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Bed of Scarlet Sage with "Dusty Miller" Border 



RICINUS (Castor-Oil Plant) 



Makes splendid center for a large bed, with cannas and caladiums 

 planted around it. Excellent for screenino; unsightly buildings. Sow 

 the seed in the spring where they are to grow. Perpkt. Oz. 



Zanzibarensis. The leaves of this new variety attain 

 a gigantic size, measuring 2 to 2^ feet across, and in- 

 clude light and dark green and coppery bronze colors. .$0 o,s $0 15 



Gibsoni. Handsome deep red foliage 05 



Mixed. Many choice sorts 05 15 



SCARLET SAGE (Salvia) 



One of the most beautiful bedding plants. To be planted in masses 

 or in borders in front of porticos or around beds of cannas, etc. Sow 

 the seed in boxes or frames in March and .set the plants out the 

 latter part of May. PerpVt. 



Salvia splendens {Scarlet Sage) $0 10 



patens (Blue Sage) 10 



Clara Bedman, Bonfire. Very compact, with long, erect 

 spikes of brilliant scarlet flowers. The finest Salvia ever in- 

 troduced, and by far the best for bedding and massing on the 



lawn ', per oz. $2.. 10 



Farinacea (The Silver Sage). It appears to run altogether to 

 flower, hundreds upon hundreds of tall spikes of silvery lav- • 

 ender blooms rising from a dense mass of foliage during the 

 entire season 10 



Salpiglossis 



SALPIGLOSSIS 



One of our handsome annuals, and should be in every garden. 

 Blossoms are tube-shape, large like a petunia, and rivaling the 

 latter in beautiful color display. Each flower is veined with a glint 

 of gold, and is the only flower possessing this odd characteristic. 



Pkt. 



Fine Mixed Jo 05 



Grandiflora. Large-flowering type, very rich in colors 05 



Saperbissima. Magnificently rich and beautiful flowers; ex- 

 quisitely veined JO 



STOCKS, TEN WEEKS 



These beautiful plants are unsurpassed for bedding, edgings, pot 

 culture, house and conservatory decoration and for cutting. Sow 

 under glass in March or April, transplanting the seedlings when an 

 inch high, and transfer to garden beds in May in good, deep, rich 

 soil, setting the plants i foot apart. 



NEW LARGE-FLOWERING WINTER STOCK 

 "WHITE LADY** 



This is a magnificent strain, producing strikingly large and very 

 double flowers of a lustrous, snowy white ; grovys about 20 inches in 

 height with remarkably handsome foliage, branching freely in can- 

 delabra fashion ; blooms early and remains longer in flower than 

 any other variety, producing 60 to 65 per cent double flowers, sur- 

 passing in beauty any white Stock heretofore obtained. Pkt. 25 cts. 



LARGE-FLOWERING GERMAN TEN WEEKS STOCKS 



The Stocks represent all the desirable qualities of a flower. The 

 plants have good habit, fine dull or glossy leaves. The flowers ap- 

 pear on long, stiff stalks like small rosettes, are exceedingly fragrant 

 and range through a most complete scale of all the soft and distinct 

 shades. Perpkt. 



Bright Red $0 10 



Light Blae 10 



Pink 10 



White 10 



Purple 10 ''tjf 



Yellow 10 /I 



Mixed. Brilliant colors 10 



WINTER-FLOWERING V V^' 



Nearly all growers of cut-flowers 

 are acquainted with this splendid ^^^^^ 

 class of Stocks, so valuable for ^ " .,i^Bl^." 



forcing. They produce long V ■'' ^d/' 

 trusses of extremely double flow- B ' 

 ers and can be cultivated either 

 as a Summer or a Winter Stock ; 

 by sowing early in June they maj' 

 be had in flower by Christmas. Jt^f 

 Beauty of Nice. Extra - long 



spikes; flesh-pink. Pkt. 15 cts. 



Queen Alexandra. Delicate ■ y&J^u 



rosy lilac. Pkt. 15 cts. *^«i*f 4. _ 



Crimson King. Pkt. 20 cts. iJ^'^^^l^' '> 



Pure White of Nice. Pkt. 15c. 



VARIOUS STOCKS 



Princess Alice (Cut-and-Come- 



Again). Double white flowers; 



fine for cutting. Pkt. 10 cts. 

 Wallflower -leaved. Mixed. '^llAi 



Pkt. 10 cts. 

 Snowflake. Dwarf ; for forcing; 



pure white. Pkt. 15 cts. New Stock "White Lady" 



STOKESIA CYANEA 



This plant grows about 18 inches high, bearing freely, from early 

 July until frost, its handsome lavender-blue Centaurea-like blossoms, 

 each measuring from four to five inches across. It is of the easiest 

 culture, succeeding in any open sunny position, and is not only- 

 desirable as a single plant in the mixed hardy border, but can be 

 used with fine effect in masses or beds of any size. We have no 

 hesitation in saying that the Cornflower Aster is one of the most 

 beautiful, valuable and desirable hardy plants. Seed, perpkt. loc. 



Stokesia cyanea 



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