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ENRTADREER -PHILADELPHIA WW/ RELIABLE FLOWER SEEDS 



Aquilkgia. (Columbine) 



Aquilegia (CoiumbineV 



No hardy plant grown from seed is more 

 easily handled than the Columbine. 



Seed may be planted in the open 

 ground early in spring, and will, in 

 most cases bloom the same season; 

 or they may be planted in August 

 or September, and will come up 

 early in spring and make vigorous 

 plants, which will bloom abundantly 

 duringlatespring and earlysummer. 



Columbines should be planted 

 wherever their presence will serve to lighten 

 up a toostiff and formal planting, for no other 

 plant has so airy a grace as the Columbine, is 

 more generous of i:s blooms, or more effec- 

 tively adapted for cut flowers. PER PK t. 

 1181 Californica hybrida. Exquisite 

 flowers,in yellow and orange shades, 

 all with long spurs. J oz. , 50 cts .. 10 



1183 Chrysantha {Golden Spurred). 

 Golden-yellow. $ oz., 30 cts 10 



1184 — alba. Beautiful pure white. £oz. , 

 50 cts 10 



1185 Coerulea {Rocky Mountain Colum- 

 bine)- Violet-blue and white; 2 feet. 

 \ oz., 30 cts 10 



1156 Coerulea hybrida. Beautiful hybrids, 

 bearing large flowers in a great variety of colors. \ oz.,50 cts. .10 



1157 Flabellata nana alba. A dwarf variety from Japan, with fine 

 glaucous foliage and large w'.iite flowers. \ oz. , 25 cts, 10 



1195 Helenas. Of strong robust growth, bearing numerous flowers 



of a lovely shade of blue and pure white 15 



1197 Nivea Grandiflora. A beautiful large pure white. \ oz,, 



25 cts 5 



1196 Truncata. Scarlet tipped yellow, very distinct 10 



1198 Vulgaris. The common European Columbine, flowers rich 

 violet-blue; a strong grower. \ oz., 25 cts 5 



1199 Collection containing a packet each of the 10 named sorts. . . 75 



1206 Veitch's Long=spurred Hybrids. A beautiful strain. com- 

 prising shades and combinations of blue, white, yellow, orange, 

 scarlet and bright rose-pink, in large flowers with long spurs. 2 

 pkts. , 25 cts 15 



1207 Double, all colors mixed. 50 cts. per oz 5 



1210 Single, all colors mixed. 40 cts. per oz 5 



ARABIS (Rock Cress). per pkt. 

 1211 Alpina. A hardy perennial and cne of the earliest and prettiest 

 spring flowers. The spreading tufts are covered with a sheet of 

 pure white flowers as soon as the snow disappears. Unequalled for 

 rockeries or edging; withstands the drought, and is always neat; 6 

 inches; \ oz. , 25 cts 5 



ARCTOTIS (African Daisy). 

 1216 Grandis. A remarkably handsome annual from Southwest Africa. 

 It forms much-branched bushes 2 lo 3 feet high; its flowers are large 

 and showy, being pure white on the upper surface, the reverse of 

 petals pale lilac-blue. There are few annual flowers grown in the 

 garden more valuable for cut flower work than the Arctotis. It is 

 easily grown from seed, and may be started in hotbed, in the house, 

 or in the open ground, the seed germinating in about five days, and 

 the plants may be expected to come into bldom early in July and 

 continue until quite hard frost. It delights in a sunny situation. 

 As a cut flower it is especially valuable, the blooms lasting a week 



or ten days in 

 water, and if 

 undeve loped 

 buds are cut 

 and placed in 

 a sunny win- 

 do w, every 

 one will open 

 and produce 

 as fine flowers 

 as though left 

 on the plant. 

 i-oz.,30cts. .. 10 



Armeria. 



(Sea Pink or Thrift.) 



1221 Formosa . 

 A very pretty 

 edging plant, 

 bearing rosy- 

 p i n k flowers; 

 hardy peren- 

 nial 10 



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See pages 53 to 62 



Arctotis Grandis 



Arabis Alpina 



Asters are one of our leading specialties. The varieties offered on page 55 are exceptionally .fin 



