FLOWERS. 



See pages 52-80. 



VERNON BEGONIA. 



(BEGONIA SEMPERFLORENS ATROPU RPU REA.) 



This new and distinct variety of the semper flor ens class is altogether the 

 best that has been yet produced. The plant grows to a medium size; is of 

 compact habit, very hardy and easily grown either in the house or open 

 ground. The foliage is a glossy green color and the flowers rich brilliant 

 red and borne in the greatest abundance. A well grown plant in a pot is one 

 of the best ornaments to a conservatory or parlor, while a large bed of them 

 in the garden will be the admiration and delight of all beholders. 



Price, per packet, 50 cents. 



Crozy's Hybrid Carinas. 



This magnificent race of dwarf large flowering Canneis has become as 

 essential a feature of garden or lawn decoration as is the Gladiolus, with 

 which they vie in the richness and variety of color, size and profusion of 

 their bloom. The seed we offer is American grown and saved from the 

 finest collection of named varieties. 



Price, per packet, 15 cents; per oz., $1.00. 



Crozy's 



^ARGUERITE ^ARNATION. 



We confess to being somewhat skeptical when the introducers of this 

 wonderful new Carnation asserted that it was perfectly easy to have plants 

 of it in flower in from four to five months from the sowing of the seed. 

 However we made a sowing in our greenhouses at our Trial Grounds, Feb- 

 ruary 23, of the current year and gave the plants only ordinarj' care; trans- 

 planted them to the open ground the last of 3Iay and had them in flower 

 July 19th, just nineteen weeks from time of sowing the seed, and we have no 

 doubt but that by vigorous pushing this record could have been reduced by 

 two weeks. The plants flowered profusely until after hard frosts, when 

 they were removed to the greenhouses and are in bloom yet. Fully 

 eighty per cent, of the plants grown from seed will have double flowers with as great a variety of color and as rich fragrance 

 as the common greenhouse Carnation, while the enormous reduction in the time between the sowing of the seed and flower- 

 ing makes it really one of the most valuable novelties in flowers of recent years. For those amateurs and florists who are not 

 specially successful in gro-ning Carnations from cuttings, the ability to get vigorous and profuse blooming seedlings in four to 

 five months from seed fs a fact of the greatest importance and needs only to be known to be taken advantage of. 



Price, per packet, 35 cents. 



A.ME,RICA.]S LOTUS— (NGlumbium luteura.) 



This magnificent native water lily is but very little different from the Egyptian Lotus, except in the color of the flowers, 

 which are yellow. No water plant will give a more tropical aspect than this. The massive leaves, two or more feet in diameter, 

 raised on leaf stalks five to six feet in height, the whole surmounted by the enormously large, fragrant, rich yellow flowers, 

 present a sight of which the eye never \\ earies. Have you a lake, a carp pond, a tank or barrel sunk in the ground? If so, 

 buy a packet of the seed from us and prove our statements for yourself. It is perfectly hardy and will flower the first year 



from seed if properly grown. Price, per packet, 25 cents. 



Marguerite 



Carnation. 



American Lotus. 



SWEET FEfl5. 



A bed composed of this collection T^ill please yon. 



Miss Blanche Ferry per packet. 5c. 



Boreatton " lOf- 



Butterfly " 10<"' 



.Splendour " JOc. 



Invincible "White " S^"- 



Indigo Kin^ *' 10c- 



Queenofth^ Isles * lOc. 



One packet each of the above seven splendid varieties, 50 cents. 



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