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SPECIALTIES IN FLOWED SEED! 



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Two Magnificent African Marigolds 



The two varieties offered below are grown for us by a specialist 

 and are without doubt the very finest of the large-flowering 

 African type, and grow almost 2\ feet high, bearing in continuous 

 succession from early summer till hard frost large and perfectly 

 double flowers. 



3084 Orange Prince. Large ball-shaped blooms of glittering 

 deep golden orange. 15 cts. per pkt.; 50 cts. per J oz.; 

 $1.50 per oz. 



3085 Lemon Queen. Immense double flowers of a pleasing 

 soft lemon-yellow making a fine contrast to the rich gold 

 of Orange Prince. 15 cts. per pkt.; 50 cts. per \ oz.; $1.50 

 per oz. 



Invincible Giant Polyanthus 



3677 A magnificent strain of this perfectly hardy and easily grown 

 spring-flowering Primrose, representing the work of twenty- 

 five years of painstaking cross-breeding and selection by a 

 Scotch specialist. Of strong, sturdy habit, and bearing im- 

 mense trusses of large flowers on self-supporting stems 10 to 

 16 inches in length. Unquestionably the finest strain in culti- 

 vation, containing all colors from purest white to the richest 

 crimson. 25 cts. per pkt.; 5 pkts., $1.00. 



New Hybrid Iceland Poppy 



3738 This beautiful strain cf these charming hardy Poppies is 

 being improved every year, the stock which we offer this 

 season containing a generous percentage of the famous 

 Coonara and Sunbeam strains will be found much finer than 

 heretofore, containing many lovely new shades of color. 

 15 cts. per pkt.; 2 pkts., 25 cts. 



New Hybrid Iceland Poppy 



Salvia Splendens "America" 



New Ricinus or Castor Oil Plant 

 "Red Spire" 



3867 A visitor to our Nurseries declared our planting of this to 

 be the most effective and ornamental feature in the establish- 

 ment. The shapely, bushy plants attain a height of about 

 6 feet, with pretty palmate leaves of a bronzy green with 

 prominent red ribs and veins, and producing through the 

 summer and autumn numerous spikes of flowers or seedpods 

 9 to 18 inches long, of a brilliant rosy crimson; altogether a 

 most effective semi-tropical plant, valuable alike for its 

 foliage and flowers and like other Ricinus, absolutely insect- 

 proof. As single specimens or in beds on the lawn for filling 

 up a corner, or making a hedge or line, this is one of the 

 most ornamental plants ever introduced. 10 cts. per pkt.; 

 40 cts. per oz. 



Scarlet Sage "America" 



3936 We have in the last few years tested over a score of varieties 

 of Scarlet Sage and in this variety, which was grown at our 

 own Nursery, and which was easily the most brilliant bit of 

 color among the acres of flowers grown there, we have what 

 is undoubtedly the earliest, freest and most continuous 

 bloomer of all, and, what is still more important, the most 

 uniform in habit of growth; the bushy plants do not grow 

 over 15 inches high, with the spikes of brilliant scarlet 

 flowers thrown well above the plant, making a total height 

 oi about 2 feet, and in the lines., several hundred feet in 

 length, there was not a variation of an inch in the height 

 of any plant; the importance of this uniformity will be 

 appreciated by those who use Scarlet Sage for beds or 

 borders. 25 cts. per pkt.; $1.00 per J oz. 



