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FLOWER SEEDS 



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DAHLIAS from Seeds (Annual) 



Beautiful Dahlias may be grown and flowered in late summer and autumn 

 from spring-sown seed if the seed is sown indoors or in a hotbed in February 

 or March and the young plants transplanted to the open ground after 

 danger from frost. 

 2065 Cactus-flowered, Double, Mixed Colors. Saved from choicest 



Cactus-flowered varieties Pkt. 25c 



2070 Dahlia Coltness Hybrids. Very distinct plants 18 inches high- 

 covered with charming single flowers including pink, red, yellow, 

 purple, mauve, white, and combinations. (See illustration.) Mixed 



Colors Pkt. 25c 



2072 Collarette, Mixed Colors. Flowers of various colors, adorned with 

 a collar of small petals around the center, novel and beautiful.- Pkt. 25c 



2074 Colossal. A French race producing vari-colored flowers that attains 

 the extraordinary dimensions of 8 inches in diameter. They are 

 composed of three or more %vhorls of wide overlapping petals. Pkt. 25c 



2075 New Double Giant-flowerine Decorative. This grand new race 

 produces flowers often 7 to 8 inches in diameter, very double and in 

 form intermediate between the formal show Dahlias and the narrow 

 curled-petaled Cactus Dahlia Pkt. 25c 



2080 Single Giant Perfection, Mixed. Immense single flowers of various 

 colors, including many beautifully striped and spotted sorts. . Pkt. 25c 



DELPHINIUM or Hardy Larkspur (Perennial) 



(See Colored Plate and Description, page 93) 



DIANTHUS or "China Pinks" (Annual) 



Double-Flowering Varieties 



2110 Crown of Perfection. Most beautiful and satisfactory summer- 

 flowering annual. The plants are bushy, of symmetrical form; 1 

 foot high. The flowers average 2 inches across; are densely double 

 and produced during the whole summer and autumn in great numbers. 

 The colors range from purest white to red shades, soft pinks and flesh 

 tints, mingling in exquisite contrast. (See illustration.) Double 



Mixed Colors Per 1.000 seeds, 75c; pkt. 15c 



2114 Fireball. Large, double, brilliant red Pkt. 10c 



2118 Double Striped and Fringed. Mixed. (Laciniatus, fl. pi.) Large 



double-fringed flowers of various colors and markings Pkt. 10c 



2122 Salmon Queen. Beautiful rosy-salmon, fine, large, double. . Pkt. 10c 

 2124 Snowdrift. Very large and double, white Pkt. 10c 



2131 Imported Collection of Double Annual Dianthus; 6 varieties .50c 



2132 Imported Collection of Double Annual Dianthus; 12varieties$1.00 



SINGLE FLOWERING VARIETIES (Annual) 



2134 Giant "Ruffled and Frilled." A superior strain of the Single 

 Heddewigii Annual or China Pinks. The flowers are 3 to 4 inches 

 across. The petals are ruffled, frilled and fringed, lending grace 

 and beauty to the gorgeous blossoms which range from dark blood-red 

 to glowing crimson, carmine-rose, salmon-pink, and white, some of the 

 flowers are mottled and blended with two or more shades. The 

 plants are about 1 foot high, and flower abundantly through summer 

 and fall Per 1,000 seeds, 75c; pkt. 15c 



"The Dahlia seeds I ordered from you last year produced choice blooms 

 measuring 6 and 7 inches across and very double," 



Mrs. E. P. Paterson, 

 Loveland, Colo. 

 "From a packet of Dahlia seed I raised plants that yielded great massive 

 beauties from August onwards." 



Mrs. M. A. Griffiths, 



Cutknife, Sask. 



DIANTHUS Allwoodii 



This variety is a cross between the famous .Allwoodii Pinks and the Dian- 

 thus Alpinus and it possesses the charming range of colors of the former and 

 the hardiness of the latter. The colors run through all the shades of pink, 

 red and purple, also white. Most of the flowers are single, although oc- 

 casionally semi-double. The plants grow six inches high and are attractive 

 even when not in bloom on account of their graceful silvery foliage. 



2139 Alpinus. Mixed Colors Pkt. 50c 



2141 SWEET WIVELSFIELD. This remarkable hardy-biennial hybrid 

 is quite distinct in method of flowering and habit of growth from the 

 .Annual Sweet William. It has a great variety of color and a very 

 long season of bloom. Sown indoors in February and March and 

 planted in the open ground in May, it will bloom from June to Novem- 

 ber, or it can be sown in July in the open ground to flower the following 

 year. Mixed Colors Pkt. 25c 



DIANTHUS Hardy Grass or Spice Pinks 

 (Perennial) 



2145 Dwarf , Large, Double-flowering Grass or Spice Pinks. (Dianthus 

 Plumarius nanus, jl. pi.) These are great improvements over the old- 

 fashioned sorts. The flowers are large and have a variety of colors 

 and markings; the color, of course, refers to the center of the flower, 

 the remainder being white or blush with a band of color near the 

 margin, the colors include blood-red, rose, maroon, purple, pink, 

 blush, spotted, laced, variegated, etc., beautifully fringed and they 

 emit a clove-like perfume. They are excellent for the perennial 

 garden. Mixed Colors Pkt. 25c 



2150 Plumarius, Double Mixed. The favorite old Pheasant's Eye or 

 Grass Pinks; 1 foot Per 1,000 seeds, 75c; pkt. 15c 



DIDISCUS COERULEUS Blue Lace Flower 

 (Annual) 



2155 Blue Lace Flower is extensively grown by cut flower growers in the 

 vicinity of New York to supply the fashionable Fifth Avenue trade. 

 The plants grow about 2 feet high, producing lovely, umbel-shaped 

 flowers, are composed of a great number of small florets, range from 

 2 to 3 inches across. The color is the most beautiful imaginable, a 

 clear coerulean or heavenly blue — a rare and beautiful shade. 



It is of easiest culture. Seed sown outdoors after danger from frost 

 will produce plants which should bloom continuously from July to 

 October. It may be grown in the green house or conservatory for 

 winter blooming. It is also desirable as a pot plant Pkt. ISc 



