110—F lower Seed Novelties 
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DousLe OsTRICH FEATHER CHRYSANTHEMUM. 
Double Ostrich Feather Chrysanthemum. 
This is a fine Japanese strain, producing handsome double flowers 
with highly ornamental petals. The seedling plants will bloom the 
first season, thus enabling the cultivator to pick and choose the most 
valuable specimens for preservation and permanent culture. I re- 
commend this strain very highly, but make no positive statements 
about color or form of flower. Packet, 20 cents. 
THE MAULE SEED BOOK FOR 1908 a 
Butterfly Runner Bean. 
(Phaseolus multiflorus papilio.) 
This new variety is 
fully equal to tue varie- 
ties of Scarlet Runner 
Bean, which occupy a 
prominent place 
among climbing plants 
for arbors and trellises, 
but is more distinct and 
surpasses them in the \ 
beauty of its flowers, 
which are of excep- 
tional large size. The § 
prettily waved wings 
are of pure spotless 
white, and the stand- 
ards salmon rose. These 
two colors on the same 
flower make a striking 
and agreeable contrast. 
Packet, 10 cents. 
Mrs. John Kavanaugh, 
Troy,Arizona,—I ordered 10 
roses, 12 chrysanthemums, 
bulbs and flower seeds, 
leaving all to your selection. 
They arrived in perfect 
condition; every rose not 
only lived, but each month 
produced many large and 
perfect flowers; and my 
chrysanthemums at pres- 
ent are completely covered 
with immense buds. But 
my greatest success was 
with the seeds and bulbs. 
From a packet of poppy 
seed there bloomed over 40 
blossoms a day; a packet of 
aster seed furnished a beau- 
tiful assortment of colors, 
and 70 blossoms were 
counted upon one plant at 
one time. One zinnia plant 
produced 514 flowers, many 
4 inches in diameter. 
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Large Flowering 
Chinese and Japanese Chrysanthemums. 
Perennial. Ail colors. Finest mixed. 
All the large flowering chrysanthemums, the glory of autumn, are 
perennials. Some are single and others double. Some are better 
suited to out of doors culture than others. As arule, they are hardy. 
The color range is almost endless, though red, yellow and white flow- 
ers predominate. I have only to say that my Chinese and Japanese 
chrysanthemum seed is of the choicest strain, with endless possibilities 
of high merit. Packet, 20 cents; 3 packets, 50 cents. 
AN ILLUSTRATION OF A SINGLE PLANT. SHOWING PROFUSION OF BLOOM OF’ 
PETUNIA, New Hysrios, Mixed. 
Petunia, New Hybrids, Mixed. 
The seed which I offer under this name is a flne mixture of all the handsomest and best single 
: G These hybrids are unexcelled % 
for beds and borders, and on this account I list them among the choice things offered on the 
petunias, including sorts that are striped, blotched and mottled. 
novelty pages of my annual seed book. a 
Petunia, Howard’s Star. 
: Howard's Star Petunias constitute a beautiful class, developed by 
ype. 
color a crimson maroon. 
- white. Height of plant, 144 to 2 feet. Altogether novel and superior. 
100 flowers on a Single plant. 
Packet, 10 cents; 8 packets, 25 cents. 
‘The Shasta Daisy. 
This is the finest of all the so-called moonpenny daisies. 
flowers for bouquets. Packet, 10 cents. 
Packet, 10 cents; 144 ounce, 20 cents. 
Flowers 2 to 24% inches in diameter, of fine texture, with more or less veining. 
In the centre of each flower is a five-rayed star of light blush pink or 
geth Free blooming; sometimes 
My trials of this petunia at Briar Crest were entirely satisfactory. 
i It is one of Luther Burbank’s 
hybrids, the result of a cross between the common field daisy and a European sort. 
perfectly hardy perennial, bearing flowers averaging 4 inches in diameter, on long, stiff stems. 
It blooms freely for several months, and the flowers remain fresh for two weeks or more 
after cutting. The petals or rays are pure white. The Shasta Daisy is one of the most useful 
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One of the most exquisite of all the asters, and especially suited for 
pot culture or for a place in the low border. Extremely dwarf, being 
only 8 or 9 inches high, but almost smothered with blossoms. The 
colors are white and pink, the shades blending in a most pleasing 
manner. Packet, 10 cents; 3 packets, 25 cents. 
selection from an old 
Ground 
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