PETES HEflDESSON St CO.— FliOWEl* SEED HOVEliTIES. 



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THE grand improvements In Petunias 

 for the past few years left the 



impression that the acme of per- 

 fection had been reached, but such was 

 not the case. A specialist in California, 

 after crossing, hybridizing and selecting, 

 for three years, starting from the finest 

 sorts then obtainable in Europe and 

 America, aided by congenial culture and 

 climate, has produced a strain of incom- 

 parable beauty, size and luxuriance. 

 Most of the flowers are exquisitely 

 ruffled or fringed on the edges and are 

 of enormous dimensions, 4 to 5 inches 

 across, but their great merits lie in the 

 tremendous varieties of colors, mark- 

 ings, veinings, blotchings and stripings, 

 in the most grotesque and beautiful 

 combinations ; some with charming deep 

 throats of yellow, white, black, green or maroon, running off 

 into intricate veins. Some of the colors are rich and gorgeous 

 and others of lovely delicate shades. Seed sown in the spring 

 will produce strong flowering plants unequaled for bedding 

 purposes which will bloom in bountiful abundance and continue until 

 killedby frost. For pot culture they are of equal value. Price, for 

 Giants of California," mixed varieties, per packet, 35c. 



PRI2UTL7I-H SlEBOLDI. 



A splendid hardy garden Primrose, throwing up flower stalks 8 to 12 inches high, 

 surmounted with large clusters of flowers 1 to 2 inches across ; color, soft, pretty 

 rose, with white eye. It is a very distinct, beautiful and free blooming plant ; will 

 require protection in the Northern States, or it can be grown in cold frames. 

 Price, per packet, 25 cts. 



nnw 6H8BE gamuBB #sjfbr, 



White, with a Blood-Red Centre. 



This is one of the finest quilled Asters ever raised. The flowers, which are produced very freely, are 

 very large, — 3 to 4 inches across and double— of globular form composed of round 6r quilled-shaped petals. 

 The color is remarkable and effective, being pure white with a centre or crown of blood-red, which makes 

 a striking contrast. The plants are of even habit, growing about two feet high, and for beds or groups 

 are most valuable. It is, moreover, of special importance for cutting purposes. Price, per packet, 25 ct&. 



New* Ziiw ia > "Mosaic! 



{Zinnia eleganspumilajl. pl.fol. aureia var.) 

 A very unique novelty — a splendid dwarf-growing Zinnia of elegant, compact 

 labit, the foliage of which is grotesquely marbled and spotted with golden 

 jellow. To bring out the characteristic variegation strongly the plants should be 

 .grown in rather poor soil. In addition to the odd foliage of the Mosaic ZraiA 

 the flowers are of high merit, being large, very double and of the usual variety 

 of colors — yellow, white, crimson, carmine, etc. Price, per packet, 25 cts. 



flea Zinnia, "Gen'l Jaeqqeminot." 



"MOS Alc 



We offer ia this Zinn 



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eUyantffrandifiorafl.pl. " Rouge-Xoir VdouU.") 

 something particularly fine; it belongs to the compact- 

 growing section , 

 the plants are of 

 even branching- 

 habit, about 2 

 feet high, and 

 the flowers are 

 large, very 

 double and of 



perfect form. .kw ro.-s.-u mosaic. 



The color is rich, deep velvety crimson, exactly the shade of the 

 famous "Jack " rose. When we saw this exquisite Zinnia in full bloom 

 in Europe the past summer, the rich color so strikinglv recalled the 

 famous rose that we secured the entire stock, and gave'it this name, 

 of which it is fully worthy. Price, per packet, 25 cts. 



Tw'o G rai }d Nc? '£or(|et-ii}e-r}ots. 



"BLUE PERFECTION 



{ifyosotis dissitijtora grandifiora.) 



This magnificent improvement in Forget-me-nots was- raised by 

 y//* a specialist in Scotland, where it has received the highest enco- 

 <f miumsfrom their critical gardeners as well as a certificate from the 

 Eoyal Botanic Society, and is considered by authorities as the finest Forgeume-not 

 grown- The flowers are much larger than any other variety, borne in graceful sprays 

 which are very valuable for cutting, the buds opening in water for a fortnight ; color an 

 exquisite shade of blue. In Scotland It is perfectly hardy. Price, 25 cts. per packet. 



ROSE VICTORIA." 



(Myoaotis alpestris Victoria rw 



The flowers of this new variety are of 

 a lovely rose color, with the characteristic 

 central double bloom as well as in habit 

 and growth of the well-known blue " Vic- 

 toria," offered and illustrated on page 68. 

 Price, per packet, 25 cts. 



