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Nasturtiums.
These may well be classed among our most showy and handsome annuals. They are of very easy culture, and make a continuous show of bloom. Excellent for corsage bouquets. The following are the best varieties, which all should try:
Cloth Of Gold. Foliage is a clear bright yellow. The plant is of dwarf, compact habit, flowers scarlet. Pkt. 7c, oz. 25c.
Lady Bird.-Of dwarf, neat compact habit of growth. Flowers rich golden yellow, each petal barred with a bright vein of bright ruby crimson. Pkt. 5c, oz. 30c.
Empress Of India.-Of dwarf, bushy habit, the leaves of a dark, purplish blue color, making a suitable background for the brilliant crimson-scarlet flowers. Its profusion of bloom and dazzling richness of color are remarkable. Pkt. 5c, oz. 25c.
[Image: Drawing of a mixed selection of blooms, Caption-Imperial Nasturtiums Mixed.]
Aurora.-A magnificent variety of new color. The plant forms a perfect globe, and is literally covered with flowers, completely hiding the foliage when in full bloom. The flower is of deep chrome yellow, the lower petals blotched with purplish carmine and marked with bright carmine veining. Pkt. 5c, oz. 25c.
Chameleon.-The flowers of this new Tom Thumb nasturtium are in color crimson, bronze and gold, bordered and flamed, changing in hue almost daily, hence named "Chameleon." Pkt. 7c, oz. 35c.
Pearl.-A most charming dwarf white variety. Pkt. 5c, oz. 30c.
King Theodore.-The darkest color known in nasturtiums-deep scarlet-maroon. Pkt. 5c, oz. 25c.
Gay And Festive.-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, oz. 35c.
Imperial Mixed. - Includes about twenty of the dwarf varieties, selected from both American and foreign growers; this when planted in beds, produces a mass of colors. Pkt. 5c, oz. 20c.
Dwarf Varieties Mixed.-Pkt. 3c, oz. 10c.
Climbing Nasturtiums.
King Of The Blacks.-A very handsome climbing variety, with flowers of a very rich dark brown, almost black. Pkt. 5c, oz. 25c.
Spitfire.-A most brilliant new variety of bright cardinal red. A most glowing color. Pkt. 5c, oz. 25c.
Madam Gunter's Hybrids.- For richness and great variety of colors this is unsurpassed. Striped, shaded and blotched in an indescribable manner. Pkt. 5c, oz. 25c.
Napoleon III.-A beautiful climbing variety, with golden yellow flowers striped with rosy scarlet. Pkt. 5c, oz. 30c.
[Image: Drawing, closeup of an open bloom, Caption-Chameleon Nasturium. Copyrighted 1892 By W.A.G & C.]
Tall Varieties Mixed.-Pkt. 3c, oz. 10c.
Oenothera. (Evening Primrose.)
An interesting half-hardy annual, opening its flowers toward evening with a snap that is sure to attract attention, especially of the children. Mixed colors. Pkt. 6c.
Perilla.
Nankinensis. Has a broad, serrated leaf of purplish mulberry color, and 18 inches or more in height. Very desirable for the center of a bed of ornamental leaved plants, and also for a low screen or hedge. Pkt. 5c.

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Nicotiana.
Affinis.-Of all the varieties of tobacco which are grown for their sweet scented flowers this is the best. The plant is literally covered with large, white, star shaped flowers, which, after being cut, will remain perfect for a week. A few plants will perfume the whole yard or garden. Pkt. 5c.
[Image: Drawing of several blooms and buds, Caption-Nicotiana.]
[Image: Drawing of several blooms on a single stem, Caption-Double Portulaca.]
Portulaca.
Grandiflora Single Mixed.-This old favorite is brightest in the hot, dry weather when other flowers are drooping. They are of almost every conceivable shade of color, and will make one of the brightest spots in the garden. Large flowered. A splendid mixture. Pkt. 3c.
Double Mixed.-Very handsome, double as a rose, and contains a color and shading unknown in the single. Our seed is extra choice and will produce sixty to seventy-five per cent of flowers as double as the most perfect rose. Pkt. 10c.
Petunias.
Surely there is no garden complete without a bed of elegant petunias. They commence flowering early, and continue a mass of bloom throughout the whole season until killed by frost; easily cultivated, requiring rich soil and a sunny situation. Of late years the single striped, mottled and double varieties have been greatly improved, and the cut below gives but a faint idea of their great variety and beauty. The double varieties require more care and should be started in the house.
Grandiflora Mixed.-Very large, elegant flowers; a great improvement and fully twice the size of the old sorts, with the most beautiful shades of crimson, white, rose, maroon, etc., blotched, striped, veined, bordered, marked and fringed. Pkt. of 200 seeds 10c.
[Image: Drawing of a cluster of different flower blooms, Caption-Iowa Seed Co.'s Single And Double Petunias.]
Double Inimitable.-A splendid mixture. Our seed is Benary's best, and will produce a large percentage of fine double-flowering plants. Pkt. 25c.
Giant Fancy Flowering.-A grand new strain and the most beautiful of all. Unquestionably the finest selection of petunias in existence. Of enormous size (4 to 5 inches across), and exquisitely ruffled and fringed; of colors, markings, veinings, blotchings and stripings in the most grotesque and beautiful combinations. If you like beautiful petunias include this in your order. Pkt. 20c.
Fine Mixed -Best of older sorts, carefully mixed. Contains some extra fine striped and blotched varieties. Pkt. 3c.
Passion Flower.
Mammoth.-One of the most desirable of all climbing plants. Sow seed early, and if well cared for and seasons are favorable, vines will send out magnificent blossoms the first year. Its color is odd, comprising a combination of blue, pink and white, which is beautiful, very large and showy, of a feathery and velvet like appearance. Vines begin to throw out blossoms when only one or two feet high, followed in the fall by beautiful golden fruit about the size of a hen's egg. If left in the open ground in winter it must have some protection. Pkt. 5c.
[Image: Drawing of a vining flowering plant with blooms and buds, Caption-Passion Flower.]