Ff<DKim FETEIR HEMDEIRSOM <EL CO., MEW ¥OM 



93 



EUPHORBIA MARGINATA or "Snow-on-the-Mountain 



This native annual is quite popular as a garden plant on account of its showy appearance 

 and ease of culture in almost any soil — even the poorest — if in a sunny location. It is of 

 rank branching growth about 2 feet high. The foliage of light green being broadly 

 margined with silvery-white, giving the effect — -in miniature — of " Snow-on-the- 

 Mountain." Pkt. 10c. 



GAILLAKDIA ANNUAL VARIETIES 



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

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

 until frost; unrivaled for cutting. 



Mixed Single Varieties Pkt. 5c. 



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



flowers of crimson, garnet, lemon, orange, etc, in miniature Pkt. 5c. 



GIANT HARDY HYBRID GAILLARDIA 



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. These are hardy perennials, compact in growth 

 and produce a succession of flowers summer and fall. As cut flowers, last in 

 water for days. (See cut.) 



Giant Hardy Hybrid, Mixed Colors Pkt. 10c. 



Grandiflora Sibylla. (Novelty.) Very large bright, carmine-red flowers, the 

 petals of which are narrowly tipped or pointed with light yellow. Very 

 free-blooming and strikingly effective Pkt. 25c. 



GERANIUM GIANT^ FLOWERING HYBRID 



The flowers are extra large, round, of the most perfect form, borne in splendid 

 trusses, some of them forming balls 16 inches in circumference. The colors include 

 shades of scarlet and crimson, rose, pink, salmon, cream veined pink, blush, snowy- 

 white and all of the new auriole types. These all stand the hot sun, and, although 

 perennials, they will produce nice bushy plants and 

 flower from seeds sown the same season; 12 to 18 

 Inches high. (See cut.) 

 Giant-flowering Hybrids, Mixed Colors, 

 Pkt. 15c. 

 Double Giant-flowering, Mixed Col- 

 ors Pkt. 25c. 



Ivy-leaved, Single, Large-flower- 

 ing, Mixed Colors. . . . Pkt. 25c. 



GLOBE AMARANTH 



Bushy plants, about 2 feet 

 high. The flowers are useful 

 for dried winter bouquets. If 

 cut before they are fully ripe 

 and allowed to dry in^ a 

 dark, airy room, they will 

 retain their color the whole 

 season. 

 Mixed. Purple, white, 



etc Pkt. 5c. 



NANA Compacta, Mixed. 



}4 foot high . . . Pkt. 5c. 



GLOXINIA 



Charming summer- 

 blooming pot plants for 

 conservatory, green-house 

 or window garden. They 

 flower in great profusion, 

 having gorgeous colors, 

 many of which are magnifi- 

 cently spotted and mottled 

 1 foot. (See cut.) 

 Large-flowering, Mixed.Pfei.25c 



GNAPHALIUM 



-OR "SIBEKIAN EDELWEISS": 



This beautiful "Everlasting" is a hardy perennial 

 growing about one foot in height, being larger 

 than the famous Alpine Edelweiss, the star- 

 shaped, woolly white flowers being fully as 

 large again. It also thrives.better under culti- 

 vation and in low latitudes than the Alpine 

 type. Especially suited for rock gardens and 

 hillsides Pkt. 15c. 



FUCHSIA 



Single and Double, Mixed. Tender perennial 



plants, 2 to 4 feet high, with pendent flowers 



of red, white, purple, etc. Seed sown early in 



the house will produce flowering plants the first 



season; fine for pot culture or bedded out in 



partial shade during summer Pkt. 25c. 



GERBERA OR transvaal daisy 



A beautiful race of flowering plants brought into 

 prominence recently with the introduction of an improved 

 large-flowering scarlet type and the new various-colored 

 hybrids. They are half hardy perennials, usually grown 

 as greenhouse or window plants where they flower 

 continuously. The Daisy-like blossoms, 3 to 4 inches 

 across, being borne on 12 to 18 inch stems, are unsur- 

 passed as cut flowers, being of splendid lasting substance. 

 For garden culture in cold climates the plants are 

 wintered over in cold frames like Pansies, etc. They are 

 easily grown from seed and will commence flowering the 

 first year though older plants will produce the greater 

 abundance of bloom. (See cut.) 



Giant Scarlet Gerbera. Immense flowers, 5 to 6 inches 

 across, on 2 to 3-foot stems. Color intense scarlet, Pkt. 2 5c. 

 Adnet's New Hybrids. A French strain that has 

 created a furore in the European floral world. The 

 colors include a galaxy of incomparable delicacy and 

 richness, in which an infinity of tints, from pure white 

 through yellow, orange, salmon, rose, cerise and ruby- 

 red to violet are represented. Sometimes the color- 

 ing of the disk differs from that of the rays. . Pkt. 35c. 



Popular 

 Edition 



"PICTURESQUE GARDENS" by Charles Henderson J&£ *2&tf&V%B'g£& *%$%,#■ 



A. B. FARQUHAR, York, Pa. 



<t 1.00 postpaid. 

 «P1 See page 199. 



