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IOWA SEED COMPANY, DES MOINES, IOWA. 33

LEMON VERBENA.-A universal favorite, invaluable for its fragrant leaves. They will retain their fragrance for years when dried. As a plant for the garden or for pots it is equally valuable, its fine sprays of foliage and delicious fragrance making it desirable for bouquets, etc. In good rich soil each plant will cover a space of three to four feet in diameter. Each 10c.
MANETTA BICOLOR.-One of the handsomest little vines in existence. Is easily and quickly grown, blooms continuously and is well adapted for hanging baskets, pot culture, vases or bedding; brilliant scarlet, tipped with clear golden yellow, making it wonderfully attractive. Blooms constantly and profusely all summer out doors and all winter when taken into the house. Each [?]c. Large size 25c.
LANTANA.-We consider this one of the most satisfactory plants grown. It is the flower for everybody both for out door bedding, and blooming all winter in house. The flowers embrace all shades of orange, sulphur, lilac, red, pink, white, etc., changing from one distinct color to another as they increase in age and development. Each [?0] cents.
OTAHEITE ORANGE.-An extra fine pot plant, with glossy green leaves, the true fragrant orange blooms and abundant little bright oranges that will hang on the little bush like balls of gold for six months after they are ripe. They will bloom and fruit in a two inch pot. The fruit is very sweet and handsome. Could we have but one plant in our window it would be an Otaheite Orange. In beauty, grace and fragrance there is nothing like its deilcate, leafy sprays of bloom, so indescribably exquisite, dainty, lovely and desirable. Fine plants for blooming and fruiting at once. Each 20c.

"I received the seed and rose bushes all right. Accept my thanks for the extra rose bushes you put in.-Mrs. Eva Galloway, Snmner [Sumner?], Neb.

THE BABY PRIMROSE.-(Primula Forbesi.) It is a wonderfully free-blooming plant, commencing to flower as soon as born. The flowers are not more than a half an inch in diameter, but they are produced in such great abundance that a few plants present a dense mass of bloom from September until June. As a pot plant it cannot be surpassed, as it is a vigorous grower and thrives either in shade or sunshine. Each 10c.
MEXICAN PRIMROSE. - Is a perpetual bloomer, in flower all times of the year, a good specimen showing always from ten to thirty large saucer-shaped blossoms two to three inches across, of several beautiful colors. The plant is a free grower, succeeding in almost any soil or situation. Each 10c.
PRIMULA OBCONICA.-A lovely perpetual blooming primrose. Flowers of rose lilac, shading to white. Each 10c.
PALMS.-The most elegant and decorative of all plants and the low prices at which they are now offered place them within the reach of all. The following is the most desirable variety for house culture:
Latanla Borbanica.-Or Fan Palm. One of the most popular varieties grown, prized especially for its beautiful, large, fan-shaped leaves, of deep glossy green. 25c each. Large plants by express $1.00 to $10.00 each.
HELIOTROPE.-This well known plant does not need a description, as it is as well known as Geraniums. We have a choice stock of Heliotropes and can supply mixed varieties at 15c each, $1.00 per doz.
INDIA RUBBER TREE.-(Ficus.) During the past few years there has sprung up an immense demand for Rubber plants and they are highly valued everywhere for their tropical appearance. Leaves are very large, very thick and leathery and of a beautiful shining green color. It endures the dry air of living rooms remarkably well. Each 60c. Larger size $1.00 and $1.50 each.
PANSIES.-Pansy plants are a specialty with us and we sell immense numbers of them every year. Our plants are grown from the very best quality of seed and are strong and vigorous and have beautiful, large velvety flowers of all shades of colors known in pansies. Extra large strong plants 50c per doz., 4 doz. for $1.50 postpaid. Smaller sizes 25c per doz., 5 doz. for $1.00 pospaid [postpaid].

I received plants March 15th and they were in excellent condition, as fresh as if just packed, and such nice, large ones, too. I am greatly pleased with them. Many thanks for the extras, they were just what I would have selected. I shall remember you with all future plant orders.-Mrs. W. S. Rees, Ontario, Oregon.

