Annuals which Bloom the First Season. 



WM. C. BECKERT, 



ALLEGHENY, PA. 



Single and Double Gaillardias. 



GAILI^ARDIA. 



EVERLASTINGS. 



For winter bouquets the Everlastings are indispensable, as the strawy- 

 texture of the flowers retains their shape and brilliant color indefinitely. 

 They should be cut before they have opened fully, tied in bunches, and 

 dried slowly in the shade, with the flower heads downward. For garden 

 decoration, too, they are quite bright and pretty, yielding their flowers the 

 first season, and requiring but little care. 



ACROCIjINIU3I roseium fl. pi. Graceful, rose-colored flowers ; plant 



a foot high. 5 cents per pkt. 

 A. — album. Flowers pure white. 5 cents per pkt. 



AM3IOBIUM alatum grandiflorum. Clusters of pure white flowers ; 



plant about 2 feet high. 5 cents per pkt. 

 HELICHRYSUM nanum ( Eternal Flower) . Beautifully formed flowers, 

 large, double and gay colored. The plants are dwarf and branching. 

 A fine mixture of all colors, 5 cents per pkt. 

 GOMPHRENA globosa (Bachelor's Button. Globe Amaranth.) An 

 old favorite, with round flower-heads of red or white. Mixed seeds, 5 

 cents per pkt. 



RHODAXTHE, Fine Mixed. The most delicately beautiful of all 



the Everlastings ; plants a foot high. 10 cents per pkt. 

 XERANTHE3rUM anniium. \'ery bright, double, globe-shaped 

 flowers, retaining their form and color longer than other sorts. All 

 colors mixed, 5 cents per pkt. 



SPECIAL OFFER OF EVERLASTINGS.-i packet each of 

 seven varieties, 30 cents, 



ESCHSCHOI.XZIA CALIFORNICA. 



(California Poppy.) This, the California state flower, is brilliantly 

 colored and poppy-like, shining with a silken luster in the sunshine. A 

 bed of them is fairly dazzling, with its rich hues of orange, pure yellow, 

 scarlet, creamy white, 

 crimson and carmine. 

 Mixed seed, 5c. per pkt. 



(Blanket Flower.) Showy bedding plants, averaging about two feet in height, and 

 covered with flowers from midsummer until frost. 



G. picta Lorenziana. Double flowers, in manv bright colors. 5 cents per pkt. 

 G. grandiflora. Large single flowers. See cut. 5 cents per pkt. 



GII.IA. 



Dwarf, free-flowering plants, of easy culture, much used for massing in beds, and for 

 rockeries. Mixed seed of all the varieties, producing flowers of all colors. 5 cents per pkt. 



GODBTIA. 



Bright and attractive little plants, which deserve a much larger share of attention than 

 they now receive. They are compact and branching in habit, and always gay with a crop 

 of pretty white, rose, or crimson flowers. Mixed seed, 5 cents per pkt. 



GRASSES, ORNAMENTAL. 



Beds of Ornamental Grasses, aside from their beauty and grace as lawn ornaments. Everlasting Helichrysum. 



furnish much beautiful material for winter decoration, for use in vases, bouquets of Ever- 

 lastings, etc., if the heads are cut as soon as they have matured. The smaller, delicate 

 ones are also prettv for mingling with summer flowers. Beds composed entu ely of Grasses, with tall 

 varieties in the center and lower ones for edging, are especially beautiful. 

 AGROSTIS nebulosa. Feathery and elegant ; i K feet. 5 cents per pkt. 

 AVENA sterilis (Animated Oats). Pretty drooping heads ; 2^ feet. 5 cents per pkt. 

 BRIZA maxima compacta. The large form of Quaking Grass ; iK feet. 5 cents per pkt. 

 B. minima gracilis. Small Quaking Grass ; i foot ; elegant for bouquets. 5 cents per pkt. 

 BRO]>nJS brizaeformis. Useful in many decorative ways, when dried ; 2 feet. 5 cents per pkt. 

 COIX laeliryma ( Job's Tears). Broad blades and drooping seeds. 5 cents per pkt. 

 ERAGROSTIS elegans. The well known " Love Grass." 5 cents per pkt. 

 I LAGURUS ovatii.s (Hare's Tail Grass). Small white spikes ; 2 feet. 5 cents per pkt. 

 ' GYNERIUM argenteiim (Pampas Grass). See perennials, 5 cents per pkt. 

 ZEA Japonica variegata. Striped Japanese Maize. 5 cents per pkt. 

 STIPA pennata (Feather Grass). See perennials. 5 cents per pkt. 

 TRICHOL.EANA rosea. Rose tinted ; 2 feet. 10 cents per pkt. 

 One pkt. each, including perennials, 12 varieties, 50 cents. 



HIBISCUS AFRICANUS. 



Brotnus brizceforynis. 



Showv and eff"ective, whether planted in beds, or among shrubbery, 

 flowers have a rich dark brown center ; the plant grows about two feet tall. 



The large, cream-colored 

 5 cents per p"kt. 



