LIST OF CHOICE FLOWER SEEDS FOR 1908. 



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SALPIGLOSSIS. 



Very pretty autumn blooming plants with funnel-shaped flowers, beau- 

 tifully veined and marbled. H. H. A. Pkt. 



Large Flowered, Finest Mixed, 14 oz. 20c 5 



Emperor — Magnificent and brilliant flowered, rivaling the Orchid in 



the beauty and brilliance of their blooms. Mixed colors 5 



SAPONARIA. 



Compact-growing plants, producing beautiful star-like flowers freely 

 all summer. Good for bedding. H. A. Pkt. 



Calahrica, pink; Calabrica Alba, white, each ; . . 5 



SCABIOSA. 



Mourning Bride, or Sweet Scabious. 



Very desirable plants, producing very pretty flowers of many colors in 

 great profusion. Good for cutting for vases, etc. H. A. Pkt. 



Dwarf Double — Flowers very double and globular; oz. 30c 5 



Leviathan Mixed — Large and baautiful double flowers; oz. 30c 5 



PERENNIAL SCABIOUS. 



The Scabious or Mourning Bride are amongst the most beautiful pe- 

 rennial plants we possess and should be grown in every garden if only 

 for cut flower purposes. They are very free flowering, lasting from 

 June till late in fall. Pkt. 



Caucasica — Soft lilac blue 10 



Japonica — Lavender blue 10 



SCABIOSA OE MOURNING BRIDE, 



SANVITALIA. Pkt. 



Procuinbens, fl. pi. — Very pretty dwarf-growing 

 and free-blooming plants. Flowers double 

 bright golden yellow, produced in great 

 abundance, % ft. H. A 5 



STOCKS 

 OR GILLIFLOWERS. 



Sown in heat in the early spring and afterwards 

 in the open ground as soon as nice weather has 

 set in, a continuation of bloom can be had all sea- 

 son. They are of delightful fragrance, and are 

 much used as cut flowers. Our strains of stocks 

 are all that can be desired. H. H. A. 



LARGE FLOWERING DWARF 10-WEEK STOCKS. 

 Of dwarf habit, with large spi.kes of very large double flowers. 

 Blood Red, Rose, Canary Yellow, 



Dark Violet, Carmine, Chamois, 



Light Blue, White, 



Choice Mixed, % oz. 75c. 

 All of the above, pkt. 10c; 3 pkts. 25c; 8 pkts. 50c. Pkt. 



Dwarf German, Ten Weeks, Mixed, Second Quality, % oz. 50c. . 5 



CUT-AND-COME-AGAIN STOCK— (Perpetual Giant.) 



This is a valuable stock for cutting, branching out as fast as cut, 

 and every shoot bears a cluster of flowers, which are finely shaped 

 and very fragrant. Pkt. 



Pure White pkt. 10 Mixed, % oz! 75c 10 



Snowflake — A splendid dwarf-growing variety with very large 



pure white flowers, very early 10 



Beauty of Nice — An attractive stock for early and late flower- 

 ing. The plant throws up a gigantic main flower spike, 

 bearing blooms of large size, beautiful in form and of a de- 

 lightful shade of delicate pink. It is exceptionally early and 

 can be had in flower 12 to 15 weeks from time of sowing.. 10 



STOCKS — Intermediate. 

 Valuable on account of their flowering late in autumn or as pot 

 plants for early spring blooming, for which purpose the Seeds 

 should be sown in July or August. Pkt. 



Emperor, Finest Mixed — H. H. B 10 



Early Autumn Flowering — H. H. A 10 



Brompton, Finest Mixed — H. H. B 10 



SCHIZANTHUS. 



Pkt. 



Dwarf Large Flowered Hybrids- 

 Few annuals can surpass in beau- 

 ty the Schizanthus, so much so 

 that it has been aptly called 

 "The Poorman's Orchid." The 

 flowers are produced in long, 

 slender orchid-like sprays in such 

 great variety and wealth of colors 

 as to be hard to describe. The 

 plant grows to a height of 12 

 inches 10 



SILENE. 

 Pendula Compacta (Catchfly) — 

 Beautiful free-flowering plants, 

 very attractive for rockwork, etc. 

 H. A. Mixed 5 



Myrsiphyllum 



40c 



SMILAX. 

 Asparagoides. 



Oz. 



SALPIGLOSSIS EMPEROR. 



LARGE FLOWERING DWARF TEN WEEKS STOCK. 



