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ABUTILON, GIANT-FLOWERING. 



ABUTILON, GIANT-FLOWERING HYBRIDS 



Plants of vigorous growth with large, luxuri- 

 ant foliage. The flowers borne in great pro- 

 fusion, are of immense size — open bell form 

 3J inches across. The coloring includes 

 shades from pure white to rose and from 

 cream to golden orange Pkt. 30c. 



ACONITTJM, CLIMBING. 



This splendid climber from China is a hardy 

 perennial making "vines about 6 feet high, 

 clothed with elegantly cut dark green foliage, 

 and bears during the autumn large, graceful 

 trusses of dark blue "Monkshood" flowers. 



Pkt. 25c. 



AGROSTEMMA, WHITE-FRINGED. 



A new and exceedingly pretty, free-flowering'; 

 garden annual forming round bushes 1 foot' 

 high, which are covered during the summer 

 with large single pure white flowers 1 A inches 

 across — having fringed edges Pkt. 15c. 



CLIMBING ACONITUM. 



ANTIRRHINUM, DOUBLE GIANT. 



This giant snapdragon makes plants over 

 3 feet high and bears freely, during summer 

 and autumn, clusters of immense double 

 flowers colored purplish-red and lighted, to- 

 ward the throat with yellow and white . .Pkt. 20c. 



AQUILEGIA COUNT ZEPPELIN. 



A beautiful new columbine named by its 

 German originator in honor of Herr Zeppelin 

 of aerial-navigation fame. The large flowers 

 are freely borne on 2-foot stalks, the double 

 corolla is snow-white, the sepals light blue. 



Pkt. 20c. 



ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS ELEGANS. 



A new type of this ornamental conservatory 

 and house plant differing from the popular 

 variety "Nanus" by having finer cut fern- 

 like leaves which are borne closer together 

 along the stems, being therefore more effec- 

 tive; the first year it remains a bushy plant 

 of great decorative effect. . .Pkt. (10 seeds) 25c. 



ASTFR, New, Hardy, Pink and Red Shades. 

 These new "Michaelrras Daisies" surpass 

 all former types in size of flowers and bright- 

 ness of coloring, ranging from silky-pink 

 to claret-red Pkt. 25c. 



LARGE SINGLE CHINA ASTERS. 



ASTERS, Large Single China. 



Single flowers are coming much in vogue 

 among people of esthetic tastes and those 

 influenced by fashion's decree: beautiful 

 but simple. — This change of front from 

 double to single has created a demand for 

 long-stemmed large single china asters which 

 are of unsurpassed decorative effect when 

 cut and vased. These asters, of strong 

 healthy growth, are profuse bloomers and are 

 also showy garden plants. 

 Large Single China Aster, White Pkt. 15c. 



" " Rose-Pink .. " 15c. 



" " Heliotrope.. " 15c. 



" " " " Mixed Colors " 10c. 



ASTER CARMEN. 



A distinct new color among the favorite 

 Victoria Asters. The large double flowers 

 of a deep rich salmon are tipped at the ends 

 of the petals with white Pkt. 20c. 



CACTUS-FLOWERED ASTER. 



ASTER, CACTUS-FLOWERED, Rose-Carmine. 



A beautiful new form; the flowers — large 

 and double — are composed of gracefully 

 recurved petals with twisted tips, thus re- 

 sembling the flowers of a Cactus Dahlia; 

 plants of pyramidal growth, medium height 



and free-flowering Pkt. 20c. 



ASTERS, GIANT COMET or OSTRICH PLUME, 



3 Grand New Varieties. 



This popular type is enriched this year by 

 three grand varieties, the long-stemmed 

 flowers being of extraordinary size, 5 to 6 

 inches across- — full, double and composed of 

 long, wavy, twisted petals. 



Mikado. Exquisite shell-pink Pkt. 25c. 



Pluto. Vivid scarlet aging to deep 



blood-red " 20c. 



Salmon-Red. Bright salmon, with a 



darker salmon center " 20c. 



ASTER, YELLOW-QUILLED. 



A beautiful sulphur-yellow colored variety of 

 the Globe Quilled Asters, having large glob- 

 ular flowers 4 to 4-J inches in diameter com- 

 posed of round quill-like petals split at the 

 tips; plants of bushy growth about 2 feet 

 high Pkt. 15c. 













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