MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 



BACHELOR'S BUTTON 



(Centaurea Cyanus). 

 The flower of many names. In Ger- 

 many, where it is the national flower, it 

 is known as the "Corn Flower," or 

 "Kaiser Blumen." Others call it "Blue 

 Bottle" or "Ragged Sailor." Though an 

 old fashioned flower, it has been much 

 prized of late; artists are painting it, 

 ladies are wearing it for the corsage or 

 using it for cut flowers, and it is every- 

 where very popular. 

 Single, mixed. A splendid mixture. 



Pkt., 2 cts. 

 Double, mixed. Though hardly so 

 double as in the illustration, yet the in- 

 involucre is much more full" and com- 

 pact. making this bv far more SI10W3- and 

 desirable than the'single. Pkt., 3c. 



IMPROVED ROSE BALSAM. 



A splendid strain of largest size and extreme 

 ioubleness. — as large and beautiful as any Balsam 

 anywhere offered. I have taken great pains to make 

 thir a very desirable mixture, including only named 

 ▼arieties. "selected to give a great variety 0? beauti- 

 ful shades, viz., in solid colors, crimson." flesh, lilac, 

 rose, scarlet, violet, white, etc., including also the 

 Camellia, or spotted. Balsams, the blossoms being on 

 white ground, mottled in many shades of flesh color, 

 crimson, rose-carmine, coppe'ry-scarlet. lilac, and 

 others. Give the plants sun. good soil— not too rich 

 — and plent\- of room, and you cannot fail to be 

 pleased with this mixture, "if they branch very 

 freely, prune them out considerably." The fewer the 

 branches, the larger the blossoms. Mixed. Pkt.. 5c. 



Good Mixed Balsam. A good mixture of 



choice, double Balsams. Pkt., 3 CtS. 



Wittenberg. Wis., Oct. 4, 1S97. — "My Balsams from your seed 

 were grand, and were very much admired." Maey Lawlxk. 



Bachelor's Button. 



Rushford. Minn., Sept. 25, 

 1SS7. — 'My Pansies and 

 Bachelor's Buttons were the 

 finest grown in the city and 

 were much admired. And my 

 friends said my Asters were 

 the most beautiful they ever 

 saw. I have recommended 

 your seeds to all nivfriends." 

 Mas. E. A. Sykes. 

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Camden. Mich.. May 2. 

 -•The seeds that I 

 planted in boxes in the 

 house are all up. I have 

 compared your prices with 

 those of many other cata- 

 logues, and I find that yours 

 are cheaper, yet the seeds are 

 just as fresh." 



Mrs. Nettie Bbisgs. 



BABY ROSE. 



The "Baby Rose," or "Little Midget," is 

 a charming" little plant, about ten inches 

 high, bearing clusters of minute roses only 

 an inch across, usually very double, but oc- 

 casionally semi-double or" single. The 

 manv-flowered clusters look like a mass of 

 double crab apple blossoms, though they 

 appear also in other rose shades. Too 

 much cannot be claimed for the beauty and 

 charm of these tiny roses. My floricul- 

 tural directions are more explicit in regard 

 to their care this year, and amateurs may 

 expect good results. Pkt., 8 cts. 



