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THEODOSIA B. 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. Blue African 

 Lily. Choice mixed. 10c pkt. 



ALOES. Splendid mixed. 10c. 



ARCTOTUS Grande. A pretty marguerite- 

 like annual. White with blue center. 10c. 

 ASPARAGUS Sprengerii. Fine for hanging 

 baskets and for house plant. 10c. 

 Deflexus 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. 



Plumosus. A charming climber with 

 leaves that are finer than fronds of some 

 delicate fern. A beautiful vine for the house, 

 invaluable for bouquets and effective decor- 

 ation. 15c pkt. 



ASTER, Peony Flowered Perfection. Splen- 

 did mixed. 10c pkt. 



Giant Comet, The Bride. Delicate Blush 

 with a tinge of mauve. Pure White — Very 

 beautiful. 10c pkt. 



American Branching. Pure white, lav- 

 ender, rose, crimson, blue and purple. 10c 

 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 



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. 



BALLOON VINE. 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. 



BROWALLIA, Speciosa Major. A beautiful 

 summer flowering plant for beds, equally 

 valuable for pot culture in winter. Grows 

 about one ioot 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, 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. Flowers of 

 perfect form, great size and beauty; measur- 

 ing 3V 2 to 5 inches across. 10c 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 

 yellow that continues the entire summer. 

 10c pkt. 



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 iiowers in 

 great profusion. It is fine for pot plants, 

 blooming when six or eight inches high. 10c 

 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. 



Golden Wave. Very bushy and compact, 

 covered with hundreds of beautiful golden 

 flowers, with small, dark centers; annual 

 5c pkt. 



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