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SatviA COccINEA SPLENDENS. 
PORTULACA. A favorite for beds, edgings, rock 
work, ete. Thrives best in rich light loam or sandy 
soil. Blooms profusely from early summer until 
autumn. Only six inches high. 
Large Flowered Mixed. All colors; many 
striped and variegated. Packet, 5 cts.; ounce, 50 cts. 
Grandiflora. Double flowering portulaca. Col- 
ors of most brilliant shades, including white, yellow, 
salmon and carmine. Seed saved from perfect double 
flowers, resulting in gorgeous masses of color. Bloom 
remains open allday. Packet, 10 cents. 
POT MARIGOLD. See Calendula. 
QUEEN MARGARETS. See Aster. 
RICINUS. Castor Oil Bean. See novelties. A 
tree-like annual plant, six to ten feet high; very effec- 
tive at points where stately growth is desirable. My 
strain of seed embraces 
all the best plain and 
fancy-shaped varieties. 
Pkt, 5 cts., 0z., 20 cts. 
RUDBECKHIA. 
See novelties. 
SALVIA. See nov- 
elties. An elegant bed- 
ding plant, with abund- 
ant spikes of flowers. 
Blooms till frost. Suc- 
ceeds in light rich soil. 
Should find a place in 
every flower garden. 
Ceecinea Lac- 
tea. Pure white. 
Packet, 10 cents. 
Coccinea Splen- 
dens. Scarlet sage. 
Bright scarlet flowers. 
Pkt., 10c.; 34 0Z., 40c. 
Bonfire, New 
Dwarf. The finest 
salvia for bedding. 
Satpictossis, New Hyerips. 
Compact oval bushes, 2}4 feet high, with long spikes 
of scarlet flowers. The spikes stand stiff and erect. 
Over 200 spikes to a bush is not rare; and the spikes 
bear from twenty to thirty flowers each. P&t., 10 cts. 
SALPIGLOSSIS. Long esteemed among the 
most beautiful of our flowering annuals. Height, 
eighteen inches to two feet. Foliage pretty. Flowers 
2 to 244 inches across, with odd and beautiful velvety 
colors, exquisitely veined and marbled The colors 
range through all shades of red, pink, purple, blue, yel- 
low, white, etc. The plants ure of graceful habit, bear- 
ing their flowers high above the foliage, producing a 
most pleasing effect. As a bouquet flower the salpi- 
glossis has no superior and few equals. 
New Hybrids, Mixed. Packet, 5 cents. 
SCABIOSA. Mourning Bride or Sweet Scabious. 
One of the most desirable border plants. Flowers fra- 
grant. 
foot. Dwarf double mixed. Packet, 5 cents. 
SCARLET SAGE. See Salvia. 
SCARLET FLAX. See Linum. 
SCHIZANTHUS. See Butterfly Flower. 
A WILD FLOWER GARDEN. 
charming. It savors 
Colors white, lilac, carmine, maroon, ete. One | 
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folium 
| Catchfly. 
| bears a cluster of delight- 
| come again. 
| 244 inches in diameter. 
Not a tume garden of wild flowers, but a 
wild garden of tame tiowers. A mixture of the choicest seeds, mostly annuals, 
to be sown bap-hazard, in a promiscuous way. The results are both surprising and 
just enough of chance and guess work to 
SHAMROCK. 
Minus. True 
Irish Shamrock. Cul- 
tural directions will be 
found on each packet, 
It is the genuine article 
from “Ould Ireland.” 
Packet, 15 cents. 
SELENE. See 
SNAP DRAGON. 
See Antirrhinum. 
STOCKS. Nothing 
can excel stocks for 
beauty and fragrance, 
The flowers are large 
and double, and are 
freely produced in ten to 
twelve weeks afcer the 
sowing of the seed. The 
newer stocks are great 
improvements over the 
old-time gilliflowers. A ¢ 
good soil is essential to “ZA 
best results. The colors & 
inciude white, yellow, 
red, blue, lavender and Q,y 
violet. Bt 
Cut and Come 
Again; Princess 9J 
Alice. <A pure white - 
double variety, about 
two feet high, producing 
endless numbers of side 
branches. Every branch 
fully fragrant flowers, 
and new ones are pro- 
duced to replace those 
which are removed. 
Hence the name, cut and 
Packet, 10 cents ; 3 packets, 25 cents. 
Glebe Pyramidal. Spikes and flowers very 
large, the individual blooms frequently measuring 2 to 
The large double and perfect 
flowers are produced in great profusion, the spikes 
being compactly pyramidal, and the plant of pretty 
shape. Seeds saved from named sorts, of various col- | 
ors. Grand mixture. Packet, 10 cts.; 3 packets, 2 cts. 
German Ten Weeks. Finest double mixed; 
about twenty distinct colors. Packet, 10 cents. 
Finest Varieties Mixed. Embracing all va- 
rieties. Packet, 10 cents ; 3 packets, 25 cents. 
SUNFLOWER. See illustration. Also see farm 
seeds. Hardy annuals of easy culture, thriving in any 
good soil. Sow in the open ground in early spring, 
and thin or transplant to two feet or more, so as to allow 
plenty of room for de- 
velopment. Some are 
double and some single. 
