Wm. C Beckert's Choice List of Flower Seeds, Pittsburg, Pa. 



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SUPERB BALSAMS (Lady's Slippers) 



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. 



Double White Perfection. Regular and perfect; large and full to 

 center. Pk. 10 cts. 



Double Camellia-flowered. With white blotches. Pkt. 10 cts.,oz. 75c. 



Double Mixed. All kinds and colors. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 60 cts. 



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

 borne profusely; colors blue or white, with dark center; 1 foot. Pkt. 5 cts. 



BROWALLIA grandiflora (Blue Amethyst). A neat, compact little 

 plant, blooming freely from June until frost; also fine for winter blooming. 

 Flowers deep ultramarine-blue. Pkt. 10 cts. 



CALENDULAS, or POT MARIGOLDS 



Produces a bright and constant mass of coloi : 



grow anywhere; flowei 



until frost. 

 Meteor. Large dou 



ble flowers of yellow, 



striped with orange. 



Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 25 cts. 

 Pure Gold. Semi- 

 dwarf plant ; very large, double, pure 

 golden yellow flowers. The best Marigold 

 in cultivation. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 25 cts. 



Prince of Orange. Like Meteor, but much 

 darker. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 25 cts. 



Fine Mixed. The best colors in variety. 

 Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 25 cts. 



CALLIOPSIS (Bright Eyes) 



Gay and beautiful; graceful habit, easy 

 culture, and flower profusely. 



Hybrida superba. Flowers yellow, or- 

 ange, brown, salmon, scarlet, carmine, blood- 

 red, etc.; plants round and bushy; in bloom 

 the entire season. Pkt. 10 cts. 



Drummondii (Golden Wave). Pure, bright 



yellow flowers, with eye of brown. Pkt. oe. 



CANDYTUFT (iberis) 



CANDYTUFT, E5IPHESS 



SI.UMit-EKlTB "ARXAIION 



An old and universal favorite, largely eulti 

 rated and continually in bloom; as valuabb 

 tor cut-flowers as for edging and masses, anr 

 always desirable. 



Giant Hyacinth - flowered, or Em- 

 press. Very large spikes of pure white. The plant sends out from 4 to 9 branches, each 

 terminating in a large spike of flowers; these flowers are beautifully formed, and of 

 unusual size. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 30 cts. 



Dwarf Hybrids. Plants 6 inches high. They form massive candelabra-shaped spikes 

 of various-colored flowers. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 40 cts. 



Finest Mixture of White, Carmine, Crimson, Lilac, Purple and Rose. Pkt. 

 5 cts., oz. 30 cts. 



CANNAS, Dwarf French (Indian Shot"). For rich effects in bedding, the Dwarf 

 French Cannas have now few rivals in popular estimation. Finest mixed. Pkt. 10 cts., o?.. 40c. 



CARNATIONS 



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

 sown under glass in March or April, begins blooming in early summer and yields a brilliant 

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

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

 and white. Mixed, pkt. 5 cts., oz. $1; separate colors: White, Pink, Scarlet, Yellow and 

 Striped, each, pkt. 10 cts. 



Giant Marguerite. An improved and large-flowering form of the above. Mixed, pkt. 

 10 cts., oz. $2. 



CELOSIA 



b-shaped heads often attain large size and are always gay- 

 i much used for pot culture and in beds, presenting a strik- 



CELOSIA, GLASGOW PRIZE 



Odd and handsome. The c 

 colored. The dwarf varieties 

 ing appearance. 



CELOSIA CRISTATA (Cockscomb) 

 Empress. One of the handsomest; the rich crimson heads are enormous, y 

 shapely; dwarf. Pkt. 10 cts. 

 Glasgow Prize. Very large and showy dark crimson combs; dwarf. Pkt. 10 cts. 



