SALVIA.—An elegant bedding plant, with abundant 
< pikes - flowers; blooms till frost, Succeeds ina light, 
- ric. il. 
® —Coccinea Splendens Scarlet.—Scarlet Sage. Bright 
scarlet flowers. ., 10C, 
SCABIOSA.— Morning Bride. One of the most desir- 
able border plants; fragrant flowers. 
—Dwarf Double Mixed.—1 foot. 5c. 
STOCKS.—Nothing can excel these large double flow- 
ers, of great beauty and fragrance. They flower 10 to 12 
weeks after sowing. 
—German Ten Weeks. Finest double mixed. 10c, 
—Finest Varieties Mixed. 10c. 
SUNFLOW ER.—New silver Leayed. Its peculiar 
character consists of its beautiful silvery foliage. It 
forms a perfect pyramid 6 to 8 feet high, and as com- 
pletely covered with bloom as a Zinnia. Flowers 
small, of a beautiful golden yellow color, desirable for 
table decorations. On our trial grounds last summer 
were greatly admired by all who saw them. 10c. 
VERBENA,.—An indispensable bedding plant. Sown 
interest. 
ZINNIA ELEGANS.— Youth and Olid Age. Produces 
handsome hemispherical flowers in great profusion. 
Suitable for beds and groups. 
—New Pompone. Flowersare remarkably fine, perfect 
in form and varied in color, embracing all the shades 
of crimson, yellow, purple, white, rose and orange found 
in the Zinnia. Some are curiously two-colored, owing 
to the florets being pale when first expanded, and after- 
wards changing to a deeper hue. de. 
—Double Mixed. Embracing allthe variously colored, 
tall and dwarf double varieties, 5c. 
ye 
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in the Spring flowers quite early in the season. ry na 
—Hybrida Scarlet. Various shades. 10c. Se wy. 9 
—Hybrida White. Fine white bouquet flower. 10¢. en 
—Hybrida Mixed. _ All colors and shades. 10c. 
SALVIA COCCINEA SPLENDENS SCARLET. 
—Saxatile Compactum. 
CHAM ZEPEUCE.—lory Thistle. 
—Diacantha. True Ivory Thistle. 
bell-shaped 
Spring and Summer. 
early Autumn; in the latter case the beds should be 
shaded and watered until the plants appear. 
ACONITUM.—WMonk’s Hood. A hardy 
ducing in abundance its curiously-shaped flowers, succeed 
in any good garden soil. 
—Napellus. White and blue flowers 3 feet. 
ALYSSUM.—Gold Dust. Alyssum Compactum, popularly 
Known as Gold Dust, is well adapted 
compact habit, with golden yellow flowers in masses. 
AQUILEGIA.--Double Columbine. Thisplant produces beautiful, curiously 
formed and variously colored flowers, blooms freely early in the Spring. 
—Finest Double Mixed. All sorts and shades. 
CAMPANULA.—Canterbury Bells. 
effective plants for the border or pot culture. 
—Medium. Splendid mixed. Single and double varieties. 
CARNATIONS AND PICOTEES.—Well known toall. The seed I offer 
has been imported from the best European growers, and will produce 
many splendid varieties in double and semi-double flowers. 
colors mixed, including many new sorts and handsome colors. 
Beautiful, large bell-shaped flowers; 
5c. 
DIGITALIS.—Fozglove. Especially useful among shrubbery and half shady 
places. Long racemes of beautiful flowers. 3 feet. 
--Gloxinoides. Mixed. All shades and markings. 
GLADIOLUS.—Beautiful summer and autumn flowering plants 
producing long spikes of pretty flowers, marked, striped, blotched 
and shaded in various colors, half hardy perennial bulbs. 
—Lemoini ae Mixed. New types with large round, open 
2 Owers, colors new and strikingly beautiful. 15c. 
—Finest Mixed Hybrids. All shades and colors. 10c. 
HOLLYHOCK.-—This splendid plant now ranks with the Dahlia 
All sorts and 
rPEeRENNIALS. 
_ In the following will be found Biennials and Peren- 
nials, which live over Winter and flower in the following 
Seed can be sown in Spring or | 
erennial, pro- | 
5c. 
or rockwork; it is 
5e. 
5c. 
5c. 
10c. 
le. A beautiful perennial thistle, and quite 
an ornament for garden decoration, the midrib and spines are ivory white, 
the leaves glossy green, shaded by a snowy down. 2 feet. 
5c. 
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SWEET WILLIAM, 
for Summer decoration and, from its stately growth and the 
varied colors of its magnificent large spikes of flowers, may justly 
claim a place in every garden or pleasure ground. Seed sown in 
July will flower the following Spring. Hardy. 3 
—Double Fine Mixed. All colors. 10e. 
PHLOX PERENNIAL. The varieties of Perennial Phlox are 
among the choicest of our flowers for bedding and border plants. 
They are perfectly hardy, and need no protection ; will flourish in 
any soil, succeeding better, however, in deep, rich. moist ground. 
--Finest Mixed. if 5c. 
PRIMULA.—Favorite early free flowering plants, should be 
extensively grown for filling the mf 
beds and borders of the Spring- 
flower-garden ; succeed best in rich 
soil.—Elatior. Cowslip. Fine 
mixed. de. 
DOUBLE WALLFLOWER, 
87 
DOUBLE HOLLYHOCKES. 
ED. SUNFLOWER: 
PRIMULA-Auricula. The Auricula is a 
beautiful hardy Primrose blooming early in 
Spring, and often in Summer. The colors are 
exceedingly odd and beautiful. 15c. 
SWEET WILLIAM. Dianthus Barbatus. A 
well-known free-flowering plant, which has 
been greatly improved of late years. producin 
a splendid effect in beds and shrubbery wit 
their rich and varied flowers. 
—Auricula Flowered Perfection. A hand- 
some class of single varieties in many striking 
shades each flower having a clearly defined eye, 
mixed. 5c. 
—Fine Double Mixed. All colors, splendid 
Strain. 5c. 
—Single Finest Mixed. ac. 
TRITOMA.—Red Hot Poker. Flowers grow 
upon spikes 3 feet long, used in beds or masses. 
—Uvaria. Varies from yellow to scarlet. de. 
VALERIANA.—Aardy Heliotrope. Showy 
border plants, or for mixing in shrubbery, pro- 
ducing large corymbs of beautiful flowers, 
which are very desirable for bouquets, or floral 
| decoration. 2 feet. 
| --Mixed. Rose, red and white. _ 5c. 
VIOLA.— Violet. The popular sweet Violet, 
flowers very early in the Spring and can be 
grown easily from seed. 
| —Fine Mixed. : f 10c. 
WALL-FLOWER.—Massive spikes of frag-. 
rant flowers. Ornamental in forming groups, ete. 
—Double Mixed. 12 colors. 10c. 