All are ornamental. 
Stelia. Height three 
to four feet. Flowers 
are star-shaped, of 
brightest golden yellow, 
with dark centres. They | 
are borne on long stems, | 
and are suitable for cut- | 
ting. Bloom continues 
from June until frost. | 
Pkt., 5 cts.; 0Z., 35 cts. 
Silwer-Leaved. 
Grows about five feet 
high, and has large, 
shining, silvery leaves 
and single flowers. 
Pkt., 5 cts.; 0z., 15 cts. 
Globe of Gold. 
Dahlia Sunflower, Gold- 
en Quilled Sunflower, 
Globe of Gold. A dou- | 
ble dwarf sunflower, | 
attaining a height of 
but little over three feet. 
Each branch carries a | 
globe-shaped flower of 
richest golden color. 
Pkt., 5 cts.; 0z., 35 cts. 
See Brachycome. 
SWEET PEAS. See Climbers. Also novelties. 
SWEET SULTANS. See novelties. 
SWEET WOODRUFF. See Asperula. 
TRACHYMENE. A fine plant, with beautiful | 
foliage, excellent for hanging baskets and flower stands. 
A continuous bloomer. Half-hardy annual. 
Ceerulea. Flowers, sky blue. Packet, 10 cents. 
SUNFLOWERS. 
SWAN RIVER DAISY. 
flower bed, before i. 
be interesting. For ' blanks, Everything 
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VERBENA. See 
novelties. A univer- 
sal favorite and indis- 
pensable for bedding 
purposes. Seed sown 
in the spring will pro 
duce tiowers quite 
early in the season. 
To hasten bloom it is 
better to start the seed 
in boxes or frames. 
The plant will bloom 
cut. 
stand about one 
| apart. Verbenas raised 
| from seed are superior 
to those grown 
to 
| be had, and many ver- 
| graceful forms. 
|Searlet 
| Forms compact bushes 
| about a foot high, cov- 
most freely when the 
flowers are regularly 
Let the plants 
foot 
from 
cuttings, and less liable 
disease. All the 
leading colors are to 
benas have fragrance 
as well as beauty. VERBENA, ITALIAN STRIPED. 
Hybrida Searlet. Various shades. Pkt., 10 cts. 
Hybrida White. Fine for bouquets. Pkt., 10 cts 
Hybrida Mixed. All colors. Pkt., 10c.; 0z., $1.50. 
Auricula-Eyed. Various colors. Each flower 
with large white eye. Packet, 10 cents. 
Italian Striped. Showy; many colors. Pkt, 10c. 
New Giant Striped and Mottled. Enormous 
in size. Bright and handsome colors, striped with 
lighter and darker shades, Single florets sometimes 
one inch across. Trusses unique and beautiful. Pkt., 10c 
VISCARIA. 
Handsome annuals, 
with large, round, sin- 
gle flowers of white, 
scarlet, blue, fiesh-col- 
or, etc., variously mar 
gined and marked. 
Allied to Lychnis. Sow 
early in the spring, 
and grow the flowers 
in masses. Pkt, 5 cts. 
WHITE ROCK- 
ET. See Candytuit. 
YELLOW FLOW- 
ERING PEA. See 
Crotolaria, 
ZEINNIA. Zinnia 
elegans. Youth and 
Old Age. A hardy an- 
nual of eusy culture 
and very vigorous 
growth ; a profuse and 
reliable bloomer. The 
zinnia has been devel- 
oped into many 
strains, varying wide- 
ly in color, and ranging in height from one to three 
feet. Sow seed in open ground, and transplant to one 
foot apart; or a wider distance for the taller sorts. 
Zebra. Large, perfectly double flowers, as evenly 
imbricated as a camellia. Flowers variously striped 
and mottled, presenting all colors and shades known in 
the zinnia. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 75 cents. 
Curled and Crested. Large, full flowers, the 
petals twisted, curled and crested in fantastic and 
g Colors orange, purple, pink,deep rose, 
ete. The individual plants form compact bushes, about 
two feet high, and bear 150 to 300 flowers each, raised 
well above the foliage. Packet, 10 cents; ounce, $1.00. 
New Pompon. 
Flowers remarkably 
fine, perfect in form 
and varied in color, em- 
bracing all the shades 
of crimson, yellow, 
purple, white, orange 
and rose found in the 
zinnia. Packet, 5 cts. 
Double Mixed. 
Embracing all the va- 
riously colored tall and 
dwarf double varieties. 
Very fine mixture. 
Pkt., 5 cts.; 0z., 75 cts. 
Tom Thumb 
Gem. 
VISCARIA. 
Zinnia, SCARLET GEM. 
ered all summer witb small, intensely scarlet flowers 
Excellent for bedding, 
Much admired 
Packet, 5 cents. 
which are decidedly showy. 
being a good substitute for geranium. 
on my Briar Crest grounds. 
a number of years I have sent out this mixture, and have mucived many testimon- 
jals of the pleasing results obtained. 
bloom, is like working a puzzle, unlike a lottery there are no 
a prize, Packet, 10 cts.; 3 packets, 25 cts.; ounce, 30 cts. 
To guess the identity of unknown plants ina 
