Flowers are like dollars. Everybody likes them, bat they mean a lot more when you "grow 'em" yourself 



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Balloon Vine. Balsam, Superb Camellia Flowered. 



BALLOON VINE (Love-in -a-puff) 

 Hardy Annual Climber 

 1124 A rapid growing climber, attaining a height of 10 to 16 ft. Bears 

 mall white flowers, followed by inflated seed pods resembling small 

 alloons, hence the name. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 25 cents. 



BALSAM (Lady's Slipper) 

 Hardy Annual 



An old and favorite, quick growing annual, producing large, bril- 

 .antly colored flowers. Blooms are borne along the stem, among 

 ae leaves; frequently whole upper part of the plant is a mass of color, 

 [eight 10 to 30 inches. The Lady's Slipper is of easiest culture, and 

 acceeds in any rich soil. It is well to sow the seeds thickly, in a tem- 

 orary row, and then transplant to permanent quarters. 



1126 SUPERB 

 CAMELLIA 

 FLOWERED, 

 MIXED COLORS 

 A choice strain of 

 perfectly double 

 balsams, produc- 

 ing masses of 

 brightest flowers. 

 Packet, 10 cents ; 

 % ounce, 25 cts.; 

 ounce, 75 cents. 



1128 DOUBLE 

 TALL MIXED. 

 All the best colors; 

 very fine mixture. 

 Packet, 5 cents; 

 ounce, 30 cents. 



1132 DOUBLE 

 DWARF MIXED 

 Plants make per- 

 fect little bushes 

 with flowers that 

 are double and the 

 colors very pretty 

 and pleasing. 

 Plants grow 10 

 inches high. 



Packet, 5 cents. 



1133 SPOTTED 

 ROSE FLOW- 

 ERED. A group 

 of double balsams 

 with spotted flow- 

 ers; many shades. 

 Packet, 10 cents; 



Balsam, Maule's Double Superb Strain, Finest Mixed. 3 packets, 25 cts. 

 1127 MAULE'S DOUBLE SUPERB STRAIN, FINEST MIXED. 



Jnrivaled for large size, perfect form, robust habit and diversity of 

 ich and delicate colors. Flowers often 2 inches across, borne in won- 

 lerful profusion, and more uniformly double than any other strain. 

 Che habit of growth is bushy and branching. The range of color in- 

 Judes white, rose, yellow, buff, pomegranate, red, scarlet, crimson, 

 >urple, lilac and violet. We offer all the best colors in this mixture. 

 Packet, 10 cents; ]4 ounce, 30 cents; ounce, $1.00. 



It gives me pleasure to inform you that Maule 's Double Superb Bal- 

 sam surpassed those of other seedsmen; in fact it is the prettiest strain of 

 balsam that the writer has ever seen. You do not praise this balsam half 

 enough. Those who grow this balsam once, will always want it. 



W. E. Vail, Yorktown Heights, New York. 



Boltonia, Glastifolia. 



Brachycome,Mixed Colors. 



BOLTONIA (False Chamomile) 

 Hardy Perennial 



1147 GLASTIFOLIA. Six feet high, with immense numbers of 

 white flowers nearly 1 inch in diameter. Resembling the hardy aster. 

 Blooms from July until frost. A desirable plant. Packet, 10 cents. 



BRACHYCOME (Swan River Daisy) 

 Hardy Annual 



1148 MIXED COLORS. Pretty annual, growing about 8 inches 

 high, and flowering freely during the summer. Flowers blue or while. 

 Sow seed in the open ground, after the weather is warm, or start in 

 boxes or frames and transplant. Excellent for edging. Packet, 5 cents. 



BROWALLIA (Amethyst) 

 Hardy Annual 



A handsome free-flowering annual 

 about 18 inches high, completely 

 covered during the summer with 

 blue or white flowers. One of the 

 best bedding plants, and equally 

 satisfactory for window culture; as 

 a pot or border plant, there are few 

 plants to compare with it. Browal- 

 lias grow freely in any rich soil. 



1149 GRANDIFLORA. A new 

 sort; the most beautiful of all brow- 

 allias. Grows only about 15 inches 

 high; form dense little bushes cov- 

 ered with abundance of delightful 

 sky-blue flowers. There is hardly 

 another plant with blue flowers 

 that compares with It. An attrac- 

 tive low growing plant for pot cul- 

 ture or for borders. Packet, 10 cts. 



1150 MIXED. Blue and white. 

 Packet. S cents. 



BROWALLIA. QRANO'FLORA, 



