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62. SEED CATALOGUE AND GARDEN GUIDE.

[image] GERANIUM.

GERANIUM.--These favorite plants are easily raised from seed, and will frequently reward the cultivator with charming new varieties. The plants from seeds started early in the house, bloom the first summer in the garden. Packets contain about 40 seeds.
Choice Mixed.--Seeds saved from nice varieties mixed. Try it. Pkt. 5c.
Good Venture.--A greatly improved strain of geranium seed grown by a specialist, which we are sure will delight anyone. Pkt. 15c.
GOURDS.--Ornamental Mixed.--A mixture of the odd shaped and fancy colored sorts. Contains some of the most popular and handsome foreign varieties. Pkt. 5c, oz. 30c.
HOLLYHOCK.--An old favorite. Start seed early in the house and they will bloom the first year.
Chater's Prize Double Mixed--A magnificent double flower three or four inches across, and all of the brightest colors. A mixture of 17 prize varieties, including all colors and shades known. Pkt. 10c.
Fine Mixed.--Contains a good variety. Pkt. 5c.
Allegheny Mammoth Fringed.--An entirely new and distinct variety which has attracted great attention. Flowers single, semi-double and double, of rich colors and fine form. Pkt. 10c.
HELICHRYSUM.--Monster Mixed.--A pretty and popular hardy annual, bearing large, double flowers of different shades and colors, ranging from white to yellow, rich red and scarlet. Best everlastings. Pkt. 5c.

[image] HOLLYHOCK.

HELIOTROPE.--Mixed Varieties.--A great favorite with all lovers of flowers for their beauty and fragrance. Pkt. 5c.
New Mammoth.--A grand new variety producing immense clusters of flowers. Pkt. 10c.
HUMULUS (Hop.)--New Japanese Variegated.--Handsome and distinct climbing vine, valuable for trellis and high places. The leaves are strikingly variegated, bright deep green, distinctly marked and blotched with silvery white tinged with yellow. Pkt. 10c.
HIBISCUS.--Crimson Eye.--Flowers of immense size, often measuring 20 inches in circumference, pure white, with a large spot of deep velvety crimson in the center. Blooms first year from seed in the open ground. Pkt. 8c.
Golden Bowl.--Produces enormous flowers 5 to 6 inches across, of canary color with large black center. Pkt. 5c.
GOLDEN ROD.--Although considered an objectionable weed on our western prairies, there is no denying the beauty of this flower. It has been adopted by New York as the state flower. Easily grown from seed. Pkt. 5c.
GODETIA.--Mixed Varieties.--Handsome and showy annuals about one foot high, of dwarf, compact growth, bearing freely large flowers 3 to 4 inches across, of exquisite colors. Pkt. 5c.
Lady Satin Rose.--Brilliant deep rose pink, surface shines like satin. Pkt. 8c.
LEMON VERBENA.--Everybody knows the Lemon Verbena and all should have a few specimens of it, for its fragrant foliage is so fine to use in bouquets and floral work. Pkt. 10c.

[image] ICE PLANT.

ICE PLANT.--A handsome and curious plant for hanging baskets, rock work and vases. The leaves and stems appear as though covered with icy crystals. The flower is white and pink. Pkt. 5c.
JOB'S TEARS.--An ornamental grass known botanically as Coix Lachryma. Grows two to three feet high with broad corn-like leaves; hard shining pearly seeds. Pkt. 5c.
LINUM.--(or Scarlet Flax.)--One of the most showy annuals for flower beds and masses; brilliant, crimson scarlet flowers, one inch across, borne in wonderful profusion. Pkt. 5c.
LYCHNIS.--Chalcedonica.--A pretty plant with star-like blossoms covering the dwarf bushy plants. Perfectly hardy, and blooms better the second season than the first. Pkt. 5c.
Haageana Mixed.--Brilliant orange, scarlet, crimson, etc. Free flowering perennials. Pkt. 5c.
LOBELIA.--Handsome trailing plants; profuse bloomers; elegant for baskets, vases and borders. All sorts mixed. Pkt. 5c.
LANTANA.--Mixed Colors.--Greenhouse perennial; makes a fine bedding or pot plant; easily grown from seed. Pkt. 7c.
LUPINUS.--Mixed Varieties.--Strong growing garden annuals, with innumerable spikes of flowers of various colors. Pkt. 5c.
LARKSPUR.--Dwarf German Rocket.--An old and well known hardy annual. The flowers are borne in compact spikes, showy and desirable for any situation. Mixed colors. Pkt. 5c.
American Banner.--Plants grow to a height of about two feet, and are fairly loaded with long spikes of double striped and blotched flowers. Pkt. 10c.
Tall German Rocket.--Mixed colors. Pkt. 3c.
Perennial Mixed.--(Delphinium.) Pkt. 5c.
OXALIS.--Choice Mixed.--Free flowering little plants. Useful for edgings. Pkt. 5c.

