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CHOICEST HYBRIDIZED 



Chrysanthemum Seed 



DIRECT FROM CHINA AND JAPAN. 



This Seed will produce Blooming Plants the first season. 



The regal beauty of these Royal flowers of the Orient is well known. 



There are many people, however, who do not realize how easily they 



may be grown from seed, and that all of the magnificent new varieties 



were raised from hyridized seed, similar to that, we are now offering. 



Chinese Double, Choicest Mixed Colors. Large double flowers 

 with incurved petals Pkt. 15c. 



Japanese Double, Choicest Mixed. Immense double flowers with 

 long twisted petals 15c. 



Ostrich Plume, Choicest Double Mixed. Petals covered with 

 hairs 15c. 



Delaux's Early-flowering, Choicest Mixed. Early or September 

 flowering ; they are mostly of the Japanese type, but of dwarf 

 and branching habit and very abundant bloomers 15c, 



Vesuvius. A novel and beautiful type of Japan Chrysanthe- 

 mums, bearing several small double flowers around and along the 

 stem — hollyhock-like ; plants of compact, branching growth, 1} 

 feet in height. Colors red, bronze and scarlet, the outside of the 

 curled petals being yellow 25c. 



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SINGLE HAKDY CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



"SHASTA" and "MOON-PENNY" DAISIES. 



The large-flowering single white hardy daisy — Chrysanthemum 

 leucanthemum maximum — has long been considered one of our finest 

 hardy perennials for permanent garden decoration. The following 

 two types — one of Californian, and the other of German origin — are 

 great improvements : 



Princess Henry. This German ' 'Moon-Penny' ' daisy forms a bushy, 

 compact, globular plant 18inches high, producing in greatest abund- 

 ance, during late summer and fall, magnificent, large white flowers, 

 3 to 4 inches across. They are of splendid substance and, having 

 long stems, are highly prized for cutting, lasting in water fully a 

 week. It flowers the first season from spring-sown seed, and comes 

 up every summer in the same beauty for many years, surviving 



the severest winters Pkt. 10c. 



Shasta Daisy. This great white Californian daisy — a creation of 

 Mr. Luther Burbank — produces, when well grown, magnificent pure 

 white flowers 4 inches or more across, on stems 1 J to 2 feet in length. 

 The plants grow 2 to 2-J feet in height, are perfectly hardy, and 

 flower in greatest profusion 25c. 



new annual CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



These improved varieties form bushy, compact, oval plants about 15 inches 

 high, are of easy cultivation, and flower most abundantly during the summer; 

 very showy garden annuals and fine for cutting. 



Golden Queen. Double golden flowers Pkt. 10c. 



White Pearl. Double white flowers 10c. 



Primrose Queen. Double lemon-yellow 10c. 



Evening Star. Sheeted with large single golden-yellow flowers. 10c. 



Morning Star. Large cream-yellow flowers; profuse 10c. 



North Star. Single giant flowers of white with a soft yellow zone contrasting 



effectively against the bold black disk 10c. 



Inodorum Snowball. A great advance in this useful type; large, densely 



double, perfectly-formed Bellis-like flowers of purest white, borne freely; 



finely cut fern-like foliage; fine garden and cut flower 10c. 



Henderson's Large-flowering CINERARIA HYBR1DA. 



Magnificent and indispensable flowering plants for spring decoration for 



the conservatory or window garden. The flowers measure 2 to 3 inches across, 



are of white, blue, violet and crimson shades; usually two or more colors 



are shown in one flower, covering the plant with a sheet of bloom. 



Large-flowering, Choicest Mixed. From prize varieties Pkt. 25c. 



Double, Large-flowering, Mixed 25c. 



Stellata, Improved Hybrids. Tall, pyramidal plants, bearing quantities of 

 medium-sized star-like flowers in immense umbels; an exceedingly deco- 

 rative pot plant. Colors, white, rose, red, carmine and blue mixed. . . . 25c. 

 "My gardener raised some of the finest Cinerarias, from seed purchased from 



you last spring, that have ever been seen around here. I measured some that 



were fully three inches in diameter, plants in 8-inch pots." 



F. A. KECHINE, Canandaigua, N. Y. 



OSTRICH PLUME COCKSCOMB. 



A very superior type of Cclosia plumosa, forming pyramidal, branching 

 plants 3^ feet high and bearing large conical, plumed heads of either golden- 

 yellow, fiery-scarlet, purple, salmon, blood-red, etc. The plants are annuals, 

 growing easily and quickly from seed, and present a very showy appearance in 

 the summer garden, lasting long in bloom. 



Golden Ostrich Plume Pkt. lOc. 



Crimson " " 10c. 



Ostrich Plume, Mixed Colors. (Thompson's Magnifica.) 10c. 



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