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ALFRED F. CONARD, WEST GROVE, PA. 



COSMOS HYBRIDUS. 



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. 3 cts. 



COSMOS HYBRI- 

 DUS. The Cosmos is 

 very popular wherever 

 known, as it is easily 

 grown, and one of our 

 finest fall - blooming 

 plants, a tit companion 

 for the beautiful Sear- 

 let Sage. Cosmos has 

 light, feathery foliage, 

 makes nice,' shapely 

 plants from four to 

 rive feet high, begins 

 to bloom in August. 

 and continues till 

 Avinter, covered with 

 ■ hundreds of lovely 

 blossoms two inches 

 iu diameter, resem- 

 bling single dahlias; 

 flowers are pure while, 

 pink, and rose, with 

 bright-yellow centers; 

 they are largely grown for cutting, as both the flowers 

 and foliage are highly valued for bouquets and floral 

 work. Mixed colors, pkt. 6 cts.; pure ic/iite 6 cts.; deej/ 

 rose 6 cts. 

 CINERARIA HYBRIDA. The Cineraria is one of 

 the brightest and best plants for house and conserva- 

 tory culture. Seed sown from May to August will 

 bloom abundantly the following winter and spring. 

 Keep the plants in a cool, shady place during summer. 

 They do not like too much lieat, and must not be 

 allowed to get dry at the root. Well-grown plants 

 show a perfect sheet of bloom — the colors range through 

 crimson, ntagenta, violet, purple, and variegated— and 

 are niarvelously beautiful. Large-flowering, mixed, 

 pkt. 12 cts. 



COBEA SCANDENS. An elegant and well-known 

 climbing vine, suitable both for house culture and 

 planting outside: large, bell-shaped flowers, green at 

 first, but changing to beautiful violet-blue ; very hand- 

 some and attractive. Pkt. 6 cts. 



CROZY'S NEW DWARF CANNAS These splen- 

 did Dwarf Canuas make the most magnificent bedding 

 plants anyone can have : they grow easily (if you soak 

 the seed over night in boiling water) and bloom 

 quickly and continuously all through the season ; 

 should be started early and put out when danger of 

 frost is past; plants grow two to three feet high and 

 bear grand clusters of gorgeous-colored flowers. Pkt. 

 6 cts. 



CANNA. Old varieties, good mixed, 3 cts. 



COCKSCOMB, QUEEN OF DWARFS. 



COCKSCOMB. QUEEN OF DWARFS. This is 

 the finest dwarf Cockscomb in cultivation ; grows 

 only eight or ten inches high, and bears immense heads 

 of bloom ten to twelve inches across ; deep, rich, vel- 

 vety crimson, exceedingly brilliant and handsome. 

 Pkt. 6 cts. ' ! 



COCKSCOMB. Fine mixed, pkt. 3 cts. I 



CYCLAMEN PERSICUM. Charming, bulbous-rooted 

 plants, with beautiful, variegated foliage and richly 

 colored, orchid-like flowers; they are highly esteemed 

 as pot plants for winter and spring bloom'ing. Seed 

 sown early in sandy loam make flowering bulbs in one 

 season. After flowering the bulbs should rest in a 

 dry state over summer. Pkt. 8 cts. 



CYCLAMEN GIGANTEUM. Mixed, nkt 12 cts. 



DOUBLE DAHLIAS. 



DOUBLE DAHLIAS. It is now well-known that 

 the finest Dahlias are grown from seed sown in the 

 spring, and give as good or better satisfaction as those 

 grown from roots. Our seed is saved from the finest 

 double named varieties, and will give a great variety 

 of handsome colors and a large proportion of large, 

 perfectly double flowers, fully equal to the named 

 kinds. "Seed started in the h6u.se and set out the last 

 of May will be in bloom as soon as plants from roots, 

 and will produce as many fine flowers. Our seed is 

 extensively planted and "gives excellent satisfaction. 

 Finest double mixed, pkt. 8 cts.; extra large pkt. 

 12 ct.s. 



NEW STRIPED SINGLE DAHLIAS. Beautiful, 

 large, single flowers, many of them four inches across 

 and displaying a wonderful variety of bright, rich 

 colors, beautifully striped, flaked, mottled, and dotted 

 in the most charming manner. Pkt. 6 cts. 



NEW DWARF TOM THUMB DAHLIAS. Ele- 

 gant little plants, growing only twelve or fifteen inches 

 high, and covered with bloom in less than three months 

 after seed is sown ; continue to bloom till cold weather. 

 Flowers very pretty and attractive, white, yellow, and 

 rose, banded and variegated in the most unusual way. 

 ^Tew and very desirable. Pkt. 8 cts. 



DOUBLE DAISY (BelHs perennis). Daisies are 

 sure to grow, and 1)egin blooming very qttickly ; the 

 flowers are whife, pink, red, and variegated; the most 

 of them come dou1)le: the single ones are nearly as 

 pretty as the double. Finest mixed 6 cts. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM flnodorum plenissimum). 



This is a perennial, but blooms abundantly the first 

 year from seed, each plant bearing hundreds of beau- 

 tiful, perfectly double, snow-white flowers ; fine for 

 cutting: it continues to bloom all through the season, 

 and is .so handsome and valuable it deserves to be better 

 known. Pkt. 6 cts. 

 CALLIOPSIS. GOLDEN WAVE. Amass of bright, 

 rich, golden flowers all summer and fall. Sow early in 

 open ground. Pkt, 3 cts. 



