WM. C. BECKERT 



ALLEGHENY, PA. 



ALL FLOWER SEEDS ARE 5 CTS. PER PKT., UNLESS OTHERWISE QUOTED 



SUPERB BALSAMS Lady 's=Slippers) 



Popular and easy to grow; give brilliant masses of beautiful flowers for little care. 

 Plants about 2 feet in height; transplanting dwarfs them and makes the flowers more 

 double. Some are as double and perfect as camellias; they range through all dark, 

 rich, brilliant and delicate colors. 



Annuals for Bloom the First Season 



Improved Camellia-Flowered. Regular 

 and perfect; large and full to the cen- 

 ter. Choice mixed. Pkt. 10 cts. 



Florists' Best Double White. Pkt. 10c. 



Double Miniature. Small, dainty, very 

 perfect double flowers. Choice mixed. 

 Pkt. 10 cts. 



Mixed Double. All kinds and colors. 



BARTOIXIA aurea. Handsome downy foliage ; fragrant, large, golden 

 yellow flowers, which open in the evening. 3 feet. 



BRACHYCOME (Swan River Daisy). Flowers light and graceful, and 

 borne profusely; colors blue or white, with dark center. 1 foot. 



BROWALLIA 



Elata (Amethyst). Neat, compact little plant about a foot tall and blooms freely 



from June until frost. Flowers white or blue, with an eye. Mixed. 

 Crandiflora. Large blue flowers; a splendid winter-blooming species. Pkt. 10 cts. 



CACALIA coccinea (Tassel Flower). The tassel-shaped flowers are bright 

 scarlet, and borne in graceful clusters. 



CALANDRIMA, Large - Flowering. A 

 creeping plant, with large, rose-colored flowers, which 

 it one blaze of color whenever the sun shines. 



CALENDULAS, or PO^ 

 MARIGOLDS 



Produce a bright and constant mass ox color; 

 grow anywhere; flower until frost. 



Pure Gold. Semi-dwarf plant; 

 handsome, double, pure gold- 

 en yellow flowers. The best 

 Marigold in cultivation; flow- 

 ers large and brilliant. 

 Prince of Orange. Richflowers 

 of deep orange, striped with 

 a lighter color; large, double. 

 Fine Mixed. The best colors in 



Camellia-F lowered Balsamt 



ciety. 



CALLIOPSIS (Bright Eyes) 



Gay and beautiful ; of graceful habit, easy culture, and flower profusely. 

 Tinctorla. Flowers double, of a rich, golden yellow color, with wine-maroon spots. 

 Drummondii (Golden Wave). Pure, bright yellow flowers, with an eye of brown. 



CANDYTUFT (IBERIS) 



An old and universal favorite, largely cultivated and continually in bloom; as valu- 

 able for cut-flowers as for edging and masses and always desirable. 

 Giant Hyacinth-Flowered, or Em- Dwarf Hybrids. Plants only about 6 inches 

 press. Very large spikes of pure high. They form massive candelabra- 

 white. The plant sends out from 4 to 9 shaped spikes of various-colored flowers, 

 branches, each terminating in a large Pkt. 10 cts. 



spike of flowers; these flowers are beauti- Light Purple, Carmine, and Flesh Color 



fully formed, and of unusual size. 10 cts. Each, pkt. 5 cts. 

 Amara. Clusters of pure white. Exceed- Tom Thumb. Very dwarf, forming a low, 

 ingly pretty. dense mass of green and white. 



CANPfAS, Dwarf French. For rich effects in bedding, the Dwarf French Cannas have 

 now few rivals in popular estimation. As pot-plants for winter-flowering they are also favor- 

 ites. Finest mixed. Pkt. 10 cts., oz. 30 cts. 



CARNATIONS 



Marguerite. Blooms in four months from seed. Plants vigorous, semi-dwarf, neat. If 

 sown under glass in March or April, begin blooming in early summer and yield a brilliant 

 display of flowers until frost. Flowers large, quite double and perfectly formed, never 

 bursting the calyx. They show all colors and variegations through beautiful shades of red,, 

 pink and white. 



Giant Marguerite. An improved and much larger-flowering form of the above. Pkt. 10c 



CENTAUREA 



The quaintly pretty flowers have good stems and are 



Favorite old-fashioned flowers, 

 brightly colored. 

 Imperialis (Giant Sweet Sultan ) . Fine for 



cutting. Flowers very large, sweet-scented 



and in bloom until frost. Pkt. 10 cts. 

 Marguerite. Very large, pure white and 



sweet-scented flowers. Profuse bloomer. 



1V 2 feet. Pkt. 10 cts. 



Cyanus (Cornflower). White or blue; plants 

 tall, free-blooming. 



Chameleon. A companion to the preceding, 

 producing large, pale sulphur-yellow flow- 

 ers; attractive. Pkt. 10 cts. 



Emperor William. Dark blue. 



Candytuft. 



JgyFor other varieties, see Foliage Plants. 



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