SELECT FLOWER SEEDS 



A Revised List of the Best and most Popular Sorts, including Seeds 

 of Annuals, Biennials, Perennials, and Stove and Greenhouse Plants 



"-:g=3gf N THE following pages we offer a careful and choice selection of fresh and pure Flower 

 Seeds, including the best old and new varieties. No need of the flower garden has been 

 neglected, for seeds of plants adaptable for every ornamental purpose, covering a wide 

 range of form and color, height and habit, and the whole season with their bloom, may- 

 be found here. 



OUR FLOWER-SEED PACKETS are large and beautifully lithographed in colors, with 

 directions for culture printed on one side ; they are well filled with tested seeds of strong germinating 

 power. 



THE HEADINGS OF THE VARIOUS DIVISIONS which follow — Choice Annuals for Bloom the First 

 Season, Perennials for Permanent Planting, Seeds ol Plants with Fine Foliage, Ornamental Climbers, Seeds 

 oi Greenhouse Plants — make so clear the nature of each class of seeds offered that the usual puzzling 

 and arbitrary signs and abbreviations are unnecessary. The copious index on the last page of the 

 Catalogue will be found helpful to all who, without understanding plant habits and classifications, 

 •wish to turn quickly to any species. 



Choice Annuals, Blooming First Season 



ABRONIA 



Pretty trailers, producing profusely clusters of 

 sweet-scented flowers in verbena-like clusters all season. 



Arenaria. Pine yellow. Pkt. 5 cts. 



Umbellata grandiflora. Pure rose. Pkt. 5 cts. 



ARCTOTIS grandis. A very bushy, free-flow- 

 ering plant, with whitish foliage and ray-formed, pure 

 white flowers tinged with a yellow zone at the base; 

 hlooms all summer. Pkt. 10 cts. 



ADONIS. Blossoms large and brilliant scarlet,' 

 lasting a long while; foliage beautifully feathered. 

 1 foot. Pkt. 5 cts. 



AGROSTE9IIVA (Rose of Heaven), Dwarf 

 Fringed. Charming free-flowering plant, finely fringed 

 bright rose flowers. Pkt. 5 cts. 



AGERATUM 



Of neat, vigorous growth and free-blooming habit. 

 They bloom the whole summer if sown early, and are 

 easily grown. 



Lasseauxi. Fine clusters of bright rose, borne long 

 and abundantly. Pkt. 5 cts. 



Imperial Dwarf Blue. Flowers bright blue; plant 

 dwarf, free-blooming and handsome. Pkt. 5 cts. 



Imperial Dwarf White. Large 

 clusters of flowers; habit like above. 

 Pkt. 5 cts. 



Blue Perfection. Flowers very 

 large and deep amethyst-blue; one of 

 the best. Pkt. 10 cts. 



Princess Pauline. Dwarf and 

 compact; flowers light blue with white 

 center; very floriferous. Pkt. 10 cts. 



ALYSSUM 



A great favorite for bouquets and 

 house culture, as well as for outdoor 

 baskets and border edging. 



Benthami ( Sweet Alyssum) . Trail- 

 ing; flowers white, very sweet. Pkt. 

 5 cts., oz. 25 cts. 



Little Gem. Dwarf, spreading, cov- 

 ered thickly with very fragrant white 

 flowers that appear when the plants 

 are quite small. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 35 cts. 



White Carpet. Blooms profusely 

 the whole season; plants only 2 to 3 

 inches high ; flowers snow-white. Pkt. 

 5 cts., oz. 40 cts. 



AMARANTUS 



Tall, with showy, variegated leaves and long raoemes 

 of flowers. 



Caudatus ( Love - Lies - Bleeding). Blood-red. 3 

 feet tall. Pkt. 5 cts. 



Cruentus. The well-known Prince's Feather. 3 

 feet. Pkt. 5 cts. 



Henderi. Of beautiful habit; brown, dark red and 

 bronze. Pkt. 5 cts. 



Nobilis pyramidalis. Very ornamental. 3 ft. Pkt. 5c. 



Tricolor giganteum (Joseph's Coat). Foliage 

 scarlet, yellow and green. 4 feet. Pkt. 5 cts. 



Brilliant. Foliage bright red at the ends, carmine, 

 rose, red and yellow, producing a fine effect. Pkt. 10c. 



Sulphurine. Lower leaves dark green; toward the 

 middle they are sulphur-yellow with green points, heads 

 and side shoots pure yellow. Pkt. 10 cts. 



AIVAGAiLXIS, Large-Flowering (Pimpernel). 

 Low-growing; forms a mat of bright red, 

 " ite, pink or purple flowers. Pkt. 5 cts. 



ARNEBIA cornuta (Arabian Prim- 

 rose). Produces innumerable golden yellow 

 flowers with dark brown 

 spots; plant 2 feet high and 

 bushv. Pkt, 10 cts. 



AMARANTUS. 



ARCTOTIS GRANDIS. 



AGERATUM. PRINCESS PAULINE. 



