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Gypsophila 



Delicate, free-flowering plants covered with star-shaped flowers, valuable for mist-like effects and as 

 trimming in bouquets; also for hanging baskets or edgings. Sometimes called Baby's Breath. Will 



thrive in almost any well prepared ground but does best on a limestone soil. Make handsome specimens dried. 



Elegans Large Flowering Pure White. An improved large flowering strain, superior to the common Elegans not only in size 

 of flowers but also in color. Oz. 25c pkt. 10c 



Elegans Mixed. Very small, delicate white and rose-pink flowers. Hardy annual; one foot high. Oz. 25c " ' iod 



Muralis. Charming, easily grown border plants having very small pink flowers. Hardy annual; six inches high '* io c ". 



HEDYSARUM— (See French Honeysuckle) 



HELIANTHUS— (See Sunflower) 



r-f Olirnweiim (Everlasting) Sometimes 

 llClliaiiydUUl called straw Flower. 

 Large full, double daisy-like flower heads with 

 prominent centers and stiff overlapping scales, 

 produced in various shades of bright yellow and 

 scarlet on stems of good length. Desirable as dried 

 specimens and for use in making winter bouquets. 

 For this purpose the flowers should be gathered 

 when on the point of expanding. 



Sow early in spring; thin to one foot apart 

 each way. Hardy annual; two to two and one-half 

 feet high. 



Monstrosum, fl. pi., mixed. Largest double flowers. 

 Oz. 40c Pkt. 10c. 



Well-known and much 

 admired border and bed- 

 ding plants, highly 

 valued for the blue color and fragrance of their 

 branching clusters of small salver-shaped flowers. 

 Sow the seed early in spring, in mellow soil 

 indoors, and when plants are one to two inches 

 high, prick out into pots. Transplant to place 

 when three to four inches high. Will live outdoors 

 through the winter in a warm climate. Desirable 

 also as a pot-plant for indoor blooming from fall 

 sown seed. Half hardy perennial; one and one 

 half to two feet high. 



Anna Turrell. Violet- blue Pkt. 10c. 



King of the Blacks. Deep purple, almost 



black " 10c. 



Regal. Dwarf plants with immense flower 



heads of many shades. Early flowering. . . " 10c 

 Dark Varieties Mixed. Very choice. 



Oz. $1.25 " 10c. 



HESPERIS MATRONALIS— (See Rocket) 



Heliotrope 









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Gypsophila 



Hibiscus Africanus t 



vigorous branching plant, of easy 

 culture, with pretty foliage and large, 

 light yellow or cream-colored blossoms, dark purple in the center. The flowers 

 are exceedingly showy, saucer-shaped, often two to three inches across; not of 

 very long duration, but continue to bloom from early summer till October. 

 The seed should be planted early, and the plants should be thinned to one foot 



apart each way. Hardy annual; about two feat; high. Oz. 20c Pkt. 10c. 



(Althaea rosea) For a background to a flower 

 garden nothing is better than the improved 

 strains we offer of this tall old fashioned garden 

 perennial. The large, richly colored blossoms, 

 about three inches across, ranging from deep yellow and red to pure white, are 

 set as rosettes around the strong growing flower stalks. 



Sow seed in June or July, in open ground, and in the autumn, when the plants 

 have made five leaves, transplant to permanent position two to three feet apart. 

 The following summer they will bloom. All double varieties are hardy peren- 

 nials; five feet high. 

 Early Flowering. Blooms readily the first year from seed sown in spring. A wide 



Hollyhock 



Oz. $1.25., 



$1.50. 



Pkt. 15c. 

 15c. 

 15c. 

 15c. 

 15c. 

 15c. 

 15c. 

 15c. 

 15c. 

 10c. 



Humulus Japonicus 



range of colors in large single or semi-double flowers. 



Chater's Finest Mixed. Double perfection 



Double Blood Red. Oz. $1.25 



Deep Rose. Oz. $1.25 



" Lemon Yellow. Oz.$1.25 



Pink. Oz. $1.25.... 



" Salmon. Rich salmon color, suffused with pink. Oz 

 "■ Pure White. Our special improved strain. Oz. $1.50, 



" Choice Mixed. All colors. Oz. $1.00 



Mixed. Oz. 75c 



(Japanese Hop) Hardy annual climber fifteen 



to twenty feet high with rough lobed leaves 



of variegated colors, very rough leaf stems and small flowers. Desirable for 



covering unsightly objects or shading verandas Pkt. 10c 



0___ •_|.L i R^^-- (Dolichos lablab) A fine climber with clusters of purple 

 jnyacinin Dean or W hite flowers followed by ornamental seed pods. 

 Tender annual; from ten to fifteen feet high. 



Alba. White. Oz. 15c Pkt. 10c. Purpurea. Purple. Oz. 15c. . . . Pkt. 10c. 



Mixed. The above mixed. Oz. 15c " 10c. 



IBERIS— (See Candytuft) 



|__ Plnnf (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum) A curious plant for hanging 

 * t 'C I la.ni baskets, rock-work, vases and edgings; leaves and stems succu- 

 lent, appearing as though covered with ice crystals. Tender annual trailer; six 



inches high. Oz. 30c Pkt, 10c. 



IMMORTELLES— (See Acrocliniuni, Globe Amaranth, Helichrysum, Rhodanthe) 

 IMPATIENS BALSAMINA— (See Balsam) 



