DD Mrs. Pheodosia Id. Shepherd's Annual Catalogue. 
DAINTY NEW COSMOS “CONCHITA”’—A beauty, with deep red flow- 
ers, like crimson velvet. The flowers measure 2 inches across, and the 
plants do not grow nearly as tall as the other varieties. The fully opened 
flowers turn a lighter shade of red, so that there seems to be two kinds of 
flowers on the same plant, giving a striking effect. 10 cts. per pkt. One 
pkt. of each of the three new varieties of cosmos, 20 cts. 
COSMOS—Red mixed, 10 cts. per pkt. 
COSMOS—Choice mixed, 5 cts. per pkt. 
COLEUS—There are few seeds more easily grown than coleus. A packet 
of seed will bring many new and pretty varieties. They can be planted in 
cigar-boxes, and transplanted, when the second leaves are formed, into 
larger boxes. When three or four inches high they can be potted off or - 
transplanted into the garden. This seed is saved from the ‘‘Sunset, ” 
Fringed,” and other beautiful strains. Splendid mixed, 15 cts. per pkt. 
Chrysanthemum, ‘‘ New Annual’’ Varieties. 
PAINTED DAISIES—Summer-blooming plants growing from 12 to 18 
inches high, producing very large flowers in crimson, vold, yellow, maroon, 
white, beautifully variegated and ringed. Some of the flowers are double 
and quilled and some are fringed. There are many new and pretty varie- 
ties in the mixture. They are very easily grown and very showy. If 
planted in succession can be had in bloom all the year in California. 10 cts. 
per pkt. 
CHRYSANTH EMUM—Perennial varieties mixed, saved from a large col- 
lection of very choice-named sorts, Chinese, Japanese, new single, anemone- 
flowered, and many other kinds. Splendid mixed, 25 cts. per pkt.; good 
mixed. 15 cts. per pkt. 
Large Flowering Dwarf French Cannas. 
CANNA, “GOOD VENTURE” Strain—Saved from a beautiful collection of 
very fine large seedlings of my own. The plants range from 22 inches to 34 
feet in height; they have very large flowers, of grand colors—splendid yellow, 
rich orange, spotted red, deep carmine, flaming scarlet deeply margined with 
gold, salmon-red streaked with copper, fine cardinal. ,Some flowers have four 
or five petals. The foliage is rich and handsome, various shades of green, 
dark red streaked with greenish yellow, plain: green and dark maroon. Splen- 
did mixed, 15 cts. per pkt. 
“QUEEN CHARLOTTE”—The beautiful new gilt-edged Canna. 1d cts. 
per pkt. 
“MADAM CROZY”—One of the very best.. 10 cts. per pkt. 
Splendid mixed, 5 cts. per pkt. 
CLEMATIS DAVEDSIANA—A very pretty dwarf shrubby Clematis, bearing 
clusters of urn-shaped blue flowers. 15 ects. per pkt. 
New Dwarf Single Dahlia. 
The most showy and effective single Dahlias ever offered. They grow from 
2 to 24 feet high, and begin blooming when not over one foot high. The 
flowers are very large and beautifully shaped, with very broad petals, every 
imaginable shade of crimson, scarlet, terra cotta, yellow and orange, scarlet 
blazed with gold, and all the above colors beautifully variegated ; others are 
