ROSES, SEEDS AND BULBS FOR 1897. 37 
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Dee RCo, 
Double Yellow Datura. 
NEW DOUBLE YELLOW DATURA, an elegant 
_ novelty tested last year, and much admired, makes 
a fine bushy plant, about two feet high, covered 
_all over with beautiful large yellow double trum- 
pet-shaped flowers, very handsome and showy. 
Seed grows easily and plants soon begin to bloom. 
Pkt. 8 cts. 
Have you seen CUPID? The wonderful NEW 
DWARF SWEET PEA. Flowers pure snow- 
white; large and sweet; immense bloomer; 
require no support; grand both for pots and open 
ground. Pkt.6cts. See full description, page 35. 
Abutilon or Chinese Bell Flower. 
ABUTILON—Chinese Bell Flower or Flowering 
Maple as it is sometimes called, isa beautiful plant 
for house or window; may be bedded out in Sum- 
mer and taken up in Winter; grows easily from 
seed, and blooms very cidckly. Lovely bell-shape 
flowers, borne all the year. Colors: Pink, yellow, 
orange, red, white, etc. The leaves also are beau- 
tifully mottled and variegated with green, white, 
and ye iow, and are almostas pretty as the flowers. 
It bears hard usage well and always looks bright 
and hendsome, Fine mixed, pkt. 8 cts. 
CENTROCEMA GRANDIFLORA, Butterfly Pea. 
An entirely 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 high. Seed should be soaked in water cver 
night and planted early in spring where it is to 
remain. Pkt. 6 cts. 
ACROCLINIUM, (Everlasting) or PINK DAISY. 
Considered one of the most beautiful everlasting 
flowers we haye; 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. 4ets. 
ACACIA FARNESIANA. A very beautiful, easily 
grown plant that should be better known, delicate 
fern-like foliage and charming tassel-like golden 
yellow flowers, deliciously fragrant, should be 
started early in-doors. Pkt. 6 cts. 
ANTIRRHINUM. TOM. THUMB-Dwarf Snap 
Dragon. A greatimprovement on the old sorts; 
they grow bushy and compact, only about eight 
inches high and are thickly studded with beautiful 
elusters of gay-colored flowers, orange, white, 
scarlet, rose, maroon, striped, ete. Pkt. 4 cts. 
ANCHUSA CAPEN- 
SIS or Large Flow- 
ering Forget - me- 
not. A fine hardy Wy 
annual, grows a- &S& 
bout two 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 bou- 
quets. Pkt. 4 cts. 
AMARANTHUS 
GIBBOSIS. Avery ; 
pandeore orna- 4@. 
mental foliage 7 SS 
plant with Tonic Wig 4 INS 
drooping tassels of Anchusa Capensis. 
purpleish red flow- 
ers, frequently two and a half feetlong. Pkt. 3 cts. 
AMARANTHUS RAINBOW. Very beautiful 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, ete., making a 
bieeot, eolors which few other plants can equal. 
t. 4 ets. 
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 droughtand 
hard usage, and always make a handsome appear- 
ance. In seeding down a lawn or grass plot, three 
things are necessary to insure success: First, to pre- 
pare the ground so as to have a fine, smooth seed- 
bed; second, to put on plenty of seed, never less, 
but rather more, than the directions call for; third, 
to start the lawn mower assoon asthe 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 com- 
mercial 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 bushels to the acre. Lawns should be kept 
neatly mowed, which induces a close, even growth 
of fresh, lively green. 
Price by mail, postpaid, 30 cts per quart; two quarts 
for 50 cts. fn bulk, purchaser paying express charges, 
$1.26 per peck; $4.00 per bushel. 
