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Marguerite Carnations. 
(See illustration in colors on front cover.) 
The florists’ carnation is a perennial 
plant, requiring at least six or eight 
months to bloom from the seed. The new 
Marguerite carnation is practically an an- 
nual, as it wil] bloom freely in three to four 
months from the sowing of the seed. It is 
equally desirable for open-air culture or 
for the window or greenhouse. The stock 
which I offer represents a new and wonderfully 
improved strain, the flowers being three inches 
across and perfectly double. The range of color is 
great, including white, blush, deep pink, salmon, 
carmine, scarlet, dark crimson, maroon, and many 
combinations of these colors. Some are picotee- 
edged (margined with white) some spotted, striped 
or tinted. The vigorous stalks usually grow six to 
eight inches high, and the flowers are produced in 
great numbers. They are delightfully fragrant. 
I offer the following separate colors: White, rose 
scarlet, yellow, and striped. Any one of the five sep- 
arate colors, packet, 15 cents ; 2 packets, 25 cents. 
MARGUERITE CARNATIONS. 
Mammoth Flowering Finest Mixed. 
A mixture containing all the various colors and 
markings embraced in this beautiful flower. 
Packet, 10 cents; 3 packets, 25 cents; ounce, $2.50. 
| WILL PAY $50 to the customer who sends 
me, On or before Novy. 1, 
1900, the best six blooms of Marguerite Carnations 
grown from seed purchased from me this year. 

FIVE MAGNIFICENT 
FLORAL SPECIALTIES. 
ONE PACKET OF EACH, POSTPAID, 
FOR ONLY 35 CENTS. 
(See colored plate opposite.) 
COMET ASTER. | 
Briar Crest Finest Flowering Mixed. 
These beautiful asters are elsewhere de- | 
scribed in detail. On the color plate the 
artist has pictured a single specimen. They 
are royal beauties, and I include a mixture 
of the seeds in the low-priced collection in 
order that every body in the land may own 
andenjoy them. Pkt., 10 cts.;3 pkts., 25 ets. 
SALPIGLOSSIS GRANDIFLORA. 
New Giant Flowered. 
Handsome, showy and very stiiking. 
Blossom 8 to 4 inches across, variously 
veined and spotted; the ground colors being 
violet, rose, blue, bronze, light yellow, ete. } 
A pretty annual for the garden, and a 
charming window plant. ‘The artist has + 
not exaggerated the beauty of this strain of 
Salpiglossis. Pkt., 10 cts.;3 pkts., 25 cts. 
CANDYTUFT, Hyacinth-Flowered. 
A new type of an old flower, remarkably 
improved. Heads six inches long by two 
or three inches in diameter. Height of 
plant about fifteen inches. Of easiest cul- 
ture and will give unbounded satisfaction. 
The picture indicates its charms. Packet, 
10 cents; 3 packets, 25 cents. 
NASTURTIUM. 
New Dwari Chameleon. 
_ A pretty and interesting new strain, bear- 4] 
ing different colored flowers on the same 4] 
plant. Some of the flowers are self-colored, 
or of one shade, while others are variously 
stained, striped, blotched or margined. The 
colored plate shows this variability of 
bloom, but the plant in flower must be seen 
before its characteristics can be fully real- 
ized. Packet, 10 cents; 3 packets, 25 cents. 
MAULE’S PRIZE MIXED PANSIES. 
I take no little pride in this pansy mix- 
ture, for the flowers possess perfection of 
form, firmness of texture, elegance and di- 
versity of coloring and great size. The 
painted pansies are pretty, but the picture 
cannot include the wonderful color range 
embraced in my mixture. Packet, 20 cents; 
3 packets, 50 cents. 
A $50 PANSY PRIZE. {will pay 
customer who sends me by mail, postpaid, 
on or before Nov. 1, 1900, the six largest and 
finest pressed flowers of Maule’s Prize 
Mixed Pansies grown from seed purchased 
from me this year. 
One packet of each of the above 5 
Magnificent Floral Specialties, poste > 
paid, for only 35 cents. 



















grant. See illustration. 
more dense than in the older forms. 
It blooms freely in late summer and autumn. 
white, pink, mauve, crimson, ete. 
blance to the California tree poppy, 
Stance, as chaste and lovely as lilies. 
pink, crimson, white tinted rose. 
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NICOTIANA SYLVESTRIS. 
An annual plant with luxuriant foliage, attaining a height of three to four feet. 1 : 
pendant,tubular flowers are borne on strong spikes well above the leaves and are deliciously fra- 
The plant is in demand for bedding purposes. 
COSMOS, THE KLONDIKE. 
A true golden-yellow cosmos; a rich type of this widely favorite flower. i { 
Flowers two to three inches in diameter on graceful stems. © 
Packet, 10 cents; 3 packets, 25 cents. 
COSMOS, NEW EARLY BLOOMING GIANT FANCY. 
A new strain of cosmos, with giant flowers; sometimes four or five inches across. Q 
Some are shaped like camellias and some like single dahlias, 
and the petals are variously plaited, cut and fringed. 
The giant white type has broad, large petals of great sub- 
I can offer the following separate 
Any color, per packet, 10 cts.; 3 packets, 25 cts.; ounce, $1.50. 
COSMOS. Early Blooming Giant Fancy. A1II colors mixed. 
This strain of mixed seed is unexcelled. Packet, 10 cents; 3 packets, 25 cents; ounce, $1.25. 
pS? Pa GIANT EANCY. 
The large, 
Pkt., 10¢.; 3 pKt., 25c. 
Foliage somewhat 
Colors, 
The most fringed forms have a resem- 
colors, white, dark- 

