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Arthur T.Boddin^' ton, 342 West 14th St.. New Vork City 



Giant Sweet Sultan 



(Centaurea Imperialis) 



This new Ci.-iitaurea represents the best that 

 has been proihiceti in tliese beautiful summer- 

 blooming plants. The bushes are about 4 feet 

 high, and are covered with large, b.autiful 

 flowers of the form and fragrance of Centaurea 

 Margaret. The flowers will keep for over a 

 week in water, if cut just when they aie about 

 to open. It is of easiest culture. If a package is 

 sown every two or three weeks until July, a 

 constant succession of bloom can be had 

 throughout the whole summer and fall. This is 

 one of the best of the hardy cut-flowers, and 

 they are forced very extensively under glass by 

 florists. 



Boddington's Pure White. One of the best 

 white flowers for cutting ; extremely large, 

 sweet and beautiful. 



Armida. Very delicate color ; pink with white 

 tinge. 



Favorita. Brilliant rose. 

 Graziosa. Intense dark lilac. 

 Splendens. Brilliant dark purple. 

 Variabilis. White, marked purple, fading to 



rose. 



Price of any of above kinds, pkt. 10 cts., i^ioz. 25 

 cts., oz. 76 cts. ; any 3 pkts. 20 cts. ; 1 pkt. 

 of each kind 35 cts. 



Delphinium, Erskine 



Giant Sweet Bultan, Boddington's 

 Pure White 



Beautiful hybrids of £>. forniosuni 

 and D. nudicaule, containing all the 

 most beautiful shades from light lav- 

 ender to deepest blue. The Delphin- 

 iums are among the most stately of 

 perennials, with their tall, graceful 

 spikes of showy blue flowers. The 

 seed is saved specially for us, and we 

 can recommend it as containing some 

 of the grandest types ever introduced. 

 Pkt. 25 cts., 5 pkts. for$i. 



Dianthus Heddewigi laciniatus fl. pi.. 



Snowdrift (novelty) 



A grand new double white summer pink ; large flowers, 

 introductions of the season. Pkt. ',0 cts. 



One of the best 



Single Hybrid Everblooming Hollyhocks 



Gloxinia, Boddington's Ideal 



This seed, which is saved from the finest Erecta and Superba types by a 

 noted grower of Gloxinias, contains some of the most wonderful self-colored 

 and spotted varieties. Pkt. $1, %. pkt. 60 cts. 



HOLLYHOCKS 



SINGLE HYBRID EVERBLOOMING HOLLYHOCKS, FINEST 

 MIXED. A novelty of great value offered two years ago. Plants can be 

 treated exactly as annuals ; the seed may be started in the house or hotbeds 

 in March or April, and will connnence to flower in July, and stay uninterrupt- 

 edly in flow er until very late in the season, in a very rich collection of colors, 

 from snowy white, rosy carmine, yellow, t)lood-red to the deepest black. Plants 

 branch out freely and grow to a height of about 10 feet. Pkt. 25c., Mpkt. 15c. 



DOUBLE HYBRID EVERBLOOMING HOLLYHOCKS. The mix- 

 ture contains a rich collection of colors, from white to deep black, light and 

 canary yellow, flesh-color, dark, light and salmon-rose, scarlet, cherry, red, 

 purple, blackish brown, etc. The plants can be treated as annuals ; the seeds 

 may l)e started in the house, or in hotbeds, frames, etc., in March or April. 

 Plants transplanted by the beginning of May in the open ground will com- 

 mence to flower about the end of July, 10 d.iys after Hollyhocks that have been 

 treated as biennials. The plants will remain in flower uninterruptedly- until very 

 late in the season. Plants branch out freely and grow to a height of about 10 

 feet. Pkt. 25 cts., 5^pkt. 15 cts. 



For other Hollyhocks, see page 21 



Lupinus polyphyllus aureus (NOVELTY) 



Flowers a fine ckar yellow, a new color in the perennial Lupines, and a 

 very striking novelty. Pkt. 50 cts. 



