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Seed Catalogue and Garden Guide.
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Striped Convolvulus.
Cypress Vine.
Cyclamen.
Giant Snowball Daisy.
Datura Cornucopia
Mourning Pink.
Heddewigi.

Convolvulus.

Popularly known as Morning Glories.

Improved Climbing.--(Major)--Everybody knows the common morning glory, but many of the choice new varieties contained in this mixture are indeed rare. It will be found to include the marbled and striped sorts, varieties with marbled and laciniated foliage, the ivy-leaved kinds--in short--the largest variety of morning glories ever offered in one package. Flowers of large size, and plants climb to a height of twenty to forty feet in one season from seed, producing thousands of flowers. Pkt. 7c, oz. 30c.

Major Striped.--Large, handsome flowers of great beauty. On a white ground they are variously striped and blotched with red, blue and rose. Pkt. 5c.

Black.--A new color, and surely none could be so odd and unique as black, the rarest color among flowers. It does not differ from the ordinary morning glory in any other respect. The flowers are of large size and freely produced. Pkt. 10c.

Major Mixed.--Ordinary mixture. Pkt. 2c, oz. 10c.

Minor.--(Dwarf Morning Glory)--These beautiful bush morning glories grow only about one foot high; the flowers are reely borne, and, if pleasant, remain open all day. The plant spreads with much regularity in all directions, and a bed of them is a beautiful object throughout the summer. Mixed colors. Pkt. 5c.

Cypress Vine.

A beautiful rapid climber, with delicate, dark green feathery foliage, and an abundance of bright, star-shaped scarlet and white blossoms, which in the bright sunshine present a mass of beauty.

New Ivy-Leaved.--Entirely distinct from all other varieties, both in flowers and foliage. The ivy-like leaves make a dense screen from which the pretty fiery orange scarlet flowers stand out in countless numbers. It is quick growing and sure to please all who try it. Pkt. 10c.

Scarlet.--Very bright. Pkt. 5c.

White.--Pretty in contrast with scarlet. Pkt. 5c.

Mixed Colors.--Pkt. 5c.

Cyclamen.

Persicum.--One of the handsomest of greenhouse plants. Foliage is handsomely marked and the flowers beautiful. Seed should be sown under glass in well rotted compost and sand. Tuberous rooted, blooming second year. Best strain. Mixed colors. Pkt. 15c.

Daisy.

Popular perennials, blooming the first year from seed; very handsome for borders or pots; best double mixed. Pkt. 8c.

New Giant Snowball.--A most charming variety of this handsome little flower. It has unusually large, double flowers on very long stems, making it very valuable for cutting. Color, a pure snow white. Don't fail to give this little beauty a fair trial, and it will be sure to please you. Pkt. 15c.

Diamond Flower.

A very pretty little plant covered with numerous small shining flowers. Pkt. 10c.

Datura.

A large, strong growing plant, with trumpet-shaped flowers, and bearing blooms of large size.

Cornucopia.--A magnificent novelty of striking beauty. The plant is of robust habit, about three feet high. The stems, of dark purplish maroon, shine as if varnished. The flowers average eight inches long by five inches across the mouth, are formed of two to three flowers growing one with in the other, the interiors being glistening French white, contrasting beautifully with the mottled royal purple exteriors. The flowers are delightfully fragrant. Seeds started early in the house will produce plants that will flower from early summer until frost. Often from 200 to 300 flowers are borne in a season, this novelty is extremely beautiful. Pkt. 10c.

Nightingale.--A very profuse large flowering sort of pure satiny white, very handsome flowers four or five inches in diameter and 8 to 10 inches long. Pkt. 10c.

Double Varieties Mixed.--Pkt. 5c.

Dianthus.

The dianthus, or Chinese pink, has long been a great favorite. It is, in fact, one of our most useful plants, furnishing abundance of gay and pretty flowers until frozen in with the earth and covered by drifting snows. They live over winter and bloom as well the second year as the first. They are quite as pretty for pot plants in the house as carnations. Indeed, their variety of color is more varied and pretty, while they are freer bloomers. Plants from seed grow and bloom very quickly. We know we are doing our customers a kindness by urging them to plant the dianthus for both garden and pots.

Mourning Pink.--A magnificent new variety, with very double large flowers of a very dark mahogany, almost black, each petal edged with a clear cut margin of pure white. Pkt. 10c.

Heddewigi.--Finest selected single mixed. One of the most showy of the pink family. Pkt. 5c.