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RICHARD FROTSCHER’S ALMANAC AND GARDEN MANUAL 
Odiers are five blotched and generally yellow 
or white edged. The flowers are of thé most 
perfect form and beautiful coloring. This 
variety is one of the best and forms a fine 
acquisition to our already large collection. 
Price per packet, 25c. 
Zinnia elegans, fi. pl. Double Zin- 
nia. Plants of very easy culture, flowering 
very profusely through the whole summer and 
fall; producing double flowers of all colors, 
almost as large as the flower of a Dahlia. 
Three feet high. February till August. 
Zinnia elegans pumila, fi. pi. 
Dwarf Double Mixed. A new dwarf section, 
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especially desirable. The compact, bushy 
plants rarely grow over two feet high, and are 
covered with large flowers of great beauty. 
Zinnia elegans grandiflora 
robusta plenissima. A new variety 
recently introduced here from Germany. The 
plants of this new class of showy and at- 
tractive annuals are of very robust growth and 
produce very large ‘and extremely double 
flowers, measuring from 4 to 5 inches in 
diameter. The seeds I offer for sale, come 
direct from the originator, and contain about 
eight different beautiful colors, mostly very 
bright. 
CLIMBING PLANTS. 
Antigonum Leptopus. Rosa mon- 
tana. One of the finest perennial climbers of 
rapid growth with long racemes of beautiful 
deep pink flowers. Being a native of Mexico, 
it is well adapted to our climate and will stand | 
our most severe winters without any further | 
protection than perhaps a slight cover of moss 
or straw. Sow in February or March in flower 
pots, and transplant into the open ground in 
May. Will flower freely the first year. With- 
ont any doubt the finest climber for this sec- - 
tion. 
Aristolochia elegans. A new variety 
of the well known ‘‘Dutchman’s pipe,” (which 
however will not grow here;) of vigorous 
erowth and quite hardy in our climate. It is 
a profuse bloomer, bearing large flowers of a 
rich purple color with irregular branched 
markings of creamy white and golden yellow 
centre with rich velvety purple. This plant 
is one of the most thankful of all climbers, 
blooming when quite young and continuing 
to do so the whole summer. Will stand our 
winter without protection. Sow in January 
Climbing Cobea. 
Mixed Thunbergia. 
