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JAPANESE HOP. 



For any place where a rapid grow- 

 ing vine is needed, nothing is better 

 than the Japan Hop. The foliage is 

 luxuriant, the leaves being smaller 

 and more delicate than those of the 

 common hop, and curiously marked 

 with silvery and yellowish-white 

 streaks. It is easily grown, and with- 

 stands heat and drouth and insects 

 better than almost any other vine, 

 and retains its pretty appearance un- 

 til killed by frosts. 20 to 30 feet. 

 Pkt., 4 otS. 



Alvo. Neb., Oct. 11, 1897.— "I must congratulate 

 you for having such a good quality of flower 

 seeds. All who saw my flowers said they were go- 

 ing to send to you for seed." 



Mrs. G. P. Foremax. 



MISS EMMA V. WHITE. 



JAPANESE IRIS (Iris Kaempferi). 



"The Iris family are all interesting and beautiful and 

 easily grown, but no one ever stood before a well-grown bed 

 of Iris Kaempferi in flower without being filled with won- 

 der and admiration." — Gardening, Sept. 15, 1897, I take 

 pleasure in offering seed this year of this wonderfully beau- 

 tiful Iris (seed imoorted from Japan), at a price which 

 brings it within the reach of all. It commences flowering 

 early in July and continues five or six weeks. Many of the 

 flowers are from eight to ten inches in diameter, rivalling the 

 lily in stateliness and the orchids in their rich colorings. 

 The plants will thrive in almost any situation, but develop 

 into their finest forms when given plenty of moisture. l,ike 

 many other good things, one must wait, in raising them 

 from seed, as they do not bloom before the second or third 

 summer. But while they are getting their growth they 

 may be planted in some out of the way place, needing only 

 to be mulched in the spring with a good coating of manure 

 and, if dry, an occasional watering, and afterwards removed 

 to their permanent bed. Mixed. Pkt., 6 cts. 



KENILWORTH IVY. 



Although so commonly used, there is after all nothing 

 much prettier for a .._*nging basket than the Kenilworth 

 Ivy, with its tiny blossoms and delicate pendent foliage. 

 Then it is so easily grown, coming quickly from seed, and 

 so hardy, it being almost impossible to kill it, that it is a 

 most satisfactory plant. Pkt., 3 cts. 



IMPATIENS SULTANI. 



I,adies prize this very much for the window, but 

 it is very fine also for the summer garden. It is a per- 

 ennial Balsam, called also the Zanzibar Balsam. The 

 foliage, something like that of the Balsam, though 

 not so coarse, is a waxy green, and with the semi- 

 transparent branches makes the plant in itself at- 

 tractive. But, best of all, it is almost never without 

 its bright, rosy carmine flowers, being an almost 

 perpetual bloomer. The flowers are single and from 

 1 toi^ inches in diameter and very delicate and 

 pretty. It grows easily from seed, arid where raised 

 in the window is continually self-sowing in the pots 

 near it. Pkt., 5 Cts. 



Japanese Hop. 



Fairgrove, Mich.. Oct. 26, 1897.- 

 chased of you last spring all grew. 

 Sultanij is covered with bloom." 



"The collection of seed I pur- 

 The window Balsam (Imf 

 Mrs. S. R. J ami 



