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Iowa Seed Company, Des Moines, Iowa.
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Peerless Mixed Balsams.
Madam Gunther's Hybrids--Nasturtium.
Fairy Rose.
American Banner Larkspur.
Globe of Gold Sunflower.

Peerless Mixed Balsams.

Several European and American specialists have been devoting much of their time during the past few years to improving this popular flower, until now we have a plant which is worthy a place in any garden, and will prove satisfactory to the most fastidious. The flowers are of the most perfect camella-flowered and rose-flowered types, intensely double. The plants are of ideal, symmetrical shape, fairly loaded with flowers and a continuous bloomer, sometimes 500 magnificent large blooms on a plant at once. Pkt. 10c.

Madam Gunther's Hybrid Nasturtiums.

For richness and variety of colors these new hybrids have no equals among nasturtiums. The foliage is mostly dark, contrasts very effectively with the flowers. They are climbers and are free and continuous bloomers. Color of flowers is most gorgeous ranging from white through all shades of pink, red, carmine, crimson, salmon, golden yellow to the deepest brown and maroon--nearly black--all striped, shaded and blotched in an indiscribable [indescribable] mannner [manner]. Per pkt. 10c.

Gay and Festive Nasturtium.

A new and greatly improved strain of dwarf nasturtiums from California, showing a most charming combination of colors. Flowers unusually large and very beautiful. Every flower lover should plant a bed of them this year. Thirty distinct varieties mixed. Per pkt. 10c.

Fairy Roses.

These little beauties are very easily grown from seed. The roses are only about an inch across, usually very double, but occasionally semi-double, and seldom single; they are borne in large clusters and are of many colors. What is most remarkable these Fairy roses grow only 10 to 15 inches high and commence blooming in a few weeks after the seed is sown, and continue year after year in uninterrupted profusion from May until frost. They also make nice pot plants for winter blooming. Pkt. 15c.

Mothly [Monthly] Tea Roses.

Double mixed colors. Blooms the second year. Pkt. 10c.

American Banner Larkspur.

The handsomest flower in the entire cataloguee [catalogue]. The accompanying illustration presents a single stem, showing how loaded the plants are with flowers. The name American Banner was given it because it is the only flower we know of which combines the national colors, red, white and blue, in each flower. Plants grow to a height of about two feet, of good, regular shape, with delicate, fern-like foliage, a vigorous grower, and is not injured by dry weather. The plants are fairly loaded with long spikes of double striped and blotched flowers, having the various shades of pink, carmine, dark blue, purple and white, delicately and beautifully blended, sometimes four or five shades on a single floret. Pkt. 10c, 3 for 25.

Begonia Erfordia.

A little beauty as well as a most distinct novelty. It is a most profuse bloomer from early summer until late autumn; even a light frost will not hurt it. The color of the flower is a lovely soft pink throughout. The leaves and leaf stalk are of a coppery bronze of a rich shade. Per pkt 15c, 2 pkts. for 25c.

International Mixed Pansies.

In almost every country in the world there are pansy specialists, notably those of Scotland, Belgium, France, Germany and Switzerland. Each have their idea of perfection. This mixture consists of a grand assortment from the world's leading growers. Here will be found the beautiful German pansies, with their rich, soft, velvety colors; the lovely striped and mottled pansies from Belgium, which contrast so strongly with all others; the face pansies of England, in which one can almost see the human face, because of their peculiar spottings; the self colors of Switzerland, which are attractive because of their pure coloring; the fancy show pansies of Scotland, of bright contrasting colors and rare spotting, flaking, feathering and edging; the mammoth pansies of France, which have been grown to the enormous size of four inches in diameter, and are decidedly showy; and also the many choice American strains, which are mainly made up by selecting and crossing the foreign sorts. If you like pansies you must have the International Mixture. Per pkt. 25c, 3 pkts. for 50c, 7 for $1.00.

Globe of Gold Sunflower.

A dwarf, well branched plant growing only about three feet high, and each of its numerous branches carrying a medium sized, densely double, globe shaped flower of rich deep, golden yellow color, being veritable globes of gold. The most densely double of any sunflower. They are easily grown from seed and produce handsome, symmetrical plants, very effective on lawns or in the flower garden. Per pkt. 10c.