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ACROCLINIUM, (Everlasting) or PINK DAISY, Considered one of the 

 most beautiful everlasting flowers we have ; grows one foot high ; color, 

 elegant pale pink, shading to rose, fine for bedding and borders, and 

 when dried makes lovely Winter bouquets. New double, mixed colors. 

 Pkt. 4 cts. 



ACACIA FARNESIANA. A very beautiful, easily grown plant that 

 should be better known, delicate fern-like foliage and charming tassel- 

 like golden 5'^ellow flowers, deliciously fragrant, should be started early 

 in-doors. Pkt. 6 cts. 



ANTIRRHINUM TOM THUMB— Dwarf Snap Dragon. A great improve- 

 ment on the old sorts ; they grow bushy and compact, only about eight 

 inches high and are thickly studded with beautiful clusters of gay-colored 

 flowers, orange, white, scarlet, rose, ma- 

 roon, striped, etc. Pkt. 4 cts. 



ANCHUSA CAPENSIS or Large Flow- 

 ering Forget-me-not. A fine hardy an- 

 nual, growsabouttwo feet high, branches 

 freely and bears a profusion of lovely 

 sky blue flowers, each with a clear white 

 eye; blooms early and continuously all 

 Summer, fine for cutting and bouquets. 

 Pkt. 4 cts. 



AMARANTHUS GIBBOSIS, A very 

 handsome ornamental foliage plant with 

 long drooping tassels of purpleish red 

 flowers, frequently two and a half feet 

 long. Pkt. Sets. 



AMARANTHUS RAINBOW. Very beau- 

 tiful and the finest of all the Amaranths; 

 two to three feet high; fine pyramid 

 form, each leaf two colors, half black and 

 half green, changing in August to bright 

 scarlet rose, pink, yellow, etc., making a 

 blaze of colors which few other plants 

 can equal. Pkt. 4 cts. 



Ancliusa Capensis. 



New Double Datura. 

 NEW DOUBLE YELLOW DATURA, an elegant novelty 

 tested last year, and much admired, mahes a fine bushy 

 plant, about two feet high, covered all over with beautiful 

 large yellow double trumpet-shaped flowers, very hand- 

 some and showy. Seed grows easily and plants soon be- 

 gin to bloom. Pkt., 6 cts. 



DATURA CORNUCOPIA (Horn of Plenty:) A large 

 spreading plant, three to four feet high and nearly as 

 broad, bearing large, thick leaves and immense trumpet- 

 shaped flowers, seven to eight inches long and four to six 

 inches across. Each flower is formed of three distinct 

 trumpet flowers, one within the other. The color is w^axy- 

 white, richly marbled with purple. Seed grows easily and 

 plants bloom continuously all the season. Very fragrant. 

 Pkt., 6 cts. 



Abutilon or Chinese Bell Flower. 



ABUTILON— Chinese Bell Flower or Flowering Maple as 

 it is sometimes called, is a beautiful plant for house or 

 window; may be bedded out in Summer and taken 

 up in Winter; grows easily from seed, and blooms very 

 quickly. Lovely bell-shape flowers, borne all the year. 

 Colors: Pink, yellow, orange, red, white, etc. The leaves 

 are also beautifully mottled and variegated with green, 

 white and yellow, and are almost as pretty as the flowers. 

 It bears hard usage well and always looks bright and 

 handsome. Fine mixed, pkt., 6 cts. 



CENTROCEMA GRANDIFLORA, Butterfly Pea. An en- 

 tirely new climbing vine of great beauty ; begins to bloom 

 quickly and bears large clusters of pea-shaped flowers 

 from early June till cut down by frost. The flowers are 

 quite large, very fragrant and borne in profusion from 

 June until October; the color is rosy purple and creamy 

 white, very handsome and attractive, six to eight feet 

 iiigh. Seed should be soaked in water over night and 

 planted early m spring where, ifc ia to Tas»«i3». Fki. i cts. 



New Fragrant Candytuft, Empress, 



NEW FRAGRANT CANDYTUFT, EMPRESS. The Can- 

 dytuft is well known as one of the prettiest and most useful 

 annuals. The Empress is the newest and best variety; 

 bears large heads of pure white, fragrant flowers all 

 through the season. Pkt. 6 cts. 



CANDYTUFT. White, purple and crimson mixed, 4 cts.; 

 common white, Pkt. 3 cts. 



CONARD'S 



Velvet-Green Lawn Grass Seed. 



The Best Brand for Seeding Down New 

 Lawns and Renovating Old Ones. 



OUR VELVET-GREEN LAWN GRASS SEED is not 



excelled by any for producing a smooth, even, velvety-green 

 sward that will withstand drought and hard usage, and 

 always make a handsome appearance. In seeding down a 

 lawn or grass plot, three things are necessary to insure suc- 

 cess: First, to prepare the ground so as to have a fine, 

 smooth sjeedbed; second, to put on plenty of seed, never 

 less, but rather more, than the directions call for; third, to 

 start the lawn mower as soon as the weeds (which are always 

 in the ground and sure to start first) are tall enough to catch, 

 and keep them mowed off close till the grass has time to 

 start and become well established; The seed should be 

 lightly raked in and finished with a roller. Apply any good 

 commercial fertilizer as a top-dressing when needed. One 

 quart of seed is enough for three hundred square feet (fifteen 

 by twenty feet) or at the rate of five bushel to the acre 

 Lawns should be kept neatly mowed, which induces a deaa 

 even growth of fresh lively green. 



Price by mail, postpaid, 30 cts. per quart ; two quarts 

 for 60 cts. In bulk, purcliaser paying express diarges* 

 $lo%5 per pofl^ t 94.00 per bush«l of 20 l>^ 



