4 J. M. Thorburn & Co. 's Catalogue of Seeds. 



New, Rare and Valuable 

 Flower Seeds. 



Aster, AVgporj. 



MIGNON ASTER 



The Mignon Aster is now a well-established favorite, and this year we have two new colors added to those 

 formerlyintroduced. The plants are semi-dwarf, and bear, when well grown, 40 to 50 flowers of beautiful shape, 



and unsurpassed for cutting. Flowers of three distinct shades 

 of color are borne at the same time by one plant, the blossoms 

 on first appearing being pure white, those half developed white 

 changing to rose or lilac, and finally the full-blown flowers are 

 of a beautiful pure rose or lilac. White, changing to rose, per 

 plct., 25 cts. ; white, changing to lilac, per pkt., 25 cts. 



Aster, Cornet, Srjow-Wbite. 



The flowers of this splendid new class are very large and ex- 

 tremely double, with incurved petals, giving them the appear- 

 ance of the finest Japanese chrysanthemums. We have pleas- 

 ure in offering this year a beautiful snow-white variety, which 

 we believe will become the leading variety of this class. It is 

 perhaps the whitest of all Asters, and the flowers are perfect in 

 form. Per pkt., 25 cts. 



Aster, Paeony-flowerecl Deep A\auve. 



The flowers are very large, perfect in form and of a most ex- 

 quisite, rich, deep mauve color. Per pkt., 10 cts. 



Canna, A\a<Iarne Crozy. 



Of the many fine varieties of the celebrated Crozy Cannas, 

 this is undoubtedly the grandest. It is of erect and compact 

 habit, attaining a height of about 3 feet ; it is extremely flor- 

 ifero is, and the large flowers, which are of a splendid bright 

 vermilion, edged with golden yellow, are produced uninter- 

 ruptedly until frost. The light green foliage is also very hand- 

 some. Per pkt. of 20 seeds, 10 cts. 



Carnation, Double A\argaret. 



Probably no plant of recent introduction is destined to be so generally useful as this new race of perennia l 

 Double Carnations. Seed sown in spring will flower all summer, and seed sown in the fall and kept under glass 

 will flower freely all winter. For cut-flowers they are simply invaluable, as they come into flower so soon after 

 sowing, and produce such an abundance of blooms. They are equally 

 suitable for open air or pot-culture, beiagof very vigorous growth and 

 extremely dwarf and compact in habit. Per pkt., 10 cts. 



tizw Celo?ia, ' 4 Ostrich) Featber." 



This new Feathered Celosia produces very large crimson plumes, 

 which are exquisitely curved and curled in exact resemblance of an 

 ostrich feather. The plant grows about 3 feet high, is of hand- 

 some pyramidal form, and the numerous massive plumes waving 

 gracefully above the foliage make it one of the most effective orna- 

 mental plants for either pot or out-door culture. It is of easy culti- 

 vation, requiring the same treatment as the ordinary Cockscomb. 

 Per pkt., 25 cts. 



Clernati? pankulata. 



A magnificent climbing plant, producing myriads of white, star- 

 shaped flowers, an inch or more in diameter. They are produced 

 in such abundance as almost to hide the foliage, and they have a 

 delicious hawthorn fragrance. At Eastman Cottage, Welle?ley Col- 

 lege, there is a plant covering nearly the whole of one side of a 

 gable roof, and more than four hundred square feet. Seeds sown in 

 the autumn and wintered over in a frame or cool greenhouse com- 

 mence to germinate in spring. Per packet, 10 cents. 



DatUrZV Corr>UCOpia. (Tr>e "Horn of Plenty.") 



The plant is of robust habit, and, while it is not hardy, assumes the 

 proportions of a good-sized shrub in a single season. The leaves 

 are large, dark green, and the stem is brownish purple, with a 

 shining surface. The flower is immense, often 10 inches long arc! 

 5 inches wide at the mouth, and conical, having three cones, one 

 within the other, each with spreading, wavy margin. The color is 

 fine purple and French white, the former predominating outside, and 



the latter within the throat and the tube of the flower. Per pkt., 25c. new celosia, " ostrich feather." 



