CURRIE BROS. CO., AUTUMN CATALOGUE, 1916 



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CURRIE'S GIANT ENGLISH CYCLAMEN. 



Pkt. 

 .10 



10 

 10 

 05 



.10 



ACONITUM (Monkshood or Helmet Flower). 



Napellus — Dark blue, 3 feet $ 



AQUILEGIA — Columbine. 



Carrie's Extra Choice Lone Sparred Hybrids — Hand- 

 some sorts with unusually long spurs .10 



Chrysantha Grandiflora Alba — A new variety, with 



very large snow-white flowers .05 



Chrysantha — Bright yellow 05 



Coerulea — Fine porcelain blue, center petals yellow. .05 



Glandalosa (True) — Blue and white 



Skinnerii — Scarlet and yellow 



Choice selected varieties — Mixed 



ASPARAGUS — (Not hardy)— 



Plumosus Nanus — Asparagus Fern 



Sprengeri — Emerald Feather 10 



CALCEOLARIA — Hybrida Superba (Not hardy) — 



Saved from one of the finest strains in cultivation; 



flowers beautifully spotted and marked .25 



CAMPANULA. 



Carpatica — Blue, "White and Mixed, each 05 



Persicifolia Grandiflora — Blue, White and Mixed, each .05 



Pyramidalis — Blue, White and Mixed, each 05 



CANTERBURY BELLS — Campanula Medium. 



Single — Blue, White, Rose and Mixed, each .05 



Double Mixed 05 



"Cup and Saucer" — A beautiful variety with large 

 flowers in many brilliant colors, resembling in 

 shape a cup and saucer; Blue, White, Rose and 



Mixed, each .05 



CANDYTUFT, HARDY PERENNIAL (Iberis). 



Gibraltarica Hybrida — Lilac shading to white 05 



Sempervirens — White 10 



CINERARIA (not hardy). 



Currie's Matchless — This strain is unexcelled for size 

 of blooms, brilliancy of colors and fine substance. 

 Many of the flowers are 4% inches across, and 



the variety of coloring is wonderful .25 



Hybrida. Mixed — James" Prize Strain 15 



COREOPSIS — (Calliopsis). 



Lanceolata Grandiflora (California Sunbeams) 10 



CYCLAMEN — (Not hardy) — Our Cyclamen seed is grown 

 from the finest selected prize varieties, and plants 

 grown from our seed have been awarded the first 

 premium -wherever exhibited. 

 CURRIE'S GIANT ENGLISH STRAIN 



Giganteum Brilliant — Extra dark crimson, rich color .20 



Giganteum Duke of Fife — Dark rose 20 



Giganteum Excelsior — White with purple base. Ex- 

 tra large flowers .20 



Giganteum Grandiflora Alba — The largest white 



grown. Enormous flowers 20 



Giganteum Mauve Queen — Delicate Mauve shade.... JO 



Giganteum Princess May — Pale pink JO 



Giganteum Rosy Morn — Delicate rose tinted, claret 

 base 



SEASONABLE FLOWER SEEDS 



(All hardy except where noted.) 

 We give below a list of those seeds of hardy plants which, to save time, 

 may be sown now, either outdoors in their permanent loca- 

 tions or in pans or pots for later transplanting. 

 CYCLAMEN — Continued. Pkt. 



Giganteum Salmon King — A selected strain of which the raiser 

 is somewhat proud. The color is a beautiful soft salmon pink 



Giganteum — Mixed. Of the above varieties 



Mrs. Buckston — A lovely, delicate salmon shade. Petals beauti- 

 fully frilled. One of the finest varieties yet introduced 50 



GERMAN GROWN SEED. 



Giant Pure White, Dark Rose, Large White with Crimson Eye, 



Bright Crimson, Finest Mixed, each 



DAISY — Shasta. 



Alaska — Large, pure white 10 



California — Pale yellow, changing to white 10 



Westralia — Cream color, semi-double 10 



DELPHINIUM — Perennial Larkspur. 



