Annuals for Bloom the First Season. 



WM. C. BECKERT. 



ALLEGHENY. PA. 



EVERLASTINGS. 



For winter bouquets the Everlastings are indispensable, as the strawy texture 

 of the flowers retains their shape and brilliant color indefinitely. They should be 

 cut before they have opened fully, tied in bunches, and dried slowly in the shade, 

 with the flower heads downward. For a garden decoration, too, they are quite 

 bright and pretty, yielding their flowers the first season, and requiring but little care. 

 ACROCIilNIUM rosenm fl. pi. Graceful, rose-colored flowers; plant afoot 



high. 5 cts. per pkt. 

 A. — album. Flowers pure white. 5 cts. per pkt. 



AMMOBIUM alatum grandiflorum. Clusters of pure white flowers ; plant 



about 2 feet high. 5 cts. per pkt. 

 HELiICHRYSUM nanum. (Eternal Flower.) Beautifully formed flowers, double 

 and gay colored. The plants are dwarf and branching. A fine mixture of all 

 colors. 5 cts. per pkt. 

 H. grandiflorum. Large-flowered, and very double variety of above. 5c. per pkt 

 GOMPHRENA globosa. (Bachelor's Button, Globe Amaranth.) An old favorite, 



with round flower-heads of red or white. Mixed seeds, 5 cts. per pkt. 

 RHODANTHE, Fine Mixed. The most delicately beautiful of all the Everlast- 

 ings ; plants a foot high. 10 cts. per pkt. 

 XERANTHEMUM annuum. Very bright, double, globe-shaped flowers, retaining their form and 

 color longer than other sorts. All colors mixed, 5 cts. per pkt. 



SPECIAL OFFER OF EVERLASTINGS.— I packet eact of 7 varieties, 30 cts. 



ESCHSCHOLXZIA CALIFORNICA. 



(California Poppy.) This, the California state flower, is brilliantly colored and poppy-like, shining 

 with a silken luster in the sunshine. A bed of them is fairly dazzling, with its rich hues of orange, pure 

 yellow, scarlet, creamy white, crimson and carmine. Single and Double mixed, 5 cts. per pkt. 



GAII.I.ARDIA. 



(Blanket Flower.) Showy bedding plants, averaging 

 about a feet in height, and covered with flowers from 

 midsummer until frost. 



Gr. picta Lorenziana. Double flowers, in many 

 bright colors. 5 cts. per pkt. 

 (See Perennials.) 



Gaillardia grandiflora. 



IGILIA. 



Dwarf free-flowering plants, of easv culture, much used for massing in beds, and 

 for rockeries. Mixed seed of all the varieties, producing flowers of all colors. 

 S cts. per pkt. 



' GODETIA. 



Bri<^ht and attractive little plants, which deserve a much larger share of attention 

 than they now receive. Thev are compact and branching in habit, and always gay 

 with a crop of pretty white, rose, or crimson flowers. Mixed seed, 5 cts. per pkt. 



GRASSES, ORNAMENTAL. 



F." Beds of Ornamental Grasses, aside from their beauty and grace as lawn ornaments 

 furnishlmuch beautiful material for winter decoration, for use in vases, bouquets of Ever 



lastings, etc " ' ' ' ' 



Gynerinm argentenm. (Pampas Grass.) 



f the heads are cut as soon 

 as thev have matured. The smaller, deli- 

 cate one, are also pretty for minglmg Godetia. 

 with summer flowers. Beds composed 



eiUirelvofGrasses, with the tall varieties especially beautiful. 



planted in the center and lower ones usea loi cu,,. », 



AGROSTIS uebulosa. Feathery and elegant ; 1 % feet. 5 cts. per pkt. 



AVENA sterilis. (Animated Oats.) Pretty drooping heads ; 5 ^:15. per pkt^ 



BRIZA maxima compacta. The large form of Quaking Grass iV. feet. 5c. per pk . 



B. minima gracilis. Small Quaking Grass ; i foot ; elegant for bouquets 5c. per pk . 



BROMUS brizaeformis. Useful in many decorative ways, when dned ; 2 ft. 5c. per pkt. 



COIX lachryma. (Job's Tears.) Broad blades and drooping seeds 5 cts. per pkt^ 



ERAGROSTIS elegane. The well-known " Love Grass. 5 cts. per pkt. 



GYKERTOM argenteum. (Pampas Grass.) See perennials. 5 cts. per pkt. 



LAGURUS ovatue. (Hare's Tail Grass.) Small white spikes; 2 feet. 

 S cts. per pkt. 



STIPA pennata. (Feather Grass.) See perennials. 5 cts. per pkt. 

 ■ TRICHOL^ANA rosea. Rose-tinted ; 2 feet. 10 cts. per pkt. 



One pkt. each, including perennials, 12 varieties, 50 cts. 



HIBISCUS AFRICANUS. 



Shnwv and effective whether planted in beds or among shrubbery. The 

 ^ lar|e°cream-colored flowers have a rich dark brown center ; the plant grows 

 - about 2 feet tall. 5 cts. per pkt. 



1^ If you want a good lawn, sow our Special Evergreen Lawn Mixture. 



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