ANCHUSA CAPENSIS. 



A hardy annual of more than ordinary beauty. It grows 

 about two feet hish, branching freely and bearing a profu- 

 sion of the most lovely flowers, similar in all respects to the 

 Forget-me-not. though the blooms are much larger and of 

 finer color. It is always taken for a beautiful, large-flowering 

 Forget-me-not, and for bouquets and cut flowers it is indeed 

 superior to it. Its color is a deep, clear, brilliant blue with 

 a pure white eye; one of the rarest and most lovely shades of 

 1 liat color. It blooms early and continues all summer. Pkt., 

 100 seeds, 3 cents. 



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Mrs. James H. Harte, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, March 11. 1895, writes 

 needs received from you last season gave us very good satisfaction. 



-The 



ANTIRRHINUM, TOM Thumb, (Snapdragon.) 



If those members of the flower-loving fraternity who have 

 failed with houseplants would try the cultivation of some of 

 our hardy out-door flowers as potplants. such a.s Antirrhinum, 

 they would have little reason to complain cf non-success. 

 Many of the so-called annuals will keep up a succession of 

 bloom for one, two and even three seasons with proper care 

 to keep them from ripening seed, and under this treatment 

 will bloom much more profusely, and produce much finer 

 blossoms than if grown in the open air in the usual way. Be- 

 ing hardy, they can better endure occasional neglect and the 

 dry atmosphere of the house than can more tender plants, 

 and are not so liable to be injured by insects. Tom Thumb is 

 the best of all the Antirrhinums, very dwarf, growing only H 

 inches high, thickly studded with beautiful spikes of gay col- 

 ored flowers, orange, scarlet, rose-white, maroon, striped, etc. 

 Pkt., 250 seeds, 4 cents. 



