Select List of Flower Seeds 



A Revised List of the Best and most Popular Sorts, including Seeds 

 of Annuals, Biennials, Perennials, and Stove and Greenhouse Plants 



IN 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 everj- ornamental pur- 

 pose, covering a wide range of form and color, height and habit, and the whole season whh their bloom, may be found here. 

 OUR 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 VARIOUS DIVISIONS which follow— Choice Annuals for Bloom the First Season, 

 Perennials for Permanent Planting, 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 species. 



Annuals, Blooming First Season 



ABRONIA 



Pretty trailers. Flowers in Verbena- 

 like clusters; sweet-scented. 



Arenaria. Fine yellow. Pkt. 5 cts. 



Umbellata grandiflora. Pure rose. 

 Pkt. 5 cts. 



ADOXIS. Bright scarlet flowers of 

 long duration ; foliage feathered ; i foot. 

 Pkt. 5 cts. 



AGK.OSXEI»IMA (Rose of 

 Heaven 1 . Dwarf Fringed. Finely fringed 

 bright rose flowers. Pkt. 5 cts. 



AGERATUM 



Of neat, vigorous growth and free-bloom- 

 ing habit. Blooms the whole summer. 



Lasseauxi. Fine clusters of bright 

 rose, borne long and abundantly. Pkt. 5c. 



Imperial Dwarf White. Large clus- 

 ters of flowers ; plant handsome and free- 

 flowering. Pkt. 5 cts. 



Blue Perfection. Flowers large and 

 deep blue ; I'aft. Pkt. sets. 



Princess Victoria Louisa. Dwarf and 

 compact ; flowers light blue with white 



center. Pkt. 5 cts. 



Ageratum, Blue Perfection 



blooms a 



Arctotis grandis 



a:vagai,i,is 



(Pimpernel). Low- 

 growing; forms a 

 mat of bright red, 

 white, pink and pur- 

 ple flowers. Pkt. 5c. 



ARCXOXIS 



grandis. A very 

 bushy, free-flower- 

 ing plant, with whit- 

 ish foliage and raj-- 

 formed, pure white 



flowers tinged with a yellow zone at the base 

 2'< feet. Pkt. 10 cts. 



ARXEBIA cornuta (Arabian Primrose). Golden yellow flowers 

 with dark brown spots ; plant 2 feet high and bushy. Pkt. 10 cts. 



ALYSSUM 



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

 door baskets and border edging. 



Benthami (Sweet Alyssum). Trailing; flowers white, very sweet. 

 Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 25 cts. 



Little Gem. Dwarf, spreading, covered thickly with very fragrant 

 white flowers. Pkt. sets., oz. 35 cts. 



White Carpet. Blooms profusely the whole season; plants only 2 

 to 3 inches high. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 40 cts. 



AMARANTUS 



Tall, with showy, variegated leaves and long racemes of flowers. 

 Caudatus (Love-lies-bleeding). Blood-red ; 3 feet tall. Pkt. 5 cts. 

 Cruentus (Prince's Feather). Dark red ; 3 feet. Pkt. 5 cts. 

 Henderi. Brown, dark red and bronze. Pkt. 5 cts. 

 Nobilis pyramidalis. \'ery ornamental ; 3 feet. Pkt. 5 cts. 

 Tricolor (Joseph's Coat). Foliage scarlet, yellow and green; 4 feet. 

 Pkt. 5 cts. 



Brilliant. Bright red, end of branches carmine rose, red and vel- 

 low. Pkt. 5 cts. 



Sulpherine. Lower leaves green, toward the middle sulphur-yel- 

 low with green points, heads and side shoots pure yellow. Pkt. 10 cts. 



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