- ALYSSUM SWEET—A great favorite, very popular; 
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COBEA SCANDENS 
A choice slender-growing climbing Vine, very desirable 
for porch or veranda, and also for window culture; has 
handsome foliage, begins to bloom quickly and continues 
loaded with beautiful bell-shaped flowers the whole season. 
The flowers are green at first, but quickly change to a 
beautiful deep violet blue. <A well-established plant will run 
30 to 40 feet in a season. In planting place the seed edge- 
wise, cover lightly, and water sparingly until the plants are 
out of the seed leaf. Pkt. 12 seeds, 4 cts.; \% oz., 15 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 pro- 
fusion from June until October; the color is rosy purple and creamy 
white, very handsome and attractive, six to eight feet high. Seed 
should be soaked in water over night and planted early in Spring 
where it isto remain. Pkt. 4cts. 
a CANARY BIRD FLOWER-—A very pretty climbing vine belonging 
e WS tothe Nasturtium family. It is a quick, handsome grower of ‘grace- 
\ ws ful habit, has finely-cut leaves,and bears a profusion of lovely golden 
yellow, fragrant flowers, bearing a fancied resemblance to little canary 
“A birds Will grow ten ortwelve feet high and blooms all the time. 
Very nice for window garden, porch or trellis. Pkt. 5 cts.; oz., 35 cts. 
CYPRESS VINE A well known and very beautiful vine, with delicate 
fern-like foliage and lovely star-shaped flowers, rose, scarlet and white; 
plant when weather is warm. Pkt. 3cts.; oz. 20 cts. 
ABUTILON—Chinese Bell Flower or Flowering Maple, as it is 
sometimes called, is a beautiful plant for house or wiadow; may be 
bedded out in Summer and taken up in Winter; grows easily from seed, 
and blooms very quickly. Lovely bell-shaped 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.; 3 pkts. for 15 cts. 
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ACACIA FARNESIANA—A very beautiful easily |i 
grown plant that should be better known, delicate, fern- 
like foliage and charming tassel-like golden yellow 
flowers, deliciously fragrant; should be started early 
indoors. Pkt. 6cts. 
ALYSSUM, LITTLE GEM—Much larger and finer than 
the old kind; blooms constantly all Summer and Fall; 
a sheet of pure white flowers, deliciously sweet. Pkt.5 
ct.; % oz. 20 cts. 
ALYSSUM, GOLDEN SAXATILE-—Brilliant yellow 
flowers, completely hiding the foliage; grows about one 
foot high; fine for rock work and quite showy in 
masses. Pkt. dcts. 
grows easily everywhere; covered with pure white fra- 
grant flowersthe whole season. Pkt. 3cts.; oz. 25 cts. ALYSSUM, LITTLE GE 
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VIA SPLENDENS 
“DROOPING SPIKES ” 
TAC, A splendid new large flowering Salvia 
AY ay “wy (Scarlet Sage); bears three times as many 
Ay MS flowers as the ordinary Salvia Splendens, the 
W Aine Le), a = p, 
Wiweet, flower spikes being so heavily laden they droop 
VAN, Wee gracefully with their own weight. It is exceed- 
ix ingly handsome and desirable for lawn or gar- 
den, whether planted singly or in groups with 
other flowers. The flowers are intense 
dazzling scarlet, and are borne in endless 
profusion until late in the Fall—one of the most 
beautiful Autumn-blooming flowers you can 
plant. Pkt. 75 seeds, 8 cts. 
LARGE-FLOWERING SCARLET SAGE (Salvia 
Splendens)—Highly valued as one of the very finest 
and most beautiful flowers of late Summer and Fall, 
when it surpasses everything Bea in hliont color and 
: continuous bloom; grows easily and makes grand _ stately 
forming dense, bushy plants with long spikes of beautiful | plants, 2 to 3 feet high, completely covered with intense bright 
blue flowers, making a charming contrast when grown with | scarlet flowers—a dazzling mass of color when other flowers 
scarlet variety described above. Pkt. 6 cts. aregone. Pkt.,4cts.and 10cts.; 4% 0oz., 40 cts. 
