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Perennial Flower Seeds for Summer Sowing. 



HOLLYHOCK. 



CHRYSANTHEMUMS Single Hardy (Shasta 

 and Moon-Penny Daisies). The large 

 flowering single white hardy Daisy — Chrys- 

 anthemum leucunthemum maximum — has 

 long been considered one of our finest 

 hardy perennials for permanent garden 

 decoration. The following new types are 

 great improvements. 



Princess Henry forms a bushy, compact plant 

 18 inches high, producing in abundance, 

 during late summer and fall, magnificent 

 large white flowers, 3 to 4 inches across. 



Shasta Daisy. Produces pure white flowers 

 4 inches or more across, on stems 1^ to 

 2 feet in length. Plants, 2 to 2\ feet in 

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New Semi-Double Shasta Daisy. A variety 

 of the above, producing large semi-double, 



pure white flowers 



CLEMATIS Paniculata. One of the finest hardy 

 perennial climbers. Covered from the 

 ground to the summit with pure white 

 fragrant flowers. 12 feet. 



Flammula. Fragrant feathery white flowers, 



in clusters, 25 to 30 feet 



COREOPSIS Harvest Moon. One of the finest 

 hardy garden plants grown, forming large 

 clumps 2 to 3 feet high. It is an improved 

 variety of the lanceolata grandiflora type, 

 producing immens,,, long-stemmed, rich yel- 

 low flowers, shaded with orange, flowering in 

 profusion for a long period 



COWSLIP. This beautiful spring-flowering 

 dwarf hardy perennial {Primula veris) 

 bears clusters of fragrant flowers of various 

 colors, as yellow-brown, edged yellow, etc. 

 They are particularly pretty when grown 

 in good sized colonies in partially shaded 

 situations. Height, 6 inches; 



DELPHINIUM, or Hardy Larkspur. 



Giant Double Hybrids. A splendid race 

 of these popular hardy garden plants. The 

 blossoms are of immense size, semi-double 

 and perfectly double, dressing the graceful, 

 towering spikes from 2 to 5 feet of their 

 length. The colors range from white and 

 lavender through every shade of blue from 

 azure to indigo and purple. The plants grow 

 from 6 to 10 feet in height; mixed colors. . 



Hybridum Nanum. A semi-dwarf single-flower- 

 ing type, each plant producing several well- 

 furnished spikes, 3 to 3| feet in height. 

 Colors vary from light celestial to deepest 

 indigo 



Formosa Giant. Grows about 3} feet high 

 — bearing from June to October, long spikes 

 of velvety, indigo-blue flowers nearly 2 

 inches across 



Zalil. (Hardy Yellow Larkspur.) Long spikes 

 of 40 to 50 sulphur-yellow blossoms, each 

 1 inch in diameter, flowering from June until 

 August, 3 to 4 feet 



Hybridum Belladonna Fanny Stormonth. 

 A greatly improved variety of the " Bella- 

 donna " Larkspur; early and continuous 

 blooming, light azure-blue color, flowers 

 larger, on stems 5 to 7 feet high 



Formosum. Deep blue, white centre ; 2 to 3 feet 



Single, Fine Mixed Colors 



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DIANTHUS, Hardy, Grass or Spice Pinks. 



Dwarf Large Double-Flowering Grass or Spice 

 Pinks. {Dianlhus Plumarius Nanus, fl. pi.) 

 In these new Pinks we have a large 

 variety of colors and markings; the color, 

 of course, refers to the center of the flowers, 

 the remainder being white or blush with a 

 band of color near the margin; the colors 

 include blood-red, rose, maroon, purple, pink, 

 blush, spotted, laced, variegated, etc. They 

 are excellent perennial garden plants, about 

 1 foot high, vigorous, hardy, and flower 

 profusely during spring and early summer. 

 The flowers are very large, double, beauti- 

 fully fringed, and emit a clove-like perfume. 

 Mixed colors ..." ''. 25 



Perfection Pinks. A superb strain of the hardy 

 Grass Pink — Dianlhus plumarius — bearing 

 enormous double flowers of perfect form. 

 Smooth round petals of pure white, edged 

 with deep crimson, very fragrant 15 



Crown " Grass " Pinks. A new race with 

 branching flower stalks 10 to 12 inches high, 

 carrying large deliciously fragrant single, 

 and semi-double flowers with fringed petals; 

 colors, white, carmine, rose, lilac, etc. Each 

 flower marked in the centre with a crimson 

 or purple crown. They flower from May to 

 July 15 



Maiden Pinks. This pretty type of hardy 

 Pinks — Dianlhus delloides — forms low mats 

 of grass-like foliage about 3 inches high, 

 above which is thrown during spring and 

 early summer a profusion of small single 

 flowers not over J of an inch in diameter on 

 stems 6 to 8 inches in length. Colors red, 

 rose and white, all adorned with a central 

 zone of crimson 10 



Plumarius, double mixed. The favorite 

 Pheasant's Eye or Grass Pinks 1 foot 10 



DIGITALIS or Foxglove. Gloxinia-Flowered. 



