Our lisl has again been carefully revised and all inferior varieties discarded. For the convenience 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 caialogue, 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^OIJVER SEEDS. 



Fragrant Flowers. 



Summer Flowering Annuals. 



10 distinct sorts. 

 12 varieties. . . . . 

 ^r-, " 



SO 40 



50 



1 00 



01d=fash!oned Annuals. 12 distinct sorts SO 50 



Old=fashioned Hardy Perennials. Indistinct sorts. 50 

 Quick=growing Annual Climbers. 12 " " 50 



Collections of Aste.s, Balsams, Dianthus, Marigolds, etc., are offered under their respective heads. 



ABRO^NIA (Sand A^ei-bena). p^^ p^T. 



1002 Umbellata. A jretty trailing annual, doing best in light, santly 

 soil. Produces heads of verbena-like flowers, which arc rosy-lilac, 

 with a white eye ; fragrant 5 



ABUTII.ON. 



(Chinese Bell-Flower, or I-lowerlng Maple.) 



Elegant flowering perennial slirubs of strong growth and easy cultivation, 

 free-flowering, with various colored, beautiful dionping bell-shaped flowers. 

 Considered indispensable for floweiing 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 flowering 

 plants the first season. (See cut.) 



1010 Fine Mixed. 

 Of choice va- 

 rieties and col- 

 ors 10 



Achillea Ptarmica "The Pearl.'* Abuiilon. 



ACANTHUS (Bear's Breech). ^^^ p^^ 



1017 riollis latifoliUS. Handsome and interesting hardy plants with fine foliage 

 and curious flowers in August and September. Grows from 2 to 4 feet high, 

 according to soil and location. Valuable alike for planting as single specimens, 

 in groups or in the border' 10 



ACHILEEA. 



1021 Ptarmica «»The Pearl" {Dotcbh White yarro7v'). One of the best hardy 

 white perennials in the list. Grows about 2 feet high, and fiom spring till frost 

 is covered with heads of purest white double flowers. A grand plant for ceme- 

 tery decoration. Easily grown from seed, flowering the first season if sown 



early- (See cut). \ oz.,'S1.00 15 



ACONITTJM (Monk's Hood, or Wolfsbane). 



1031 Napellus. K h.irdy perennial, growing in any good garden soil, producing long 

 spikes of curiously sha]ied blue and white fltivvers. Well adapted for planting 

 among shrubbery or in shady corners of the garden ; 3 to 5 feet. 75 cts. per oz. 5 



^ ACROCI.IKIUM. 



A pretty annual " Everl.isting,'' growing about 15 inches high, bearing lovely white 

 or rosy pink flowers, which, when cut in the bud state, can lie dried nud used in winter 

 bouquets. .A nice thing to grnw in a mixed border aside from i;s use as an everlasting. 

 1040 Double flixed. 30 <ts. per oz. 1 1050 Single Hixed. 25 cts. per 



(See cut ) .5 1 "z 5 



Adlumia Cirrhosa (see p. 57). 



ACACIA. 



Elegant half-hardy 

 shrubs, having fine or- 

 namental foliage, and 

 beautiful racemes of 

 various shades of yel- 

 low globular floweis. 

 Soak the seed in warm 

 water biefoie sowing. 

 1020 nixed. Fine 

 varieties ; 6 to 

 10 feet 10 



(66) 



The Salpiglossis shown in colors on the front cover of this book are well worth growing. See page 15. 