NIGHT BLOOMING JASMINE.-World famous, deliciously fragrant Night Blooming Jasmine (or Jessamine), about which poets have sung and over which tourists, in its native land (Chili), have gone into ecstacies, and yet how few, comparatively, in our own country have ever seen it. It is a plant of strong, handsome growth, with handsome glossy green foliage and bears an immense number of small star-shaped flowers. One plant on our place this year had at one time fully 3,000 flowers, and you can well imagine that it was a grand sight, as the plant was about three feet high and thirty inches in diameter. It is specially adapted to house and window culture, as it begins to bloom when very small and continues to blossom freely as it becomes larger. Don't fail to try it, ladies, if you want something nice. It will please you. Each 15c, 3 for 40c.
PETUNIA.-Double -The brilliancy and variety of its colors, combined with the duration of its blooming period, render it invaluable for garden decoration. We devote special attention to the cultivation of the Double Petunia. We spare no pains or expense to obtain the best results, and as a consequence our stock is unsurpassed and includes best blotched aud fringed sorts. Mixed varieties. (See illustration.) Each 10c, doz. 90c.
Snow Queen.-White varieties are always scarce. This is an extra choice new double white Petunia which for profuse flowering qualities is unsurpassed and for keeping has no equal. Plant grows two feet high and often has two or three hundred flowers on at a time and blooms throughout the season. Each 15c.

[image] DOUBLE PETUNIA.

PENTSTEMON.-One of the most beautiful and hardy perennials. It is of graceful growth and produces large spikes of flowers as handsome as the most rare sorts of Gloxinias and greatly resembling them. Give good culture and it will bloom from June until October and attract much attention, as few persons have ever seen it. Each 15c; dozen $1.25.
MAMOTH BROWALLIA.-The most beautiful of all the Browallias. The plants grow only about a foot high, form a dense little bush, which is covered with an abundance of the most delightful sky blue flowers. For beds, borders or pots there is hardly another plant with blue flowers that compares with it. Each 10c; dozen $1.00.
ASTER PLANTS.-Grown from best seed of all varieties mixed. Many of our customers prefer to buy these plants instead of sowing the seed themselves. Per dozen 75c; per 100 $3.00, charges prepaid.
SHASTA DAISY.-The Shasta Daisy is one of the most marvelous productions in the flower line that has ever been brought to the notice of floriculturists. Its first qualification is hardiness; it can be grown out of doors by anybody where it is not cold enough to kill oak trees. Second, perennial, blooming better, more abundantly each succeeding season. Third, it can be multiplied rapidly by simple division, and it is not particular as to soil. Fourth, it blooms for several months. Fifth, the flowers are extremely large and graceful, averaging about four inches in diameter, with three or more rows of petals of the purest glistening whiteness, and are borne on single, stiff, wiry stems, nearly two feet in length. Sixth, the blooms when cut remain perfectly fresh and in good condition for two weeks or more. Strong plants, each 15c; dozen $1.50.

[image] NIGHT BLOOMING JASMINE.

Sea Foam Petunia.-A grand new double white fringed variety; unsurpassed among the new fringed sorts for purity of color, size, form and vigor of growth. Each 15c.
Fritz Petunia.-This is a decided novelty. The ground work of the flower is a deep purple which is beautifully marked and penciled with cream, white and pink, the whole forming a most gorgeous combination. Each 15c.
NEW ORNAMENTAL JAPAN PEPPER.-This is a surprisingly pretty house plant. Makes a round compact bush [1?] to 15 inches in height, with dark olive green leaves and covered all over with curious little heart-shaped fruits of various bright colors - purple, white, yellow, orange and red on the same bush. They remain on for months, so that the plant continues loaded with its pretty, bright colored fruits nearly all the time, and always attracts a great deal of attention. May be bedded out in summer. New and scarce and a very pleasing and attractive novelty. Each 15c.
GOLDEN LEMON THYME.-The leaves are curiously edged and variegated with golden-yellow, increasing in brilliancy of color as the autumn approaches. Desirable as a bedding plant. Each 10c.
ELECTRIC LIGHT PLANT.-A very showy plant belonging to the Cleome family which blooms constantly from July until killing frosts in October or November. Is very desirable either as specimen plants or for bedding. Grows 4 to 6 feet high, makes a large branching tree like plant each branch being tipped with bloom. Each 10c; dozen 90c.

[image] SHASTA DAISY.

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