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Iowa Seed Company, Des Moines, Iowa.
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Carnations.--1, Silver Spray 2, American Flag.
Sanseveria.
Trifoliate Orange.
Sword Fern.

Carnation.

Fragrant flowers are always sought after, and the rich, spicy ordor [odor]of the carnation, combined with various colors and handsome form, leaves but little to be desired. They are very easily grown and bloom freely.

Silver Spray.--A grand, pure white, early and free-flowering carnation of healthy, vigorous growth; makes fine bushy plants and bears an abundance of flowers on long stems; never bursts; petals, finely fringed and very fragrant; an excellent variety, and best of all for general use. Each 15c.

American Flag.--An immense, strong, vigorous grower and profuse bloomer. Very fragrant. The color is distinct from any other variety, being distinctly and regularly striped vivid scarlet and pure white, giving it a most novel and striking effect. Each 15c.

President Garfield.--Deep red, fine large flowers of great substance. A very good variety. Each 10c.

Tidal Wave.--Flowers very large and perfect in form; color bright rosy pink, changing to a beautiful soft pink with salmon shading when flowers are fully expanded. Excellent variety for pot culture. Each 10c.

Gold Finch.--A beautiful, new, golden yellow carnation, with not a particle of stripe or foreign color; full and double; free, vigorous and healthy grower and continuous bloomer. Produces a great number of flowers. Each 15c.

Wm. Scott.--Rich pink, shaded salmon, large sized finely fringed flowers. Each 15c.

Sanseveria.

Zelanica.--A singular plant, eminently adapted for decorative purposes in parlors, etc. Dark green, beautifully striped crosswise with white. Flowers white. Each 25c.

Sword Fern.
One of the most popular sorts. Splendid for pots, vases or hanging baskets, but especially desirable grown in the wire hanging baskets, in which they thrive well and make wonderfully ornamental plants. Each 25c.

Trifoliate Orange.
The most hardy of the orange family, and will stand our northern climate with a little protection, and is also desirable for pot culture. It is dwarf, of a low shrubby growth, with beautiful, trifoliate, glossy green leaves, and an abundance of large, white, sweet scented blossoms, borne almost continually. The fruit is small and bright orange red in color. A plant of great beauty. Each 25c.

Solanum Jasminoides Grandiflorum.
This beautiful plant is of trailing or climbing habit, but if desired can be cut back to a bush form. It has star-shaped flowers, borne in large clusters or panicles frequently a foot across. They are in color a pure white with violet tinge on the back; equally a good bloomer in summer and winter, and is wonderfully effective when planted to cover a low wall or trellis, showing hundreds of fine panicles of bloom. Each 15c.

Parrot's Feather.
An aquatic hanging plant is a novelty indeed, and we have it to perfection in this dainty little jewel. Its long trailing stems are clothed with whorls of the most exquisite foliage, as finely cut as the leaves of the Cypress Vine, and much more delicate. Planted in a water-tight hanging basket, will trail finely. Each 15c.

Manetta.

Bicolor.--Possesses many real points of merit. Succeeds well when bedded out, as it grows rapidly and blooms freely all summer. It is especially adapted to winter blooming in the house. A constant bloomer. Color vivid crimson scarlet, tipped with golden yellow. Each 10c; extra large plants 25c.

Fuchsias.

These, when in full bloom, are the most graceful of all cultivated plants.

Mrs. E. G. Hill.--The most perfect and beautiful double white fuchsia ever raised. The short tubes and sepals are a bright, rich reddish crimson color, corolla extra large, full and double; flower of the largest size; is of robust, upright growth, compact and very symmetrical. Each 15c.

Black Prince.--Tube and sepals bright waxy carmine, sepals large and broad with pale green tips; large, open, pale pink corolla. They are easily grown in tree form. Each 10c.

Phenomenal.--Very large flowered sort; sepals bright scarlet with rich violet purple corolla, very double, flaked with red. Each 10c.

Storm King.--Of enormous size. The sepals are glowing scarlet crimson, while the large double corolla is of delicate waxy whiteness, elegantly penciled with deep, bright crimson. Each 15c.

Speciosa.--Sepals blush, corolla carmine. Each 10c.

Little Beauty.--A charming variety and the freest flowering of all Fuchsias. It begins to bloom when only two or three inches high and continues to flower the year round. Flowers of good size. Tube and sepals bright red, corolla deep purple. Each 15c.

Water Hyacinth.

One of the most remarkable, curious and beautiful plants we have ever grown. Instead of growing in soil it floats in the water, which it is enabled to do by means of its curiously inflated leaf stalks, which resemble bladders or balloons, filled with air. A large mass of feathery blue roots grow downward, their ends entering into the soil. It forms a lovely rosette of its curious, shining green leaves, and throws up spikes of the most exquisite flowers imaginable, resembling in form a spike of hyacinth bloom, but as beautiful as many of the choicest and most costly orchids. Each flower is as large or larger than a silver dollar; color a beautiful, soft lilac rose, sparkling as if covered with diamond dust. The upper petal, which is the largest, has a large metallic blue blotch, and in the center of that a small, deep, golden yellow spot. Each 15c.

Fuchsias.

Trailing Queen. Of beautiful trailing habit, fine for hanging baskets. Each 15c.