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R. & J. FARQUHAR & CO/S SEED CATALOGUE. 
FLOWER SEEDS. 
No. 7942. SCOTCH THISTLE. (Onopordon Acanthium. 
NEW FANCY SHIRLEY POPPIES. 
NEW FANCY SHIRLEY POPPIES. A fine selection of the 
No. 
. 6142. POPPIES, ISLES OF SHOALS. We have had the 
beautiful Shirley Poppies. No annual affords prettier or gayer 
effects, there being many very pretty new colors and combina- 
tions in the strains now offered. Very desirable for beds and 
borders. The flowers are perfectly elegant in vases. 
6196. Finest Mixed. Pkt., .10. 
honor of furnishing the flower seeds grown at the ‘‘ Afpledore”’ 
for anumber of years. One of the many attractions at this far- 
famed, high-class summer resort is the beautiful flowers which 
grow there of richest colorings. Masturtiums, Sweet Peas, 
Bachelor s Buttons, Marigolds, Pansies,H ollyhocks, Poppies, etc., 
of hues rarely seen elsewhere. This strain of Poppies was fur- 
nished by us to the order of the late Mrs. Celia Thaxter, poetess, 
and is among the most attractive of the flowers she loved and 
cultivated there. They can be grown by anyone, and make a 
grand display. Their beauty is indescribable and the variety 
endless. Allare hardy annuals. Liberal Pkt., .10. 
Continued. 
The Scotch Thistle is a noble-appearing and very shoy la 
for borders, and when planted among shrubs, ate, The fale 
is glaucous; habit of the plant branching, free and strong; 
attains a height of eight or ten feet, and when in full bloom, 
with its showy, pink flowers, few plants are more striking, 
The so-called common Scotch Thistle is a pigmy compared: 
with this, the true variety. Pkt. .15. 
SCARLET GEM, DOUBLE ZINNIA. 
No. 8867. ZINNIA DWARF, SCARLET GEM. One of 
the most charming introductions, the plants fairly bristling with» 
the showy, neat, double blooms. It is beyond question the: 
most beautiful Zinnia known; of dwarf and neat habit, and! 
bears profusely innumerable, very double, finely imbricated: 
flowers, of intense dazzling scarlet color. As a border or bed- 
ding plant it is invaluable, and every one who grows it will be 
pleased. Pkt., .10. 
THE KROPKOLLAR. 
The Kropkollar is a simple combination that will protect growing plants and. 
crops from cut worms or other boring insects, protect plants and creps ‘from 
early frosts and continued spring rains, and by the use of a square of glass 
furnish a cold frame or forcing bed at anominal cost to the farmer or gardener. 
The Kropkollar consists of a piece of fibre-board, giving, when fastened, an 
inside diameter of 6 inches. It tapers on the upper side from 6 inches at the 
back to 34 inchesin the front. There is a vertical projection at the back and 
it has two eyelet holes in each front end. A fastener of “ spring” copper 
enters the eyelet holes. This fastener has an extended end, or clamp at the 
top. The spring clamp receives and holds either the glass, for an early forcing. 
bed, or a fibre-board cover that will afford protection from frosts. There isa 
square of glass and a fibre-board cover which are the working parts of the 
Kropkollar. 
When the fastener is slipped through the eyelet holes the Kropkollar is 
pressed into the ground around the hills or drills containing the seed to sufficient 
depth; by the tapering of the Kropkollar from back to front it can be set in 
any land so as to give the largest possible horizon from sunrise to sunset, and 
by the pitch of the sides and back confines the sun’s rays and heat on the ground 
it encloses. Extending below the surface of the ground the Kropkollar forms 
an unbroken barrier against cut worms or other boring insects. 
Price: $5.00 a hundred, or 60 cents per dozen. This includes the 
collar, glass, frost cover and fastener. 
