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J. STECKLER SEED CO., LTD., ALMANAC AND 



varieties is strikingly beautiful. Be sure to 

 try both. Strong plants, prices 25, 50 and 

 75 cents each. 



SALVIA SPLENDENS. Bon Fire and 

 Silver Spot. — This magnificent scarlet sage 

 or salvia has three times the flowering 

 capacity of ordinary scarlet sages. The 

 flowers are produced so abundantly as to 

 bend the branches and suggest the same 

 Drooping Spikes for this superb type. It 

 is altogether attractive and showy and one 

 of the best for decorative purposes, whether 

 used singly or in mixed groups. The plant 

 blazes out in dazzling scarlet, and the color 

 lasts all summer and fall. Price, 15 cents, 

 2 for 25c. 



STROBILANTHUS ' DYERIANUS. 

 An excellent bedding plant as well as a 

 beautiful foliage plant for pot culture. It 

 forms a compact bush 18 inches high, with 

 leaves 6 to 9 inches long; of a beautiful 

 metallic purple, shading into light rose, 

 with a light green margin, a combination 

 unapproached by any other plant. The 

 flowers are violet blue, borne in immense 

 racemes; 15 to 25 cents. 



Tritoma Pfitzerii. 



TRITOMA PFITZERII. (Red Hot 

 Poker Plant.) The greatest bedding 

 plant ever introduced, surpassing the finest 

 Cannas for attractiveness and brilliancy, 

 showy as the Gladiolus as a cut flower, 

 and blooms incessantly from June until 

 November. Plants perfectly hardy with 

 protection. Plants show from 6 to 20 grand 

 flower stalks all the time, each holding at a 

 height of 3 to 4 feet, a great cluster of 

 flame-colored flowers of indescribable 

 beauty and brilliancy. Each cluster keeps 



perfect several weeks, and when it fades 

 two or three more are ready to take its 

 place. For cutting it is unsurpassed, as 

 the beautiful long spikes keep several 

 weeks in water. Strong plants that will 

 bloom the first summer. Each, 30c. 4 for 

 $1.00, 12 for $2.50. 



VIOLETS. 



The California— New Violet.— This 

 splendid single violet has a flower much 

 larger than any other in cultivation, except- 

 ing, only the new Princess of Wales. Violet- 

 purple in color; delightful fragrance; 10 

 cents; 75 cents per dozen. 



Lady Hume Campbell. — A vigorous 

 variety, blooming with extraordinary free- 

 dom. Large double flowers, of azure-blue; 

 richly perfumed; 10 cents each, 75 cents 

 per dozen. 



Swanley's White Violet. 



Swanley's White. — Perfectly double, 

 pure white flowers of fine size and rich 

 fragrance. By far the best of all white 

 Violets in freedom of bloom ; 10c. each, 

 75c. per dozen. 



Marie Louise — The well known lavender 

 blue ; ioc. each, 75c. per dozen. 



The Giant — Large dark purple violet of 

 great substance ; 5c. each, 30c. a dozen ; 

 $2.00 a hundred ; large clumps, 25c. each. 



Mexican — The old favorite; its produc- 

 tiveness in our climate is unsurpassed by 

 any: 5c. each, 25c. per dozen. 



Princess of Wales — New French Violet. 

 — Far ahead of California and all other 

 Violets known. Of hardy, vigorous growth, 



Fern Pans, fancy glazed and earthenware. 



