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flEW HIBISCUS, "GIRflT YEI1I1OW." 



The flowers attain an enormous size, averaging 7 to 9 inches across. Color, 

 canary yellow with a garnet throat. Seed started early in the house and the plants 

 removed to the garden when all danger from frost is over, will commence bloom- 

 ing in early summer and continue to produce flowers daily until frost. Well- 

 developed plants bear from fifteen to twenty flowers at once, presenting a glorious 

 appearance. The plants grow naturally about four feet high, but if -the centre 

 shoots are pinched out early in the season the plants will grow more compact and 

 be much dwarfer and bloom more freely. 



The Giant Yellow Hibiscus, although it blooms the first season from seed, is, 

 strictly speaking, a perennial, and can be kept overwinter in pots in the greenhouse 

 if desired. In the Southern States it will live out. (See cut.) 

 Price, per packet, 15 cents. 



HEW HIBISCUS, "ClpiSOH EYE." 



An elegant strain of Hibiscus, entirely distinct, always coming true from seed. 

 It is a robust grower, with dark red stems and foliage. The flowers often measure 

 6 to 7 inches across. The color is a striking combination of purest white, with a 

 large spot of deep velvety crimson in the centre of each flower. A well-developed 

 plant will produce several hundred flowers in a season. It will succeed anywhere 

 and is perfectly hardy, blooming the first year from seed in the open ground. (See 

 cut, page HO.) Price, per packet, 15 cents. 



Hem Tom Thumb HastuPtium, " Prinee Henry." 



A most beautiful new variety producing large flowers 2 inches across, of cream 

 color, marbled and spotted with bright crimson scarlet and frequently tipped with 

 wine-red. The contrasting colors are remarkably effective. The oval, bushy 

 plants, about 1 foot high, are literally covered with flowers, forming gorgeous 

 mounds of color from early summer until killed by frost. Unsurpassed for gar- 

 den decoration, succeeding everywhere. (See cut.) 



Price, per packet, 25 cents. 



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Tom Thumb Silene, "Amelia." 



An exceedingly effective garden annual, forming regular, compact* 

 round bushes, four to six inches high, which, during the early summer 

 months, are covered densely with delicate rose-colored flowers in such 

 numbers that the plant and foliage can scarcely be seen. For low beds, 

 borders or edgings it is very pretty. 



Price, per packet, 25 cents. 



Seabiosa, " fiery Seariet." 



A most valuable acquisition to the favorite "Sweet Scabious " family. 

 Color, intense fiery scarlet of unequaled brilliancy, a color never before 

 known among Scabiosas, 



Price, per packet, 25 cents. 



Tmo Hem Smeet Peas. 



BRONZE KING. Standards distinct coppery bronze, wings pure 

 white. Per packet, 15 cents. 



PRINCESS MAT (Laxton's). Large, well-expanded flowers of a 

 very beautiful delicate shade of pale heliotrope or lavender. Per 

 packet, 35 cents. Several other comparatively new Sweet Peas of Eckford't 

 art offered ore page 88. . , 



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TOM THUMB NASTURTIUM, " PBINCE HENRY.' 



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Planted singly in good soil this new Sunflower attains enormous size, often 12 to 15 feet high, and from base 

 to summit bears hundreds of branches bearing a multitude of medium-sized golden yellow flowers with 

 small black centres. As specimens on lawns or in the garden it is very effective, a veritable pillar of gold. 



Price, per packet, 25 cents. 



"PftfHCESS JflflY" TEH WEEKS STOCK. 



This belongs to one of the finest types of Ten Weeks Stocks, viz., the "Large-flowering Pyramidal" section 

 " Princess May" produces fine trusses of very large double flowers of the most excellent shape and of the 

 purest and most exquisite yellow. The individual flowers when fully expanded have attained the extraordi- 

 nary size of two inches across or six inches in circumference. 



" Princess May" is extremely early flowering, in fact the first Ten Weeks Stock to bloom, and from this 

 characteristic alone will prove exceedingly popular both in private gardens and as a market pot plant. 



Price, per packet, 25 cents. 



flfftCflH VlOItET. 



(Saintpaulia ionantha.) A new genua recently discovered in Central Africa. It is only suitable for pot culture 

 in the greenhouse or warm window ; the plants are very dwarf and spreading and produce very freely and con- 

 tinuously flowers 1%. inches across, violet-like both in shape and color. They are gracefully borne on stems 2 to 3 

 inches high j the seed is very fine ; the plants commence to bloom when very small. Price, per pkt., 50c. 



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