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IOWA SEED COMPANY, DES MOINES, IOWA. 55.

McKinley Day Collection
Of Carnations.
One of the most beautiful customs which has ever been established is the observance of a memorial day for our beloved martyred president, Wm. McKinley. If you are in any large city on this day it seems as though almost everyone was wearing a carnation, President McKinley's favorite flower. Carnations vie with roses in beauty and rich coloring and they are of easy culture and bloom freely both in summer and winter.
McKINLEY.--A large, handsome flower of clear beautiful shining pink, very showy and attractive either for wearing or for vases. Blooms early and constantly and the flowers are of fine spicy fragrance. Each 15c.
ROOSEVELT.--One of the richest, deep velvety crimson flowers ever sent out. The color is so deep that it shades into maroon. Plant is a vigorous, healthy grower, free from any disease whatever. Flower of beautiful form; made up of a great number of petals into a full round flower. It is one of the most perfect dark colored carnations ever sent out and is of such good shape and color that it is sure to be popular. Each 15c.
GOLD STANDARD, or Golden Beauty.--A novelty and by far the best yellow carnation ever sent out. Flowers are extra large, three inches in diameter, well filled and double to the center. They are borne on long stems, thus making them of greater value. Color is a beautiful clear lemon yellow slightly tipped with pink. Very fragrant. Plant is a strong vigorous grower and a good bloomer. Each 15c.
IMPROVED AMERICAN FLAG.--This improved sort is of very strong robust growth, a profuse bloomer, bearing its large flowers almost continuously. The showy flowers are pure white, elegantly striped with bright scarlet. Delightfully fragrant. Each 10c.
PROSPERITY.--Unquestionably the largest carnation of any color ever offered, the flowers measuring 4 inches in diameter and have a delightful clove fragrance. The color is a pure white, overlaid with shadings of soft pink. This may well be called the "American Beauty," among carnations, commanding a higher price in the cut flower market than any other variety. Each 20c.

[image] OSTRICH PLUME FERN (PIERSON).

One plant each of the above five Carnation Novelties for only 50 cts.

[image] NIGHT BLOOMING JASMINE.

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MCKINLEY CARNATION.

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) [Chile] have gone into ecstacies [ecstasies], and yet how few, comparatively, in our own country have ever seen it. It is of the easiest culture and still somewhat difficult for the ordinary florist to propagate and perhaps this is the reason why they are not better known. It is a plant of strong, shrubby growth with handsome glossy green foliage and bears an immense number of small star shaped flowers. One plant on our place 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. The delightful fragrance is dispensed only at night. It begins to bloom when very small. Each 15c, 3 ror [for] 40c.

OSTRICH PLUME OR PIERSON FERN.
This grand new fern we believe is the finest plant novelty introduced for many years. It resembles the Boston Fern in some ways, but is indescribably more beautiful, and being equally hardy and easily grown, will at once take its place as one of the grandest and most beautiful decorative plants for house and conservatory culture ever produced. Its feathery, plume-like fronds more nearly resemble the graceful ostrich plume than anything else in nature to which we can compare them. One has to see a plant in growth to appreciate its beauty and value. The fronds grow broad and heavy, measuring at least six inches across when fully developed, increasing in beauty as they develop. This plant has received a gold medal on six different occasions at plant exhibitions and is conceded by everyone to be the fern of the century. It is a sport from the well known Boston Fern, differing from it in that the pinnae of the Boston Fern frond is subdivided into separate pinnae making each a perfect frond. So elegant are the large plants that we frequently sell two-year-old specimens at $3.00 to $5.00 each. Nice young plants 25c each. A few fine specimen plants, $1.00 each, by express, not prepaid.

ELEGANTISSIMA FERN.
This is a "sport" from the preecding [preceding], in which the plumy peculiarity of the original form is even more distinctly developed, the side pinnae being again sub-divided and standing at right angles to the midrib, making both sides of the frond equally beautiful, while at the same time the plant is of much more compact habit, growing only one-half as tall, but with fronds nearlg [nearly] twice as wide, making it a much more desirable plant for all purposes. They are quite rare. Each 50c.

ANNA FOSTER FERN.
Greatly resembles the Pierson Fern, but is more easily propagated and can be furnished at a lower price. One of the most charming plants for the house as it is very little affected by gas or the dry atmosphere of the ordinary living rooms. While the fronds of the Pierson Fern are broader and more showy, still, this is a plant whose delicate, graceful beauty appeals to everybody and we consider it one of the most desirable sorts ever sent out. Each 20c.

REMEMBER WE GROW ALL THE PLANTS WE SELL AND THEY ARE THE BEST MONEY CAN BUY.