Our list has again been carefully revised, a numlier of meritorious sorts added and all inferior varieties discaided. For the 

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

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

 tilon, mixed, 10 cts.; 3 packets Acacia, mixed, 30 els. 



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



Although we do not offer premiums, we inv.niabi) send ''extras" with each cash order amounting to $1.00 or over. 



COI^I^ECTIOBJS OF FI.OWER SEEDS. 



1134 Summer Flowering Annuals. 12 varieties $0 nO 



1135 " " " 2o '• 1 00 



1136 Old-fashioned Annuals. 12 distinct sorts 50 



3549 Old-fashioned Hardy Perennials. 12 distinct sorts. 50 



2019 Quick-growing Annual Climbers. 12 " " 50 



2479 Fragrant Flowers. 10 distinct sorts 40 



Collections of Asters, Balsams, Dianthus, Marigolds, etc., are offered 

 under tlieir respective heads. 



ABROISI A (San.i Verbena), 



1002 Urabellata. A pretty trailing annual, doing best in light, sandy 

 soil. Produces heads of verbenadike flowers, which are rosy-lilac, 

 with a white eye ; fragrant. 6 cts. per pkt. 



Abutilon. 



ABUTIEON. 



(Chinese Bell- Flower, or 

 Flowering Maple.) 



Elegant flowering perennial shrubs of 

 strong growth and easy cultivation, free- 

 flowering, with various colored, beautiful 

 drooping bellsh.iped flowers. Considered 

 indispensable for flowering indoors during 

 the winter and spring months, and useful 

 for bedding out in the summer. Sown 

 any time before April, in a temperature of 

 sixty degrees, they will produce fine flow- 

 ering plants the first season. (See cut.) 



PER PKT. 



1010 Fine Mixed. Of choice vaii 



ties and colore 10 



Adlumia Cifrhosa (see p. 80). 



ACACIA. 



Elegant half-hanly slnubs, having fine 

 ornamental foliage and beautiful racemes 

 of various shades of yellow globular flow- 

 ers. Soak the seed in warm water before 

 sowing. 



PER PKT. 



1020 Mixed. Fine varieties ; 6 to 



10 feet 10 



ACANTHUS. 



(Bear's Breech.) 

 1017 Mollis latifolius. Handsome 

 and interesting hardy plants with 

 tine foliage and curious flowers 

 in August and September. 

 Grows from 2 to 4 feet higti, 

 according to soil and location. 

 Valuable alike for planting as 

 single specimens, in groups or 

 in the bonier •. . 10 



ACHIELEA. 



1021 



Achillea Ptarmica "The Pkarl.' 



15 



Double Acroclinium. 



Ptarmica "The Pearl" 



[^Uoubte ll'hke Yturow']. One 

 of the best hardy wdiite peren- 

 nials in the list. Grows about 

 2 feet high, and from spring till frost is covered with heads of purest white 

 double flowers. A grand plant for cemetery decoration. Easily grown from 

 seed, flowering the first season if sown early. ' (See cut.) 1-16 oz., 50 CIS.. . 

 ACONIXUJH (Monk's Hood, or Wolfsbane). 

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

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

 planting among shrubbery or in shady corners of the garden ; 3 to 5 feet. 

 \ oz., 25 cts 5 



ACROCI^INIUM. 



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 

 lioiiquets. ."X nice thing to grow in a mixed bonier aside from its use as an everlasting. 

 1040 Double Hixed. \ oz., 15 cts. I 1050 Single Mixed. J oz., 15 cts... 5 



(See cut ) 6 | 



Our ROYAL EXHIBITION PANSIES are unsurpassed for size and coloring. See colored plate and page 70. 



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