J. MANNS & CO.'S CHOICE SEEDS. 



Poppy. Papaver. 



Well known hardy annuals, 

 flowering in great profusion 

 throughout the Summer. 



The Shirley («)— Everyone 

 knows the old common corn pop- 

 py, or red weed, with its bright 

 scarlet flowers. This is a strain of 

 this magnificent species, which 

 sports to numberless shades of 

 color, from pure white to rose, 

 pink, carmine and deepest cfimson. 

 If cut when the flowers first open, 

 they may be kept many days in 

 bouquets. Pkt., 5c. 



Tulip Flowered. — Produces 



large, splendid bright scarlet flowers well above the foliage. 

 The two outer petals of the flower form a tulip cup, and 

 after a time black spots appear at the base of each petak 

 Strikingly beautiful, reminding one of a dazzling bed of 

 tulips; hardy annual: about one foot high. Pkt., 5c.; oz., 20c. 



Improved Double Carnation, Mixed.— A grand strain, 

 embracing a wide range of distinct shadings and colors m 

 these beautiful flowers, all of which are wonderfully double 

 and the petals beautifully fringed. Pkt., 5c.; oz., 20c. 



Double Peony Flowered, Mixed.— A companion 

 strain to the preceding, but having the large double flowers 

 composed of broad silky petals with smooth or plain edges, 

 in contrast to the finely fringed petals of the preceding 

 type. Pkt., 5c.; oz., 20c. 



PottUJaca, or Mexican Rose. 



There are scarcely any flowers in cultivation that make 

 such a dazzling display of color as a bed of Portulacas. 

 They are in bloom from about the first of July till killed by 

 frost in Autumn. Tender annual; about six or eight inches 

 high. They will stand any amount of dry weather. 



Finest Single, Mixed.— This embraces the greatest 

 variety of colors and markings. Flowers are self- colored in 

 rich glowing shades, and the plants are brightly striped 

 and flaked with contrasting colorings Pkt., oc; oz., 35c. 



Double Rose Flowered, Mixed.— This strain is unsur- 

 passed for brilliancy and beauty. From our choice strain 

 more than half the plants will produce magnificent double 

 flowers; single flowered plants can be pulled out, leaving 

 the double ones to spread over the entire surface of the 

 bed. Pkt., 5c.; oz., $1.50. 



Primrose, &^ening, 



(p3) Enothera.— The Prim- 

 rose is chiefly valuable as a green- 

 house or window plant, and is fine 

 for Winter and Spring blooming, 

 being as easily, grown as a gera- 

 nium. It delights in a cool place 

 and a rich soil composed of two 

 parts of loam to one of decayed 

 manure and leaf-mold. If intended 

 for outdoor culture, the seed must 

 be sown under glass and shaded 

 during the hot weather, keeping 

 the plants well watered. Pkt., 5c. 



Zocket. 



Empress Sweet Secuba. — White, extra large trusses. 

 A o-reat improvement in size and quality of the flowering 

 trusses over the common white variety. Pkt., 5c. 



Jha/DC/ragfOn.— (See Antirrhlnium ) 



Ja/i^/a. Splendens. 



(Large Flowering Scarlet Sage). 



Under our hot Summer sun ' 'this flame colored beauty" 

 is the most gorgeous of all plants. For months the blaze 

 of flaming scarlet is intenselj- brilliant, with great spikes of 

 bloom completely concealing the foliage. A single plant 

 will carry as many as two hundred spikes of flowers, each 

 spike ten to twelve inches in length. A "packet" contains 

 more than one hundred seeds. Pkt., 5c. 



JVoc/t, Jen iideeks. 



All the varieties are desirable as pot plants, as well as 

 in the open garden. They are greatly prized for cut flowers 

 on account of their fragrance and colors. 



Qiant Perfection. — A splendid race, growing two and 

 a half feet high, with large spikes of perfectly double flow- 

 ers of great substance and beauty. Mixed. Pkt., 5c. 



Dwarf Oerman Bouquet. — Large flowering. Mixed. 

 Pkt., 5c. 



White Perpetual. — (Princess Alice ; or, " Cut and 

 Come Again"). — Of strong growth and fine branching habit, 

 it grows to the height of one and a half feet, and if sown 

 early will produce uninterruptedly a great abundance of 

 bloom from June until November. The individual flowers 

 are uncommonly large, of a fine, rosette-like shape and the 

 purest possible white. The flowers appear on each little 

 shoot, and the oftener they are cut the better thev seem to 

 like it. Pkt., 10c. 



^i\peet is)illiam. 



( Dianthus Bnrbatux. 

 For display in the garden 

 the Sweet William is unsui- 

 passed. The seed can 

 be planted ver}' early 

 in the Spring in open 

 ground and will blos- 

 som the following Sura- _^J 

 mer, or it can be 

 sown in August, 

 and will make 

 fine b 1 o o m i ng, 

 plants forSpring. 



Hardy peren- 

 nial ; one and a 

 half feet high. 



F 



Pkt. 



n e nixed 



5c. 



Mixed Dou- 

 ble, many colors 

 Pkt., 5c. 



