WM, C. BECKERT, 



ALLEGHENY; PA. 



Annuals for Bloom the First Season. 



SUPERB BALSAMS 



(Ladies' 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 make the flowers more 

 double. Some are as double and perfect as camellias; they range 

 through all dark, rich, brilliant and delicate colors. 

 Double Rose-flowered. Flowers very large, double, and of 



perfect form. Fine mixed. 5 cts. per pkt. 

 Improved Camellia-flowered. Regular and perfect ; large 



and full to the center. Separate colors and choice mixed. Each, 



10 cts. per pkt. 



Double Miniature. Small, dainty, very perfect double flowers. 



Choice mixed. 10 cts. per pkt. 

 Florists' Best Double White. 10 cts. per pkt. 

 Mixed Donble. All kinds and colors. 5 cts. per pkt. 



U^'Our Flower Seed packets are generously filled. 



Balsams. 

 CACALIA COCCINEA. 



(Tassel Flower.) Loves a rich, sunny spot, where they bloom 

 until late autumn. The tassel-shaped flowers are bright scarlet 

 and borne in graceful clusters. 5«s. per pkt. 



CALANDRINIA GRAN Dl FLORA. 



A creeping plant, with large, rose-colored flowers, which make it 

 one blaze of color whenever the sun shines. Adapted to light, sandy 

 soils and hot, dry situations— borders, edgings, mounds, baskets 

 etc. 10 cts. per pkt. 



CALENDULA. 



(Pot Marigold.) Produces a bright and constant mass of color • 

 grows well anywhere, and flowers until frost. 



C. officinalis grandiflora fl. pi. Semi-dwarf plant; handsome 

 double pure golden yellow flowers. The best Marigold in culti- 

 vation ; flowers very large and brilliant. 5 cts. per pkt. 



Prince of Orange. Rich flowers of deep orange, striped with a 

 lighter color ; large and very double. 5 cts. per pkt. 



THE CROZY CANNAS. 



(New Dwarf Large-flowering French.) 



For rich effects in bedding, the Dwarf French Cannas have now 

 few rivals in popular estimation. As pot-plants or winter-flowering, 

 they are also favorites. The seed should be soaked in hot water 

 eight or ten hours before planting, and started early in hotbeds or 

 in the house. 



Fine Mixture of choice seed, from dwarf, early-flowering plants, 

 l 10 cts. per pkt. 

 t^For Canna Tubers, see list of Bulbs for Spring Planting. 



CALLIOPSIS, or COREOPSIS. 



(Bright Eyes.) Gay and beautiful; of graceful habit, easy cul- 

 ture, and flowering profusely throughout the season. As popular 

 for cutting as for garden culture. 



O. tinctoria. Flowers double, of a rich golden yellow color, with 



wine-maroon spots. 5 cts. per pkt. 

 C. Drummondii. (Golden Wave.) Pure bright yellow flowers, 



with an eye of rich velvety brown. Compact and bushy, and 



blooms freely. 5 cts. per pkt. 



CLARKIA ELEGANS. 



Early and profuse-flowering. Plants average 1% feet in height; 

 oddly formed double flowers are bright rose, purple or white. 

 Single and Double. Each. 5 cts. per pkt. 



CELOSIA, or COCKSCOMB. 



For Beds and Borders, Pot Culture and Winter Bouquets. 



Odd and handsome. The comb-shaped heads often attain enor- 

 mous size, and are always gayly colored. The plants produce finer 

 and brighter colored flowers if given rich soil. The dwarf varieties 

 are much used for pot culture, and are picturesquely odd and 

 striking. 



C. Triumph of the Exposition. Finest plumed Cockscombs, 

 forming symmetrical plants of about 3 feet high, bearing large 

 feathery crimson plumes. 10 cts. per pkt. 



C. plumosa. Bushy ; branches tipped with flower spikes. Mixed, 

 10 cts. per pkt. 



C. Dwarf Yellow. Splendid, brightly colored heads of large size 



and fine form ; plants strong, and but 9 inches tall ; very hand- 

 some, ioc. per pkt. 

 C. Empress. One of 



the handsomest; 



the rich crimson 



heads are enormous, 



yet quite shapely ; 



plant no taller than 



the above. 10 cts. 



per pkt. 

 C. Glasgow Prize. 



(President Thiers, 



Tom Thumb.) Quite 



dwarf and distinct ; 



plants a foot high ; 



combs fine, deep 



crimson. 10 cts. 



per pkt. 

 C. Japonica. Tall, 



pyramidal ; flower- 

 heads of very rich, 



bright scarlet, ioc, 



per pkt. 



Celosia cristata nana, Glasgow Prize. 



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