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FLOWER SEED SPECIALTIES 



DOLICHOS 



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FLOWERING BEANS 



These showy annual climbers grow luxuriantly about 10 ft. 

 high, branching out well from the bottom, and are clothed with 

 dense foliage, insect proof, and form excellent screens as well 

 as being exceedingly ornamental. The Sweet-pea-like blos- 

 soms are borne in long, Wistaria-like clusters, often a foot 

 in length. 

 Giant Crimson Japanese Dolichos. Flowers at first 

 blush deepening with age to dark red, followed by bronzy- 

 purple seed pods; foliage, dark green with red veins; 



flower and leaf stems, maroon Pkt. 10c. 



Giant White Japanese Dolichos. Long spike.s of clear 



white flowers, profuse bloomer and showy 10c. 



Butterfly Runner. A climbing bean attaining a height 

 of 10 to 12 feet and producing in continuous profusion 

 during the summer clusters of coppery-scarlet flowers 

 with large expanded white wings, giving an effect not 

 unlike a flock of butterflies Pkt. 15c. 



ESCHSCHOLTZIA "HSfiP 



These Giant-Flowering "California Foppies" are 

 among our most beautilul and popular annuals. From 

 spring-sown seeds they flower profusely until late in the 

 autumn, making them invaluable for bedding. The 

 flowers of these new giants are of immense size, from J, 

 to 5 inches in diameter. The colors are intense ana 

 shining yellows. In some an orange blotch almost 

 suffuses the whole flower, in others it runs into the yellow 

 in fine penciled lines, others again have an orange centre 

 with a margin of clear yellow. (See cut.) 

 Eschscholtzia "Golden West," MixedColors.PAMOc. 



ESCHSCHOLTZIA -crimson king- 



The best of the red flowing varieties. Flowers about 3 inches 

 across ; exterior bright crimson, interior rich satiny carmine ; 

 plunt bushy and compact, about 1 foot high by 15 inches across. 

 It flowers freely and continuously during the summer. .Pkt. 10c. 



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 Ejal_iHv3l_-IHJLlZjIA MANDARIN 



In this charming new variety we have an entirely new habit 

 in Eschscholtzias. The plants are of upright, compact, bushy 

 f 3rm, producing freely large flowers of rich, deep orange color, 

 shaded crimson Pkt. 10c. 



BUSH ESCHSCHOLTZIA (ffi, S3SSwfco 



Grows into a bush 2 feet high, with the beautiful foliage of 

 the Eschscholtzia enlarged. Large cup-shaped flowers, 3 inches 

 across, on stems 12 inches long; the color is of clear bright 

 yellow, contrasting vividly with the bunch of golden stamens 

 in the centre ; the petals are broad, overlapping and crinkled 

 like crushed yellow satin. Plants, from seed sown early, com- 

 mence to bloom in July and continue to flower for months. 

 Pkt. 10c. 



GIANT HARDY HYBRID 



GAILLARDIAS 



The flowers are extraordinarily large, often 4 to 5 inches 

 across, and very highly colored in great diversity of varia- 

 tions and Mendings, including such combinations as dazzling 

 scarlet with gold edge, blood-crimson with yellow edge, yel- 

 low with orange disk, golden with scarlet border, pure yel- 

 low, fiery crimson and many others. These magnificent 

 Gaillardias are hardy perennials, less coarse and more com- 

 pact in growth than the older kinds and they produce a 

 •constant succession of flowers all summer and fall ; when 

 grown in large groups they are gorgeously effective. As 

 •cut flowers they are almost unrivaled ; the immense and 

 brilliant flowers, on long, self-supporting stems, "vase" 

 handsomely, and they last in water for days. 

 Giant Hardy Hybrid Gaillardia, Mixed Colors. Pkt. 10c. 

 Gaillardia grandiflora semi-plena. This novelty pro- 

 duces semi-double flowers nearly 4 inches across ; colors 

 light yellow, deep golden, and sometimes tinged with red. 

 The velvety-maroon disk forms a brilliant contrast. 

 Hardy perennial 15c. 



GAILLARDIA NANA COMPACTA 

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A showy garden annual of easiest culture; the plants 

 grow in compact bushy form, about 1 foot high, ana bear 

 Freely during the summer large globular heads of florets 3 to 

 4 inches across. Colors: red, orange, lemon, etc., in mix- 

 ture Pkt. 10c. 



GYPSOPHILA 



PARIS MARKF.T' 



An improved large-flowering variety of G. paniculata; 

 this forms branching plants about 2 feet high, fairly smoth- 

 ered all summer long with graceful clusters of snow-white 

 flowers half an inch across. A pretty garden annual, and 

 of great value for bouquets, vases, etc Pkt. 10c. 



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