The finest of the dianthus or pink family; very fragrant. Our seed is unsurpassed.
Double Extra Mixed--Best greenhouse varieties. Pkt. 10c.

CLARKIA.--Mixed Colors.--Blooms freely during the summer. Pkt. 3c.
CONVOLVULUS.--Minor.--(Dwarf Morning Glory.)--Showy flowers for bedding. Pkt. 5c.

[image] NEW FANCY CANNAS.

COSMOS.--Early Dawn Mixed.--Introduced by us several years ago, and it jumped at once into popularity on account of its extreme earliness. The plants have fine, feathery, light green foliage and delicate rose, purple white and lilac flowers. Free bloomer of easiest culture. Mixed colors. Pkt. 5c.
Mammoth Perfection.--Flowers double the size of the old large flowering cosmos, measuring from 12 to 15 inches in circumference; flowers white, pink or crimson. Seed should be sown early in the house, as they are quite late. Pkt. 7c.
BEGONIA--Seeds very small, almost microscopic and should be sown on top of the soil. Cover box with glass; give partial shade until up.
Vernon.--Fine for outdooor [outdoor] bedding. Pkt. 10c.
Rex.--The king of begonias. Pkt. 25c.
Tuberous Rooted.--Fine for summer bedding. Pkt. 15c.
Mixed Varieties.--Pkt. 10c.
BALLOON VINE.--A pretty, rapid growing climber, succeeding best in a warm situation. Flowers white. Pkt. 5c.
BROWALLIA.--Grandiflora.--This new sort is without doubt the most beautiful of all the Browallias, covered with an abundance of delightfully large sky-blue flowers. Pkt. 10c.
BRACHYCOME.--Mixed Colors.--Pretty low-growing plants, covered in summer with a profusion of cineraria-like blue and white flowers. Half hardy. Pkt. 5c.
BRYONOPSIS.--Beautiful summer climber with palmate leaves; yellow flowers, followed by pretty, cherry-like, green fruits, which change to bright scarlet marbled with white. Pkt. 5c.
CELOSIA.--Giant Empress.--Very handsome; excite the curiosity of visitors more than any plant that can be grown. Measures over 12 inches in breadth; very bright purple combs and dark bronze foliage. Pkt. 10c.

[image] MARGUERITE CARNATIONS.

Marguerite--These lovely, fragrant flowers are in full bloom in about four months after sowing the seed. The plants succeed alike in the open garden or in pots. The flowers are of high type, exquisitely sweet, fully 80 per cent perfectly double. The range of color, marking, variegations and shadings are wonderful. Pkt. 5c.
CALLIOPSIS, (or Coreopsis).--Golden Wave.--Plant very bushy and compact, reaching two feet in height, and covered from July to October with hundreds of beautiful golden blossoms, two inches in diameter with small dark centers. It is indeed a wave of gold. Pkt. 5c.
New Double.--A charming novelty, blooms freely and will please everyone. Pkt. 10c.
Lanceolata.--(New Golden Coreopsis.)--One of the most showy hardy perennials grown, forming tall plants two or three feet high, and bearing in great profusion large flowers of golden yellow. Pkt. 8c.
Mixed Colors.--Produces flowers in nearly every shade of yellow, orange, crimson and brown. Pkt. 3c.
CHRYSANTHEMUMS.--The annual Chrysanthemums listed below are altogether different from the large-flowered perennial varieties grown by florists.
Chameleon.--New and distinct annual variety producing large single flowers, beautifully encircled with purple, black, crimson, yellow and copper. Pkt. 8c.
Double Annual.--A valuable and most unique novelty. A great variety of colors, markings and pencilings. Very double, semi-double or single, but these are almost equally charming. Pkt. 5c.
Penennial [Perennial] Mixed.--The popular greenhouse variety. Very showy and dersirable [desirable] for fall and early winter blooming. Sow seeds early. Pkt. 10c.

Ostrich Feather.--Crimson. Pkt. 10c.
All Varieties Mixed.--Pkt. 5c.

[image] CALIOPSIS, GOLDEN WAVE.

A MILLION BEDDING PLANTS--HUNDRED OF VARIETIES AT LOW PRICES. SEE LIST.