Our list has been carefully revised and all inferior varieties discarded. For the convenience of our customers and to facilitnte 

 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 Abutilon. mixed, 10 cts.; 3 packets 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 $1.00 or over. 



COI.I.ECTIONS OF FI.O\VER SEEDS. 



Old-fashioned Annuals. 12 lis inct sons $0 50 



Old-fashioned Hardj' Perennials. 12 distinct sorts 



Quick=growing Annual Climbers. 12 " " 



Everlastings, or Straw Flowers. 10 " " 



Fragrant Flowers. 10 " " 



Summer Flowering Annuals. 12 varieties 



25 



Abutii on 



1001 Arenaria. 



Imported Collections of Asters, Balsams, Dianthus, Marigolds, etc., 

 are offered under iheir respective heads. 



ABRO^IA (Sand Verbena). 



Pretty trailing annuals, producing clusters of sweet-scented Verbena-like 

 fliiwers, especially fragrant towards evening, lasting in bloom a long time; 

 effective in beds, rock-work or hanging-baskets ; doing be.st in rather poor, 

 light soil. Height, 12 inches, pkt. 

 A beautiful yellow variety 5 | 1002 Umbellata. Rosy lilac, with 



Adluiiia Cirrhosa. pkx 

 white eve 5 



ABUTIEON. 



(Chiuese Bell-Flower. or Flowering 

 Maple.) 



Elegant flowering perennial shrubs 

 of strong growth and easy cultivation, 

 free-flowering, with various colored, 

 beautiful drooping liell-shaped 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 60 degrees, 

 they will produce fine flowering plants 

 the first season. 



1010 Fine flixed. Of choice vari- 

 eties and colors 10 



Achillea 



ACACIA. 



Elegnnt half-hardy shrubs, having 

 fine ornamental folinge, and beautiful 

 raci mes of various .shades of yellow 

 globular flowers. Soak the seed in 

 warm water before sowing. 



1020 Mixed. Fine varieties; 6 



to 10 feet 10 



ACHILLEA. 



1021 Ptarmica FI. PI. {Double 

 White Yaryoix.'). One of the best 

 hardy white perennials in the list. 

 Grows about 2 feet high, and from 

 spring till frost is covered with heads 

 of purest white double flowers. .A 

 gr.nnd plant for cemetery decoration. 

 Easily grown from seed, flowering 

 the first season if sown earlv. . . 10 



ACONIXCM (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 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 bou- 

 quets. A nice thing to grow in a mixed border aside from its use as an everlasting. We 

 offer both the single and double flowering types. (See cut.) 



1040 Double Hixed 5 | 1050 Single Mixed 5 



adhj:tiia. 



(Monntain Fringe, Alleglieiiy Vine, or Climbing Fumitory.) 



1051 Cirrhosa. A graceful hardy biennial climber, but, as it resows itself year after 

 year, it might be considered perennial ; the feathery foliage closely resembles that of 

 the Maiden-hair Fern, the flowers are tube-shaped, flesh-colored, and completely cover 

 the plant. For covering trellises, stumps of trees, etc., it is very desirable. (See cut j. 10 



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$200. oo in cash for photographs of Flowers, etc. See details on page 4. 



