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CONVOLVULUS MINOR— Continued— Height 1 foot. Perpkt 



SPLENDENS. Flowers rich violet, with a white centre 5 



TRICOLOR. Violet purple, with a white centre 5 



White. Pretty to contrast with the other varieties 5 



KERMESINUS Violaceus. This new variety is very striking, having a bright yellow eye, 



encircled with snowy white, and broadly margined with rich crimson violet 10 



Mixed Varieties. All the colors of the dwarf varieties mixed. Per oz., 50 cts 5 



Tricolor Flore- Pleno. A showy double variety, but cannot be depended on as pro- 

 ducing all double flowers 10 



Cantabricus. Flowers rosy purple, a beautiful trailer for hanging-baskets, or for a 



bedding plant; hardy perennial ; 1 foot 10 



Mauritania's. Beautiful trailer for hanging-baskets and vases, producing numerous 



lavender-colored blue flowers; half-hardv evergreen perennial 10 



CUPHEA PLATYCENTRA {Cigar or'Fire Cracker Plant). Free-flowering beautiful 

 ornamental plants, either for garden or pot culture ; half-hardy perennial ; flowers 



small tubed-shaped, scarlet encircled with black and white; 1 foot 10 



CYANUS MINOR, MIXED (Blue Bottle or Corn Flower). Ornamental plants for shrub- 

 beries and borders, useful for cut flowers; growing in any garden soil; hardy annuals; 



various colors mixed; li feet 5 



CYTISUS LABURNUM (Golden Cha i n). Hardv shrub, racemes of golden flowers 10 



DAISY, MIXED {Belli* Perennis . A favorite plant for beds or pot-culture ; half-hardy 



perennial ; seed saved from the finest double varieties, mixed colors; 4 inches 20 



Double White. Pure white, extra double Daisy 25 



DAHLIA. One of our best autumnal flowering plants, blooms until killed by frost; half- 

 hardy perennials; blooming the first year from seed, if sown early; prote'ct the roots 

 from" frost during the winter in a dry cellar in sand. 

 Large-Flowering Varieties. Saved from the finest double flowers. Mixed colors ; 5 ft. 20 

 Small-Flowering (Bouquet or Liliputian). Saved from choice double flowers; mixed 



colors; it is the flower that is miniature and not the plant ; 5 feet 20 



DATURA Trumpet Flower). An ornamental class of plants; in large clumps and bor- 

 ders of shrubbery they produce an excellent effect ; flowering the first year from seed, 

 if sown early. They can be preserved in sand during the winter in a dry cellar free 

 from frost ; half-hardy perennials. 

 Atroviolacea Pleni'ssima. Flowers dark violet, the inside of a lighter shade ; 4£ feet. 10 



Fastuosa Huberiana. Mixed, large double flowers of various colors ; 5 feet... 10 



Humulis Flore-Pleno. Large double flowers, of a deep golden yellow; delightfully 



fragrant, continuing in bloom until frost; 2 feet 10 



Wrighti [Meteloides). White, lilac bordered; in bloom from July to November; 2 feet. 5 

 Arborea SIMPLEX (Brugmansia Suaviolens). A large plant, with beautiful single 

 white, long tubed, trumpet-shaped, fragrant flowers, about 12 inches long. Planted out 

 in May, in well-drained, light, rich soil, manured with well-rotted manure and decayed 

 leaves, they make a magnificent show of bloom. Sow the seeds in a green-house or hot- 

 bed early in the spring. Also splendid green-house plants, growing 10 feet high 20 



Arborea" Flore-Pleno. A fine double white variety of the above 25 



DELPHINIUM (Larkspur). One of our most showy and useful plants, possessing al- 

 most every requisite for the adornment of the garden >r parterre ; the hardy peren- 

 nials producing splendid spikes of flowers in profusion throughout the summer. If 

 sown early they will bloom the first year from seed. The hardy annuals are profuse 

 bloomers, and succeed best if sown in the autumn, or very early in the spring. For 

 separate colors see assortments of Larkspurs, page 76. 

 Formosum. Beautiful spikes of brilliant rich blue flowers, with a white centre ; 2 feet.. 10 

 Nudicaule. Dwarf, compact growth, with abundant loose spikes of bright dazzling 



scarlet flowers ; 18 inches 10 



The above two are hardy perennials, and the following are hardy annual varieties : 



Double Dwarf Rocket (Hyacinth-Flowered Larkspur). Finest mixed colors; 1 foot. 5 



Double Stock-Flowered. A tall-branching variety, with beautiful long spikes of 



flowers of various colors; fine for cutting; 2 feet 5 



Double Dwarf Candelabra-Flowered. Shaped like a candelabra; flowering 



until quite late; beautiful mixed colors ; 1 foot 5 



Imperiale Flore-Pleno {Emperor Larkspur). Of symmetrical bushy habit and uni- 

 form height li feet, with a profusion of flowers ; the colors are brilliant dark blue, tri- 

 color and red striped , 10 



DIANTHUS (Pinks). A magnificent genus, embracing some of the most popular flow- 

 ers in cultivation, a great variety of colors and profusion of bloom ; the hardy biennial 

 varieties blooming the first season if sown early. The hardy perennial varieties are 

 very fragrant, and of easy culture for the garden or green-house. 

 Chinensis (China or Indian Pink). Extra double varieties, all colors; mixed; 1 foot.. 5 



Chinensis, Flore-Pleno Albo. Double pure white flowers; 1 foot 5 



Imperialis (Double Imperial Pink). Double variegated, of many mixed colors; 1 foot.. 5 

 Heddewigi Flore-Pleno. Seed saved from extra double flowe"rs, colors varying from 



the richest velvety crimson to the most delicate rose, beautiful mixed colors; 1 foot 10 



Heddewigi Diadematus, Flore-Pleno (Double Diadem Pink). Beautiful double 

 flowers from 2 to 3 inches in diameter ; of varied tints of lilac, crimson, purple and 

 black purple, outer edges fringed and nearly white ; dwarf compact-growing plants ; 1 ft. 10 

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