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JAPANESE MORNING GLORIES.

MORNING GLORIES.--Imperial Japanese.--Remarkable for the large size and exquisite new colors of the flowers, with magnificent foliage, often beautifully blotched. Of strong, robust growth. The vines grow quickly to a height of 12 to 20 feet. The flowers are of gigantic size, sometimes measuring four or five inches across. The colors of the flowers, shading and markings are really wonders of nature, and of incomparable beauty. Double and single mixed. Pkt. 8c, oz. 25c.
Improved Climbing--A great improvement on the old climbing morning glory. Of large size and great variety. Pkt. 5c, oz. 20c, ¼ lb. 60c.
Fine Mixed.--A mixture of the old varieties. Pkt. 2c, oz. 10c, ¼ lb. 20c, lb. 60c.
Brazilian.--(Ipomoea Setosa.)--One of the grandest and most luxuriant plants ever grown, very showy and graceful, with rose-colored flowers from three to four inches in diameter, and a huge leaf ten to twelve inches across. Pkt. 10c.
New Double Flowering.--A splendid novelty of rapid growth, and produces its double flowers very freely. They are white with a slight spot of red or blue at the base of the larger petals. About 80 per cent of the seedlings will reproduce themselves true from seed. Pkt. 10c.
Dwarf--See Convolvulus.
MIMULUS.--Tigrinus.--(Monkey Flower.)--Very showy and free flowering. The hardy kinds are well suited for outdoor culture. Any common soil suits. Mixed varieties. Pkt. 10c.
Moschatus.--The well-known musk-plant, quite pretty, and has a strong musk fragrance. A nice plant also for pot culture. Pkt. 8c.
MOONFLOWER.--White.--(Ipomoea Grandiflora.)--One of the grandest of summer climbers, growing twenty-five to forty feet high, and covered nightly and on dull days with beautiful white and moonlike flowers from five to six inches in diameter. Has a rich jessamine-like odor. Pkt. of 10 seeds 7c.
Blue Flowering.--(Ipomoea Leari.)--This distinct and charming novelty is valuable on account of being in beautiful and striking contrast with the true White Moon Flower. The color is exquisite, clear, satiny blue with well-defined crimson bars; distinct. Pkt. 10c.

[image] MOONFLOWER

MYOSOTIS, or Forget-Me-Not.--Palustris.--The true Forget-Me-Not. A perennial. Blooms the first year from the seed. Pretty plants with neat little star-shaped blue flowers. Pkt. 7c.
Victoria.--A novelty and the best variety for pot culture. Dwarf, globular habit; beautiful sky-blue flowers with center double. Pkt. 7c.
MAURANDIA.--Delicate climber for windows or conservatories. Admirable to hang from vases. Pkt. 10c.
MARIGOLD.--African.--These fine old favorites have been greatly improved recently in size and doubleness of their flowers. Pkt. 3c.
Dwarf French Double.--Pkt. 3c.
Eldorado.--Immense flowers, 9 to 14 inches around; double; primrose, lemon, orange, and golden shades. Three feet high. Pkt. 5c.

FLOWERS GROWING ON THE LAWN ARE ALWAYS PRETTY. LAWN FLOWER SEEDS MIXED 25c PER OUNCE.