Annuals for Bloom the First Season. 



STOCKS. 



For an Early and Profuse Display of Brilliant Flowers. 



Fragrant and free-blooming, and easy to grow, either in beds or pots. Almost all the varieties 

 have long, handsome spikes of ilowers, which are admiraisly adapted for cutting, and remain fresh 

 a long while. The Ten-Weeks Stocks are especially popular, because they bloom so soon after the 

 seed is sown. 



Snowflake. Very early flowering, and indispensable for forcing. Vigorous dwarfs of the Wall. 



flower-leaved section; produce long spikes of large, double, sn&w-white flowers. 10 cts. per pkt_ 

 LARCE-FLOWERINC TEN-WEEKS STOCKS. The plants flower 10 or 12 weeks after the 

 seed is sown. We offer a magnificent strain of this in separate colors: Pure White, Flesh- 

 colored, Chamois-buff, Carmine, Dark Crimson, Dark Blood-red, Light Blue, Chest- 

 nut-Drown, Pink, Scarlet, Dark Blue. 10 cts. each; Mixed, 10 cts. per pkt. 

 Cut-and-Come-Again Stocks. An unusually free-blooming species. The plants grow about 2 

 feet high, and send out numerous side branches, each of which bears a cluster of pure white, 

 fragrant flowers, beautifully shaped and very double. Prom spring until late in fall the plants 

 are covered with flowers, and they thrive equally well in pots or beds. 10 cts. per pkt. 

 VIRGINIAX SXOCKS (Malcolmia). Prettv, profuse-flowering little plants, about 3 

 inches tall, with clusters of handsome red and white flowers. 5 cts. per pkt. 



SAI^PIGLOSSIS grandi- 

 flora. This elegant half-hardy 

 annual flowers in late summer 

 and autumn. The blossoms are 

 velvety, with deep veins and 

 markings, lily-shaped, and 

 quaintly lovely. Mixed, 5 cts. 

 per pkt. 



SALVIA 



Ten-Weeks Stocks. 



(Flowering Sage. ) Magnificent bedding plants, all ablaze with long spikes 

 of blue or scarlet flowers from June until October. 1 to 2 feet tall. 



Splendens. Flowers bright scarlet; a general favorite. 10 cts. per pkt. 

 Compacta. Dwarf form of splendens. Very early and free blooming; 



fine for bedding, borders and pots. 2 feet. 25 cts. per pkt. 

 Patens. Leaves silvery ; flowers large, beautiful sky-blue. 25 cts. per pkt. 

 SA^fVITAI^IA Procumbens. A dwarf-growing plant, continually 

 bright with single golden yellow flowers. 5 cts. per pkt. 

 ^SAI*OBJ ARIA calabrica (Bouncing Bet) . A hardy annual, growing 

 f into thick clumps, and producing masses of fragrant red cruciform flow- 

 ers. 5 cts. per pkt. 

 SCABIOSA grandiflora (Mourning Bride). Curious and pretty; an 

 old-fashioned flower, still deservedly popular. Mixed, 5 cts. per pkt. 



PORTULACA. 



Sturdy little trailing plants, that bloom brightest during our warmest, 

 dryest weather. Beds of them form brilliant rainbows of color on sunshiny 

 mornings; the sun cannot be too warm for them. 



Single Mixed. In many rich colors. 5 cts. per pkt. 



Double Mixed. A large percentage of the flowers will be as double as 

 little roses. 10 cts. per pkt. 



VERBENAS. 



quently have fragrant flowers when grown from seed. 



Seedling Verbenas are more robust in growth and produce larger and finer 

 flowers than those grown from cuttings, and the light-colored varieties fre- 

 One of our brightest and best bedders. 



Mammoth. This superb strain is a great 

 improvement on the older varieties, both 

 in size and color of flowers and habit of 

 plants. The florets average an inch in di- 

 ameter, and have clearly defined margins 

 and large white centers. White, Scarlet, 

 Pink and Mixed, each 10 cts. per pkt. 



New Dwarf Varieties (Nana compacta). 

 Very dwarf, spreading habit. Mixed, 10c. 



Ccerulea. Large, sky-blue flowei-s. lOcts. 

 Defiance. Bright scarlet flowers. 10 cts. 

 Italian Striped. 10 cts. per pkt. 

 Auricula-flowered. Mixed. 5 cts. per pkt. 

 Candidissima. Pure white. 10c. per pkt. 

 Choice Mixed. Seed saved from finest 

 flowers. 5 cts. per pkt. 



Vise AR-IA. Abundant bloomers. Flowers all tints and shades of red. 5 cts. per pkt. 



ZINNIA ELEGANS. 



(Youth and Old Age.) All of them, but especially the dwarf sorts, give gay effects in bed- 

 ding. The taller sorts are very useful for mixed borders or massing in large clumps. 



New Giant ( Grandiflora plenissima). Very 

 large and double flowers. 5 cts. per pkt. 



Lilliput-flowered (Parviflora). Tiny flow- 

 ers of double, perfect form. 5c. per pkt. 



Elegans, Double Mixed. 5 cts. per pkt. 



Elegans, Curled and Crested. 10 cts. 

 Fireball. The flowers are very large, double 



and dazzling fiery scarlet in color. 10 cts. 

 Pompon. Flowers of symmetrical cone 



shape, many fine colors. 10 cts. per pkt. 



"WHITlrAVIA. Beautiful bell-shaped flowers of white or blue, borne in clusters; 

 adapted to baskets, borders, etc. Mixed, 5 cts. per pkt. 



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