LIST OF CHOICE FIiO«WER SEEDS FOR 1917. 



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TYPES OP OUR GEM COLLECTION. 



25c NASTURTIUMS 25c 



GEM COLLECTION OF CLIMBING AND DWARF. 



Contains Eight Separate Sorts, Including Our Superb 



GIANT CLIMBING MIXTURE — Uneaualled for size and brilliancy of colors. 



HYBRIDS or JIADAME GUNTHEK (Climbing;) — Comprising a hitherto un- 

 known range of color in Nasturtium. 



CHAMEIiEON (Climbing) — A unique variety, showing various colored blossoms 

 on the same plant. 



KED AND YELLOW SPURRED (Climbing) — Pretty Nasturtiums, with distinct 

 red or yellow spurs. Very attractive. 



VESUVIUS (Climbing) — The finest color in Nasturtiums, a beautiful salmon 

 rose, well set off with dark foliage. 



CANARY BIRD FLOWER (Clunbing) — ^A splendid climber, with finely cut 

 foliage and fringed yellow flowers, 



DWARF LILLIPUT — A charming class of Dwarf Nasturtiums forming round 

 little bushes, perfectly covered with blooms. 



DWARF CREAM CITY MIXTURE — An extra fine mixture, containing all the 

 best colors and largest flowered sorts. 



For the small outlay of a quarter we will mail you our collection of 8 Nas- 

 turtiums (which, if bought at (Catalogue prices, would cost you 55c). Enough to 

 start a small garden and provide cut blooms for the summer months. Collection 

 contains eight full packets, six of climbing sorts, for growing on fences, trellis, 

 tree stumps or any other unsightly objects you want covered up in your back 

 yard, and two Dwarf or Tom Thumb sorts, for growing in beds or front borders. 



GIANT CLIMBING NASTURTIUMS. 



A class of superb Nasturtiums, remarkable for their immense size, flowers often 

 measuring 3 to 3% inches across; of exquisite form and many rich and varied colors. 

 They are strong growers and remarkably free flowering. 



Pkt. 

 Jupiter — A beautiful flower with overlapping petals, rich yellow. Oz. 20c 10 



Twilight — The flowers of full expanded form, color yellow overlaid with salmon 

 pink, the two upper petals feathered with red in the throat. Oz. 2Uc 10 



Butterfly — A flne flower, color lemon yellow, marked on the lower petals with rich 

 red blotches. Oz. 20c 10 



Chameleon — These Nasturtiums possess the interesting feature of having distinct 

 colors of flowers borne on one and the same plant. On some self-colored flowers 

 are found, while others are blotched, splashed, striped-OKi bDrderfid. % lb. 40c;- 

 oz. 15c iUUi . :. .1 5 



Hybrids of Madame Gunther — In this variety we have a range of color hitherto 

 unknown in Nasturtiums, running through shades of rose, salmon, bright red, 

 pale yellow, etc., either as self-colors or spotted and striped. F&r lb. $1.25 ; % 

 lb. 40c ; per oz. 15c 5 



Giant Climbing Nasturtiums in mLvture. Pkt. 10c; oz. 20c; % lb. 60c; lb. 

 1 pkt. each of the five Giant Climbing Nasturtiums, 35c. 

 1 oz. each of the five Giant Climbing Nasturtiums for 75c. 



$2.00. 



NICOTIANA. 



(Sweet-Scented Tobacco Plant.) Pkt. 



Affinis — Bears a profusion of pure white, 

 long-tubed flowers, very sweet scented, 

 especially so after sundown. The plants 

 can be potted and taken indoors, where 

 they will flower all winter. H. H. A. 

 2 feet 5 



Affinis Hybrida — Mixed colors. Plant and 

 flowers similar in habit and form to the 

 preceding, but the flowers are larger 

 and of many colors, purple, white, 

 light- and dark-red, salmon, crimson, 

 violet, rose and pink 5 



Sanderae (Carmine- Flowered Tobacco 

 Plant) — The plants are bushy and 

 much branched, literally ablaze with 

 handsome carmine-red blossoms 5 



Hybrids of Sanderae — A hardy annual 

 of the easiest culture, succeeding in any 

 ordinary garden soil and making most 

 attractive plants for massing in beds 

 or borders. The plants are bushy and 

 much branched, 2 feet in height, blos- 

 soms of many varied shades 10 



Sylvestris — Similar to Affinis, but much 



larger leaves 

 and flowers, 

 «weet scented 5 



NASTURTIUMS. 



CLIMBING OB TRAILING. 



These trailing Nasturtiums are unequalled for growing in window boxes or vases. 

 When grown in beds, and the shoots pegged down with forked pieces of wood at 

 intervals, they make an excellent show with their unique and brilliant colored blossoms. 



Pkt. 

 Red Spurred — One of the most beautiful varieties of Nasturtium. The large flowers 

 are creamy white with orange scarlet blotches, while the most unique feature is 

 the red spurs with which all the blooms are ornamented. Oz. 20c 10 



Yellovr Spurred — A distinct and beautiful Nasturtium with very bright flowers 

 of a glowing rosy pink hue, backed up with unique rich yellow colored spurs, 

 Oz. 20e 10 



Bed and Yellow Spurred Mixed. Oz. 20c 10 



Lobb's Nasturtium (Tropaeolum Lobbianum) — The leaves and flowers are smaller 

 than the tall Nasturtiums, but their brilliancy and richness of color, combined 

 with the profusion of their bloom, render them more fltting for vases, rock work, 

 etc. Mixed colors, per oz. 20c 5 



NASTURTIUM. 



Dwarf Lilliput — A charming and distinct dwarf compact class; the plants form 



round, compact bushes of light green leaves, through which appear an immense 



number of blooms borne well above the foliage. The colorings are beautifuL 



Excellent sort for bedding or for ribbon borders. Per lb. $1.40; 14 lb. 40c; 



oz. 15c .. 6 



NieOTIANA HTBRIPS OF S1.NDSIUB. 



