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ALFRED F. CONARD, WEST GROVE, PA. 



ASTERS. 



The Asters are among the most beautiful and popular 

 flowers grown from seed. They are very easily raised, 

 and no other annuals make such a magnificent display 

 of brilliant and beautiful colors during the late summer 

 and fall months. Should be planted in liberal quantity. 



ALYSSUM, SWEET. A great favorite, very popu- 

 lar ; grows easily everywhere ; covered with pure white, 

 fragrant tiowers the whole season. Pkt. 3 cts. 



ALYSSUM, LITTLE GEM IMPROVED. Larger 

 and finer than the old kind; immense bloomer all 

 summer and fall ; deliciously sweet. Pkt. 4 cts. 



AGERATUM. New imperial dark blue; blooms con- 

 stantly all season ; verv handsome and attractive. 

 Pkt. 3 cts. 



AMARANTHUS GIBBOSIS. A very handsome or- 

 namental foliage plant, with long, drooping tassels of 

 purplish-red flowers, frequently, two and a half feet 

 long. Pkt. 3 cts. 



AMARANTHUS, RAINBOW. Very beautiful, and 

 the finest of all the Amaranths; two to three feet 

 liigh; fine pyramid form; each leaf two colors, half 

 black and half green, changing in August to bright 

 scarlet, rose, pink, yellow, orange, etc., making a blaze 

 of colors which few other plants can equal. Pkt. 5 cts. 



NEW QUEEN ASTER. 



THE NEW QUEEN ASTER is a very dwarf, bushy 

 grower, branches freely, and always crowded full of 

 extra large, perfectly double flowers like roses ; white, 

 crimson, and blue. "Three colors mixed, pkt. 8 cts. 



NEW SCARLET TRIUMPH ASTER. Finest of 

 all Dwarf Scarlet Asters ; grows only eight or ten inches 

 high; covered with large, perfect "flowers, true paeony 

 form ; beautifully incurved petals ; bright, ridi scarlet, 

 changing to satiny scarlet. Pkt. 8 cts. 



NEW COMET ASTER. Grows twelve to fifteen 

 inches high, forming fine, regular bushes; splendid 

 large, double flowers, blue, pink, and rose, bordered 

 with wliite. Fine mixed, pkt. 8 cts.; pure white, 10 

 cts.; bright rose, very beautiful, 8 cts. 



NEW VICTORIA ASTER. Grand flowers, often 

 measuring four inches across; rich, brilliant colors; 

 plants grow even and regular, each bearing twenty- 

 five or thirty flowers. Over twenty choice colors mixed, 

 pkt. 8 cts. ; any three Asters for 20 cts- 



ASTERS, CHAMPION MIXED. All the finest va- 

 rieties and colors, pkt. 8 cts. 



BACHELOR'S BUTTON, DOUBLE. Nearly all 

 the flowers are double or semi-double, much larger 

 and finer than the old kinds, and many new and dis- 

 tinct colors. P'inest mixed, pkt. 4 cts. ' 



BEGONIA VER- 

 NON. An excellent 

 and highly satisfac- 

 tory plant for the 

 house and also for 

 bedding; blooms 

 profusely all the sea- 

 son ; literally covered 

 with blooms" ; flowers 

 brilliant orange-car- 

 mine, with bright 

 yellow centers; foli- 

 age and stems rich, 

 glossy red. Pkt. 6 cts. 



BEGONIA REX. 



Splendid ornamental 

 leaved sorts. Finest 

 mixed, pkt. 12 cts. 



BEGONIA, TUBE- 

 ROUS-ROOTED, 

 SINGLE. Mixed, 

 BEGONIA. saved from finest 



flowers, pkt. 12 cts. 

 BEGONIA, TUBEROUS-ROOTED, DOUBLE. 

 Finest and best mixed, pkt. 18 cts. 



DEFIANCE BALSAMS. 



NEW DEFIANCE BALSAMS. 



These are among the largest and finest double-flowered 

 Balsams ever otfered. The flowers are of grand size, per- 

 fectly double, and borne in such great profusion that the 

 whole plant appears a mass of bloom. This splendid 

 strain includes eight magnificent colors in nearly equal 

 proportions,— rose, spotted white, pink, scarlet, white, 

 tinted flesh, violet, white spotted, scarlet spotted, and 

 rich purple, all of which are grown separately and mixed 

 in proper pi'oportion for best effect. They are truly grand 

 and magnificent. Pkt. 6 cts.; large pkt. 10 cts. 



CAMELLIA -FLOWERED BALSAMS. Large, 

 perfect flowers, very double, like small roses, and of 

 most lovely colors, borne in solid wreaths and spikes 

 of bloom ; exceedingly beautiful. Pkt. 3 cts. each. 



HOLLYHOCK (Superb Double, mixed). This grand 

 strain will produce splendid, large, double flowers ol 

 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. 



ICE PLANT (Mesembryanthemum). A handsome 

 plant for hanging baskets, vases, rock-work, etc.; leaves 

 and stems appear as though covered with ice-crystals, 

 which glisten in the sunlight. Pkt. 3 cts. 



IMPATIENS SULTANA. This is a lovely plant, 

 either for house culture or open ground ; nearly always 

 loaded with its brilliant, rosy-crimson flowers ; very 

 showy and beautiful ; grows easily, and is one of the 

 prettiest plants we have. Pkt. 8 cts. 



