40 J. MANNS & CO.,, 
BALTIMORE, MD. 
Jalyia, Jplendens. 
(Large Flowering Scarlet Sage.) 
‘this flame colored beauty’”’ 
Under our hot summer sun ‘ 
is the most gorgeous of all plants. For months the blaze 
of flaming scarlet is intensely 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 inlength. A ‘‘packet’’ contains 
more than one hundred seeds. Pkt, 5c. 
Stock, Jen Weeks. 
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. 
Giant Perfection.—A splendid race, growing two 
and a-half feet high, with large spikes of perfectly double 
flowers of great substance and beauty. Mixed. Pkt., 5c. 
Dwarf German 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 they seem to 
likeit. Pkt., 10c. 
Sweet 
@illiam. 
(Dianthus Barbatus.) 
For display in the 
garden the Sweet 
William is unsnr- 
passed. The seed can 
be planted very 
early in the 
spring in open .¢ 
ground and wil) 
blossom the fol- 
lowing summer 
or it can be ° 
sown in August 
and will make 
fine blooming 
plants for 
spring. 
Hardy peren- 
nial; one and a- 
half feet high. 
Fine Mixed.—Pkt., 5c. 
| strain of large flowering pure white Verbena. 
Pkt., dc. 
Mixed Double.—Marny colors. 
Mall Flower. 
The large, massive spikes of the Wall Flower are very 
conspicuous in beds and borders, and very useful in making 
bouquets. Sow the seed early in hot-beds, and while the 
plants are small, prick them out into pots, and sink the pots 
in the earth. On approach of cold weather remove the pots 
to the house and they will bloom all winter. Tender peren- 
nial, one and a-half feet high. 
Fine German Double, Mixed .—Tall spikes of 
deliciously fragrant double flowers; shadings of chocolate 
brown and orange purple. Pkt., 5c. 
Single, Mixed.—These bloom with great freedom; 
tall spikes of large florets in a number of distinct shadings 
and many brightly marked. Pkt., 5c. 
Gerbenas. 
(a) One of the best known and 
&% most satisfactory flowers to raise, 
either for its splendid display in 
the garden or for cutting purposes. 
By sowing the seed very early un- 
g der glass and transplanting when 
three or four inches high, good 
vigorous plants may be raised 
which will bloom most abundantly 
in July, and continue until killed 
by frost. As a rule, Verbenas 
grown from seed is gathered from 
the choicest flowers, and is strong 
and true to name. - 
Hybrida, Extra Fine Mixed.—Rich and brilliant 
colors. It is one of the finest strains of Verbenas. Pkt., 5c. 
Scarlet Defiance.—Deepest green foliage; quite 
large trusses of brightest scarlet, intensely rich and glow- 
ing. Pkt., 5c. 
Pure White (Sea Foam, or Candidissima).—A fine 
Excellent 
for cutting. Pkt., 5c. 
New Mammoth.—tThis strain produces uniformly 
magnificent trusses, of which the individual flowers are all 
of unusual size, and which also embraces a wide range of 
colors. Pkt., 10c. 
Sinnia—roun na 010-490. 
vy 
Pompon.—Flowers are very double, the petals being 
piled up closely in a symmetrical, smoothly round cone. 
Colors range from pure white, through deep creams and ° 
buff to a bright chrome yellow, and from softest pink to 
deepest crimson. Pkt., 5c.; oz., 50c. 
Robusta Grandifiora.—Of unusually robust habit 
of growth and immense size, the perfectly formed very 
double flowers are of various striking colors. Plants three 
to three and a-quarter feet high, and bloom during a long 
period. 
Dwarf Snowball.—Dahlia-like flowers, perfectly 
a double and of the purest snow-white. Pkt., 10c. 
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