PETEH HEflDEt^SON 8t CO.— FLtOWEt^ SEED J^OVEIiTIES. 



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The Bitazilian Moaning ^[^^, 



NEW IPOMEA, "HEAVENLY BLUE." 



This new annual climber is claimed to be a cross between Ipomoea 

 Leari and Mina Lobata. The foliage is very large, heart-shaped, 

 thicli and light green ; flowers 4 to 5 inches across in large clusters, 

 and of that indescribable light blue with a yellow throat suffusing 

 softly into blue. In the morning no lovelier sight can be imagined 

 than this climber, which is so completely covered with bloom as to 

 almost cover the foliage. This Ipomcea, like Mina Lobata, should 

 be started in pots early in spring and become pot-bound ; they will 

 then commence to bloom very young. It is also a splendid con- 

 servatory climber. Price, per packet, 25c. 



, NEW®-:,, 



'^ FLOWERlNffL,^ 

 ■ - HELIOTF^PE 



(Ipomcea Setosa.) 

 This is the most magnificent summer climbing- 

 annual that has ever come under our notice. It 

 grows with the greatest vigor and luxuriance. 

 Seed sown in our trial-grounds May 15th produced 

 plants that covered a trellis 12 feet high by July 

 28th, and by Aug. 15th the vines were from 30 to 40 

 feet long and still growing, branching and climbing 

 in all directions. The leaves are 8 to 12 Inches across and 

 are borne from the ground up, overlapping each other and 

 .' making a dense shade. Every part of the vine is thickly 

 covered with short reddish hairs 

 which, with its immense leaves 

 and large clusters of curious seed 

 capsules, render it highly orna- 

 mental and give it quite a tropical 

 appearance. We know of nothing 

 so good for quickly covering a 

 piazza, arbor or a tree, and where a 

 dense shade is required it has no 

 equal. The flowers, which open in 

 the morning, are three inches or 

 more across, of a beautiful rose 

 color, and are borne in large clus- 

 ters very freely from Juh' to frost. 

 Price, per packet, 25c. 



Dd|iliioioiii, "Pillar of Beauly." 



(-D. formosum codeatinum.) 

 Few plants contribute so much 

 ■beauty to the flower garden as 

 Delphiniums. In this variety of 

 formosum we have an unusually 

 pretty color — a delicate azure or 

 sky blue, so bright and pretty a 

 shade that it has to be seen to be 

 appreciated. The plants, of stately 

 nabit, are perfectly hardy, each pro- 

 ducing numerous spikes 1 to 2 feet 

 long literally covered with fl^owers 

 and lasting in bloom for weeks. 

 Price, per packet, 25c. 



Heliolrope-Leinoine's Giant Hjlrid. 



, ' These are grand improvements. 

 In our trials of the past season, 

 seed sown in April produced luxu- 

 riant, healthy, bushy plants 18 

 inches to 2 feet high by July, and 

 they bloomed abundantly until cut 

 down by frost. The clusters of 

 bloom were immense ; many meas- 

 ured 6 inches across and were 

 deliciously fragrant ; colors, laven- 

 der, white, purple, etc. 



Price, per packet, 25c. 



DELPHIOTtTM, " PII.T.AB OF BEAUTK,"' 