These improved Foxgloves are very showy, 

 hardy plants; they are easy to grow and 

 produce freely, spikes. 4 to 5 feet high, well 

 furnished with large Gloxinia-like flowers of 

 various colors, including white, cream, rose, 

 red and other shades, all of which have beau- 

 tiful throat markings, spots and blotches of 

 purple maroon, etc. 



White, spotted 10 Purple, spotted 10 



Lilac, spotted 10 Rose, spotted 10 



Mixed colors. (Gloxinoides) 10 



Collection of above 4 separate sorts 30 



Grandiflora. Yellow. Very charming flowers 



of soft chrome-yellow on 3-foot spikes 10 



Monstrosa. Long spikes of large flowers of 

 various colors, many of which are beautifully 

 spotted, etc., but the striking feature of this 

 strain is the enormous bell-shaped blossom 

 that tops each spike of flowers. Mixed 

 colors 



EDELWEISS Siberian. This beautiful " Ever- 

 lasting " is a hardy perennial growing about 

 one foot in height being larger than the fam- 

 ous Alpine Edelweiss, the star-shaped, 

 wooly white flowers being fully as large again . 

 It also thrives better under cultivation and 

 in low latitudes than the Alpine type. 



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GAILLARDIA Giant Hardy Hybrid. The flowers 

 are extraordinarily large, often 4 to 5 inches 

 across, and very highly colored in great 

 diversity of variations as scarlet with gold 

 edge, blood-red with yellow edge, yellow 

 with orange disk, golden with scarlet border 

 pure yellow, fiery-crimson and many others. 

 These magnificent Gaillardias are hardy 

 perennials, compact in growth and produce 

 a constant succession of flowers summer 

 and fall. 



Giant Hardy Hybrid, mixed colors 



GYPSOPHILA '/ Paris Market." An improved 

 large-flowering variety of G. paniculata. It 

 forms branching plants about 2 feet high, 

 fairly smothered all summer long with grace- 

 ful clusters of snow-white flowers half an 

 inch across. A pretty garden annual, and of 

 great value for bouquets, vases, etc 



Double-flowering (G. paniculata fl. pi.). A 

 new type bearing in profusion racemes of 

 double white flowers which last long in 

 perfection; 50% may be expected to come 

 double, the balance single-flowering plants . . 

 HOLLYHOCK Hardy Double. Grand summer 

 and autumn flowering plants, bearing long 

 spikes of double flowers 3 to 4 inches across. 

 They are old inhabitants of our gardens, 

 but are now so improved in doubleness and 

 enlarged in size, under our special culture 

 and hybridization, as to be revelations of 

 gorgeous beauty to those who have not seen 

 these improved sorts. Hardy biennials 5 to 

 8 feet high. The seed we offer has been 

 saved from an unrivaled collection. 



Double Blush 



" Canary-yellow. .10 Black 



" Crimson 10 Maroon 



" Deep Rose 10 Pink 



" Lavender 10 Purple 



" Light Apricot . . .10 White 



" White Violet Center 



Extra Choice Double Mixed. From named 

 varieties. 1000 seeds, 75c 



Imported Collections of Double Hardy Holly- 

 hocks. 6 separate colors, 40c; 12 separate 

 colors 



Single-flowering Hollyhocks, mixed colors. 

 1000 seeds, 50c t 



Allegheny Hollyhocks. " Mixed colors. Semi- 

 double fringed flowers. 1000 seeds, 60c. . . . 

 HIBISCUS, Hardy Varieties (Marsh Mallows). 

 These are showy hardy plants, forming 

 bushes about 3 feet high, bearing immense 

 bowl-like flowers often 6 inches across. 



Rose-pink with white base 



Giant Yellow. Yellow, garnet throat 



INCARVILLEA Delavayi. Beautiful new gar- 

 den plant with long, flexible branches. It 

 forms large fleshy roots the first year, which 

 should remain in the ground the next season, 

 and thereafter they throw up strong flower 

 stalks 3 feet high, bearing large tubular 

 flowers of rosy carmine, spotted yellow; 



throat brown 



IVY, English. (Hedera Helix.) Well-known 

 hardy vine, for moist, shaded positions; 

 waxy-green leaves; 40 feet 



Kenilworth Ivy. Hardy little climber, clings 

 to walls, etc., and a valuable trailing plant 

 for hanging baskets, vases, etc; 3 to 6 feet . . 



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