Mrs. Pheodosia Id. Shepherd's Annual Catalogue. 5 
No.!.—Monster flowers, measuring from four to five inches across. The darker ones 
are crimson and pink. One-seventh actual diameter 
Mrs. Shepherd's Grand New Fancy Cosmos. 
‘NEW FANCY.’’—It is with great pride and pleasure that I offer 
for the first time my Grand New Fancy Cosmos, the result of seven years’ 
careful selection of seed. The flowers are surpassingly beautiful, the most 
lovely Cosmos that has ever been dreamed of. In the mixture are immense 
flowers, measuring from 43 to 5 inches across, in white, pink, mauve and 
crimson. Some are shaped like single Camellias, but larger and more beau- 
tiful ; some of the crimson ones could almost be mistaken for single Dahlias ; 
oth rs have pleated petals prettily fringed, and resemble the Romneya or 
California Tree Poppy; while others have been compared to Anemone 
Japonica. Some are star-shaped. The petals are plain in some flowers ; 
in others pinked, toothed or fringed; in many the petals are beautifully 
overlapping. The colors range from pure white through shades of pink 
and red Of the latter there are many dark shades heretofore unknown in 
Cosmos. There are white ones delicately flushed or flecked with pink or 
mauve, and very beautiful flowers in pink and mauve have a dark red ring 
around the eye. The daintiest, white, pink and flushed, have lacinated 
petals, fringed to the center of the flower. and resemble Marguerites, but 
are more beautiful and esthetic. The giant white are especially handsome, 
with very large broad petals ; flowers of great substance, almost as chaste 
and lovely as lilies. 25 cts. per pkt.; 3 pkts., 50 cts. 
