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GERANIUMS— Fine Geraniums are 

 perhaps more in demand for bedding 

 and house culture than any other 

 flowers, and as it is found that they 

 bloom finely from seed the first sea- 

 son, many people prefer to raise 

 them, as it is much the cheapest and 

 there is always a chance of getting 

 some Valuable New sorts, for the 

 finest new varieties have been ob- 

 tained from this quality of seed. 

 The seed we offer is saved from a 

 large collection of the finest named 

 sorts, grown under particularly 

 favorable conditions of soil and cli- 

 mate, and should produce flowers of 

 the highest grade and greatest 

 variety of richest colors. Finest 

 mixed. Pkt. 10 cts. 



GERANIUM (Good Mixed)— Pkt. 6 cts. 



APPLE SCENTED GERANIUM— 

 Leaves delightfully scented like rich, 

 luscious apples ; the best plants are grown from seed 



Geraniums. 



Pkt. 8 cts. 



PELARGONIUMS or LADY WASHINGTON GERANIUMS - The 

 finest of the Greranium family; elegant for house culture. Seed very 

 scaroe and costly. Pkt. 25 cts. 



New Dovible Gaillardia. 



NEW DOUBLE GAILLARDIA, ( Picta Lorenaiana >— 

 Large, gay-colored double flowers, produced abundantly 

 all through the season ; valuable for beds and cutting. 

 The colors include golden yellow, orange, amaranth and 

 shades of purple. Pkt. 4 cts. 



GAILLARDIA, ( Blanket Flower )— The single Gaillardia 

 or Blanket Flowers, are greatly admired for their fine 

 form and bright, handsome colors. They thrive every- 

 where and bloom abundantly all the season Pkt. 8 cts. 



HOLLYHOCK, (Superb Double Mixed)— This grand strain 

 will produce splendid large double flowers of perfect 

 form, and the most brilliant colors and shades imaginable. 

 If sown early in March or April they bloom the same 

 season. Pkt. 6 cts. 



NEW VARIEGATED JAPANESE HOP— One of the hand 

 somest and most rapid climbing vines known; leaves 

 finely striped and marked with white; grows easily from 

 seed, and will climb twenty-five or thirty feet, and make 

 a thick, dense shade In a very short time. Nothing better 

 for quickly covering porches, back-buildings, arbors, &c. 

 Pkt. 5 cts. 



Forget-Me-Not, (Victoria). 



FORGET-ME-NOT, (Victoria) -This is the finest variety 

 of the beautiful old favorite Forget-Me-Not. Makes low 

 bushy plants, six to eight inches high and the same in 

 width, and bears a profusion of lovely azure blue flowers; 

 firie for the hair and button-hole, and always gn'eatly ad- 

 mired. Nice for carpet bedding and edging outside, and 

 for pots and window gardens indoors. Pkt. 4 cts. 



BALLOON VINE-The Balloon Vine, or Love in a Puff, is 

 of rapid growth, with pretty foliage and curious balloon- 

 like seed vessels; nice for windows, rockeries, etc. 

 Pkt.4ctB. 



SEED FOR VASES, BASKETS and ROCKERIES— A 

 carefully prepared mixture of the choicest and best seeds 

 for vases, baskets and rockeries, including lovely Dwarf 

 Morning Glories, Sammer Blooming Oxalis, &c: war- 

 ranted to please. Pkt.6sta. 



Gloxinia Hybrida. 



GLOXINIA HYBRIDA,— The Gloxinias are splendid, bul- 

 bous-rooted plants highly valued for house and conserva- 

 tory culture, and blooming in great profusion during 

 the summer months. The handsome bell-shaped flowers 

 show^ a great variety of the richest and most beautiful 

 colors, and many superb spotted and blotched strains. 

 Keep bulbs warm and dry during winter. Pkt. 10 cts. 



THE FREESIAis 

 one of the most 

 beautiful winter 

 flowering bulbs. 

 Seeds sown in 

 the Spring make 

 nice bulbs in 

 time for Winter 

 bloom. They are 

 easily grown and 

 give great satis- 

 faction. Pure 

 white, very frag- 

 rant. Pkt. 5 cts. 



MINA LOBATA— 

 A pretty climb- 

 ing vine from 

 Mexico ; grows 

 eighteen to 

 twenty feet high, 

 and is covered 

 with flowers 

 from top to bot- 

 tom, red, then 

 and 



Tlie Freesia. 



orange, ana 



when fully open creamy-white. Pkt. 4 eta. 



MAURANDYA— A pretty, rapid, and graceful climber for 

 greenhouse, parlor, basket, or out-door planting ; blooms 

 profusely during the whole season ; fine, tubular, bcll- 

 shaped flowers, white, purple and rose. Pkt. 3 cts. 



