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FLOWER SEED NOVELTIES 



Tt is our practice each season to test on our " Floracroft" Trial Grounds all Floral Novelties, and in this, 

 way we become, by personal positive knowledge, acquainted with all the best that is offered both in this 

 country and abroad. Of many of the finer sorts, we grow our full stock of seed on our own ground, thug, 

 being enabled to know that the type is kept pure and true. 



Nicotiana 

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WITH LAROE, BRIGHT 

 CARMINE FLOWERS 



The Flower Novelty of the Century 



No. 2180. This new hardy annual is one of the most 

 striking and most beautiful noveltiesof thecentury. "We 

 know nothingapproaehing it for freedom of bloom nor 

 graceful and copiously branching habit. The whole 

 plant isladen with flowersfrom base tosummit,literally- 

 ablaze with most handsome carmine red blossoms, 

 thousands of which are produced on a single plant. It 

 will produce quantities of flowers continuously in all 

 kinds of soils and situations, and we know of no plant 

 which is its equal in this respect. Almost no care is. 

 necessary. 



Such an intensely glowing, rosy carmine color is 

 unknown in any plant of the same character. Either 

 in formal flower beds, in shrubbery borders or in the 

 wild garden, in fact, in any position where annuals of 

 any color or kind of foliage are grown in this way, in. 

 the background or in the open, this incomparably beau- 

 tiful plant will be charming. 



Sow seed in February or March, pricked out in the 

 ordinary way, transplant in May to the position where 

 it is intended to flower. This is all that is necessary. 



Price, per pkt., 25c; 5 pkts., $1.00. 



NICOTIANA SANDERS. 



IMPROVED SHASTA DAISY 



Fluted, Quilled, Curled, Fringed, Laciniated, Semi-Double 



No. 1026. The Shasta Daisy has been one of the marvels in 

 flower production, and now this new form, introduced by 

 the wizard of horticulture, Luther Burbank, is a wonderful 

 improvement over what has been known before. This new 

 selection has been gotten'by carefully crossing and rehy- 

 bridizing, and is fluted, quilled, curled, fringed, laciniated, 

 semi-double, and a wonderful variety of other forms will 

 appear from the seed. Seed sown from this assortment 

 will be found very interesting in its results. It is a peren- 

 nial, blooming more beautifully and more abundantly 

 each season. Flowers will average from 3 to 5 inches in 

 diameter, and are of a beautiful color. 



Price, per pkt., 25c; 5 pkts., 81.00. 



GIANT SHASTA DAISY 



No. 1025. The Shasta Daisy is one of the most marvel- 

 ous productions in the flower line that has ever been 

 brought to the notice of floriculturists. It is the first of a 

 new type, which has been obtained by first combining the 

 free-flowering American species with the large but coarse 

 European species and the Japanese species, Nipponieum, 

 after which rigid selection through a series of years has 

 produced the present wonderfully beautiful and useful 

 strain. Its first qualification is hardiness ; it can be grown 

 out of doors by anybody, where it is not cold enough to 

 kill oak trees. It is perennial, blooming better and more 

 abundantly each season. It can be multiplied rapidly by 

 simple division, and it is not particular as to soil, and it 

 blooms for several months. The flowers are extremely 

 large and graceful, averaging about 4 to 5 inches in diame- 

 ter. Pkt., 15c; 4 pkts., 50c 



QUILLED SHASTA DAISY. 



