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COLE'S GARDEN ANNUAL. 



STOCK (Ten Weeks). 



PRIMULA OBCONICA 



PRIMULA. (Chinese Primrose.) 



A charming and profuse flowe-ring plant, and 

 one of the most desirable of bouse blooming 

 plants, and will richly compensate for the little 

 care they require. They are in alaiost constant 

 bloom all winter, and if the plants are trans- 

 ferred to a shady border they will bloom nearly 

 all summer. Care should be takera in watering 

 that no water fall on the buds, 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-hloomins j>laat, pro- 

 ducing elegant clusters of flowers contiwu- 

 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 otfer is saved from one 

 of the finest collections; (i in 20 



RICINUS, (Castor Oil Bean.) 



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. Half 

 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 foMage beds , 

 we know of nothing more striking and ef- 

 fective, and are objects of beauty al»l sum- 

 mer and fall 6 



Oibsonii. Of branching habit and dark pur- 

 ple stems and deep red foliage; 5 ft 4 



Banguineus. Scarlet fruit in clusters, blood 

 red stock, immense leaves; producing a 

 grand effect; 8 ft 4 



Mixed. The above and other varieties 5 



SALPIGLOSSIS. (Velvet Flower.) 



Flowers resembling the petunia in shape and 

 size; but singularly marked and beautifully 

 penciled. Of the easiest culture and such beauty 

 that it deserves a place in every garden. It is 

 very free flowering and makes a grand show for 

 months. Hardy annual. 



Finest Mixed. Of all sliades and colors; 18 in. 5 



STOCK, TEN WEEKS. 



mixed; 18 in. 



The Ten Week Stock is 

 one of the most popular, 

 beautiful and important 

 of our garden favorites; 

 whether for bedding, 

 massing or pot culture, it 

 is unsurpassed, either for 

 brilliancy of color, ex- 

 quisite fragrance, or pro- 

 fusion and duration of 

 bloom. For winter bloom- 

 ing in the house sow seed 

 in June. The seed we 

 otfer is from a celebrated 

 German stockgrower, 

 from selected pot plants, 

 and will produce more 

 than Three fourths one 

 double flowers. Hardy an- 

 nual 



Dwarf German. The 



earliest summer va- 

 riety; dwarf and 

 free bloomer; mixed; 

 15 in 8 



New Large Flowering. 



Habit dwarf, with 

 magnificent spikes 

 of very large double 

 flowers, all colors 



10 



Large-flowering Pyramidal. With long spikes 

 of large double flowers; the most popular 

 stock in cultivation; all colors mixed ; 18 in. 10 



Perpetual White Large-Flowering. Of strong 

 growth and tine branching habit. It grows 

 to the height of IVz feet, and if sown early 

 will produce a great abundance of bloom 

 from June until November. The individual 

 flowers are uncommonly large, of a fine 

 rosette-like shape, and tlie purest possible 

 white. The flowers appear on each little 

 shoot 10 



SALVIA (Flowering Sage.) 



The Salvia is one of the most beautiful of all 

 flowers; the brilliant spikes of the scarlet flow- 

 ers produce for months a dazzling effect. Of 

 easy culture and fine for massing and boquets. 

 Half -hardy annual. 



New Dwarf. A splendid new sort blooming 

 about two months before the old variety, 

 and lasting until late in the fall. The 

 plants are dwarfer and more compact in 

 habit, while the numerous flowers are of 

 the brightest scarlet imaginable 



Splendens. {Scarlet Sage), spikes of scarlet 

 flowers; 2 ft 5 



SAPONARIA (Bouncing Bet). 



Beautiful, compact-growing plants, with 

 masses of minature cross-shaped flowers, bloom- 

 ing throughout the summer and late in the 

 autumn. Hardy annual. 



Mixed. All colors, 6 in 4 



SCHIZANTHUS. 



A splendid class of plants, combining elegance 

 of growth with a profusion of rich and various 

 colored flowers. Fine for the flower garden; ol 

 easy culture. Half-hardy annuals,' 



Fine Mixed. All colors, 2 ft 4 