New Hybrids — In splendid mixture 10 



Our strain of these has been saved from a named collection 



of double flowers 10 



Formosum — Large, blue and white flowers, 3 feet 10 



Nudicaule — Scarlet, fine 10 



DIANTHUS — Perennial Pinks. 



Plumarius Nanus, Fl. PI. (Dwarf Erfurt, Double Pink) — A new, 

 hardy class, producing an abundance of many colored, sweet- 

 scented flowers 10 



Plumarius (Pheasant's Eye Pink) — Single, hardy pink. Choice 



mixed colors 05 



Plumarius, Fl. PI. — Double hardy Pink. Choice mixed colors... .10 



DIGITALIS — Foxglove. Fine mixed 05 



GAILLARDIA. Perennial. 



Currie's Exhibition Strain — A beautiful collection of 

 gold, lemon, gold and crimson, crimson, scarlet, 



brown and gold shades JO 



New Hybrids — A beautiful class 10 



GLOXINIA (Not hardy) — Choice Hybrids of the finest 



spotted, marbled and splashed sorts .15 



HOLLYHOCK — Grown from the finest varieties. 



Double Yellow, Pink, Crimson, White, Salmon, Red, 



Black, Maroon and Mixed, each 10 



Single Mixed 05 



LOBELIA — Cardinalis. 



Flower spikes 8 inches long, of intense scarlet 10 



PANSY. 



Currie's Triumph of the Giants Mixture — A marvel- 

 ous strain of Mammoth Pansies introduced in re- 

 sponse to a growing demand for a strain com- 

 posed entirely of the largest flowering varieties 

 of the most striking combinations and most at- 

 tractive forms. 1,000 seeds $1.00 JO 



Currie's International Florists' Mixture — A grand 

 combination from the most noted Pansy specialists 

 in this country and Europe. The blooms are of 

 the largest size, distinct and varied in their 

 markings, of fine substance containing all the 

 richest and choicest colors to be found in Pansies. 



1000 seeds 75c .25 



Currie's Superfine Scotch Pansies — Unequalled by any 

 strain in size of flower and richness of color and 



markings. 1000 seeds 70c 20 



Giant Mixture for Florists and Amateurs — A mixture 

 of all the Giant Trimardeau sorts, Cassiers, Bug- 

 nots, Odiers, the new Giant Parisian Stained, and 

 the rich colors of Madam Perret. The best pos- 

 sible combination of the Giant sorts. 1000 seeds 



50c 15 



Giant Trimardeau Mixed — One of the best of the 



large flowering mixtures. % oz. 40c 10 



Fine Mixed — % oz. 25c 05 



PHLOX — Perennial varieties — Beautiful, often gorge- 

 ously colored plants which should be represented 

 in every garden. 



Extra fine mixed 10 



POPPIES — Hardy Perennial. 



Oriental — Scarlet, with dark spots 05 



New Hybrid Oriental — Contains many colors, pink, 



scarlet, blood-red, etc 10 



PRIMULA — (Not hardy). 



Chinese Large Flowering Fringed — Mixed. This mix- 

 ture is made up from the finest named sorts 25 



Obconica Gigantea — The blooms are extremely large 

 and are borne on stout stems; in color they range 



from pale lilac to rose .15 



Malacoides — Similar to, but quite an improvement on 



Forbesi. Flowers lilac 10 



Malacoides Alba — The white proto-type of the fore- 

 going-, and a great acquisition 15 



PYRETHRUM — Old favorites in the herbaceous border. 



Roseum Hybridum — Currie's Exhibition and Border 



Strain, single mixed. Saved from a well-known 



collection of Named Plants — white, pink, buff, 



rose, purple and crimson JO 



Uliginosum (Giant Ox-Eye Daisy) — One of the best 



plants for the perennial border. Flowers -white.. .10 

 SCABIOSA — Caucasica. Each 



One of our most handsome perennials, particularly 



useful for cutting. Soft lilac blue and white. .10 



20 



FOR COMPLETE LIST OF SEEDS SEE SPRING CATALOG. 

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