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"I am certain that California before fifty years will be the great seed and bulb growing country of the jtfJcW.X "tS&hbe. ttfL 1 

 exact conditions necessary to grow seeds," etc.— Peter Henderson, 0882.) T^,"E l T s *Bl*" < >7~8i~T> 



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 Wholesale Trade List U.S.Dep^mmtof Agriculture. 



Seeds, Plants and Bulbs. 



DyLrs. Theodosia B. Shepherd, 



VENTURA - BY - THE - SEA, 

 CALIFORNIA. 



TERMS: — Five per cent discount on orders of $5.00 or upwards when accompanied 

 bycAsh. When contract orders are made special rates are given on quantity, and no 



FURTHER DISCOUNT MADE. 



No perishable articles sent C. O. D. 



All orders must be accompanied by cash, unless from well-known dealers, or good 

 security given; I cannot afford to take risks. 



No PL VNT ORDER FILLED FOR LESS THAN $3.00. 



Money to cover postage and express must be sent for plants or bulbs. State plainly 

 " -plants are to be shipped. 



Complaints, if any, are to be made within ten days after plants are received. 



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Seed INovelties for j^utumn ©elivery. 



aBUTILON TENNESONIAN Novelties of 1893. Thirteen beautiful new sorts mixed 

 .25 pkt'., $3.50 oz. 



"ALGERIAN STRANGER" or African mullen. This beautiful annual has fine large 

 wrinkled foliage and long spikes of beautiful golden yellow flowers with velvety 

 brown spots in center. The buds are a rich orange yellow, shining like satin and 

 folded like squares. A very showy plant and a splendid bloomer. .15 pkt., $1 oz. 



AMARYLLIS. Splendid new varieties; fresh seeds from August till October; choicest 

 mixed, white lined and penciled red, .50 hundred seeds; red with white, .40 hun.; 

 Formorissima, .'20 hun., $1.50 1000 seeds. 



BEGONIA FIBROUS, Sorts mixed. My collection of begonias is very extensive, em- 

 bracing 75 named sorts and as many grand new seedlings. The seed offered is part 

 from cross fertilized flowers, and also from flowers hybridized with tuberous and 

 rex sorts; the work has been done with great care and intelligence to improve and 

 beautify foliage and flowers, and the seed can be depended upon to give some beauti- 

 ful new varieties. Begonias are easily grown from seed Offer these seeds as one >f" 

 your novelties for 1.895. .50 pkt., $3.50 1-32 oz. 



BEGONIA SEMPERFLOREUS HYBRIDA, choice mixed. These begonias,, of which 

 Vernon is a type, are very beautiful; 'they form symmetrical round plants with 

 glossy shiny foliage of a light waxy green to dark green, shaded dark re i ; the flow- 



