COLE'S GARDEN ANNUAL. 



PRIMULA (Chinese Primrose) 



A charming and profuse flowering plant, aui) 

 one of the most desirable of house blooming 

 plants, and will richly compensate for the little 

 care they require. They are in almost con- 

 stant bloom all winter, and if the plants ar^ 

 transferred to a shady border they will b'ooi i 

 nearly all summer. Care should bo taken in 

 watering that no water fall on the beds, as it 

 causes them to rot. Greenhouse perennial. 



Obconica- A lovely and profuse blooming 

 Primrose, bearing beautiful single flowers, 

 white, shaded with slight tinge of lilac. 

 This is really an ever-blooming plant, pro- 

 ducing elegant clusters of flowers contmu- 

 ously throughout the year. If sown early 

 in spring the seedlings will begin to bloom 

 in June; 9 in 10 



Sinesis Fimbriata. Choice fringed varieties 

 mixed; the seed we offer is saved from one 

 of the finest collections; 6 in ir» 



PETUNIA. 



No class of flowers better repay the care they 

 require than the Petunias; easily raised from 

 the seed; the richness of color and abundance 

 of rich flowers make them indispensable for 

 bedding plants. Every garden should have a 

 bed of these magnificent flowers, a gay mass of 

 bloom from June to hard frost. Hardy annual. 



Hybrids. A fine variety; flowers beautifully 

 blotched, marbled, fringed and variegated. 8 



Mixed. Finest varieties 5 



Hybrida Grandiflora Fl. PI. Finest Double. 



The seed we offer is from a reliable grower 

 in Germany, and is carefully fecundated 

 with the best double flowers. Sure to pro- 

 duce a good percentage of splendid, large 

 double flowers; perfectly magnificent 1.") 



PORTULACA. 



In brilliancy and beauty of color, Portulacas 

 are unrivalled. They delight in sunny situa- 

 tions and light soils, where they rapidly carpet 

 the ground, each plant covering a space of 

 about 15 inches in diameter; 6 in. Half-hardy 

 annuals. 



Finest Single Mixed, a great variety of colors 4 



Doublft Rose-flowered Mixed, unsurpassed for 

 brilliancy of color and great beauty 10 



STOCK (Ten Weeks). 



The Ten Week Stock 

 is one of the most pop- 

 ular, beautiful ana im- 

 portant of our garden 

 favorites; whether for 

 bedding, massing or pot 

 culture, it is unsur- 

 passed, either for bril- 

 liancy or color, exqui- 

 site fragrance, or pro- 

 fusion and duration of 

 bloom. For winter 

 blooming in the house 

 sow seed in June. The 

 seed we offer is from a 

 celebrated German 

 stockgrower, from se- 

 lected not plants, and 

 will produce more than 

 thre ' fourths fine double 

 flowers. Hardy an- 

 nual. 



Dwarf German. The 



earliest summerva- 

 riety; dwarf and 

 free bloomer; 

 mixed; 15 in 8 



New Large Flowering. 



STOCK, TEN WEEKS. Habited warf, with 

 magniticent spikes of very large douole 

 flowers, all colors, mixed: 18 in 10 



Dwarf Snowflake. A beautiful dwarf-grow- 

 ing variety; very large doiible snow-white 

 flowers; very early ° 



Victoria Bouquet- This tine strain is with- 

 out a rival for open ground planting. Each 

 plant forms in itself a natural grown bou- 

 quet, of a beautiful pyramidal shape. The 

 spikes of bloom are very long, and the 

 flowers are large in size and very double; 

 2 ft 10 



Perpetual White Large Flowering. Of strong 

 growth and fine branching habit. It grows 

 to the height of IV2 feet, and if sown very 

 early will produce a great abundance of 

 bloom from June until November. The In- 

 dividual flowers are uncommonly large, of 

 a fine rosette-like shape, and the purest 

 possible white. The flowers appear on each 

 little shoot S 



RICINUS (Castor Oil Beau). 



Ornamental plant of stately growth and pic- 

 turesque foliage, with brilliant-colored fruit, 

 producing a sub-tropical effect; fine for lawns, 

 massing, or center plants for ribbon beds. Ha f- 

 hardy annuals. 



Zanzibariensis. The Largest Castor Beans 

 in cultivation. An entirely new class from 

 Africa, with leaves often measuring 2 feet 

 across, some of them being light green, 

 others bronze brown. For large foliage 

 Deds we know if nothing more striking 

 and effective, and are objects of beauty all 

 summer and fall 5 



Fine Mixed. The best and choicest varieties 

 mixed 4 



PERILLA. 



The foliage of this plant Is exceedingly ele- 

 gant, of a very dark purple color, and produces 

 a charming contrast with the silver leaved 

 plants: growing freely in any soil. Half-hardy 

 annual. 



Naakinensis, 18 in 4 



