From PETEH HEMDEIRSOM <& CO B , MEW YORK. 



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"BABY BLUE" 

 IPOMOE/ 



This entrancingly beautiful 

 climber came to us three years 

 ago — only a few seeds — from 

 a customer in the middle 

 west who wanted us to grow 

 it and identify the variety. 

 The accompanying enthu- 

 siastic description we 

 E roved to be fully justi- 

 ed. We do not know 

 the variety name but 

 we do know that it is 

 the most lovely light 

 blue Ipomoea and 

 different from any 

 other we have ever 

 seen. The vines grow 

 luxuriantly about IS 

 feet high, well clothed 

 with large durable leaves 

 and commencing in July 

 — from March sown seeds 

 — the plants are sheeted 

 until frost with white- 

 throated light ccerulean- 

 blue flowers — about 2K 

 inches across and of such 

 substance that they often 

 remain open all day.. Pkl. 15c 



The BRAZILIAN 

 MORNING GLOR 



(Ipomcea Selosa.) 



Magnificent summer climbing annual. It grows with the greatest vigor 

 and luxuriance. The leaves are 8 to 12 inches across overlapping each other 

 and making a dense shade. The vine is covered with short reddish hairs 

 which, with its immense leaves and large clusters of curious seed capsules, 

 render it highly ornamental. We know of nothing better for quickly cover- 

 ing a piazza, arbor or tree. The flowers are of beautiful rose color, and 

 are borne in large clusters Pkt. 15c. 



"he New Giant MOON FLOWER 



(Ipomcea Maxima.) 



A greatly improved variety of the popular Moon Flower Vine, 

 producing much larger flowers and in greater profusion. If 

 grown in well enriched soil in a warm sunny location and 

 given sufficient water while making growth, the vine will 

 attain a height of from 60 to 75 feet during the summer 

 season, and be covered with large lush green heart-shaped 

 leaves, and will be studded from July until frost 

 with immense saucer-shaped flowers 7 to 8 inches across 

 and as glistening white as disks of white satin. They 

 are also softly fragrant. The flowers open about 

 sunset and close the next morning. The effect partic- 

 ularly on moon-lit nights is entrancingly beauti- 

 ful. (See cut.) Pkt. 10c. 



JAPANESE MORNING GLORIES 



The robust vines attain a height of from 30 to 50 feet. The foliage is luxuriant, 

 distinct and varied, green, silvery and yellow leaves; many are mottled light and dark 

 green, white and gray. 



But the surpassing cjiarm of these "Giant Japanese Morning Glories" lies in the 

 entrancing beauty and large size of the flowers; they measure from 3 to 4 inches 

 across. The colors of the flowers, shadings and markings are limitless. Some 

 flowers are of deep, rich, velvety colors, others daintily tinted and shaded. There 

 are reds from soft rose to crimson and garnet; daintiest blue to purple ; snow- 

 white to silver-gray. Some are striped, blotched and spotted; others have mag- 

 nificent edges and throats. (See cut.) Mixed Colors Pkt. 10c. 



Emperor of Japan Crimson, with white margin and blush throat 10c. 



Empress of Japan. Soft blue, with white margin and rose throat 10c. 



Count Ito. Cream dotted with pink, maroon and carmine; yellow throat 10c. 



Marquis Yamagata. Blush-pink, rose shadings; white margin 10c. 



"RUFFLED AND FRILLED" 



JAPANESE MORNING GLORIES 



The perfection of Morning Glories. Immense flowers, often as big as saucers, all 

 wavy, ruffled and fluted from throat to margin, like crumpled velvet. They are 

 simply magnificent. Mixed Colors Pkt. 15c. 



Double^Flowering MORNING GLORIES 



These beautiful climbing annuals are of very rapid and luxuriant growth; the flow- 

 ers will come double, semi-double and a few, perhaps, single. The colors vary; there 

 are various shades of blue, white spotted with red, white marbled with purple and 

 lavender, crimson, pure white, etc. Mixed Colors Pkt. 10c. 



Giant^Flowering MAURANDIAS 



These are grand improvements over the older well-known sorts. The flowers are 

 fully double the size, and the plants and foliage are correspondingly larger and 

 more robust, attaining a height of 6 to 10 feet; the vines quickly hide trellis from 

 view and are thickly studded with flowers nearly as large as Gloxinias. _ The plants 

 from seed sown in spring will begin flowering by July and continue until frost. 

 Mixed Colors. White, rose and purple Pkt. 10c. 



MINA SANGUINEA 



Splendid annual garden climber of luxuriant growth; 20 to 30_feet. Adapted for 

 trellis, verandas, arbors, etc. The flowers, about an inch across, are borne in large 

 clusters; color, blood-red, with yellowish throat. They flower profusely until killed by 

 frost, and make a fine show Pkt. 10c. 



Popular "PI^TI IPPCni IP r APHFMQ" kw C^\s^r-\r><- \— i a.rsAr>rcnrt " Your book ' Picturesque Gardens' is a 'work of Art' <t\ 00 postpaid. 

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beautiful but very instructive. I still have something to learn from it after going over it often." Mrs. J. G. BALDWIN, Englewood, N. J. 



