Select Flower 



Seeds 



A Complete List of the Best and Most Popular Sorts, Including Seeds of Annuals, Biennials, 

 Perennials, and Stove and Greenhouse Plants. 



N the following pages we offer a careful and choice selection of fresh and pure Flower 

 Seeds, including the best old and new varieties. No need of the flower garden has been 

 neglected, for seeds of plants adaptable for every ornamental purpose, covering the 

 whole range of form and color, height and habit, and the whole season with their bloom, 

 may be found here. 



Oup Flower Seed Packets are large, and beautifully lithographed in colors, with 

 directions for culture printed on one side; they are well filled with tested seeds of strong 

 germinating power. 



THE HEADINGS OF THE DEPARTMENTS which follow-Choiee Annuals for Bloom the Fipst Season, Peren- 



nials for Permanent Planting, Seeds of Plants with Fine Foliage, 



Ornamental Climbers, Seeds of Greenhouse Plants— make so clear the nature of each class of seeds offered that the usual 

 puzzling and arbitrary signs and abbreviations are unnecessary. The copious index on the 

 last page of the Catalogue will be found helpful to all who, without understanding plant habits and classifications, 

 wish to turn quickly to any 



Choice Annuals for Bloom the First Season 



ALYSSUM, SWEET. 



A great favorite for bouquets and house-culture, as well as for out- 

 door baskets and border edging. 



Benthami. Trailing; flowers white, very sweet. 5 ots. per pkt. 

 Tom Thumb (Little Gem). Very dwarf and spreading, covering 

 a wide circle thickly with its white flowers, which appear when the 

 plants are quite small. 5 cts. per pkt. 

 ABfAGAr<I<IS (The Pimpernel). Covers the ground with a 

 mat of bright red or white, pink or purple flowers. Plants low-growing. 



Mixed, 5c. per pkt. 

 ABRONIA. 

 Pretty trailing 

 plants, with clus- 

 ters of sweet- 

 scented flowers, 

 somewhat like 

 verbenas; bloom- 

 ing profusely. 

 Flowers bright 

 waxen yellow and 

 pure rose. Mixed, 

 5 cts. per pkt. 



ADOXIS. 

 Showy, free- 

 blooming plants, 

 aboitt a foot tall, 

 with feathery fo- 

 age and large, 

 brilliant flowers, 

 appearing in early 

 springand lasting 

 a long while. 

 Pheasant's Eye. 

 Intensedarkred, 

 with black oen- 



Ageratum. ter. 5e. per pkt. 



Tom THuml) Sweet Alyssum. 



AGERATUM. 



Valued for bedding on account of their neat, vigorous growth and 

 free-blooming habit. They bloom the whole summer, where sown 

 e.irly. 



Lasseauxi. Fine clusters of bright rose, borne long and abundantly. 

 5 cts. per pkt. 



Mexicanum, Little Dorrit, Dwarf Blue. Flowers bright blue; the 

 plant is very dwarf, free-blooming and handsome. 5 cts. per pkt. 

 Mexicanum, Little Dorrit, Dwarf White. Large clusters of flow- 

 ers; habit like above. 5 cts. per pkt. 

 * AGR.OSTEMMA (Rose Ci^npion). Exceedingly pretty and 

 graceful flowers. Red, white, and red and white flowers. 5c. per pkt. 



AIvOBJSOA ( Mask-flower) . The blossoms are freely produced 

 upon plants of pyramidal form. Scarlet, white and orange mixed. 

 .) cts. per pkt. 



i5 31 € 



