WM. C. BECKERT, 



ALLEGHENY, PA. 



Annuals for Bloom the First Season. 



PRICE OF ALL PACKETS, 5 CTS., UNLESS OTHERWISE QUOTED. 



SUPERB BALSAMS (ladys-slippers). 



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 camellias; they range through all dark, 

 rich, brilliant and delicate colors. 



Improved Camellia-flowered. Regular , Double Miniature. Small, dainty, very 



and perfect; large and full to the cen- perfect, double flowers. Choice mixed. 



ter. Choice mixed. Pkt. 10 cts. Pkt. 10 cts. 



Florists' Best Double White. Pkt. 10c. | Mixed Double. All kinds and colors. 



BARTONIA aurea. Handsome, downy foliage ; fragrant, large, golden yel- 

 low flowers, which open in the evening. Height 3 feet. 



BRACHYCOME (Swan River Daisy). Flowers light and graceful, and 

 borne profusely; colors blue or white, with daz-k center. About a foot high. 



BROWALtlA elata (Amethyst). Neat, compact little plant about a foot tall, 

 and blooms freely from June until frost. Flowers white or blue, with an eye. Mixed. 



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

 scarlet, and borne in graceful clusters. 



CAI<ANDRINIA, Large-flowering. A creeping plant, with large, rose- 

 colored flowers, which make it one blaze of color whenever the sun shines. 



CALENDULAS, or POT MARIGOLDS. 



Produces a bright and constant mass of color; grows well anywhere, and flowers 

 until frost. 



Pure Cold. Semi-dwarf plant; 

 handsome, double, pure golden 

 yellow flowers. The best Mari- 

 gold in cultivation ; flowers large 

 and brilliant. 



Prince of Orange. Rich flowers 

 of deep orange, striped with a 

 lighter color ; large and double. 



CALLIOPSIS. 



(BRIGHT EYES.) 



Gay and beautiful ; of graceful 

 habit, easy culture, and flowering 

 profusely throughout the season. 

 Tinctoria. Flowers double, of a 



rich golden yellow color, with 



wine-maroon spots. 

 Drummondii (Golden Wave). 



Pure, bright yellow flowers, with 



an eye of rich, velvety brown. 



Compact and bushy, and blooms 



freely. 



CAXCHKLY (Silene). 

 Free-blooming; appears in early 

 summer and lasts continuously 

 until fall. Mixed. 



planting, and started early 

 cts., oz. 30 cts. 



Catnellia-flowsr*d Balsams. 



CANDYTUFT (IBERIS). 



An old and universal favorite, largely cultivated, 

 and continually in bloom ; as valuable for cut-flowers 

 as for edging and masses, and always desirable. 

 Amara. Clusters of pure white. 



Empress. Large, handsome trusses of pure white 



flowers; plant strong, of candelabrum-like habit. 

 Light Purple, Carmine and Crimson. Separate or 

 mixed. 



Tom Thumb. Very dwarf, forming a low, dense 

 mass of green and white. 



THE CROZY C ANNAS , 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. The seed 

 should be soaked in hot water 8 or 10 hours before 

 in hotbeds or in the house. Finest mixed. Pkt. 10 



CARNATIONS. 



Marguerite. Blooms four months from seed. Plants 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 variega- 

 tions through beautiful shades of red, pink and white. Fine for cutting; stems 

 are good, and the flowers are produced in great profusion. Pkt. 10 cts. 



Giant Marguerite. A great improvement on the preceding. The flowers often 

 measure 3 inches across, and many of them are very double, fringed and very 

 fragrant. They will produce their flowers under the same conditions as the pre- 

 ceding. Pkt. 15 cts. 



CENTAUREA. 



Favorite old-fashioned flowers. The quaintly pretty flowers have good stems 



and are brightly colored. 



Marguerite. Very large, pure white 

 and sweet-scented flowers. Profuse 

 bloomer; plant about 1% feet high. 

 See front cover. Pkt. 10 cts. 



Chameleon. A companion to the pre- 

 ceding, producing large, pale sulphur- 

 yellow flowers ; attractive. Pkt. 10c. 



Cyanus (Cornflower). Flowers white 

 or blue; plants tall, free-blooming. 



Victoria. Diminutive, forming little 

 bushes, producing clusters of bright 

 blue flowers in griat abundance. 

 Pretty for edging. Pkt. 10 cts. 



Emperor William. Dark blue; fine. 



Marguerite Carnation. 



For other varieties 



Foliage Plants. 



