New Floral Guide— Spring, 1903. 



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New Double Golden Rudbeckia, Golden Glow 



This is one of the grandest hardy yellow flow- 

 ering plants ever introduced, particularly valu- 

 able for garden, lawn and park planting ; grows 

 six to eight feet high ; graceful branching habit 

 and pretty foliage. Blooms during July and 

 August the first season, and bears immense 

 masses of large, round, golden-yellow flowers, 

 perfectly double like roses and two or three 

 inches across, covering the whole plant with a 

 sheet of splendid golden-yellow flowers for 

 weeks. It is easy to grow and sure to bloom, 

 and cannot be too highly recommended as one 

 of the most showy and handsome ornamental 

 plants ever introduced. The flowers are borne 

 by hundreds on long, graceful, nodding stems, 

 just right for cutting. Do not forget to include 

 it in your order ; it is a plant that will please 

 you. Price, 15 cts. each, 2 for 25 cts., 4 for 50c, 

 $1.25 per doz., postpaid. Large clumps, 20 cts. 

 each, $2.00 per doz., express. 



New Dwarf Perennial Sunflower 



A real beauty for the flower g'arden. Every 

 one who likes yellow flowers goes wild over it. 

 Grows only 2 to 2^ feet high and loaded its 

 whole length with solid perfectly double golden- 

 yellow flowers, two to three inches across. Very 

 showy and handsome. 15c. each, 2 for 25c. 



New Spanish Aster (BOLTONIA) 



This is a fine hardy border plant, grows only 10 

 to 12 inches high, and throws up an abundance 

 of flower stems, covered with fine whitish- 

 purple flowers, as large as a 25-cent piece. A 

 single row makes a fine bed of flowers all Sum- 

 mer and Fall. Very showy and handsome for 

 beds, borders and edging for driveways, etc. 

 IOc. each, 3 for 25c, 75c. doz., postpaid. 



NEW DOUBLE GOLDEN RUDBECKIA 



Phrynium Variegatum 



A beautiful Variegated-leaved Plant, highly valued 

 for shady beds and borders, and also for pot culture > 

 no trouble to grow, succeeds well everywhere and is 

 always pretty and attractive ; grows erect on strong 

 stalks 12 to 15 inches high-; leaves bright green, beau- 

 tifully variegated with white and gold. Nice dry bulbs, 

 12 cts. each, 3 for 35 cts., $1.25 per dozen, postpaid. 



Roy al Purple strohilantnes 



This is a magnificent 

 plant for beds and bor- 

 ders ; grows about 

 two feet high and 

 is of bushy com- 

 pact habit ; the 

 flowers are not im- 

 portant and should 

 be kept pinched 

 off ; its beauty 

 consists in the 

 superb coloring 

 of its leaves, 

 which are large 

 and of the 

 most exqui- 

 site deep, 

 rich royal 

 purple, with 

 velvety, lus- 

 trous bloom and markings impossible to describe 

 grower and shows its beautiful colors at once, 

 planted when ground is warm ; not hardy. Price, 

 2 for 25 ct».. $1.25 per dozen, postpaid. 



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