30 ALFRED F. CONARD, WEST GROVE, PA. 
Conard’s Surpassing Flower Seeds. 
OUR SURPASSING FLOWER SEEDS are a special selection of allthe finest flowers for 
general planting, including the choicest new Kinds and best standard varieties, such as we know 
will please our patrons, and give satisfaction in every way; and weoffer no others. Flowers from seed 
are more in demand than ever before, as people are just finding out how cheap and beautiful they are. 
Conard’s surpassing flower seeds give splendid satisfaction, because 
they are easils grown, bloom quickly, and are sold at little prices. DBirec- 
tions fer culture go with every order. See prize offers. 
OUR LITTLE PRICE PHTS. allow the purchaser to get an elegant collection of beautiful 
fiowers for very little money. When larger quantities are wanted, more pKts, can be purchased, or we 
will furnish by the ounce and pound when desired. 
PREMIUMS ON FLOWER SEEDS. Our prices are very low, but persons sending 50 cts. or upward 
for flower seeds in pKts. may select to value of 10 cts. extra; dollar orders, 20cts extra, etc., but no pre- 
mium can be allowed on seeds ordered by weight, lawn grass, or any special collections of seeds, and these 
cannot be given as premiums. 
OUR PRIZE OFFERS. 
One Hundred Dollars Given in Cash Prizes. 
In order to start a friendly contest and find out how large flowers can be grown we will pay ONE 
HUNDRED DOLLARS in cash prizes for the largest blossoms raised this season from the seed of 
our New Japanese Morning Glories, Gold Medal Perfection Pansies, California Giant Petunias, 
and New Prize Yerbenas. $25 in five prizes for each variety. First prize, $10 for the largest 
fiower, S86 for the second largest, S4 for the third largest, and $2.50 each fer the fourth and 
fifth largest—S$25 for each variety, $100 in ail. In case flowers are exactly the same size, the one first 
received will be considered the winner. 
Competition Open to All. These prizes are for the largest flowers of any color, and competition is 
open to all our customers who buy a pkt. of either variety. The contest*will close at 12 o’clock, noon, 
Cctober 15th, 1897, when the prizes will be immediately awarded and mailed to the successful competitors. 
Conditions. All flowers mustbe carefully pressed and mailedin time to reach us before noon of 
October 15th, 1897; and the name and full address of the sender must be written on the back of the compe- 
tition envelope, which is sent with every order, and must be returned with the pressed flower. The 
pressed flowers can be sent safely in an ordinary letter as soon as ready, and will be promptly acknowl- 
edged. No person will be entitled to more than one prize for each variety, but can compete for all four 
varieties. Full directions go with every order, and flowers can be nicely pressed between pieces of soft 
clean paper placed under a weight. 
We hope thousands of our friends will try for these prizes. It may not require very large flowers to 
take a prize,so please send along the best you have as soonas ready, and they will be carefully regis- 
tered and acknowledged at once. 
Red, White and Blue Water Lilies. 
WILL GROW IN ANY TUB, WATER BCX OR POND. 
Few plantsare more beautiful than these grand new water lilies—floating in graceful beauty 
in the water and filling the air with their delicate perfume. The three elegant varieties de- 
scribed below are quite hardy and 
grow from seed as easily as other 
flowers. They commence to bloom in 
a little over three months from time 
of planting, after which they wiil 
bloom regularly and continuously every 
season and throw up more and larger 
flowers every year. 
BLUE ZANZIBAR WATER LILY. The 
flowers of this grand African variety vary 
in color from clear sky-blue to rich purple; 
the stamens are bright golden yellow 
tipped with blue. The flowers open regu- 
larly about nine o’clock in the morning 
and close at four o’clock in the afternoon. 
PEt., 12 cts. 
RED ZANZIBAR WATER LILY. Exactly 
similar to the above except in color, which 
varies from rich, rosy pink to deep crim- 
son. Pkt., 12 cts. 
WHITE NIGHT-BLOOMING WATER 
LILY. This splendid variety has the 
curious habit of opening its flowers about 
eight o’clock at night and closing them 
about noon the nextday. They are pure, 
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inn The three kinds—red, white and blue, 
————— mixed, pkt. 12 cis., or the three pkis. 
Nymphea Zanzibarepsis. for 39 cts. 
