VENTURA-BY-THE-SEA, CALIFOENIA. 



NJEW EARLY BLOOMING.— Grand Fancy Cosmos. The flowers are surpass- 

 ingly beautiful. In the mixture are immense flowers, measuring from 4% to 5 

 inches across, in white, pink, mauve and crimson. Some are shaped like single 

 camellias, but larger and more beautiful; some of the crimson ones could almost 

 be taken for single dahlias ; other white ones have plaited petals prettily fringed, 

 and resemble the Romneya Coulterii, or California Tree Poppy. Some are star- 

 shaped. The petals are plain in some flowers; in others pinked, toothed or 

 fringed, and beautifully overlapping. The colors range from pure white through 

 shades of pink and red. The latter are in dark rich shades of red, shades here- 

 tofore unknown in cosmos. Some white ones are delicately flushed or flecked 

 with pink or mauve, and very beautiful flowers in pink and mauve have a dark 

 reel ring around the eye. The daintiest white, pink and flushed, have laciniated 

 petals, fringed to the' centre 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. 10 cts. pkt. 



GIANT RED, PINK and. "WHITE COSMOS— Separate. Flowers of perfect form, 

 great size and beauty; measuring 4% to 5 inches across. Extra selected. 

 10 cts. pkt. 



"TINTS OF DAWN"— New and distinct varieties. The flowers with a white 

 ground, finely flecked or flushed with delicate pink; some are flushed much 

 darker around the eye than others; they are variously formed and very beauti- 

 ful. 10 cts. pkt. 



"NEW MARGUERITE" COSMOS— Mixed. One of the prettiest and daintiest 

 varieties imaginable; the flowers measure from 2% to 3 inches across; the petals 

 are deeply and irregularly laciniated or fringed; the flowers resemble Marguerites, 

 but are much more esthetic and beautiful. 10 cts. pkt. The three above 25 cts. 



C. "Mammoth Perfection." Double the size of the old variety. "Erlinda" 

 (white.) "Roseta" (pink,) 10 cts. each; two sorts 15 cts.; mixed mammoth per- 

 fection, 5 cts. pkt. 



Calliopsis Lanceolata Grandiflora. 



"CALIFORNIA SUNBEAMS." 



These loveley improved varieties are much larger than any heretofore offered ; 

 the flowers are beautifully formed. Some saucer-shaped, others flat, some exquisitely 

 incurved, while others are like great buttercups. The petals are broad, with pinked, 

 toothed or irregularly fringed edges. Some are very light yellow, others a deeper 

 shade, darker around the eye — all so fine, it is difficult to say which is most beauti- 

 ful. 10 cts. pkt. 



C. Golden Wave. Very bushy and compact, covered with hundreds of beautiful 

 golden flowers with small dark centres. Annual. 5 cts. 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, 

 aud 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. 

 Splendid mixed 10 cts. pkt. 



CANNA, "Good Venture" Strain. Saved from a beautiful collection of very fine 

 large seedlings of my own. The plants range from 22 inches to Sy 2 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, and 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. Splendid mixed, 10 cts. pkt. 



C. " MADAM CROZY." One of the very best. 10 cts. pkt. 



GRAND NEW CANNA "QUEEN CHARLOTTE." All the magnificent eannas 

 that have ever been offered have been grown from seed, and new varieties may 

 be expected. Queen Charlottte is a lovely variety, bright scarlet, with a very 

 broad golden-yellow margin. 10 cts. pkt. 



"ALPHONSE BOUVIER." Best Crimson Canna. The finest of its color. 

 10 cts. pkt. 



