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64. SEED CATALOGUE AND GARDEN GUIDE.

[image] FUCHSIA.

FUCHSIA.
Fine plants can easily be raised from the seed, which will bloom freely during the summer in a cool, moist situation in the open air. On the approach of frost in the fall, they can be taken up and planted in pots. A packet contains about 15 seeds. Finest double and single mixed. Pkt. 10c.

FREESIA.
REFRACTA ALBA.--Bears peculiar clusters of white flowers of the most delicious fragrance, which last a long time, even after being cut. Start seeds early, bulbs dry off in summer. Start them growing in the house in October and you will be pleased with them. They are easily grown. Pkt. 10c.

FORGET-ME-NOT.
Myosotis. Perennials. Bloom the first year from the seed. Pretty plants with neat little star shaped flowers.
ALPESTRIS.--Mixed colors. Pkt. 5c.
PALUSTRIS.--True forget-me-not; blue. Pkt. 7c.
VICTORIA.--A novelty, and the best variety for pot culture. Dwarf, globular habit; beautiful sky-blue flowers with center double. Pkt. 7c.

FOXGLOVE. (Digitalis.)
Showy for back-grounds and borders, and are very beautiful when planted among shrubs; will thrive in any ordinaay [ordinary] garden soil. Fine mixed colors. Pkt. 3c.

[image] FREESIA.

[image] FOUNTAIN PLANT.

FOUNTAIN PLANT.
This handsome pyramidal or fountain-shaped plant is a variety of amaranthus which deserves a place in every garden. It is easily grown by starting the seeds early in the house, or sowing them in the open ground in May. It droops most gracefully, and the leaves are brilliantly banded and tipped with orange, carmine, purple, crimson and gold, forming bright colored plumes. Pkt. 7c.

GODETIA.
Handsome and showy annuals about one foot high, of dwarf, compact growth bearing freely large flowers 3 to 4 inches across, of exquisite colors.
LADY SATIN ROSE.--Brilliant deep rose pink, surface shines like satin. Pkt. 5c.
MIXED VARIETIES.--All colors. Pkt. 5c.

GLADIOLUS.
A well known flower, easily grown from seed, and we should like to have all our customers try raising them in this way. This seed is of our own growing, from the best varieties, and will produce an assortment sure to please any lover of flowers. Bloom the second year from seed. Pkt. 8c.

GAILARDIA.
The Blanket Flower. Exceedingly beautiful annuals, making very showy plants, one to two feet high. Grown in mass they are especially effective.
PERFECTION MIXED.--An improved sort, producing very double flowers as round as a perfect ball in the most varied and pleasing colors. The flowers are borne on long, slender stems and when cut will keep for over a week. Pkt. 5c.
GRANDIFLORA.--Splendid new perennial varieties, with very large flowers, dark crimson centres, marked with rings of many brilliant colors. It is a very satisfactory flower, making a nice showing in the yard. Pkt. 10c.

[image] GLADIOLUS.

DAHLIAS.
The dahlia is well known, but few are aware that if the seed is sown early in the spring they will bloom the first year.
NEW TOM THUMB.--Very pretty little plants, only 12 to 15 inches high, of a bushy habit of growth, and they come into flower very early. Showy, single flowers of many colors. Pkt. 7c.
DOUBLE MIXED.--Our seed is of the finest strain, and produces magnificent, large, very double flowers of the richest shades. Pkt. 8c.
SINGLE MIXED.--Pkt. 5c.

GERANIUM.
These favorite plants are easily raised from seed, which will frequently reward the cultivator with charming new varieties. Plants from seed started early in the house, will bloom the first summer in the garden. The seeds come up irregularly, some come up in a few days and others in many days, perhaps weeks. The plants grow rapidly, and are strong and thrifty. Packets contain about 40 seeds.
CHOICE MIXED.--Seed saved from the best varieties, mixed. Try it. Pkt. 5c.

[image] GERANIUM.

GOOD VENTURE.--A greatly improved strain of geranium seed grown by a specialist, which we are sure will delight anyone. Pkt. 15c.

[images] Grass Pink.

GRASS PINKS.
The hardy and pretty clove-scented flowers which were so much loved by our grandmothers. Their fragrance is quickly noticed by any one passing by the yard where they are grown, before seeing the flowers. There has been quite a call for these among our customers, and for several years we have tried to obtain seed of this old garden favorite and have at last succeeded in obtaining a fine crop of seed. The flowers range from pure white to a dark pink, most of them, however, being a clear, delicate pink color. A hardy perennial very desirable for borders. Per pkt. 5c.

HOLLYHOCK.
No garden flower is more showy or admired. Start the seeds in a box in the house in February or March, and about May 1st transfer to a permanent place in garden where they will produce elegant spikes of flowers.
DOUBLE PURE WHITE.--Large, clear, pure white flowers about three inches in diameter. They are as handsome as camellas in cut flower work, and are highly valued by florists. Pkt. 10c.

[image] NEW PRIZE DOUBLE HOLLYHOCKS.

CHATER'S PRIZE DOUBLE MIXED.--The illustration conveys but a faint idea of a great beauty of the magnificent double flowers three to four inches across, and all of the brightest colors. The flowers are quite as beautiful and perfect as those of the Camelia; they are massed completely around the spikes. A mixture of seventeen prize varieties, including all colors and shades known. Pkt. 10c.
FINE MIXED.--Contains a good variety. Pkt. 5c.
ALLEGHENY MAMMOTH FRINGED.--An entirely new and distinct variety which has attracted great attention. Flowers single, semi-double and double, of rich colors and fine form. Pkt. 10c.