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IOWA SEED COMPANY, DES MOINES, IOWA. 61.

[image] NEW DOUBLE FIREBALL DIANTHUS.

CALENDULA.--Fine Mixed.--Belongs to the well known marigold family. Many nice varieties and when planted together make a showy bed. Pkt. 3c.
COBOEA, SCANDENS.--Magnificent climber, of rapid growth and beautiful blue flowers. The seed should be planted edgewise. Pkt. 10c.
CURIOUS CACTI.--The seed we furnish is collected from the choicest varieties. Easily grown from seed planted in a box of clean sand. Pkt. 10c.
DAHLIAS.--New Tom Thumb.--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. If the seed is sown early in the spring they will bloom the first year. Pkt. 8c.
DOLICHOS.--(Hyacinth Bean.)--Mixed Colors.--A rapid growing annual climber, flowering freely in clusters, followed by ornamental pods. Fine for arbors or porches. Pkt. 5c.
Princess Helene.--A beautiful white, sweet scented variety. Pkt. 10c.
DELPHINUM--(Perennial Larkspur.)--Mixed Colors.--One of our most showy and useful plants, producing splendid spikes of flowers in profusion throughout the summer. If sown early they bloom the first year from seed; hardy perennials. Pkt. 5c.
ESCHSCHOLTZIA.--(California Poppy.)--Single Mixed.--Showy summer flowering plants; large saucer shaped flowers of striking brilliancy in the sunlight. Mixed colors. Pkt. 5c.

[image] ESCHSCHOLTZIA.

Golden West.--A giant flower from 3½ to 6 inches across, of a rich golden yellow color. Pkt. 8c.
Double Mixed.--Pretty. Pkt. 5c.
FREESIA.--Refracta Alba.--Bears peculiar clusters of white flowers of the most delicious fragrance. Start seeds early, bulbs dry off in summer. Start them growing in the house in October and you will be pleased with them. Pkt. 10c.
FOX-GLOVE.--(Digitalis.)--Showy for backgrounds and borders, and are very beautiful; mixed colors. Perennial. Pkt. 3c.
FEVERFEW.--Free-flowering plants, succeeding in any garden soil; a fine bedding plant or for pot culture; blooms until frost. Double-white flowers. Pkt. 5c.
GLADIOLUS.--A well known flower, easily grown from seed, blooming the second year. Pkt. 8c.
GAILARDIA.--Perfection.--Improved sort, producing very double flowers, round as a perfect ball, in most varied and pleasing colors. Pkt. 5c.
Grandiflora.--Splendid new perennial varieties, with very large flowers, dark crimson centers, marked with rings of many brilliant colors. Pkt. 10c.
GILIA.--Finely cut foliage and clusters of small and delicate flowers, white, blue, lilac and rose. Mixed colors. Pkt. 5c.

