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SUPERB BALSAMS (Laays-siippers) 



Popular and easy to grow; give brilliant masses of beautiful flowers for 

 little care. Plants about 2 feet in height; transplanting dwarfs them and 

 makes the flowers more double. Some are as double and perfect as camel- 

 lias; they range through all dark, rich, brilliant and delicate colors. 



Improved Camellia - flowered. 



Regular and perfect; large and full 

 to center. Choice mixed. Pitt. 10c. 

 Florists' Best Double White. 



Pkt. 10 cts. 



Double Miniature. Small, dainty, 

 double flowers. Choice mixed. 

 Pkt. 10 cts. 



Double Mixed. All kinds and col- 

 ors. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 50 cts. 



BARTONIA aurea. Handsome downy foliage; 

 golden yellow flowers, which open in the evening. 3 feet. 



fragrant, large, 

 Pkt. 5 cts. 



BEET. Ornamental-foliaged Beets. In various colors. Pkt. 5 cts. 



BRACHVCOME (Swan River Daisy). Flowers light and 

 graceful, and borne profusely; colors blue or white, with dark center. 

 1 foot. Pkt. 5 cts. 



BROVVALLI A grandiflora (Blue Amethyst). A neat, compact 

 little plant, blooming freely from June until frost; also fine for winter 

 blooming. Flowers deep ultramarine blue and far larger than those of the 

 ordinary variety. Pkt. 10 cts. 



CANDYTUFT, EMI'l;t>s. 



CAMELLIA-FLOWERED BALSAMS. 



CACALIA cocclnea (Tassel Flower). The tassel-shaped flowers are bright 

 scarlet, and borne in graceful clusters. Pkt. 5 cts. 



CALENDULAS, or POT MARIGOLDS 



Produce a bright and constant mass of color; grow anywhere; flower until frost. 

 Pure Cold. Semi-dwarf plant; handsome, double, pure golden yellow flowers. Th» 



best Marigold in cultivation; flowers large and brilliant. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 25 cts. 

 Sulphurea- Flowers sulphur-yellow in color, of large size and very double. Pkt. 



5 cts., oz. 25 cts. 



Meteor. Large double flowers of yellow, striped with orange. Pkt. 5c, oz. 25c. 

 Fine Mixed. The best colors in variety. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 20 cts. 



CALLIOPSIS (Bright Eyes) 

 Gay and beautiful; graceful habit, easy culture, and flower profusely. 

 Tinctoria. Flowers double, of a rich, golden yellow color, with wine-maroon spots. 

 Pkt. 5 cts. 



Drummondil ( Golden Wave) , Pure, bright yellow flowers, with eye of brown. Pkt. 5c. 



CALANDRInIA, Large-flowering. A creeping plant, with large, 

 colored flowers, which make it one 

 blaze of color whenever the sun 

 shines. Pkt. 5 cts. 



CANNAS, Dwarf French. 



For rich effects in bedding, the 

 Dwarf French Cannas have now 

 few* rivals in popular estimation. 

 As pot-plants for winter-flowering 

 they are also favorites. Finest 

 mixed. Pkt. 10 cts., oz. 25 cts. 



CANDYTUFT 



An old and universal favorite, 

 largely cultivated and continually 

 in bloom ; as valuable for cut- 

 flowers as for edging and masses 

 and always desirable. 



Giant Hyacinth-flowered, or Empress. Very large spikes of pure white. The plant 

 sends out from 4 to 9 branches, each terminating in a large spike of flowers; these 

 flowers are beautifully formed, and of unusual size. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 30 cts. 



Dwarf Hybrids. Plants only about inches high. They form massive candelabra-shaped 

 spikes of various-colored flowers. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 30 cts. 



Rose Cardinal, Light Purple, Dark Purple and Carmine. Each, pkt. 5 cts. 



Finest Mixed. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 25 cts. 



CARNATIONS 



Marguerite. Blooms in four months from seed. Plant vigorous, semi-dwarf, neat. If 

 sown under glass in March or April, begin blooming in early summer and yield a 

 brilliant display of flowers until frost. Flowers large, quite double and perfectly 

 formed, never bursting the calyx. They show all colors and variegations through 

 beautiful shades of red, pink and white. ' Mixed, pkt. 5 cts. ; separate colors : White, 

 Pink, Scarlet, Dark Red, Yellow and Striped, each, pkt. 10 cts. 



Giant Marguerite. An improved and larger-flowering form of the above. Pkt. 10 cts. 



