Hollyhocks, Prize Double, 



The perfect doubleness of the mag-nificent, large flowers 

 will please the most critical. All the best colors, from deep 

 yellow, red rose, light buff, carmine, scarlet, flesh color, creamy- 

 white tinted with rose, purple, yellow on dark ground, crim- 

 son flaked with salmon, cherry red, cream on violet ground, 

 lilac on brown ground, dark crimson to pure white, also black. 

 K sown early in March or April the plants will bloom the first 

 year. All mixed colors. Pkt, 50 seeds, 5 cts. 

 Double Maroon, 50 seeds, 5c Double Salmon Rose, 50 seeds, 5c 



" Bright Pink, 50 seeds, 5c " White, 50 seeds, 5c 



" Bright Red, 50 seeds, 5c " YeAow, 50 seeds, 5c 



Hollyhocks, Double Alleghany, 



Mammoth flowers, wonderfully formed of loosely arranged 

 fringed petals, which look as if made from the finest China 

 silk, and have none of the formalitv of the oi'dinary type. The 

 colors vary from the palest shrimp pink to deep red. 

 Pkt, 50 seeds. 5 cts. 



Hollyhocks, Single. 



Many prefer the single-flowering Hollyhocks. They are 

 usually of freer growth than the doubles, and present a very 

 handsome appearance when covered with their artistic blos- 

 soms. Pkt., 50 seeds, 5 cts. 



Annual Hollyhocks. 



This new strain possesses all the virtues of the double old- 

 fashioned Hollyhocks with the additional advantage of bloom- 

 ing from seed the first year. Plants started from seed sown in 

 March or April in the house or hot bed, transplanted in May 

 into their permanent place, will bloom in August and continue 

 until fall. The plants branch out freely and are not easily 

 attacked by the Hollyhock fungus, therefore retain their fresh, 

 bright green leaves until late. The flowers are double, semi- 

 double, or single. Pkt., 50 seeds, 5 cts. 



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Impatiens Sultani. 



This most distinct and beautiful 

 plant is almost a perpetual bloomer. 

 The flowers are of a brilhant rosy 

 scarlet color and are produced so 

 freely that a full grown specimen 

 appears to be a ball of flowers and 

 continues in full beauty several 

 months. Pkt, 100 seeds, 5 cts. 



Job^s Tears,CoixLachryma. 



Curious, ornamental grass, with 

 broad, corn-like leaves and seeds 

 of a light slate color. Valuable for 

 the formation of winter bouquets. 

 Strings of handsome beads are 

 made from the seeds. Hardy 

 annual, 3 feet high. 



Pkt., 30 seeds, 5 cts.; oz., 20 cts. 



Kochia Scoparia 

 or Summer Cypress. 



The plants grow freely from 

 seed sown in the open ground, 

 when the trees are coming out in 

 leaf, and from the earliest stage of 

 growth in thespring until they 

 reach maturity in the fall the plants 

 are always of globe-like form. The 

 plants branch freely, and stems are 

 clothed with slender light green 

 leaves. Early in the fall the ends 

 of shoots are thickly set with small 

 bright-scarlet flowers— i/ie bushy 

 plants resembling balls of fire. The 

 plants are equally showy, planted 

 singly to show the round ball-like 

 form on all sides, or grown in con- 

 tinuous rows or hedges, 



Pkt, 200 seeds, 5 cts. 



The Famous Chinese Kudzu. 



"Jack-and-the-Bean-Stalk Vine" 



A vine that will grow everywhere. 

 Flourishes where nothing else will 

 grow, and lasts for many years 

 The large bold leaves of the 

 brightest green afford a dense 

 shade. Its greatest feature is its 

 wonderfully strong growth, which 

 makes it invaluable for covering 

 arbors, fences, porches, dead or old 

 trees, etc. The Kudzu Vine is a 

 native of China, where it is. grown 

 not only for the beauty of the plant, 

 butalsc for the edible value of its 

 roots. The vine is haidy. grows 50 

 ft., with dense foliage to the 

 ground. Pkt, !0 cts. 



Mrs. Edgar I. Fields, George- 

 town, ( onn., April 6, 1909. I 

 tvish to inform you I have beau- 

 tiful Cyclamens from seed I 

 had from you some three years 

 ago. 



