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Seed Catalogue and Garden Guide.

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Wild Cucumber.
Sweet William.
Wistaria.
Whitlavia.
Henderson's Mammoth Verbena.
Platycodon
Wallflower.

Wild Cucumber.

A well known vine common in many sections, and the quickest climber known for covering verandas, old trees and houses, trellises, etc., never suffering from the heat, but retaining its fresh and lively green color; never infested with insects, and very profuse in bloom. It will sow itself and come up every year in the same place. Pkt. 10c.

Sunflower. (See Helianthus.)

Sweet William.

Hardy plants about one foot high, of extreme richness and variety of color, and also deliciously sweet-scented; for clumps or borders no plant can surpass this old favorite.

Single Varieties Mixed.--Pkt. 5c.

Double Varieties Mixed.--Pkt. 10c.

Torenia.

Fournieri.--Beautiful free flowering, trailing plants, well suited for baskets, vases, and in moist situations out of doors. A very handsome plant, well worthy of a trial. Pkt. 10c.

Thunbergia.

Rapid growing, free blooming climbers. Well suited for house culture, baskets or vases; mixed. Pkt. 5c.

Tropaeolum.

One of the most desirable of the annual climbers; easily grown in any common garden soil; produces an abundance of flowers of handsome shades of various bright colors. Many varieties mixed. Pkt. 5c.

Peregrinum.--(Canary Bird Flower.) Curious bright yellow flowers, resembling canary birds. Pkt. 10c.

Stevia.

Serrata.--Produce an abundance of pretty white flowers early in fall. Pkt. 5c.

Statice.

Sinnata Hybrida.--Produce their small flowers in panicles; will hold their color when dry, and are very valuable to work up with the everlastings; hardy and of easy culture; fine mixed. Pkt. 4c.

Vinca.

Handsome bushy plants producing freely, round, single flowers one and one-half inches across, suitable for pot culture and sunny flower beds; tender perennial, one and one-half foot . Mixed colors. Pkt. 5c.

Wistaria.

One of the most popular hardy vines climbing to a height of fifty feet or more. It is a perennial and easily grown from seed. Pkt. 10c.

Viola.

Odorata.--The well known sweet violet. All colors mixed. Seeds start very slowly. Pkt. 10c.

Whitlavia.

Delicate and pretty but perfectly hardy plants, with drooping clusters of bell-shaped flowers. They thrive in cool, moist situations; free bloomers, and for partially shaded places they are very dessirable.

Grandiflora.--Mixed colors. Pkt. 5c.

Xeranthemum.

Free flowering and easily grown, making a handsome bed.

Double White.--Pkt. 5c.

All Kinds Mixed.--Pkt. 5c.

Verbena.

The verbena is deservedly a universal favorite, unrivaled in the splendor of its dazzling brilliancy of flower. A constant bloomer, and if grown from seed has a sweet fragrance. Treat as tender annuals. Plant seed in boxes or under glass in March, and transplant when a few inches high. In this way the verbena can be grown from seed as early as any annual, and will produce much stronger plants than cuttings. Seed sown in the open ground will flower in August.

Hendersons New Mammoth.--When well grown every flower truss measures over nine inches in circumference, while the single florets are as large as a twenty-five cent piece; more vigorous in growth than the ordinary verbena. Contains a great assortment of colors, the above illustration showing a flower of dark scarlet with a pure white eye. Pkt. 15c.

Black.--Nearly a coal black with a white eye. Pkt. 10c.

Candidissima.--Large trusses of pure white flowers; beautiful. Pkt. 10c.

Defiance.--A true scarlet; extra fine. Pkt. 10c.

Yellow.--Splendid novelty which it will pay every flower lover to try. Pkt. 10c.

Extra Choice Mixed.--From the finest German collection of named sorts. Pkt. 10c.

Fine Mixed.--Contains a nice variety of colors. Pkt. 5c.

Wahlenbergia.

Grandiflora Mixed.--(Also called Platycodon.) Of wonderful beauty and attracts much attention on our seed farm. It is a perennial plant blooming the first year from seed, which should be sown early in open ground. They bloom very profusely and continuously all summer, if flowers are removed as soon as they begin to fade. The flowers are of large size, being 2 1/2 to 3 inches in diameter, and the various shades of light blue, lavender and white. Plants increase in size from year to year and are sure to please. Our seed is saved from the best flowers. Pkt. 10c.

Wallflower.

Greatly prized for their exquisite fragrance. They grow in long, brilliantly colored spikes of flowers. There are many varieties. Plants removed to pots in autumn will produce an abundance of delightfully fragrant flowers.

Double Varieties Mixed.--Pkt 12c.

Single Varieties Mixed.--Pkt 5c.