PETEf* HEriDEfSSOfi fit CO., flEW YOt^.— pkOWEt* SEEDS. 



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Single Annual Varieties. (Painted Daisies.) 



Summer-blooming plants of compact growth and thrifty habit, 12 to 18 inches high, producing 

 quantities of large single flowers, 2 inches across. Colors, crimson, gold, maroon, white, etc. 



Burridgeanum. White, crimson and yellow. ..PM. 5 Gladstone. Brilliant rich crimson.. Pkt. 5 



Eclipse. Golden yellow, scarlet ring ; centre rich brown 6 



Golden Feather. Foliage golden yellow ; flowers ringed white, crimson and canary, maroon eye. . 6 



Lord Beaconsfield. Crimson, maroon-edged and striped gold, brown eye, ringed yellow 6 



Segetum Qrandifiornm. Extra large sulphur yellow flowers, 2y, inches across 6 



The Sultan. Crimson maroon, centre a wide gold ring 5 Single Annual, Mixed 6 



Imported collection of '6 annual sorts, 25 cts. 



Double Annual Varieties. 



Bushy, thrifty plants about 1 foot high ; very effective for flower beds, pot culture and for cut flowers. 



Double Annual, Mixed Colors. [Coronarium.Jt.pl.) Pkt. 5 



Lorenz's Double Fringfed. (C. carinatum.hybrid.Hmfimbriatum.fi. pi.) The petals lie, scale-like, one 

 upon the other, and are exquisitely fringed. The colors are beautiful and diversified, including number- 

 less hues of rose, fiery scarlet, blood-red, purple, yellow, white, etc., the dark colors predominating. 10 

 Inodorum Plenissimum. Double white flowers borne throughout the season in profusion. Fine 

 for vases and cutting 10 



Double Perennial Varieties. 



Chinese and Japanese Large Flowering. Grand mixture. This seed has been saved from many 

 new varieties and will produce blooming plants the first season if sown early Pkt. 26 



DELAUX'S PERFECTED EARLY-FLOWERING 



JAPANESE AND CHINESE CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 



Bemarkable new class, raised by a celebrated 

 South of France specialist, who, by persevering 

 selection and skillful hybridizing, obtained a 

 series of 200 varieties of early-flowering 

 Chrysanthemums that, in his latitude, 

 bloom continually from June until 

 frost. The seed which we offer has 

 been gathered from the complete 

 collection of Mr. Delaux, and will 

 produce an endless variety of mag- 

 nificent flowers of superb colors, 

 ninety per cent, of which he 

 claims will come double, and 

 mostly of the Japanese type, 

 differing essentially from the 

 latter in more dwarf and 

 branching habit, and in con- 

 sequence more abundant 

 blooming. While we in the 

 North cannot expect the 

 Delaux Chrysanthemums 

 to bloom as early as in the 

 sunny South of France, yet 

 they will precede the reg- 

 ular Chinese and Japanese 

 Chrysanthemums by sev- 

 eral weeks, especially if the 

 seed be started in the house 

 early in the spring and the 

 plants removed to the open 

 ground. [See cut.) Pkt. 25 



CELOSIA PLDMOSA, " TBIOMPHE D'EXPOSITIOH.' 



DELAUX'S EARLY-FLOWERIHG CHRYSANTHEMUM. 



Celosia Plumosa. 



(Feathered Cockscomb.) 



Handsome pyramidal branching 



plants, 2 to 3 feet high, pro- 



ducing at the summit of each 



branch long feathery plumes 



of very graceful effect. 



Triomphe d'Exposition. 



This is the most beautiful 

 of the plumed Cockscombs, 

 forming symmetrical 

 plants about 3 feet high, 

 bearing large feathery 

 crimson plumes ; it is ol 

 vigorous growth, coming 

 rapidly to perfection, and 

 grand for beds and very 

 effective for pots. (Set 

 cut.) Pkt. 10 



Mixed Colors I 



Centrosema. 



Grandinora. (The Butterfly 

 Pea.) A hardy perennial vine 

 of exquisite beauty. The 

 plants grow 7 to 8 feet in a sea- 

 son, and the first season from 

 seedwill produce graceful clusters 

 of 6 to 8 inverted pea-shaped 

 flowers, 1 l i to 2)£ inches across, 

 ranging in color from rosy violet to 

 reddish purple, feathered with white 

 through the centre ; the backs of the 

 flowers are pure white, and also the buds, 

 making a strikingly beautiful contrast. . . .10 



Cleome Pungens. 



" Giant Spider Plant." This is a showy plant, produc- 

 ing curious heads of flowers of bright rose color with long 

 antennfe-like stamens, of easy cultivation, blooming early and 

 continuing late. 4to6ft Pkt. S 



COSMOS. 



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Mammoth Perfection. The Glory of the Autumn Garden. The flowers are double the size of the old 

 large-flowering Cosmos, measuring 12 to 15 inches in circumference ; the petals are broader and over- 

 lapping, forming a perfectly round flower, deeply ribbed and of splendid substance. For cutting for 

 bouquets and vases this is one of the finest flowers grown, lasting in water two weeks; the long stems 

 and feathery foliage lend themselves to graceful arrangements. This new Mammoth strain of Cosmos 

 is the glory of the autumn garden. The plants, 5 to 6 feet high, of symmetrical pyramidal form, are one 

 mass of feathery, emerald-green foliage, studded with mammoth flowers of white, pink or crimson, 

 enlivening the garden long after more tender flowers have succumbed to early frost. If grown in pots 



and housed by the end of September they will flower all winter. (See cut.) Pkt. 15 



NOTE. — On the packets will be printed a new method of growing Cosmos to produce early and continuous bloom. 



URGE-FLOWERING COSMOS. 



Large Flowering Crimson Pkt. 10 I Large Flowering Pink Pkt. 10 



White Pearl. Beautiful snow-white. 10 | Mixed Colors 5 



FOR A GENERAL LIST OF FLOWER SEEDS, SEE PACES 92 TO 97. 



