6 JOHN SAUL'S CATALOGUE OF FLOWER SEEDS. 



Per pkt. 



CYCLAMEN Persicum. Very fine strain, mixed $0 25 



Album. White 25 



Atrorubens. Dark red 25 



Gig'anteum. Much larger than Persicum, fine mixed 50 



White and purple. Separate colors 50 



This is a beautiful new strain of very large flowers and rich and varied 

 colors. 



CALCEOLARIA. Of these very lovely plants we offer the richest strains. 



Hybrida. From the most beautiful varieties 50 



" A very fine strain • 25 



Shrubby. Fine mixed 25 



CINERARIA hybrida plenissima. New double, saved from the finest 



double flower 50 



Saved from the finest strain in cultivation 25 



Hybrida. Large flowers, pure white 50 



" Brilliant blue 50 



" Red, lustrous 50 



M Dwarf, large-flowered 50 



DAHLIAS, Single. Having imported and flowered the past season all the 

 finest single Dahlias in cultivation, seed has been saved from the same 

 with great care. The colors consist of shades of mauve, pink, cerise, or- 

 ange, crimson, yellow, purple, and striped varieties 25 



Paragon Strain. Saved from my fine varieties of "Paragon." Many 

 extremely chaste and most beautiful varieties 25 



DAHLIAS, Double. Our collection of this magnificent flower is unsur- 

 passed in this couutry or Europe. Saved with care. Mixed 10 



Pompone. Mixed. Saved with great care from our prize collection 10 



Dwarf Bedding. From our fine collection 10 



DIANTHUS, New Japanese. Eastern Queen and Crimson Belle. These 

 are beautiful forms of D. Heddewigii. Eastern Queen is beautifully mar- 

 bled ; the broad bands of rich mauve upon the paler surface of the pet- 

 als are very striking and pretty. Crimson Belle, as its name implies, is of 

 a rich vivid crimson lake color; flowers of extraordinary size and sub- 

 stance, evenly and finely laciniated 15 



DRACOCEPHALUM RITYSCHIANA, Var. Japonicuin. This is a 

 hardy herbaceous perennial, 18 to 24 inches in height, branching from the 

 base. The violet-blue flowers, 1£ inch in length, are in terminal verticil- 

 lasters, intermixed with numerous obovate acuminate leafy bracts. It is 

 a very pretty and effective herbaceous plant. We strongly recommend it 

 to all lovers of hardy plants 20 



SILVER TREE (Leucadendron Argenteum.) This beautiful small 

 tree has silvery-white foliage, very distinct and striking. It will undoubt- 

 edly prove hardy in Florida, California, and other parts of this country. 

 Peroz 1 50 



"VERBASCUM PH(ENICEUM, hybrid mixed. This mixture contain*, 

 besides the purple-red color of the type, six new colors, viz.: pure white, 

 flesh color, flax gray, bright rose, copper rose, purple. The flower stalks 

 are straight and slender, 2 J feet in height, and flower abundantly from 

 May to August 50 



EXACUM affine. " New biennial species from Sokotora, forming small, 

 compact bushes about 6 inches high, and having dark green ovate three- 

 nerved leaves and terminal clusters of violet purple, beautiful Cyclamen- 

 scented flowers. When sown in the autumn, it will produce its flowers 

 very freely and incessantly from February until November; when sown 

 in spring it will flower during the summer and will continue in full bloom 

 through the winter, being in consequence a desirable addition to the win- 

 ter-flowering decorative plants. A charming novelty." It succeeded well 

 with us the past summer in the open border, as well as being a good pot 



plant * 50 



ERYSIMUM Pulchellum. A dwarf spreading plant, very hardy, covered 

 with an abundance of yellow flowers in the eaily spring and during sum- 

 mer 10 



ESCHSCHOLTZIA Crocea flora pleno. A beautiful bright orange scar- 

 let, shading oft* to salmon red color. The flowers are very double and of 

 great substance, the appearance of the plant in growth being particularly 



