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Bolg'iano's Beautiful Asters in Finest Mixture. —Attract and delight 

 all lovers of Flowers. They are put up in large size Floral Packets at 

 2c each or 1 doz. by mail, 25c. Each packet has printed on the back 

 full cultural directions. 



3. Aster. China.— Are surprisingly beautiful annual plants. All 

 shades and colors are represented in our assortment. The seed should 

 be sown under glass or in a seed bed, and transplanted into deeply dug, 

 highly enriched soil, mulching with manure and irrigating. Water 

 during drought is essential to a healthv, vigorous growth. Plants grow 

 8 to io inches high. PKts. 2c, 5c, 10c and 25c. 



4. Aster. German. (Quilled.)— These varieties are from Germany 

 and saved from the finest double sorts. Use rich soil and it will produce 

 fine, large flowers. Should be transplanted twice. Our Asters contain 

 perfection blue, white and crimson, dwarf Chrysanthemums, white 

 branching quilled mixed, ray (new) comet, white, imbricated yellow.) 



XX. Coleus.— Plants, with richly colored foliage of maroon, green, 

 crimson, yellow, etc. For groups on lawns and ribboning are indispen- 

 sable, valuable for pot culture. They attain perfection from seed the 

 first season. 



5. Joseph's Coat. 'Amaranthus Tricolor.)— Beautiful foliage plants, 

 invaluable for massing where striking contrasts in color are desired. 

 Succeeds best in light soil. Seed may be sown out of doors after settled 

 warm weather. 



6. Love Lies Bleeding. (Amaranthus Caudatus.)— Graceful 

 flowers of blood-red hue. Good for background. 



7. Snap Dragon. (Antirrhirum.)— Dwarf Golden Queen, Queen of 

 the North Pictaratum, blotched, all large flowering. One of our most 

 showy and useful border plants. The more recently improved varieties 

 of this valuable genus have large, finely shaped flowers of the most bril- 

 liant colors, with beautiful marked throats; they succeed in any good 

 garden soil, and are very effective in beds. Hardy perennials, blooming 

 the first year from seed, i to 2 feet. 



8. Dutchman's Pipe Vine, or Aristolochia Eleg'ans.— Rapid, luxur- 

 iant, hardy perennial climber; large leaves, making dense shade; flow- 

 ers yellow and brown mottled and curiously shaped; grows 30 feet high. 



9. Columbine or Airuileg'a.— Single, double chrysantha.grandiflora, 

 alba, glandulosa, first quality, mixed. This plant blooms freely early in 

 the Spring or Summer. They do best in moist situations, where they 

 form permanent clumps, growing about 3 feet high, bearing large, 

 unique, spurred flowers, gracefully hung on long stems. They make a 

 brilliant effect on the plant and are equally showy as cut flowers. 



10. Balsam, Double Mixed. (Lady Slippers.) Improved Camelia 

 flowered prize Balsam, superior mixed. Balsams are among the finest 

 Summer flowering annuals, being free bloomers and highly colored. 

 Useful in floral designs. PKts. 2c, 5c, 10c and 25c. 



11. Balsam Apple, (Vine.) Mormordica.— Very curious climbing 

 vines, with ornamental foliage; fruit golden yellow', warted, and when 

 ripe opens, showing the seed and its brilliant carmine interior; fine for 

 trellises, rock work, stumps, etc.; annual; grows 30 to 50 feet in one 

 season. 



12. Balloon Vine.— A rapid growing, handsome Summer climber, 

 having small white flowers which are followed by seed vessels shaped 

 like small balloons; grows from 10 to 15 feet high. 



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E secure from the most reliable growers of Europe 

 and America the choicest selected varieties of the 

 different kinds of flower seeds and mix them our- 

 selves, so that the purchaser can feel fullj' assured of get- 

 ting from us only first quality, high grade flower seeds. 



Provided the soil is in a proper state, flower seeds may 

 be sown in the open border in the months of April and 

 May, or as soon as the soil becomes dry and easily crum- 

 bled, after the Spring frost has disappeared. They may 

 also be sown in prepared beds of light, rich soil, and 

 transplanted into the garden. The former is the more 

 simple method, but not always as satisfactory. The bet- 

 ter plan is to sow all fine seeds under glass in a green- 

 house, hot-bed or in the house. As to the depth to which 

 seed should be covered, the best general rule is to cover fine 

 seeds very lightly, just enough to protect them from the 

 sun; and in extremely dry weather a sprinkling of damp 

 moss is very useful. With very fine seeds it is best to sow 

 on the surface, and press them slightly into the soil. We 

 are convinced that one of the most frequent causes of 

 failure is in sowing the seed too deep, and seedsmen are 

 unjustly censured, when fault lies with the cultivator. 



