Annuals for Bloom the First Season. 



TAGETES. 



(Double French and African Marigold.) Showy plants for midsummer and autumn 

 bloom. One to two feet tall, free-flowering and easy to grow. See also Calendula. 

 Tagetes erecta, Eldorado. The finest of the double African Marigolds. The flowers 



average from lo to 14 inches across, are very double, and of bright golden orange and 



primrose shades. 5 cts. per pkt. 

 T. patula fl. pi. (Tall Double French Marigold.) Mixed seed, producing flowers of 



various bright colors, 5 cts. per pkt. 

 T. nana. (Dwarf Double French Marigold.) Plants low and compact. Mixed 



seed, 5 cts. per pkt. 



T. signata pumila. Dwarf plants, which form a true " gilt edge " for beds, sc.perpkt. 



VENIDIUM CALENDULACEUM. 



Compact, bushy little plants, about 6 inches high, \yith long, woolly leaves, and 

 profusion of large, bright yellow flowers shaded with orakge. 5 cts. per pkt. 



TISCARIA. 



Bright and abundant bloomers, very effective when grown in masses. The plants 

 average about a foot in height, and the flowers are all tints and shades of red, from scarlet 

 to pale rose and pure white. 5 cts. per pkt. 



Type of the New Mammotn Veroenas. 



VERBENflS. 



Seedling Verbenas are more robust in growth and produce larger and finer flowers than 

 those grown from cuttings, and the light-colored varieties frequently have fragrant flowers 

 when grown from seed. This is one of our brightest and best bedding plants, and its fine 

 trusses of flowers represent every shade of every color except yellow. Plants from seed 

 sown early in spring keep their beds gay with flowers from midsummer until frost ; they 

 are trailing in habit, and wide-spreading, loving a rich, sandy soil, plenty of room and full 

 sunshine. No finer seed than ours can be procured anywhere. 



Verbena hybrida grandiflora (Mammoth Varieties). This superb strain may 

 be called a new race, so great an improvement is it on the older varieties, both in size 

 and color of flowers and habit of plants. The florets average an inch in diameter, and 

 have clearly defined margins and large white centers. The trusses are large in pro- 

 portion, and> borne in great profusion upon robust, vigorous plants. Seed from finest 

 flowers. White, Scarlet, Pink, and Mixed, each 10 cts. per pkt. 



V. — nana compacta (New Dwarf Varieties). Of very dwarf and spreading habit, 

 requiring no pegging down. Mixed seed, 10 cts. per pkt. 



V. — Choice MLved. Seed saved from finest flowers, 5 cts. per pkt. 



V. — coerulea. Large, sky-blue flowers, with white centers ; very bright and true from 



seed. 10 cts. per pkt. 

 V. — Defiance. Bright scarlet flowers ; brilliant bedder. 10 cts. per pkt. 

 V. — Italian Striped. 10 cts. perpkt. V. —Auricula-Flowered, Mixed, 5 cts. perpkt. 



WHITLAVIA. 



Beautiful bell-shaped flowers of white or blue, borne in clusters above the delicate 

 foliage of the plants ; well adapted to baskets, vases, mixed borders and partially shaded 

 locations. Mixed seed, 5 cts. per pkt. 



Marigold, Eldorado. 



ZINNIA ELEGANS. 



(Youth and Old Age.) The different 

 varieties of Zinnias have been much im- 

 proved in habit of growth and form of 

 flowers within the last few years, and all 

 of them, but especially the dwarf sorts, 

 give gay effects in bedding. The taller 

 sorts are very useful for mixed borders 

 or massing in large clumps. 

 Z. grandiflora plenissima. (The new 

 Giant Zinnia.) Very large and double 

 flowers of handsome form, in all the 

 rich Zinnia colors ; plants strong, erect 

 and branching. 5 cts. per pkt. 

 Z. — parviflora. (The Liliput-FIow- 

 ered Zinnias.) Tiny flowers of double, 

 perfect form ; unique and charming for 

 bouquets. All colors. 5 cts. per pkt. 

 Z. elegans. Double 3Iixed. Many 



kinds and colors. 5 cts. per pkt. 

 Z. — Curled and Crested. Finely 

 varied flowers. 10 cts. per pkt. 



^SS'Try a package of New Mam- 

 moth Verbena, which is far superior 

 to the older varieties. 



Zinnia elegans. 



