LIST OF LATE INTRODUCTIONS AND NOVELTIES FOR 1916. 



THE NEWEST SPENCER SWEET PEAS. 



FIERY CROSS — This brilliant novelty has all the appearance of live 

 fire the color being a glistening fire, red, or scarlet, scintillating 

 and glittering in bright sunlight with a glowing tire-like sheen. 

 It does not scorch or burn even during extended periods of in- 

 tense sunshine and can therefore be grown anywhere without 

 shading. Flowers, beautifully waved and fluted, borne freely in 

 threes and fours on long, stout stems. In original packets only 



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THE PRESIDENT — Will compete with the preceding as the greatest 

 novelty of the year. A wonderfully brilliant, glowing scarlet self. 

 The flowers are of largest size placed most harmoniously on strong, 

 stiff stems, often in fours, always beautifully waved. The intro- 

 ducer claims it to be "the brightest color we have in Sweet Peas 

 and does not burn; is head and shoulders above anything of a sim- 

 ilar color and probably never will be surpassed in the orange- 

 scarlet section." In original packets only at 



HILARY CHRISTIE — A beautiful and distinct new Irish Spencer. The 

 flowers are especially decorative, of good size and entrancing 

 form. The standard "is salmon-orange edged with fiery orange- 

 scarlet, the wings rosy 

 salmon. It is further- 

 more a strong grower 

 and a prolific bloomer. In 

 original packets only at 

 ROYAL, PURPLE (1915 

 Novelty) — The color is as 

 the name describes it a 

 Rich Royal Purple. The 

 vines are exceptionally 

 vigorous, and long, stout 

 stems carrying four large 

 blossoms is the rule. The 

 flowers are large, nicely 

 waved, often duplexed, 

 and beautifully placed on 

 the stem. Ounce $1.00; 

 pkt 



THE CAHDINAL CLIMBER. 



SWEET PEA, 

 FIERY CROSS, 



ASTER "SENSATION." 



ASTER "SENSATION" — A new, very double, bril- 

 liant crimson or garnet Aster measuring fully 

 3% inches across and unequalled for all pur- 

 poses. The striking color shows up vividly when 

 cut and makes a brilliant display in border or 

 bed. The plant is 15 to 18 inches high, branch- 

 ing freely, the stunning flowers on long, leafy 

 stems produced in abundance from early August to 

 the close of September. See front cover. Pkt. 

 20c; 2 pkts 30 



.15 



.20 



.25 



.50 



NEW WHITE ORIENTAL POPPY, 



ROBERT SYDENHAM (1915 Novelty) — One of the most distinct 

 colors introduced in the modern Sweet Pea. It is a bright orange- 

 salmon, self colored, the nearest approach to a real yellow to 

 date. Owing to its soft texture it needs a ittle shading during 

 the middle of the day. Ounce $1.00; pkt 



VEILED BRIDE (1915 Novelty) — This is a charming novelty. The 

 ground color is white, daintily flaked and marbled with soft rose 

 pink. The wings and standard are both well colored. Ounce 



$1.25; pkt 



One packet of each of the above Six Novelties for $1.00 



THE CARDINAL CLIMBER — The most beautiful and brilliant 

 annual climber ever sent out. It is a strong, rapid grower, at- 

 taining a height of 30 feet or more, with beautiful cut foliage 

 and is literally covered with a blaze of circular, fiery cardinal 

 flowers from midsummer till frost. Sow the seed inside in March 

 or April, each seed being previously filed or notched to assist 

 germination. Pkt. 15c; 2 pkts 



CHINESE WOOLFLOWER (Celosia Childsi) — The most magnificent 

 garden annual ever offered. The plants grow 2 or 3 feet high, the 

 bloom starting early with a central head, round and globular, 

 often two feet In circumference. Scores of other branches are 

 thrown out, each bearing a similar but smaller ball of scarlet 

 wool. All support numerous laterals with small heads of bloom 

 mixed with fresh, green foliage so that the plant looks like 

 an immense bouquet set in the ground. Start seed about four 

 weeks before time to transplant to the garden. Pkt. 20c; 3 for. . 



CURRIE'S TRIUMPH OF THE GIANTS PANSY MIXTURE — A 

 marvelous strain of Mammoth Pansies composed of varieties 

 grown for us by the leading Pansy specialist of Europe. In 

 putting out this unparalleled mixture we are meeting a grow- 

 ing demand for a Pansy strain composed entirely of mammoth 

 flowering varieties of the most striking combinations of colors 

 and markings and embracing at the same time the newest and 

 most attractive forms. A leading feature of the strain is the 

 predominance of the waved forms and the beauty, brilliance 

 and richness of the colors is most striking. Pkt. 30c; 1,000 seeds. 1.00 



NEW WHITE ORIENTAL POPPY — Like the well-known scarlet 

 Oriental Poppy in habit of growth but differing in the color of 

 the flowers which are a pure, satiny white with a bold crimson 

 blotch at the base of each petal. Everyone interested in hardy 

 plants will want to grow this fine novelty as it is one of the 

 most important of recent additions to the list of hardy peren- 

 nials. While varying a little like all hybrids, a good percent- 

 age come true from the seed. Pkt 



SALVIA, OSTRICH PLUME — Both these new varieties are pro- 

 nounced improvements over the old favorites, Bonfire and 

 Splendens. Ostrich Plume, as its name implies, bears im- 

 mense plume-like spikes or heads often six inches through, the 

 Individual flowers closely crowded on the stem and nearly double 

 the usual size. Full grown plants measure nearly three feet in 

 height by as a much through and are literally ablaze with a 

 dense mass of fiery scarlet bloom. Pkt 



SALVIA, DROOPING SPIKE — The very length and weight of the 

 flower-spikes, by causing a graceful droop, is responsible for 

 the name. Each spike shows three times the bloom of Splen- 

 dens, the florets being considerably larger, and the spike much 

 longer and denser. Color scarlet; height ZV? feet. Pkt 



.25 



.15 



.10 



