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BECKERT SEED AND BULB COMPANY 



Ageratum - Flossflower 



AHH 



Continuous blooming, bedding and cutting annuals. 

 Flowers are tuft-shaped and borne in heads. Dwarf 

 sorts for bedding and window boxes and the tall sorts 

 for cutting. All varieties are fine for edging beds or 

 borders. For early blooms seed should be started 

 indoors in March. 



572 Pairy Pink. Dwarf salmon-pink. Pkt., 25c. 



575 Blue Perfection. Improved tall variety with deep 

 sky-blue flowers. Height 12 inches. Pkt., 10c; 14 

 oz., 50c. 



576 Iiittle Blue Star. Very dwarf and bushy, best 

 variety for edging. Bright blue. Height 5 inches. 

 Pkt., 25c; 5 pkts., $1.00. 



573 Dwarf Blue. Height 8 inches. Pkt., 10c; 14 oz., 

 30c. 



578 Blue Ball. Deep ageratum-blue. Plants are dwarf 



and compact and very free flowering. Pkt., 15c. 

 AMARANTHUS. AHH. Showy plants with brilliantly 



colored foliage. 

 635 Sunrise, A superb new Amaranthus with glowing 



crimson foliage. Height 3 to 4 feet. Pkt., 25c. 

 633 tricolor splendens (Joseph's Coat). Gorgeous 



scarlet, yellow and green foliage. Height 2 feet. 



Pkt., 10c; 1/4 oz., 30c. 



Ageratum, Blue Ball 



510 ABUTHiON, Choice Hybrids (Flowering Maple). PT. 



Everblooming greenhouse shrubs with delicately 



veined, bell-shaped flowers. May be set outdoors after 



June 1st. Pkt., 25c. 

 ADONIS (Flower-of-the-Gods). Blooms in early svim- 



m.er. The whole plant resembles a very dwarf Cosmos. 

 561 aestivalis. AH. Scarlet. Pkt., 10c. 



555 AGATHABA coelestis. PT. A beautiful, clear blue 

 Daisy, growing 18 to 24 inches high. Plants are ten- 

 der perennials, but may be treated as annuals, bloom- 

 ing in August from seed planted indoors in March. 

 Pkt., 15c. 



600 AIiONSOA Warscewiczi (Maskflower). AHH. Bushy 

 plants 11/2 feet high with spikes of bright scarlet 

 flowers. Somewhat similar to scarlet sage. Pkt.. loc. 



Alyssum, Carpet of Snow 



Alyssum 



AH 



Arctotis Grandis 



Very dwarf -growing bedding or edg- 

 ing plants, covered with tiny white 

 blossoms from early summer until frost. 



612 Little Gem. Dwarf and compact; 

 pure white. Pkt., 10c; i/i oz., 25c; oz., 

 75c. 



613 Carpet of Snow or Dwarf Bouquet. 



Plants flat and spreading. Pkt., 10c; 

 oz., 30c; oz., $1.00. 

 615 Snowflakes. The most compact and 

 dwarf Alyssum. Flowers are pure 

 snow white. Pkt., 15c; 14 oz., 75c. 



614 liilac Queen. Similar to Little Gem 

 but lavender flowers. Pkt., 10c; 14, oz., 

 30c. 



650 ANCHUSA, Annual Blue Bird. AH. 



Until the introduction of this charm- 

 ing novelty the Annual Anchusas 

 have been too straggly to be of use. 

 Blue Bird is an upright bushy plant 

 covered with bright indigo-blue. For- 

 get-me-not-like flowers. Pkt., 15c. 



761 ARCTOTIS HYBRID A (African 

 Daisy). AHH. A rare novelty that is 

 surprisingly easy to grow. Flowers 

 are daisy shaped in a wide range of 

 colors and with dark center discs. 

 Good for bedding and fine as cut flow- 

 ers. Pkt., 25c. 



760 ARCTOTIS grandis (African Lilac 

 Daisy). AHH. Bushy plants 2 feet 

 high, with daisy-like flowers. Petals 

 are white on top, lilac underneath. 

 Blooms all summer. Pkt., 10c; oz.. 

 35c. 



