Flower Seed Novelties, 190 



While every year we look upon flower seed novelties placed upon the market with more or less scepticism, we must not 

 overlook the fact that all the really good things of today were novelties at one time, and were looked upon with as much, or 

 perhaps more suspicion than the novelties of today. 



It was the same in mechanical improvements and novelties,— how the locomotive, the spinning-jenny, the telegraph and 

 telephone, were pooh-poohed upon their first announce- 

 ment; and so it was with the American Beauty, the Early 

 Rose Potato, the Branching Aster and other horticultural 

 phenomena. They were all new once. 



There are many novelties offered this year from differ- 

 ent sources, but it is our endeavor to select only those we 

 know something about, have seen, or that are highly recom- 

 mended from sources other than the disseminator. The 

 descriptions are those of the introducers themselves. 



You cannot afford to be without some of these really 

 good introductions. You lose interest when you know what 

 a certain bloom or flower will be like: but your natural in- 

 quisitiveness will be aroused when you do not know; your 

 ultimate knowledge, in any event, will not be fraught with 

 disappointment. 



Antirrhinum, snapdragon 



Very useful for cutting and bedding. Height from 12 to 18 

 inches. 



BODDINGTON'S PINK. A lovely shade of creamy pink. 

 Pkt. 50 CIS. 



BODDINGTON'S ORANGE KING. The most vivid 

 color yet achieved in Antirrliinunis, being a glowing orange self. 

 Pkt. 50 cts. 



Admiral Poppy. 'Papacer paoniflomm 



This single, pasony-tlowered Poppy is of surprising beauty. 

 It is characterized by large, round, smooth-edged flowers of 

 glistening pure white, with a broad band of brilliant scarlet 

 around the top occupying a full quarter of the corolla. These 

 two colors form an extremely telling contrast, similar to that 

 seen in the variety Danebrog. Planted in groups, the new Admi- 

 ral Poppy, which comes true from seed, produces a magnificent 

 effect. (See illustration. ) Pkt. 25 cts. , 5 pkts. for jti Admiral Poppy 



Petunia "Rheingold." Petunia gmndiflora superbissima 



Of all the inti eductions of this season, the new "Rheingold" Petunia occupies without 

 doubt one of the first places. Our very large colltrction of Petunias embraces all the noblest 

 forms and most brilliant colors, and out of these ' Rheingold" stands radiant in its bril- 

 liancy, leaving every other color in the shade. Petunia "Rheingold" belongs to the Super- 

 bissima Class of Large-flowering Petunias. It has very large flowers of noble shape, whose 

 widely-opened throat, far up toward the outer margin, is steeped into a clear, bright 

 golden yellow, untarnished by the usual net of dark veins, and which with the pure white 

 margin is of a most marvelous effect. No lover of Petunias can afford to be without the 

 "Rheingold Petunia." Pkt. 50 cts., 3 pkls. for $1.25. 



Petunia, King Alphonso 



This fine new Petunia of the Grandiflora superbissimaclass, bears verj' large, dark crim- 

 son flowers. The petals are boldly waved and frilled to such an extent that the widely opened 

 brilliant black throat of the flower is often almost concealed. Pkt. 50 cts., 3 pkts. for $1.25. 



Butterfly Runner Bean. Phaseolus multifloms PapiUo 



Among the climbing plants which deck our arbors and trellises, the varieties of the Scar- 

 let Runner Bean occui)y a leading place, and rightly so, as they serve a double purpose, 

 yielding a useful dish for the kitchen and brightening the garden by their gaily hued flow- 

 ers until far into the autumn. They are seen in the smallest garden, where no room can be 

 spared for anything purely ornamental. This new variety is equal to the old sorts as regards 

 productiveness and quality of fruit, but is quite distinct and farsurpasses them in the beauty 

 of its flowers; what chiefly distinguishes the latter is the size of the prettily waved, snowy 

 white wings and the salmon-rose of the standard, these two colors making a most agreeable 

 and striking contrast. The vine is also extremely floriferous. In the Butterfly Bean we have 

 a beautiful new i)lant both for the kitchen aTid the pleasure garden, which will certainly 

 soon come into general cultivation and enjoy universal favor. (See illustration.) Pkt. 15 cts , 

 6 pkts. for 75 cts. 



Butterlly Bunner Bean 



