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DIGITALIS or FOXGLOVE (Gloxinia-Flowered) 



These improved Foxgloves are very showy, hardy plants: they are easy to 

 grow and produce freely spikes 4 to 5 feet high, well furnished with large, 

 Gloxinia-like flowers of various colors, including white, cream, rose, red and 

 other shades, all of which have beautiful throat markings, spots and blotches 

 of purple, maroon, etc. They are more robust than the ordinary garden 

 Digitalis, have stouter stems and larger flowers, 



2162 Purple, Spotted Pkt. 10c. 



21G3 Rose, Spotted 10c. 



2164 White, Spotted 10c. 



2166 Grandiflora, Yellow. Charming flowers of soft chrome-yellow 10c. 



2170 Mixed Colors. (Gloxinoides.) Per 1,000 seeds, 35c; Pkt., 10c. 



2180 Monstrosa. A very unique and beautiful type, producing long spikes of 



large flowers of various colors, many of which are beautifully spotted, etc., 



but the striking feature of this strain is the enormous bell shaped blossom 



that tops each spike of flowers. 



Mixed Colors '..Per 1,000 seeds, 50c; Pkt., 15c. 



DOLICHOS or HYACINTH BEAN 



Annual climbers, of rapid growth, 10 feet high, with Wistaria-like clusters 

 of flowers, followed by bronzy-purple seed pods. 



2192 Japanese Giant Crimson. Blush, deepening with age to dark red. 



Pkt. 10c 



2193 Japanese Giant White. Long spikes of clear white flowers 10c. 



ESCHSCHOLTZIA— BUSH 



(Hunnemannia fumaria 'folia) 



2212 Grows into a bush 2 feet high. Large, cup-shaped flowers, 3 inches 

 across, on long stems; the color is bright yellow, contrasting vividly with 

 the bunch of golden stamens in the center. Per 1,000 seeds, 30c; Pkt., 10c. 



EUPHOBBIA 

 MABGINATA 



m or "Snow-on-the-Mountain" 



2235 This native annual is quite 

 \ popular as a garden plant on 

 account of its showy appear- 

 ancej and ease of culture in 

 almost any soil — even the 

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'*? / V— '^ t S^J/^*'^'^^V'i tion. Ii is "I rank br :hing 



.-, w «3 %fe5 JgMg*f^S.31S growth, about 2 ft. high. The 



i&wli foliage of light green being 



broadly margined with sil- 

 very-white, giving the effect, 

 in miniature, t of "Snow-on- 

 the-Mountain." (See ere- 



H^S^&^MP" BravinB ' ) PkL 10c ' 



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 DIMOBPHOTHECAorAfrican Daisy 



2185 Golden African Daisy. (.D. Aurantiaca.) An ex- 

 tremely showy annual of neat branching habit; 

 grows about 12 inches high, flowering during the 

 summer in continuous profusion. The single, 

 Daisy-like blossoms, 2'-> inches in diameter, are 

 brilliant orange, with a dark-colored disk, zoned 

 black; well adapted for groups or borders; it stands 

 the heat finely and produces its pretty flowers' 

 very early in sunny situations and will continue to 

 flower during the summer. (See engraving.) 



Per 500 seeds, 35c; Pkt., 10c. 



2186 Hybrid African Daisies. In growth and flower 

 these new hybrids are like the parent, but they 

 vary in color from white to red and tints of sulphur 

 lemon and golden-yellow, orange, reddish-yellow 

 salmon shades; many are marked with different 

 colored zones Per 500 seeds, 40c; Pkt. 10c. 



GAILLABDIA, Giant Hardy Hybrid 



2250 These are hardy perennials, compact in growth, and 

 produce a succession of flowers summer and fall. As 

 cut flowers they last in water for days. The flowers 

 are often 4 to 5 inches across, colored in great 

 diversity of variations and blendings, including such 

 combinations as scarlet with gold edge, blood-red 

 with yellow edge, yellow with orange disk, golden 

 with scarlet border, pure yellow,' fiery crimson, and 

 many others. (See engraving.) 

 Giant Hardy Hybrid, Mixed Colors. 



Per 500 seeds, 50c; Pkt., 10c 



GAILLABDIA, Annual Varieties 



Very showy garden annuals, 1 to 2 feet high. Grown in masses they are 

 especially effective; large flowers, 2 to 3 inches across, produced from early 

 summer until frost; unrivaled for cutting. 



2255 Lorenziana, or Double-flowering. Large round heads, composed of 



numerous fibrets of crimson, garnet, lemon, orange, etc. Pkt. 10c. 



2260 Mixed Single Varieties Per 500 seeds, 25c; Pkt.. 10c 



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"PICTURESQUE GARDENS" by Charles Henderson '?J&%% Zrk! remdy interesting 



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