1. Ag'eratum, Mexicanum, (Blue and White.)— The 



Ageratums are all very pretty, especially when grown in 

 beds or borders; easy growth, flowers abundantly out of 

 doors in the Summer, or in green houses in Winter; 

 therefore very desirable for boquet making. Plants 6 to 8 

 inches. 



2. Alysseum. Benthum Procumbent. (Sweet White Carpet.)— Flowers 

 pure white in racemes, and of a peculiar delicate fragrance. Useful in all kinds 

 of small boquets. Hardy annuals; grows 1 foot high. PKts. 2c, 5c and 10c. 



Wild Cucumber. — This is the quickest growing climber in our list. Grows 

 wild, self-sown, in many parts of the West. It will grow thirty feet in one sea- 

 son. It is thickly dotted over with pretty white fragrant flowers, followed by 

 an abundance of ornamental and prickly seed pods. For a trellis or pillar no 

 annual vine is more chaste, and it will quickly cover an o'd tree or an unsightby 

 building, PKt. 5c, 1/2 Oz. 10c, Oz. 15c, 1/4 Lb. 40c, Lb. $1.50. 



13. Ever-Blooming Bedding Begonias. 'Semperflorens.)— Finest 

 mixed. Take rank as bedding plants with Geraniums and Coleus, doing 

 equally well in full sunlight, and surpassing both in positions partiall}' 

 or wholly in shade. Furthermore, they are as easily raised from seed as. 

 the ordinary annuals, and can be started in early Spring in a hot-bed' 

 or window, and have nice plants ready to set out in May, thus saving 

 all the room usually given to the carrying over of beddingplants. They 

 are of steady growth, growing about 1 foot high and forming dense 

 bushes, which from May until frost are completely hidden with flowers. 

 As pot plants for Winter flowering they are superb, remaining a sheet of 

 bloom throughout the entire year. 



14. Daisy Double. (Bellis Perenus.) — Double White, Snowball, 

 Longfellow, Maxima, Flora Plena. The Daisy has been so far improved 

 by selection and careful cultivation that good seed will give at least 80 

 per cent of flowers, as large and double as any of the named sorts propa- 

 gated by divisions of the roots and sold at a high price. Splendid plants 

 for early Spring and Summer flowering, planted in partially shady situ- 

 ations. Are also excellent bloomers in the house. PKts. 2c, 5c and 10c. 



15. Calceolaria Hybrida Grandiflora.— Very large flowers, splendid 

 strain, robust and floriferous. It is an ornamental plant, producing a 

 mass of beautiful pocket flowers early in the Spring, and a universal 

 favorite for decorating. Our stock can be relied on to produce flowers of 

 largest size and most brilliant colors. 



16. Calendula. — Remarkably profuse, dwarf bush annuals, blooming 

 continuously and abundantly, until frost, of easy culture; indispensable 

 for Summer garden or for pot culture in the Winter. Grows 1 foot high, 

 finest mixed. 



17. Calliopisis. (Drummondi.) — Golden Wave Basalis Picta. Showy, 

 beautiful, free-flowering annuals, blooming all Summer; excellent for 

 cutting. 



18. Canterbury Bell. (Campanula.) — Mirabilis, Double or Single, 

 Finest Mixed. Are new varieties, forming large pyramidal bushes 2 feet 

 in diameter. Each branch producing a great number of large flowers of 

 a pale blue lilac color. The plants in full bloom present a regular flow- 

 ering pyramid of 100 open blossoms. Some of the varieties are hardy 

 herbaceous perennials, thriving best in light, rich soil. 



19. Candytuft. Finest mixed, First Quality.— Fragrant, Rochet, 

 Creamy White and Crimson. Universally known and cultivated, and 

 considered indispensable for cutting. All varieties look best in beds or 

 masses. Seed sown in April flowers from July 'till frost. Single plants 

 transplanted look well and bloom profusely. PKts. 2c, 5c and 10c. 



20. Candytuft. (White Empress.)— A complete mass of pure white 



flowers, in a pyramid of bloom 



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