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CURRIES BROTHERS COMPANY, MILWAUKEE, WIS, 



RICINUS 

 CAMBODGENSIS. 



PYRETHRUM. 



Old favorite herbaceous plants, very much in use for borders. 



The Golden Feather is a valuable yellow-leaved variety much used 



for carpet beds and for ribbon borders. H. P. Pkt. 



Parthenifolium Aureum (Golden Feather) — Bright golden foli- 

 age. Vi oz. 20c 5 



Double French Hybrids — Beautiful large flowering hardy 

 plants, bearing bright-colored double flowers of crimson, 

 pink, rose, white, etc 25 



Roseum (Persian Insect Powder Plant) — Single; rose to deep 

 carmine 10 



Uliginosum (Giant Ox Eye Daisy) — A fine hardy perennial 

 forming a stout upright bush literally covered from August 

 to October with pure white flowers having bright yellow 

 centers. Height 4 feet 10 



ROSES. 



Little Midgets, Bloom the First Season from Seed. 



Polyantha Multiflora (Little Midgets) — Pretty dwarf little 

 roses which commence blooming in about six weeks after 

 the Seed is sown. The flowers are semi-double and double 

 of various tints, and produced in clusters until the frost 

 comes. Although blooming freely the first season, they do 

 not attain their best until the second year, when they are 

 a perfect mass of bloom. 3 pkts. 25c 



French Hybrids — Finest mixed; 2 pkts. 25c 



Tea Scented — Finest mixed; 2 pkts. 25c. 



10 

 15 

 15 



RICINUS. 



Castor Oil Bean. 



Magnificent tall-growing foliage 

 plants, useful as specimen plants on 

 lawns, or groups in center of large 

 beds. Their brilliant leaves create a 

 grand sub-tropical effect. H. H. A. 

 Borboniensis Arboreus — "Very large Pkt. 

 and handsome foliage; 15 feet. 



Oz. 10c 5 



Camboilgensis (See cut) — The 

 leaves are large, palm-shaped 

 and of a bronze-red color with 

 red veins. The stems of the 

 leaves are of a reddish-brown, and 

 the main stem of the plant is 

 black, making a beautiful orna- 

 ment for the lawn; oz. 15c 5 



Gibsonii — Dark red foliage; 8 feet; 



oz. 10c 5 



Obermanii (Sanguineous) — Red 

 fruit; very ornamental; 8 feet; 



oz. 10c 5 



Fine Mixed — Oz. 10c; lb. 70c 5 



SALVIA. 



SALVIA BONFIRE, 



SHASTA 

 DAISY. 



(C h rysanthemum 



L e ii c a n themum 



Hybridum.) 



A magnificent 

 Daisy or Margue- 

 rite, the flowers of 

 which are snow 

 white, with a yel- 

 low heart or cen- 

 ter, and are pro- 

 duced in great 

 profusion on long, 

 stiff stems, which 

 makes it valuable 

 for cut flowers 

 and decorative 

 uses. The plant 

 is perfectly hardy and will 

 bear flowers the first sea- 

 son from seed, but it is the 

 second year before it reaches perfection, after which it is one 

 mass of beautiful flowers all summer Pkt. 10 



Handsome plants, excellent for beds or borders, with long 

 spikes of flowers, which continue in bloom until late in the fall. 

 For early flowering sow the Seed indoors in March or April, or 

 outside as soon as the warm weather appears. Salvias planted on 

 light or rather poor soils will come 

 into flower much earlier than if planted 

 on heavy, strong soils, where they de- 

 velop a much more rank plant and con- 

 sequently later in flowering. H. H. P. 



Pkt. 

 Bonfire — The plants are dwarf and 

 compact in habit, growing about 

 2% feet high, bearing in great 

 profusion long spikes of brilliant 

 scarlet flowers, which stand clear . 

 above the bright green foliage, 

 producing a gorgeous effect; % 



oz. 75c 10 



Precocity — A new dwarf, compact 

 growing Salvia, forming well- 

 shaped plants about 12 inches in 

 height and producing continually 

 an abundance of bright scarlet 

 flower spikes, making splendid 

 pot plants and unsurpassed for 



bedding; Vs oz. 50c 15 



Splendens (Scarlet Sage) — The long 

 spikes of vivid scarlet are borne in such pro- 

 fusion as to fairly hide the foliage; % oz. 40c. 5 



Patens — Flowers of a delightful blue 10 



Coccinea Lactea — Pure white 5 



ROSE LITTLE MIDGETS. 



FLOWER OF SHASTA DAISY. 



