COLE'S FLOWER SEED. 



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Salvia Bonfire 



SALVIA (Flowering Sage) 



The Salvia is one of the most beautiful of all 

 flowers; the brilliant spikes of the scarlet flowers 

 produce for months a dazzling effect. Of easy cul- 

 ture and fine for massing and bouquets. Half-hardy 

 annual. 



New Dwarf, or Bonfire. (Large Flower- 

 ing Scarlet Sage.) A splendid new sort bloom- 

 ing much earlier than old variety. The plants 

 are dwarfer and more compact in habit, while 

 the flowers are larger and more numerous and 

 are of the brightest scarlet imaginable, lasting 

 until late in the fall; 2 ft 10 



Coccinea Splendens. (Small Flowering 



Scarlet Sage.) Spikes of scarlet flowers; 2 ft.. 5 



VERBENA 



A well-known favorite, and is valuable for bedding 

 on account of their low trailing habit, and the 

 dazzling brilliancy of their beautiful flowers; blooms 

 freely the first season from seed, and are more healthy 

 and make larger and hardier plants than if grown 

 from cuttings; requires a very rich, mellow soil. 

 The seeds sprout very unevenly, and some will not 

 be started at the time others must be removed, 

 hence the soil should be disturbed as little as possi- 

 ble. Half-hardy perennials. 



Hybrida Compacta, or Tom Thumb. The 



plants form almost circular bushes of about two 

 feet in diameter, throwing up in a singularly 

 compact manner, on stiff and erect stems, a great 

 number of flowers. The mixture contains a great 

 variety of color 8 



Mammoth, or Large Flowering. Flow'Qrs 

 of this Mammoth Variety when well 



grown being frequently larger than a silver quar- 

 ter. Plant more vigorous than the ordinary 

 variety, and far excel them in dazzling richness 

 and variety of colors. The distinct white eye 

 adds greatly to their striking and beautiful ap- 

 pearance I'J 



New Italian Striped. Brilliant colors, 



striped on various colored grounds, best mixed.. 5 



Alba. Pure white; a desirable variety 



for florists or for the cemetery 6 



Extra Choice Mixed. Seed saved from 



the finest collection of named sorts 7 



Fine Mixed. Many colors mixed 5 



Tom Tliumb Zinnia 



ZINNIA (Youth and Old Age) 



Plants of great beauty, of branching habit, and 

 splendid brilliant colored double flowers, rivaling in 

 beauty and form double Dahlias. Bloom in great 

 profusion and with increased splendor fron June 

 until cut off by frost; begins to bloom when ciuite 

 small. Easy of culture; thrives in any good soil. 

 Half-hardy annuals. 



Double Choice Mixed. Finest large flow- 

 ering varieties, 2 ft 5 



Double White, comes true from seed, 



perfect in shape 5 



Striped Zebra. Double flowers, distinctly 



striped, of perfect shape. The largest per cent 

 are striped, the self colored are also fine: best 

 mixed , 6 



Curled and Crested. These new, odd and 

 charming Curled and Crested Zin- 

 nias are of perfect form, large, round, 



full and double, the petals being twisted, curled 

 and crested into the most fantastic and gucerol 

 forms; best mixed 5 



Tom Thumb. These Dwarf Double Zin- 

 nias produce compact dwarf bushes, varyii.>^ fi 

 to 12 inches in height and irom 6 to 14 inches 

 in diameter, coming mostly true from seed. 

 The little plants are covered with the Jiundsome 

 double flowers of many bright and "ich colors. 

 Such dwarf and coinpaet plants attva.-t great 

 attention when grown in leds or bord-^vi Plants 

 are very free floweriog, and continue in bloom 

 until destroyed by frost 5 



Tom Thumb Verbena 



