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NEMOPHILA 



Splendid annuals about 1 foot high for garden 

 decoration; clusters of bright colored flowers in 

 shades of blue, white and violet, margined, 

 dotted, etc., borne freely all summer long if 

 grown in a rather cool partially shaded situ- 

 ation. Mixed Colors Pkt. 5c 



NIGELLA 



"LOVE-IN-A-MIST" 



Lovely garden annuals growing 



in oval bush form, about 12 to 15 



inches in height. In the finely cut 



Fern-like green foliage nestle 



numerous large double flowers 



of light blue or white. The 



charming effect having sug- 

 gested the popular names of 



"Love-in-a-Mist," "Devil-in-a- 



Bush," etc. (.See cut.) 



Miss Jekyll, Blue. An im- 

 proved large-flowering, dou- 

 blelight blue variety, Pkt. 10c. 



Miss Jekyll, White. A coun- 

 terpart of the above with 

 pure white flowers, Pkt. 10c. 



Damascena, Double Mixed. 

 The older tall type.. . Pkt. 5c. 



Oenothera 0K r ?SllS£ 



These are among our most beautiful plants 

 for mixed garden beds and borders. They 

 grow in branching form 1 to 2 feet in height 

 and produce freely and continuously large 

 single Poppy-like flowers of white, yel- 

 low, rose color, etc. The blossoms open 

 early every evening and last well into 

 the following day. They are of the 

 easiest culture in any sunny situ- 

 ation. 

 Mixed Annual Varieties. Pkt. 5c. 

 Oenothera America. This new 

 introduction of Mr. Luther 

 Burbank is — he claims — the 

 largest and best Oenothera in 

 the world. It producesin great 

 profusion large flat, single 

 flowers, 4 to 5 inches across 

 and snowy-white in color. 

 It flowers the first season 

 from seed and continues to 

 blocm until killed by frost. 

 (See cut.) Pkt. 10c. 



Royal Rose. A beautiful 

 "Mexican Evening Primrose." 

 The large single flowers borne 

 in profusion are of a charming 

 rose color Pkt. 10c. 



NOVELTIES IN 



GIANT PANSIES 



These new European creations are exceedingly beauti- 

 ful — producing flowers of the largest size and finest form. 

 Aureola. Lower petals carmine with large blotch, upper 



petals cream-white with broad carmine margin, Pkt. 15c. 

 Morning Dawn. A- beautiful "Orchid-flowered" Pansy, 



vermilion with golden-chamois suffused with flaming 



red Pkt. 15c. 



Mauve Queen. Rosy-lavender or mauve with a large 



bluish-carmine blotch on each of the lower petals. 



Pkt. 15c. 

 Mercury. Velvety blackish-purple, very rich and lustrous; 



the largest of all self-colored Pansies Pkt. 15c. 



Psyche. Waved and undulated flowers of rich, violet- 

 blue, broadly edged with clear white Pkt. 15c. 



Volcano. Bright deep red, each petal marked with a 



large dark blotch, flowers waved and frilled. . Pkt. 15c. 

 Minerva. Bright red, each petal marked with a large 



violet blotch Pkt. 15c. 



Solfatara. Sulphur or primrose-yellow, each petal 



marked with a large deep blue spot Pkt. 15c. 



Collection of Novelties in Giant Pansies, 1 pkt. each of 



the above 8 $ 1 . 00. 



' PENTSTEMON 



"Sensation." A Giant Gloxinia-flowered type; though 

 perennial, they bloom early the first season from 

 spring-sown seed. The graceful spikes, about 2 feet 

 high, are bedecked with flowers, two inches across, 

 from July until frost. The colors and markings are 

 gorgeously varied from pink to scarlet and maroon, all 

 beautifully blotched and veined with other colors; a 

 large white throat further enlivens and intensifies 

 the surrounding colors. They deserve a prominent 

 place in every garden Pkt. 10c. 



Hartwegii Albus. A fine new variety and the first pure 

 white Pentstemon. The plants are healthy, free 

 growers with brilliant green foliage. The flower spikes 

 about 2 l A feet high branch out freely from the base and 

 are thickly furnished with large open-throated, clear 

 white flowers, though in bud and opening they are 

 shaded cream. It is a remarkably early and long- 

 blooming variety, especially effective in garden beds 

 and borders and when cut, the long spikes of white are 

 exquisitely decorative in vases, etc. (See cut.) Pkt. 20c. 



Rocky Mountain Pentstemon. (P. Cyananthus.) A love- 

 ly and showy species and as hardy as a rock. Compact 

 spikes of lovely azure-blue flowers Pkt. 15c. 



PEONY 



Grand, hardy herbaceous plants, well-known orna- 

 ments of our gardens, with large double flowers of various 

 colors; 2 feet high. 

 Double Chinese, Mixed Colors Pkt. 10c. 



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'PICTURESQUE GARDENS" by Charles Henderson ;j^^^^f^^^^^^--%\. 



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