FLOWER SEED NOVELTIES. 



IMPERIAL JAPANESE IPOIYKEAS 



OR EMPEROR 



MORNING GLORIES. 



Wherever climbers can be grown these should have a 

 prominent place. They are beyond question the hand- 

 somest of a handsome family, and well deserve their title of 

 "Imperial" or "Emperor" Morning Glories. Of the easiest cul- 

 ture, can be sown in the open ground in a sunny situation when the 

 weather has become warm and settled ; they soon cover a large area, being of 

 strong rapid growth, and even before flowering are decidedly novel and inter- 

 esting on account of the varied forms of the foliage and their markings. But it is when in 

 flower that their marvelous beauty arrests the attention of every one. The flowers are of 

 gigantic size, of good substance, remaining open the greater part of the day. The colorings 

 are beyond description ; the self or solid colors range from snow-white to black-purple, 'with 

 all the possible intermediate shades such as pink, rose, fiery-red, copper-red, carmine, crimson, 

 pale-blue, deep-blue, royal-purple, maroon, indigo, bronze, slate, brown, cherry, ash-gray, etc., 

 others are edged with white, having throats of one of the above colors, while in others this is 

 reversed, the throats being white and the edging of color ; there is also an endless number having flowers spotted 

 marbled, striped, flaked, splashed, etc. We otter the following collection of distinct and desirable colors : 

 5974 Aurata, or Golden Leaved. This variety is worthy I 5978 Euphrosyne. Flowers of giant size, snow white 



of being grown for the foliage effect alone, which is 

 almost entirely covered with a beautiful golden 

 variegation. It is fully as strong a grower as green- 

 leaved sorts, and bears a profusion of mammoth 

 flowers in a variety of colorings, numerous shades of 

 blue, lilac and rose, which stand out very distinctly 

 against the golden leaves. 15 cts. per packet. 



5975 Ceres. Immense crimson flowers with a clear band 

 or edging of pure white, the throat, flamed with red, 

 foliage variegated with silver, very handsome. 10 cts. 

 per packec. 



5969 Adonis. Flowers of enormous size, light purple 

 edge with snow-white throat making a beautiful 

 contrast, foliage very large, pea-green. 10 cts. 

 per packet. 



5972 Antigone. Very large flowers of corn-flower blue 

 with rose-colored throat, foliage very handsomely 

 marked with silver, extremely effective. 10 cts. per 

 packet. 



with deep rose-colored throat, leaves beautifully 

 marbled with silver, very showy. 10 cts. per packet. 



5981 Thalia. One of the largest flowering of all. of pure 

 glistening white which stands out beautifully against 

 the dark green foliage. 10 cts. per packet. 



5977 Collata. Wonderful as all the Imperial Morning 

 Glories certainly are, it would seem as if in this sort 

 the climax had been reached ; it is of exceedingly 

 rapid growth, the flowers which are produced in 

 countless numbers attain enormous dimensions and 

 in a large variety of colors, most of them being 

 crimped and ruffled, giving them the appearance of 

 double flowers. 25 cts. per packet. 



5971 Aglaja. Large flowers of brilliant crimson with 

 white throat, leaves beautifully margined with silver, 

 a very pretty sort. 10 cts. per packet. 



r>'.)7:; Asteria. Flowers of giant size, coppery red with 

 white throat, a rare combination, leaves green. 

 10 cts. per packet. 



5979 Collection of one packet each of the above nine sorts for 75 cts. 



59(55 Mixed Varieties. Our mixture, the greater part of which has been saved on our own experimental grounds 

 the past summer, from a collection of all the named varieties, and which elicited the admiration of all visitors 

 who saw them, and to which has been added a proportion of seed imported from Japan and elsewhere, will, we 

 feel sure, produce results which will more than equal our description of this wonderful plant. 10 cts. per packet ; 

 3 packets for 25 cts. 



