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CANDYTUFT, "Empress." Pure white. 5 cts. per pkt. 



CAMPANULA, Canterbury Bells "Cup and Saucer." Very choice mixed. 5 cts. 

 pkt. 



CARNATIONS, California Beauties. Carnations grow to the greatest perfection 

 in California. Their magnificent flowers, long stems, beautiful forms, rich 

 colors, and delightful fragrance, make them wonderfully attractive. The seeds 

 offered are from the famous Redondo strain, where the finest Carnations in Cali- 

 fornia are grown. 25 cts. pkt. 



C. Marguerite. A charming strain that blooms the first year from seed. Though 



not as fragrant and beautiful as the monthly Carnation, yet it is very satisfac- 

 tory, and popular. 10 cts. pkt. 



CYCLAMEN Giganteum. Giant flowered Cyclamen. Splendid flowers of great 

 beauty. Pure white, 20 cts. pkt., red, 20 cts. pkt., mixed, 15 cts. pkt. 



CALIFORNIA WILD CONVOLVULUS. This native morning glory is not offered 

 in any of our catalogues, but it is a charming climber, very distinct, and very 

 easily grown. It is not the wild morning-glory that is considered such a "pest," 

 that has a very small flower and small foliage. It grows very rapidly, and has 

 numerous long, wiry stems. At intervals of three inches there is one heart- 

 shaped leaf 2% inches or more long by 2]/ 2 broad at upper part. The leaf stems 

 are from 2 to 4 inches long. From the axils of these leaves come two to three 

 flowers on stems 3 to 7 inches long. They have a pretty green calyx, from which 

 proceed charming creamy-white flowers, with greenish rays on the inside and 

 purplish ones on the outside. The flowers stay out all day, and the vine is 

 extremly graceful and beautiful; a fine bloomer; flowers 2^ to 3 inches across. 

 10 cts. pkt. 



DAHLIA. New large flowering dwarf single. The most showy and effective single 

 dahlias ever offered. They grow from two to two and a half feet high, begin 

 blooming when not over one foot high. The flowers are very large and beauti- 

 fully shaped, with very broad petals, of every imaginable shade of crimson, 

 scarlet, terra cotta, yellow and orange, scarlet blazed with gold, and all the 

 above colors beautifully variegated, others are pure snowy white. Everyone 

 should grow them as they cannot fail to be delighted with them. 10 cts. pkt. 



DAHLIA. Tall single varieties mixed. 5 cts. pkt. 



D. Maximilian. A grand Dahlia, that attains the dimensions of a tree in a single 



season. It does not die down like other dahlias, though it loses its foliage and 

 sprouts from the old wood every year. It bears panicles of very large pinkish- 

 mauve flowers, and is very beautiful and stately. 15 cts. pkt. 



D. "Imperialis." The most beautiful of all Dahlias. It grows ten to twelve feet 

 high, and bears panicles of elegant, lily-like flowers, measuring 8 inches from tip 

 to tip of petals. The color is a very delicate mauve, almost white, veined with 

 old-pink, and with a ring of pink around the orange-yellow center. It blooms 

 from seed the first year. 15 cts. pkt. 



DIANTHUS Chinensis. Double and single, choice mixed. 5 cts. pkt. 



ERYTHRINIA Crista Galli, or "Coral Tree." A splendid shrub or tree that at- 

 tains great size in California. Its spikes of large pea-shaped flowers are grand. 

 It can be wintered in the cellar in the east. 15 cts. pkt. 



ESCHSCHOLTZIA, New Giant Flowered Hunnemania. A lovely new plant that 

 will please every one. It has the beautiful foliage of the Eschscholtzia, enlarged 

 and developes into an herbaceous shrub two and one-half feet high, adorned 

 with large jonquil-yellow flowers on stems twelve inches long. These blossoms 

 are cup-shaped, with broad overlapping crinkled petals. The bright orange 

 stamens are in fine contrast with the clear yellow flower. Seeds planted in 



