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PETUNIAS. 



Favorite, half- 

 I hardy, succeed- 

 ing well in any 

 rich soil. For 

 the brilliancy' 

 and variety of 

 the colors, and 

 the long duration 

 of their blooming 

 period, tliey are 

 indispensable in 

 any garden. Sow 

 seed early in 

 spring, scatter 

 thinly on an even surface, and barely cover 

 the seed with sand. If intended for the open 

 ground, prick out into a frame to be kept till 

 planting-out time. If for pots, pot singly into 

 small pots in strong rich soil mixed with sand, 

 and shift as the plants grow larger. 



FINE MIXED — Good mixture of small free- 

 blooming colors. Packet; 5c. 



166. SINGLE-PBINGED MIXES PETUNIA 

 — barge flowers, four to five inches across, of 

 every hue, each llower being beautifully 

 fringed. Packet, 25c. 



167. DOUBLE PETUNIA — About 30 per 

 cent, will produce double flowers. Packet, 25c. 



168. PETUNIA — Double-Pring'ed Mixed — 

 The flowers of this sort being double, together 

 with being fringed, are very beautiful. 

 ^^SiCkd 25c* 



175. ' PHZiOX DBUMMONDII (A)— A most 

 brilliant and beautiful hardy annual, about 1 

 foot high, well adapted for bedding, making a 

 dazzling show through the whole season. It 

 succeeds well on almost anv soil. Packet, 5c. 



176. PHXiOX DBUMMONDII — (Nana Com- 

 pacta) (A) — Very fine mixed. This new strain 

 is of dwarf, compact habit, and makes desir- 

 able pot plants; 



also excellent 

 for ribbon lines 

 and m a s s i n 

 Packet, 10c. 



RICTNUS ^Castor Bean). 



RELIABLE 



FLOWER SEEDS 



Ten 5g. Papers Mailed for 25c., or Four 10c. Papers for 25g. 



FINKS— (DIANTHUS). 



Seed may be sown in the open ground in spring after danger of frost is 

 past in the place where the plants are wanted to bloom. Use well-pulverized 

 soil, preferably .sandy loam. Make the rows one foot to 15 inches apart, ani 

 cover the seed with one-fourtli inch of fine soil, firmly pressed down. When 

 Z inches liigh, thin 6 to 8 inches apart. 



180. PINK CARNATION, or PICOTEE. (Choicest Double Mixed Dianthus 

 Caryophylus) — Carnation and l^icotee Pinlvs are generally favorites for their 

 delicious fragrance, richness of colors and profuse bloom. Perennial. Fkt., 10c. 



181. PINK CARNATION (Riviera Market, or Gillaud) — A magnificent va- 

 riety of colors and shades, wliicli will thrive eitlier in open ground or pots. 

 ^PfliCkct 25c« 



182. ' FINK CARNATION— MARGUERITE— These lovely, fragrant Carna- 

 tions produce fine double llowers. From seed sown in the garden early ii» 

 the spring, the ijlants begin to blciom in about four months. All colors mixed. 

 The finest strain. Per Packet, 10c. 



185. FINK — (CHINA OR INDIAN PINK) — Blooms in clusters, flowers 

 very double and bloom in a large range of l)right colors. Packet, 5c. 



188. PINK — HEDDEWEGI (P) — Beautiful double flowers in a great vari- 

 ety of colors, with fringed white edges. Packet, 5c. 



200. FOPFY-CARNATION (Fa- 

 paver) (A) — \ showy and easily 

 cultivated hardy annual, with 

 large brilliant colored flowers, 

 growing freely in any garden 

 soil. Packet, 5c. 



201. POPPY- PEONY FLOW- 

 ERED (A) — -V magnificent spe- 

 cies, large, showyi double globule 

 flowers, resembling Peonies in . 

 shape. Packet, 5c. 



202. SHIRZiEY POPPY (A)— I 

 These beautiful Popjjies are gen-^ 

 erally single or semi-double. The 

 colors, extending from one e.x- 

 treme to the other, are so varied 

 that scarcely two are alike, while 

 many are striped and blotched. 

 The blooms, if cut when young, 

 will stand for two or three days. 

 Packet, 5c. 



203. TULIP POPPY (A)— A 



magnificent species. The plants 

 attain a height of 14 to 16 inches, 

 and produce from about 50 to 60 

 flowers of the brightest scarlet. 

 Packet, 5c. 



204. ICELAND POPPIES, MIXED (A)— Although hardy perennials, 

 these Poppies bloom the first season from spi ing-sown seed. The 

 fragrant, elegant, crushed satin-like flowers are produced in never- 

 ceasing succession from the beginning of June to October. Packet, 5c. 



205. POPPY — IRRESISTIBLE (A) — A rare and beautiful Poppy, 

 with immense flowers. Color, an exquisite rose. Packet, 5'c. 



195. PORTULACA (Mexican Rose) (A) — One of the finest hardy an- 

 nual plants, of easy culture, thriving best in rather rich, light loam or 

 sandy soil; the single-flowering varieties are large and brilliant, of the 

 richest shades of color, and produced throughout the summer in great 

 profusion; fine for massing in beds or edgings of rock work. Pkt., 5c. 



196. DOUBLE PORTULACA (A)— Packet, 10c. 



210. ENGLISH PRIMROSE (Primula Vulgaris) (P) — No collection 



of spring flowers is complete without a few of these charming little 

 plants. A little covering in the late fall will protect them from thc» 

 severe weather of winter, and the great number of flowers produot^tJ 

 will more than repay yoti the extra trouble. They are not as generally 

 grown as they should be. Packet, 10c. 



211. CHINESE PRIMROSE (Primula Fringred) (A) — This variety is 

 much prettier than the English, being fringed and of the most beautiful 

 colors. They differ from each other like the double and single Petunias. 

 Packet, 25c. 



BICINUS (Castor Sean). 



Stately, strong-growing plants, with very ornamental foliage, well 

 adapted as center plants of groujjs of Cannas. Dahlias, etc. Moles are 

 troublesome in many gardens, but they may be kept away by planting 

 Castor Beans in the borders. 



212. RICINUS, CAMBOGIENSIS (A)— T^.-irge leaves, dark bronzy- 

 maroon; stalk and stems nearly black; 5 feet. Packet, 5c. 



SI214. RICINUS ZANZIBARIENSIS, MIXED (A)— Their immense 

 leaves and gigantic plants exceed all other varieties. Packet, 5c. 



213. SCABIOSA — GRANDIFLORA (P) — An old-fashioned but most 

 attractive flower. Its great abundance and long succession of richly 

 colored, fragrant blossoms on long stems make it one of the most 

 useful decorative plants of the garden. Seed may be sown in place as 

 soon as ground can be worked; or, for earlier blooming, sow in hotbed 

 early in spring and transplant one and one-half feet apart. Hardy an- 

 nual; 12 to IS inches high. Packet, 10c.' 



TULIP POPPY. 



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