LIST OF CHOICE FLOWER SEEDS FOR 1918. 



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TYPES OP ODR GEM COLLECTION. 



25c 



NASTURTIUMS 



25c 



A unique variety, showing various colored blossoms 

 Pretty Nasturtiums, with distinct 



GEM COLLECTION OF CLIMBING AND DWARF 



Contains Eight Separate Sorts, Including Our Superb. 



GIANT CLIMBING MIXTURE — Unequalled for size and brilliancy of colors. 



HYBRIDS OF MADAME GUNTHER (Climbing) — Comprising a hitherto unknown 

 range of color in Nasturtium. 



CHAMELEON (Climbing) 

 on the same plant. 



RED AND YELLOW SPURRED (Climbing) 

 red or yellow spurs. Very attractive. 



VESUVIUS (Climbing) — The finest color in Nasturtiums, a beautiful salmon rose, 

 well set off with dark foliage. 



CANARY BIRD FLOWER (Climbing) — A splendid climber, with finely cut foliage 

 and fringed yellow flowers. 



DWARF LILLIPUT — A charming class of Dwarf Nasturtiums forming round little 

 bushes, perfectly covered with blooms. 



DWARF CREAM CITY MIXTURE — An extra fine mixture, containing all the best 

 colors and largest flowered sorts. 



For the small outlay of a quarter we will mail you our collection of 8 Nasturtiums (which, 

 if bought at Catalogue prices, would cost you 55c). Enough to start a small garden and provide 

 cut blooms for the summer months. Collection contains eight full packets, six of climbing sorts, 

 for growing on fences, trellis, tree stumps or any other unsightly objects you want covered up in 

 your back yard, and two Dwarf or Tom Thumb sorts, for growing in beds or front borders. 



GIANT CLIMBING NASTURTIUMS 



A class of superb Nasturtiums, remarkable for their immense size, flowers often measuring 3 to 

 3H inches across; of exquisite form and many rich and varied colors. They are strong growers and 

 remarkably free flowering. 



Pkt. 

 Jupiter — A beautiful flower with overlapping petals, rich yellow. Oz. 20c 10 



Twilight — The flowers of full expanded form, color yellow overlaid with salmon pink, the two 

 upper petals feathered with red in the throat. Oz. 20c ^^ 



Butterfly — A fine flower, color lemon yellow, marked on the lower petals with rich red blotches. 

 Oz. 20c 10 



Chameleon — -These Nasttirtiums possess the interesting feature of having distinct colors of 

 flowers borne on one and the same plant. On some self-colored flowers are found, while others 

 are blotched, splashed, striped or bordered. M lb- 40c; oz. 15c 5 



Hybrids of Madame Gunther — In this variety we have a range of color hitherto unknown in 

 Nasturtiums, running through shades of rose, salmon, bright red, pale yellow, etc., either as 

 self-colors or spotted and striped. Per lb. $1.25; M lb- 40c; per oz. 15c 5 



Giant Climbing Nasturtiums in mixture. Pkt. 10c; oz. 20c; 

 1 pkt. each of the five Giant Climbing Nasturtiums, 25c. 

 1 oz. each of the five Giant Climbing Nasturtiums for 7Sc. 



li lb. 60c; lb. $2.00. 



NASTURTIUMS 



CLIMBING OR TRAILING. 



These trailing Nasturtiums are unequalled for growing in window boxes or vases. When grown 

 in beds, and the shoots pegged down with forked pieces of wood at intervals, they make an excellent 

 show with their unique and brilliant colored blossoms. 



Pkt. 

 Red Spurred — One of the most beautiful varieties of Nasturtium. The large flowers are creamy 

 white with orange scarlet blotches, while the most unique feature is the red spurs with which 

 all the blooms are ornamented. Oz. 20c 10 



Yellow Spurred — A distinct and beautiful Nasturtium with very bright flowers of a glowing 

 rosy pink hue, backed up with unique rich yellow colored spurs, Oz. 20c 10 



Red and Yellow Spurred Mixed. Oz. 20e 10 



Lobb's Nasturtium (Tropaeolum Lobbianum) — The leaves and flowers are smaller than the 

 tall Nasturtiums, but their brilliancy and richness of color, combined with the profusion of 

 their bloom, render them more fitting for vases, rock work, etc. Mixed colors, per oz. 20c. . 5 



NASTURTIUM 



Dwarf Lilliput — A charming and distinct dwarf compact class; the plants from round, com- 

 pact bushes of light green leaves, through which appear an immense number of blooms borne 

 well above the foliage. The colorings are beautiful. Excellent sort for bedding or for ribbon 

 borders. Per lb. $1.40; U lb. 40c; oz. 15c 



NICOTIANA 



(Sweet-Scented Tobacco Plant.) 



Affinis — Bears a profusion of pure white, 

 long-tubed flowers, very sweet scented, 

 especially so after sundown. The plants 

 can be potted and taken indoors, where they 

 will flower all winter. H. H. A. 2 feet. . . . 



Affinis Hybrida — Mixed colors. Plant and 

 flowers similar in habit and form to the 

 preceding, but the flowers are larger and of 

 many colors, purple, white, light and dark- 

 red, salmon, crimson, violet, rose and pink. . 



Sanderae (Carmine-Flowered Tobacco Plant) 

 — The plants are bushy and much branched, 

 literally ablaze with handsome carmine-red 

 blossoms 



Hybrids of Sanderae — A hardy annual of 

 the easiest culture, succeeding in any ordi- 

 nary garden soil and making most attractive 

 plants for massing in beds or borders. The 

 plants are bushy and much branched, 2 feet 

 in height, blossoms of many varied shades. . 



Sylvestris — Similar to Affinis, but much larger 

 leaves and flowers, sweet scented 



Pkt. 



10 



N'ICOriANA HYBRIDS OV SANDBRAB. 



