8 Mrs. Theodosia B. Shepherd's Annual Catalogue 



Dainty Daises. 



BELLIS Perennis Ma.xima. "'Double Daisy.'" New giant flower- 

 ing- double daisy; flowers larger than a half dollar. Splendid mixed. 10c 

 pkt. 



Longfellow. Large dark rose-colored flowers. 15c pkt. 



Snowball. Pure snowy-white. 15c pkt. One packet of each sort. 

 25c pkt. 



BIGNONIA Tweediana. A charming vine with beatitiful foliage 

 and large golden-yellow flowers. 10c pkt. 



GIANT BROWALLIA. "Browallia Speciosa Major." A most 

 beautiful summer flowering plant for flower beds in summer and equally 

 valuable for pot culture in winter. The plants grow about 1 foot high, are 

 bushy and bear continuously large flowers from 1 to 2 inches across, of 

 brilliant indigo blue enlived with a white throat. People who are familiar 

 with the old favorite. "Blue Amethyst, " will scarcely recog-nize this new 

 variety as belonging to the same family. 15c pkt. 



Mrs. Shepherd's Grand New Fancy Cosmos. 



"The Finest in the World." 



The following is an extract from an interview with W. Atlee Burpee, 

 the well-known Philadelphia seedsman, taken from the Los Angeles 

 Evening Express: 



"I have just been visiting in Ventura the gardens of Mrs. Theodosia 

 B. Shepherd of that point. Mrs. Shepherd has the finest Cosmos in the 

 world. It has never been equaled. She has developed it herself from a 

 small flower, 2 inches across, to monster blossoms from 4 to 5 inches in 

 diameter. I counted 35 varieties in her garden yesterday. Mrs. Shepherd 

 is quick to see possibilities, and is developing some wonderful things in 

 her garden." 



A customer. Mrs. M. F. C. Pearce. of Louisiana, writes. April 17th: 



"My Cosmos from seeds you sent me were planted in the garden early 

 in March, and now. not 3 feet high. 3 are in bloom. Can you beat this?*" 



May 27th the same customer writes: 



"My Cosmos from your seed are still blooming, not one of the plants 5 

 feet high: no limbs have split and fallen, as in so many other Cosmos." 



New Ea.rly Blooming. 1 Grand Fancy Cosmos. ] The flowers are 

 surpassingly beautiful. In the^mixture are immense flowers, measuring 

 from 4 l 2 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 over- 

 lapping". The colors range from pure white through shades of pink and 

 red. The latter are in dark rich shades of red. shades heretofore unknown 



