Cardinal Climber and Marguerite Carnations offered on this page should be in every garden 



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CANNA (Indian Shot Plant) 

 Hardy Annual 



They are easily grown; attain a height of 3 to 7 feet and may be 

 own singly or in masses. Leaves green or brownish red; flowers, 

 arlet, orimson, yellow, cream, pink.white, etc., variously marked and 

 tted. Cannas are easily grown from seed. For best results pierce 

 e seed In one spot with a file and soak the seeds in warm water until 

 ey show evidence of swelling. Then sow in sandy loam, and when 

 own to the second leaf pot off singly until the proper season for 

 anting out. At our farm, seed sown March 28th bloomed July loth. 



1188 Canna, Mixed. 



1187 LARGE FLOWERING FRENCH AND AMERICAN. Not 

 ■ tall as the old-fashioned sorts, but with flowers of great beauty; 

 ■erywhere popular. These seedlings vary in color, ranging through 



I shades of yellow and orange to richest orimson, scarlet and vermil- 

 n. Some plain, some spotted. Our mixture contains only the best. 



Packet, 15 cents; ounce, 35 cents; pound, SI. 00; postpaid. 



1188 MIXED. This grand mixture of cannas with highly orna- 

 ental foliage produces clusters of brilliant blossoms all summer and 



II from spring sown seed. They are simply marvelous, showing col- 

 •s and variegations ranging from almost white to brilliant scarlet and 

 irk maroon, rosy pink, yellow, orange, buff, lemon, striped, bronzed, 

 ated and variegated. Bloom in four months from seed. 



Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 20 cents; % pound, 60 cents; postpaid. 



or roots of cannas, see pages 158 and 159 of this Seed Book. 



CARDINAL CLIMBER 



Hardy Annual Climber 



1190 THE MOST BRILLIAST 

 AND BEAUTIFUL CLIMBER 

 EVER GROWN. A splendid new 

 climber of great value. A strong 

 and rapid grower, attaining a height 

 of 20 to 30 feet with beautiful deeply 

 laclniated leaves and just covered 

 with intense cardinal red flowers 

 from mid-summer till frost. Flowers 

 measure 1>£ to 2 inches across and 

 are borne in clusters of 5 to 7 blooms 

 each. For best results soak the seed 

 in water a few hours before planting 

 and do not sow out-doors until the 

 weather is warm, for if sown in 

 cold, wet ground, they are liable to 

 rot. Plant in a warm, sunny posi- 

 tion and good soil and you will have 

 a climber of remarkable elegance 

 and beauty. Packet, 15 cents; 

 2 packets, 25 cents. 



1190 Cardinal Climber. 



MAULE'S SEEDS WIN THE PRIZES 

 At oar annual flower show this 

 fall in St. Catharines, I received 

 first prize on Scabiosa and Antirr- 

 hinum from the seed I got from yon. 

 C. A. Stephenson, 



Port Dalhousie, OnL Canada 



CARNATIONS 



Half Hardy Perennial 



The so-called carnations have 

 within recent deoades developed 

 Into types of rare beauty and fra- 

 grance. The Marguerite carnations 

 are among the best of the class. The 

 Picotees are carnations with white 

 flowers, trimmed, spotted or edged 

 with some other color. Most of the 

 carnations are quite hardy, surviv- 

 ing the winter if given a slight pro- 

 tection. No flowers are more lov«ly. 

 Seeds sown thinly in the open 

 ground, in spring, will bloom the 

 first season and if the plants are 

 potted up after flowering out-doors 

 they will bloom freely in the house 

 during the winter. 



1191 CHABAUD'S PERPET- 

 UAL EARLV FLOWERING, 

 MIXED COLORS. Large flowers in 

 all the beautiful shades. Blooms in 

 1192 Carnations and Picotees, Mixed. 5 monthsafter sowingand continues 

 to flower in such profusion as to astonish those who have never seen 

 Carnations grown from seed before. This strain produces a large 

 proportion of double and semi-double flowers. Packet, 15 cents. 



1192 CARNATIONS AND PICOTEES, FINEST MIXED. White 

 flowers edged, spotted or splased with some other colors, making them 

 especially attractive in beds or borders as well as for table decoration. 



Packet, 20 cents; 3 packets, 50 cents; 7 packets, Sl.OO. 

 MAMMOTH FLOWERING MARGUERITE CARNATION. 



We have saved the seed of this strain from the best and finest flowers 

 only, so you may be sure of robust plants giving an abundance of 

 beautiful fringed double flowers within six months from time of sowing 

 the seed. On the third cover page we attempt to illustrate these 

 carnations in colors. If you have never grown them, be sure to give 

 them a trial this year and we are confident you will be pleased. 



Carnation, Mammoth Flowering Marguerite. 

 MAMMOTH FLOWERING MARGUERITE. They may be treated 

 as annuals, or wintered with slight protection out of doors. Easily 

 grown and make the best of bedding plants, blooming the first sum- 

 mer, and if lifted in September and potted, they will bloom in the 

 house throughout the winter. The flowers are large, fully eighty per 

 cent, are perfectly double; all are of a deliciously, sweet spicy fragrance 

 and of many brilliant oolors, including red, pink, white, variegated, etc. 



1193 STRIPED SORTS. Packet, 15 cents; 2 packets, 25 cents. 



1194 ROSE. Packet, 15 cents; 2 packets, 25 cents. 



1195 WHITE. Packet, 15 cents; 2 packets, 25 cents. 



1196 SCARLET. Packet, 15 cents; 2 packets, 25 cents. 



1197 . YELLOW. Packet, 15 cents; 2 packets, 25 cents. 



1198 FINEST MIXED. All the most desirable colors. 

 Packet, 15 cts.| y, ounce, 50 cts.; % ounce, 80 eta.; ounce, 83.00. 



