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as. Large Flowering. 



EUPHORBIA. 



Euphorbia Heterophylla, Annual Poinsetta. (Mexican 

 Fire Plant or Fire on tlie Mountain.) Forming bushy plants 

 with glossy green leaves, which form at the ends of the 

 branches into large M'horls and bracts, which in summer and 

 autumn become blazed with a darlser fiery-scarlet so that only 

 a tip of green is left. The effect is grand. If they can be 

 started early in the house or hot bed the brilliant scarlet 

 color will appear much earlier. Pruned when young they 

 branch out into finely formed bushes. 10. 



E. "Snow on the Mountain." A large, robust growing 

 hardy annual, with very ornamental green foliage, striped 

 with white. 5. 



GAILLARDIA. 



A very useful plant for both bedding and cutting; noted for 

 the profusion and brilliancy of their flowers. 



Lorenziana. Flowers of different shades, varying from 

 sulphur yellow to purple; saved from finest double flowers. 10. 



Large Flowering Varieties. Mixed. 10. 



QERANIUn. 



Produce their brilliant flowers in numerous shades of colors; 

 blooms continually, and is one of the most popular plants 

 grown. 



Zonale Varieties. Choice mixed. 15. 



GILIA. 



A pretty dwarf plant; free flowering and early; fine for 

 massing and rock-work. In various colors. Mixed, 5. 



QODETIA. 



An attractive hardy annual, deserv- 

 ing more extensive cultivation; pro- 

 fuse fiowering plants, growing in any 

 garden soil: all colors. 



Duchess of Albany. Very lar^e 

 glossv. satiny white flowers; beauti- 

 ful. 5. 



The Bride. White with rich car- 

 mine center. 5. 

 Choice Mixed. 5. 



HELIANTHUS. (Sunflower.) 



Stately in growth and size; very 

 useful among shrubbery and for 

 screening unsightl}- objects. 



Nanus. D svarf double orange flowers ; 4 feet. 



Nanus Folies Variagatis. Green and yellow variegated 

 foliage; very ornamental. 5c. 



Giant Russian. Grown principally for the seeds; flowers 

 15 to 20 inches across. Ounce 5c, pound 25c. Postpaid. 



HIBISCUS. 



Showy, ornamental plants; for mixed beds or shrubbery, 

 borders, or are fine grown in pots as single specimen plants. 



Africanus. Large cream colored flowers, with a brown 

 center. 1)4 feet. 5. 



ICE PLANT. 



Trailing annual for vases, rockeries and beds. The leaves 

 and stems are covered with little ice-like drops, which glisten 

 in the sun. 5. 



Goaeiia. 



KAULFUSSIA. 



Plant of dwarf habit ; flowers resemble those of the single 

 aster. 



Blue, White, Crimson, Rose and Violet. All mixed. 5. 

 LARKSPUR. 



Popular flowers for garden and border decoration in sum- 

 mer, bearing long spikes of flowers of many charming colors. 



Emperor. A profuse bloomer; very double. Mixed. 5. 



Carmine Stock Flowered. Tall branching variety, with 

 beautiful long spikes of flowers. 5. 



Dwarf and Tall, Double. Mixed. Each. 5. 



LEPTOSIPHON. 



Beautiful annuals both in flower and foliage; splendid for 

 beds or ribbon borders; easily cultivated in ordinary garden 

 soil. 6 inches. Very fine. Colors mixed. 5. 



LINUM. ( Flowering Flax.) 



E.Kceediuglv free flowering, niukins: showv masses of colors 

 in bt-ds. 



Grandiflorum. Bi-ijiht scarlet. 5. 



