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8 -- THEODOSIA, BS. SHEPHERD: COMPANY 
General List of Tested Flower Seeds 
AGATHEA Coelestis. Blue Daisy. A lovely 
perennial, bearing numerous’ sky blue 
flowers always in bloom, fine for bedding 
and also for pot plants. 10c pkt. 
ABUTILONS, California Bells. This mix- 
ture is saved from choice named varieties. 
Flowers all colors and shades. All grace- 
, ful and artistic. 10c pkt. 
AGAPANTHUS  Umbellatus. 
\ Lily. Choice mixed. 10c pkt. 
TIGONON  Leptopus. A magnificent 
climber. The flowers exquisite pink. 10c¢ 
pkt. 
ALCES. Splendid mixed. 10c. 
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ARCTOTUS Grande. A pretty marguerite- 
like annual. White with blue center. 10c. 
ASPARAGUS Sprengerii. Fine for hanging 
baskets and for house plant. 10c. 
Decumbens. Another very pretty 
-drooping Asparagus. 10c pkt. 
Defiexus Scandens. A distinct and beau- 
tiful variety, fine for decoration and effec- 
tive for baskets, vases or drooping over 
walls in courts. The stems are wiry with 
dainty, arching branches from which grow 
the pretty light green filmy leaves. 15c pkt. 
Robustus. A new variety of climbing 
asparagus from Europe, of much more ro- 
bust habit than plumosus. Equally fine for 
decoration and valuable outside. Grows very 
fast and tall. 10c pkt. 
A charming climber with 
Jeaves that are finer than fronds of some 
delicate fern. A beautiful vine for the house, 
invaluable for bouquets and effective decor- 
ation. 15¢c pkt. 3 
ASTER, Peony Flowered Perfection. Splen- 
did mixed. 10¢ pkt. 
Giant Comet, The Bride. Delicate Blush 
with tinge of mauve. Pure White—Very 
beautiful. 10e pkt. 
American Branching. Pure white, lav- 
ender, rose, crimson, blue and purple. 10¢ 
pkt. Mixed 10c. 
ANCHUSA, Capensis. Resembles a fine large 
Forget-Me-Not, but deeper and brighter 
blue. It is a fine continuous bloomer, 
especially in winter. An exquisite blue. 10c 
pkt. 
AUSTRALIAN PEA VINE. A perennial Vine. 
Invaluable where rapid growth and a 
dense screen are desired. 10c pkt. 
Blue African 
filmy 
Begonias Our Specialty 
Begonias are easily grown from _ seed, 
especially the semperflorens class, which 
begin blooming when only two inches high. 
They make fine bedding plants, giving a 
mass of bloom the entire season. Stand the 
sun well, require light rich soil, and plenty 
of water. 
Semperflorens Hybrida. Mixed 10c pkt. 
Rex. Splendid mixed. 15c pkt. 
GNONIA Tweediana. 
BALLOON VINEs« A graceful, pretty vine, 
that bears small, white flowers and in- 
flated seed pods. For rapid growth it is 
unexcelled. 5c pkt. 
BELLIS Perennis Maxima. Double daisy. 
Longfellow. Rose colored. Snowball. Pure 
White. 10c. Mixed 10c pkt. The three for 
25C. : 
A charming vine 
with handsome foliage and beautiful, large 
golden yellow fiowers. 10c¢ pkt. 
WALLIA, Speciosa Major. A beautiful 
summer flowering plant for beds, equally 
valuable for pot culture in winter. Grows 
about one foot high; flowers from one to 
two inches across, color a brilliant indigo 
blue with white throat. 10c pkt. 
BYRONOPSIS LACENOSA. A fine annual 
climber of the gourd family, with hand- 
some lobed foliage and which bears yel- 
low flowers and green cherry-like gourds 
which turn red and white. 5c pkt. 
Mrs. Shepherd’s Grand Fancy Cosmos 
the Finest in the World - 
Flowers surpassingly beautiful. Immense, 
measuring from 3% to 5 inches across, white, 
pink, mauve and crimson. Like single cam- 
ellias. Crimson ones could almost be taken 
for single dahlias; white ones have plaited 
petals: plain edge in some flowers, in oth- 
ers pinked, toothed or fringed, beautifully ov- 
erlapping. 
Giant Red, Pink and White. Separate 
flowers of perfect form, great size and beau- 
ty; measuring 3% to 5 inches across. 10¢ 
pkt.; three for 25c. Mixed 10c. 
Improved Yellow. Flowers about two 
inches in diameter; the plants upright; they 
attain the height of two feet, and begin 
blooming in a few weeks after the seeds are 
planted, and soon form a mass of brilliant 
vellow that continues the entire summer. 
10¢ kt. 
| Klondyke. A gorgeous orange variety, 
with handsome foliage, more coarsely laci- 
nated than the other sorts. The plants about 
four feet high, very bushy and symmetrical, 
and bear splendid orange colored flowers in 
great profusion. It is fine for pot plants, 
blooming when six or eight inches high. 10¢ 
pkt. 
New Marguerite. Flowers 24% to 3 inches 
across: the petals are deeply and irregularly 
lacinated or fringed; the flowers resemble 
Marguerites, but are much more esthetic and 
beautiful. 10¢ pkt. 
Rainbow. Not to be had elsewhere. 15c pkt. 
CALLIOPSIS Lanceolata Grandiflora. Cali- 
fornia Sunbeams. The flowers are beau- 
tifully formed, some saucer shaped, others 
flat, some exquisitely incurved, while oth- 
ers are like great buttercups. A fine peren- 
nial. 10c pkt. 
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