CENTAUREA.--Cyanus.--Called the Ragged Sailor, Corn Fower [Flower], Blue Bottle, Bachelor's Buttons and Bluet; very old favorite garden annual, flowering freely in almost any situation. Mixed colors. Pkt. 3c.
Cyanus Double.--A most charming sport from the above. Flowers very large and globular. Continuous bloomer. Pkt. 8c.
Marguerite.--This is one of the handsomest novelties ever brought out. The large flowers are of the purest white, deliciously scented, exquisitely lacinated [laciniated], freely produced. Pkt. 10c.
Gymnocarpa.--Foliage finely cut and silvery. It is perhaps the best white leaved plant for bedding purposes. Pkt. 5c.
CAMPANULA.--An old favorite perennial, bearing an abundance of handsome flowers which almost hide the plant.
Cup and Saucer.--A beautiful variety. The bell is nearly four inches in diameter, presenting the form of a saucer, hence its name. Mixed colors. Pkt. 10c.
Canterbury Bells.--Popular variety. Double and single mixed. Pkt. 6c.
Mixed Varieties.--Choice mixture of all the best double and single varieties, suited for growing together. Pkt. 5c.
CINERARIA.--Large Flowering Mixed.--Very showy plants for pot culture. Pkt. 15c.
COLEUS.--Rainbow Mixed.--The most popular of foliage plants; the finest sort. Pkt. 15c.
Fine Mixed.--Many varieties. Pkt. 10c.
CYPRESS VINE.--A beautiful rapid climber with delicate, dark green foliage, and an abundance of star-shaped scarlet and white blossoms.
Scarlet.--Very bright. Pkt. 5c.
White.--Pretty in contrast with scarlet. Pkt. 5c.
Mixed Colors.--The above mixed. Pkt. 3c, oz. 30c.
New Ivy Leaved.--Entirely distinct from all other varieties, both in flowers and foliage. The ivy-like leaves make a dense screen from which the pretty fiery, orange-scarlet flowers stand out in countless numbers. Pkt. 7c.
DATURA.--Cornucopia.--A showy, tropical appearing plant. Flowers 8 inches long by 5 inches across the mouth; fragrant. Pkt. 10c.
Double Mixed.--Pkt. 5c.
DAISIES.--Giant Snowball.--Unusually large double flowers. Pure white. Pkt. 10c.
Best Double Mixed.--Pkt. 5c.
DIANTHUS.--The Dianthus, or Chinese Pink has long been a great garden favorite. It is in fact, one of our most useful plants, furnishing abundance of gay pretty flowers. Plants from seed grow and bloom very quickly.
Fireball.--A beautiful, very dwarf and campact [compact] growing pink, only 10 to 15 inches high. Flowers are perfectly double and color a rich, velvety blood red. The plants begin to flower shortly after they are up, and bloom profusely all summer and fall. Pkt. 10c.

[image] FUCHSIA.

Snowball--A fit companion to the above. Flowers large, pure white, double, finely fringed and of perfect form. Pkt. 8c.
Crown.--The flowers average 6 inches in circumference, are densely double and produced in succession during the whole summer. Colors from purest satiny white to red shades so deep and brilliant the eye can scarcely penetrate their depths. Pkt. 7c.
Mourning Cloak.--Very dark mahogany color, almost black, each petal edged with a margin of pure white. Pkt. 5c.
Single Heddewigi.--Finest selected single mixed. One of the most showy of the pink family. Pkt. 5c.
Double Diadem Pink.--Superb double flower. Hieroglyphically marked, like the original Chinese pinks, in the middle down to base of each petal, magnificent in color and variety. Pkt. 7c.
Chinenis.--(Double Chinese Pink.)--Finest double mixed. Pkt. 3c.
Mixed Varieties and Colors.--Pkt. 5c.
FUCHSIA.--Mixed Colors.--Fine plants can be easily 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, they can be taken up and planted in pots. A packet contains about 15 seeds. Finest double and single mixed. Pkt. 10c.
FERNS.--Can be grown from the spores, or seed, by sowing in a very moist place under glass. Pkt. 15c.
GLOXINIAS.--Charming greenhouse plants of dwarf habit. Their flowers are produced in greatest profusion; and of the most exquisite and gorgeous colors. Seed should be started under glass. Extra choice mixed. Pkt. 25c.

[image] EUPHORBIA VARIEGATA.

GYPSOPHILA.--Delicately pretty little flowers sometimes called "Baby's Breath," or "Angel's Breath." Graceful and easily grown. Pkt. 5c.
GLOBE AMARANTH.--(Gomphrena.)--Mixed Colors--Popularly known as "Bachelor Buttons," handsome, globular heads of flowers, which if cut when well matured, will retain their beauty through the winter; colors purple, white, flesh colored orange and striped. Pkt. 5c.
EUPHORBIA.--Variegata.--Strong, tall growing annuals; the flowers are inconspicuous, the foliage however, is ornamental, veined and margined with white. Pkt. 5c.
Heterophylla--Of branching bush-like form, with smooth, glossy-green leaves which, about mid-summer, become a beautiful orange scarlet, presenting a striking and brilliant appearance. Pkt. 10c.
GRASS PINKS.--The hardy and pretty clove-scented flowers which were so much loved by our grandmothers. The flowers range from pure white to pink. A hardy perennial. Pkt. 5c.

[images] Grass Pink.

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