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IOWA SEED COMPANY, DES MOINES, IOWA. 49.

[image] CAPRICE NASTURTIUM.

GOOD VENTURE GERANIUM.
You can grow Geraniums from seed, and as they sport, the gardener is frequently rewarded by charming new varieties, and may obtain a novelty of much value, especially if this new strain of seed is used. When visiting the fields of a geranium specialist in California, we noticed one lot of many hundred plants which were particularly fine. The grower was hybridizing these for seed, and we made arrangements at once for the seed, paying more than a dozen times what ordinarily good seed would cost us. They are giant flowering, the florets are round and of most perfect form and borne in splendid trusses, some of them beiug [being] of immense size. They are beautiful crimson, scarlet, salmon, pink, rose, snowy white, and aureole. Start seed in the hotbed or shallow boxes of rich soil in a warm, sunny window, covering but one-eighth inch. Per pkt. 15c.

FOUNTAIN PLANT.
A handsome foliage plant of bright colors and attractive form. Pkt. 10c.

[image] GOOD VENTURE GERANIUM.

CAPRICE NASTURTIUM.
A profuse blooming, extra large flowered, climbing variety with beautiful dark foliage. The flowers are wonderfully rich and brilliant in markings--showing many combinations of coloring. It is appropriately named Caprice from its remarkable character of frequently having many various colored flowers on a single plant. Sometimes more than a dozen different colors or shades of flowers will be produced on a plant at the same time, from a very light creamy yellow, through all shades of yellow and red, to a dark velvety maroon. Per pkt. 10c; oz. 35c.

NEW DOUBLE CALLIOPSIS.
The old-fashioned single Calliopsis was always one of the most showy flowers for bedding, and the colors are so brilliant that the popular name "Bright Eyes" was given them. What will you say now to having a new double Calliopsis? Most attractive. They grow quickly from seed, blooming in a few weeks after seed is sown, and if flowers are removed as they begin to fade, the plants will be loaded with bloom throughout the summer and fall. It is of brightest golden yellow, distinctly marked with rich brown. Pkt. 10c.

[image] RAINBOW PANSY

ARCTOTIS GRANDIS.
One of the finest floral novelties of the season. It is a remarkably handsome annual which forms much-branched bushes 2 to 3 feet high, the foliage is soft and downy and of a whitish color; its flowers, borne on long stems, rising well above the foliage, are large and showy; the ray florets pure white on the upper surface, embellished with a narrow yellow zone at their base; the reverse of petals pale lilac-blue; the disc is light blue with slightly projecting white stamens; altogether a lovely flower. Pkt. 10c.

AFRICAN WATER LILIES.
These have been quite popular during the past few years. They are easily grown and bloom in 3 or 4 months from the time of sowing seed. Directions sent in packet. Mixed colors, red, white and blue. Pkt. 10[c].

NEW RAINBOW PANSIES.
The best novelty in pansies and certainly the most charming variety ever sent out. We have given it the name of New Rainbow, and consider it very appropriate owing to its beautiful irridescent [iridescent] colors. Our illustration shows three of the leading types of this mixture by which you will see the varied styles of variegation, but no illustration can do justice to its superior beauty. There is an almost endless variety of colors comprising all shades of the rainbow--blue, purple, crimson, brown, yellow, pink, red, white and black, beautifully marked, striped, veined, margined and blotched; the colors are more beautiful than any painter could depict. In a good sized bed you can readily find one hundred different varieties, but not a poor one or an inferior one. The flowers are of large size and perfect in form, nearly circular and most of them have a rich, velvety appearance; they will astonish and delight "pansy fanciers." Packet of 100 seeds 25c; large, strong plants of Rainbow Pansy, 50c dozen postpaid.

[image] MEXICAN BURNING BUSH.

MEXICAN BURNING BUSH.
This we consider one of the most ornamental border or hedge plants which has ever been brought out and it is sure to attract great attention. It is known botanically as Kochia Scoparia. It grows quickly from seed sown in the open ground. The plants are always of the rounded or globe-like form shown in our illustration. The plants branch freely, and the stems are clothed with slender light green leaves. Early in the fall the ends of the shoots are thickly set with small, bright scarlet flowers, the bushy plants resembling balls of fire. The plants are equally showy planted singly to show the round, ball-like form on all sides or grown in continuous rows. Per pkt. 10c.

CLIMBING MAIDEN HAIR FERN.
Adlumia Cirrhosa.--Has a striking resemblance to the foliage of the Maiden Hair Fern. It is a hardy biennial climber, growing readily from seed; foliage feathery, dainty and picturesque. Blooms second year; pink and white flowers. Plant in cool, moist place. Pkt. 10c.

[image] ARCTOTIS GRANDIS--THE AFRICAN LILAC DAISY.

NOTICE THE LAWN FLOWER MIXTURE DESCRIBED ON PAGE 41 OF THIS CATALOGUE.