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Our list has again been carefully revised, a number of meritorious sorts added and all inferior varieties discarded. For the con- 

 venience of our customers and to facilitate the filling of orders, it is only necessary in ordering to give the number of packets 

 wanted and the corresponding number in the catalogue, viz.: 1 pkt. 1010, 10 cts.; 3 pkts. 1020, 30 cts., means one packet Abu- 

 tilon, mixed, 10 cts.; 3 pkts. Acacia, mixed, 30 cts. 



All flower seeds are sent free by mail at prices given. 



Although we do not offer premiums, we invariably send "extras" with each cash order amounting to $1.(0 or over. 



COLLECTIONS OF FLOWER SEEDS. 



1134 Summer Flowering Annuals. 



1135 " " «< 



1136 Old=fashioned Annuals. 

 3549 01d=fashioned Hardy Perennials. 

 2019 Quick=growing Annual Climbers 

 2479 Fragrant Flowers. 



Collections of Asters, Balsams, Dianthus, Marigolds, etc 

 their respective heads. 



ABUTILON (Flowering Maple). 



Elegant flowering perennial shrubs of strong growth and easy cultivation; free- 

 flowering, with various colored, beautiful drooping beil-shaped flowers. Consid- 

 ered indispensible for flowering indoors during the winter and spring months, and 

 useful for bedding out in the summer. Sown indoors any time before April, they 

 will produce plants that will flower outdoors the first season and indoors all winter, 



PER PKT. 



1010 Fine Mixed. Of choice varieties and colors 10 



ACACIA. 



Elegam ..alf-hardy shrubs, having fine ornamental 

 foliage and beautiful racemes ot yellow globular 

 flowers. Soak the seed in warm water for 24 

 hours before sowing. 

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ACROCLINIUM. 



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ACANTHUS (Bear's Breech). PrR PKT . 

 1017 Latifolius. Handsome and interesting 

 hardy plants with fine foliage and curious 

 rosy-white flowers in August and Sep- 

 tember. Grows from 2 to 4 feet high, ac- 

 cording to soil and location. Valuable alike for planting as single spe- 

 cimens, in groups or in the border 10 



ACHILLEA (Milfoil, or Yarrow). 



1021 Ptarmica "The Pearl." One of the best hardy white perennials 

 Grows about two feet high, and from spring till frost is covered with 

 heads of purest white double flowers. A grand plant for cemetery dec- 

 oration. Easily grown from seed, flowering the first season if sown early. 15 



ACONITUM (Monk's Hood, or Wolfsbane). 

 1031 Napellus. A hardy perennial; growing in any good garden soil, pro- 

 ducing long spikes of curiously-shaped blue and white flowers. Well 

 adapted for planting among shrubbery or in shady corners of the gar- 

 den; 3 to 5 feet. } oz., 25 cts 5 



ACROCLINIUM. 



A pretty annual Everlasting," growing about 15 inches high, bearing lovely 

 white or rosy-pink flowers, which, when cut in the bud state, can be dried and 

 used in winter bouquets. A nice thing to grow in a mixed border aside from its 

 use as an everlasting. 



1040 Double Mixed. \ oz., 15 cts 5 



1050 Single Mixed. \ oz., 15 cts 5 



HOW TO GROW FLOWERS FROM SEED. This subject is fully covered by the articles on pages 55 to 57. 



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