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|F^^ jg • Petunias are unsurpassed for massing in beds. Their rich- 



■ ■^I^T I ■ Wr\ I J?^ °®^^ ^^ color, duration of bloom, and easy culture will 



11' \m"?^ m'^^ \I^ \y \Jk. Ill ^Jl always render them popular. They do well sown in open 



I v> \m./i^ n border in spring, or earlier in cold frame or hot bed, and 



A^ \ '(jj^h'^ ■- transplanted eighteen inches apart. Tender perennial, but bloom profusely the first 



V^Jl^'''' \MUf t \-T- r>j^ season. One and a half feet high. The fully double Petunias do not produce seed, so that 



\V ' '^v/ / I ■^/l / ''\ ^^ procm-e double flowering plants we must use seed of single flowers, which have been 



■'~ "" \mJ ,/ ' / / ' / ''^FVlhi,^ carefully fertilized by pollen from double ones. The seed we offer is the result of 



Sm V ^ ' ' / ' imF^P/^ careful hybridization, and can be depended upon to give as large a proportion of 



' " * /^ I f^^^^ double flowers as any. 



'^ 'li^^^^S Single Dwarf Compact, (Jnimitable Dwarf) ^ bushy 

 fjlj / i' i^^^^^^M plants of six to eight inches in height, covered with 

 'I 'I '"^ y^^^^S^^ beautifully striped and blotched flowers. Pkt. 15cts 

 Countess of Ellesmere, deep rose, 



white throat Pkt. lOcts 



Finest Striped and Blotched, 



Pkt. lOcts 

 Nyctaginiflora, pure white, 

 ■^•?^T^^^^^:r5:*-.^ Pkt. octs 



'^/ fliSS^^^^^^' Fine Hixed Pkt. 5cts 



'f/ffli^^^-^^^^ Double nixed Pkt. 2 Octs ^nsff^ 



ifei-fltf'W^^^^^ LARGE FLOWERING PETUNIAS. ^.^^ 

 ' S Jfl'lK I \\\\^^ ^> \ll/^ Large Flowered Mixed, Pkt.lOc , 

 iMMh i\W I \ \n \ \ . if Choicest Large Flowered Hixed, ^_,„,^^, , ^ 



\A4ir ^^^' IScts-^^ 



Wsx^w prjnged and Stained Mixed, large 

 flowered, very desirable. Pkt. 20cts 

 Superbissima, flixed. The flowers are of im- 

 mense size, superbly colored, and the open 

 PETUNIA, Superbissima. throats are beautifully veined. We have 

 carefully compared other strains sold as 

 Giants of California, etc., and have found none superior, and most of them not 



equal to our strain of this magnificent variety Pkt. 25cts 



Brilliant Rose, exceedingly beautiful large flowers of the brightest rose color. 



A distinct color in Petunias Pkt. 35cts 



Grandiflora Robusta, fl.pl., dwarf, .of robust growth, forming a compact, upright, 

 branched bush, about ten inches in height and fourteen inches in width, with large 



double flowers in all shades of colors existing in Petunias Pkt. 35cts 



Double Fringed Brilliant Rose,bears large exceed- — >. - t^^-WB^Lyi 

 ingly double flowers of the most brilliant rose r^s^^drd 



color. Very desirable Pkt. 5 Octs 



^^^ Extra Double Fringed, many colors, beau- 



/ "^^^^ tifully fringed, a good percentage double. PETUNIA, Fringed and Stained. 



^'k ivJ^i^BllI // V^^^ ^^m. ^^^ Pkt. 5 Octs 



""'""PHYSAI IS FRANCHETI ™i,SSSj^ 



1. 11 Jl 4^11.1wlA^ list of cultivated plants. It forms a 



branching plant about two feet high 



N^ y-^^^^ ^_ ^d»«» ^"^^ when well grown produces from the axil of every leaf one or 



more bladder hke seed pods, which at maturity are an intense or- 



\ \{ "/; ^•'^''J/M/iMi ^°^® *'^^ color, containing bright red cherry Hke fruit which is su- 



X \ ^ \ iWium perior to the ground cherry or husk tomato for making preserves. 



When covered with the ripe pods it is one of the most strikingly 

 beautiful decorative plants. It grows 

 readily to a fruiting size the first year 

 from seed Pkt. lOcts 



PHLOX, Drummondi. ~™"' ^ 



PHLOX 



DRUMMONDI 



Very hardy annuals, thriving 

 in almost any situation, and 

 unequaled in the magnificent display of their many 

 and brilliant colored flowers. Seed sowu in open 

 ground in fall or early spring will begin flowering about July first and re- 

 main literally covered with bloom until after severe frosts late in au- 

 tumn. For masses of separate colors or for cutting for bouquets, 

 they are unsurpassed. One foot high. 

 Fine Mixed Pkt. Sets 



LARGE FLOWERING PHLOX. 



Alba, pure white. Pkt. 



Black Warrior, very dark purple " 



Scarlet, black center " 



Rosea, deep rose " 



Carmine Red " 



Kermesina Alba Oculata, rosy crimson, white eye ... " 

 Splendens, crimson, pure white eye; one of the finest 



of this strain " 



Isabellina, creamy yellow. Very desirable " 



Rosy Chamois, beautiful shade of rose " 



Stellata Splendens, rich crimson, with star-shaped 



white eye " 



Extra Choicest flixed, composed of the best of the 



large flowered varieties " 



PHI flY PPDPNNIAI The varieties of the perennial 

 rilUvr/V riwIVi-rlli^lrVL/ phlox are among the choicest 

 of our flowers for bedding and border plants. They are hardy 

 and need no protection; will flourish in any soil, succeeding 

 better, however, in deep, rich, rather moist ground. Mixed 

 seeds saved from splendid sorts Pkt. lOcts 





PHYSALIS FRANCHETI. 



