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Snapdragon 



(Antirrhnum) (Large Floivering) This border and bedding plant of long blooming season 

 is now one of the best perennials suitable for flowering as an annual. The long showy- 

 spikes of curiously shaped tubular flowers with spreading lobes and finely marked 



_ throats are fragrant as well as brilliantly colored. They are very desirable for cutting as 



the spikes of bloom are borne well above the dark glossy leaves and keep fresh for a long time. 



For blooms the first season outdoors, sow seed very early under glass and transplant to open border as soon as the 

 ground is warm and dry, in rich loamy soil in a sunny situation, setting one foot apart each way and giving them plenty of water; 

 Of sow seed in August or September and cover plants with a mulch on approach of cold weather. These fall-sown plants may 

 be transplanted into pots and flowered in the house, and in this case give them the same temperature and treatment as gerani- 

 ums and carnations. Tender perennial, often treated as annual or biennial; one and one-half to two feet high. 



Majus album. Piu'e white, light yellow throat Pkt. 10c. 



Majus brilliant. Crimson and yellow, throat white " 10c. 



Majus Delila. Reddish-violet, white throat " lOc. 



Fine Mixed. An extra fine mixture including all the best colors. Oz. 50c. }4 lb. $1.50 " 10c. 



(Mathiola) Sometimes called Gilliflower. Considered almost indispensable where a fine display of flowers 

 is wanted and particularly valued for edgings, bedding and pot culture. The improved varieties we offer 

 of this favorite garden plant produce dense spikes of very fragrant and beautifiil rosette-like double 

 flowers in a wide range of attractive colors. They are suitable for cutting, being produced on stems of 

 good length in pleasing contrast with the dark green foliage of the bushy plants. Each of the four types 

 is of long flowering period and if the earlier ones are started indoors, a profusion of fragrant and pleasing flowers is afforded 

 for the entire season. 



Sow outdoors early in spring, using well fertilized, carefully pulverized soil and cover seed with one-fourth inch of fine soil 

 firmly pressed down. Make the rows fifteen inches apart; thin to six inches apart. For earlier blooming start indoors and trans- 

 plant. Height of plants, one to one and one-half feet. 



Early Flowering Brompton 



A decidedly superior, large-flowering annual strain with the splendid foliage and bloom of the older type but flowering with 

 the Ten Weeks and decidedly superior in length of stem and size of flower spike. This group is also called Beauty Stocks, 

 Giants of Nice, ''Cut and Come Again" and Victoria Stocks. 



Belle of Naples. Old rose or light purplish rose Pkt. 15c. 



Camaldoli. Dark violet or light purplish red " 1 5c. 



Snow White ( Victoria) " 10c. 



Vesuvius. Blood-red or deep purplish red " 1 5c. 



Early Flowering Brompton Mixed. Includes shades of white, old rose, blood-red, purple and violet. Oz. $3.00 " 10c. 



Double Ten Weeks (Large Flowering) 



This favorite half-hardy summer blooming annual has deliciously fragrant flowers and is very desirable for cutting. 



Double Ten Weeks, Mixed {Levkojeii) Shades of white, red, purple, lavender and maroon. Oz. $1.00 Pkt. 10c. 



Stock 



Double Ten Weeks, Pure 



for floral work & bouquets. 



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White. 



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Sunflower 



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Sunflower, Stel 



Intermediate or Autumnal Stocks 



Sown at the same time as the Ten Weeks the Inter- 

 mediate sorts will succeed them in bloom, thus affording 

 flowers continuously until late in the fall. The flowers 

 are larger and are produced on longer, bolder spikes. 

 For indoor blooming, if sown in pots late in summer the 

 plants will bloom the following spring. 



Intermediate White Pkt. 15c. 



Scarlet " 15c. 



Winter or Biennial Brompton Stocks 



These require a longer time than the Intermediate to 



grow and cannot endure our winters unless protected. 



Brompton Mixed. This mixture of Winter or Biennial 



Brompton Stocks forms bushy plants flowering in the 



fall outdoors if started in hotbed early in spring and 



transplanted, or blooming well in winter from seed 



sown outdoors in summer if plants are taken up in 



the fall and given cool airy quarters indoors; half 



hardy biennial. Oz. $4.00 Pkt. 10c. 



STRAW FLOWER — {See Helichrysum and Rhodanthe) 



fHelianthusJ These 

 stately, old-fashioned 

 flowers with the newer 

 improved varieties are 

 coming into special favor as a background for lawns and 

 in front of high fences. Valuable also as a screen to 

 hide unsightly places and sometimes used to mitigate the 

 evil of adjacent swamp holes. Their very tall dense 

 growth and bright yellow disc-like flowers of very large 

 size and long blooming period make them one of the most 

 deserving and useful of hardy annuals. 



Sunflowers grow readily in almost any soil but do 

 best on light, rich limestone or alluvial land well sup- 

 plied with moisture and not shaded by trees or build- 

 ings. Sow the seed outdoors in spring after danger of 

 frost is over, preferably in well pulverized soil either 

 broadcast or in rows two to three feet apart and cover 

 about one-half inch deep. When the young plants are 

 about four inches high, thin one-half to two feet apart 

 to secure the best development. 



Double Chrysanthemum Flowered. The most attrac- 

 tive of the very double sunflowers. Plant tall, growing 

 seven feet high and blooming profusely all summer. 

 Flowers very large, often eight to ten inches across, 

 very double, Avith long fringed petals and resemble 

 chrysanthemums. The color is a splendid, rich, golden- 

 yellow, free from any black center. Oz. 30c.. . Pkt. 10c. 

 Globosus Fistulosus (Globe, or Dahlia Sunflower) This 

 desirable variety produces very large, exceedingly 

 double flowers, often six to eight inches in diameter 

 and of bright yellow color. The plants are usually 



about five feet liigh. Oz. 20c Pkt. 10c. 



Stella. The plant of this fine Miniature (cucumerifolins) 

 variety is spreading with many branches and attains 

 a height of about three feet. The flowers are about 

 three inches yi diameter and are of an unusually pure 

 golden yellow with black discs or centers, and are 

 borne on long stems well above the foliage. Early 

 blooming and produced in abundance throughout a 



long season. Oz. 30c Pkt. 10c. 



SWEET ROCKET— (-See Eocket) 



