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Flower Seed Novelties and Specialties 
New Sweet Alyssum, Lilac Queen 
This new and distinct variety of Sweet Alys- 
sum is of dwarf compact habit and produces 
flowers of a pure lilac shade. The plants when 
in full bloom resemble a miniature candytuft. 
Pkt. 15c. 
Amberboa muricata rosea 
A new hardy annual. The plants grow to a 
height of from 1^ to 2 feet, and produce num- 
bers of large flowers, about 2 inches in diam- 
eter, somewhat resembling a cornflower or 
centaurea, but of a charming light pink shade. 
It is highly recommended for cutting purposes, 
as the flowers are produced on long stems and 
last well in water. Pkt. 10c. 
Anchusa italica, Dropmore 
This beautiful perennial plant is of recent in- 
troduction and should be planted in every gar- 
den. The plants grgw 4 to 5 feet high and 
are remarkable for their free and continuous 
blooming. The flowers, which are produced 
in long spikes, are of a rich gentian-blue shade. 
Pkt. 15c. 
New Double Snapdragon 
(Antirrhinum majus grandiflorum fllore plane) 
This is quite a new departure in the large 
flowering Snapdragon. The flowers differ 
from the ordinary type, having abnormal, fan- 
tastic petals, produced in the mouthlike aper- 
ture of the flowers, which give them a double 
or beard-like appearance. From 60 to 70 per 
cent of the seedlings produce flowers with this 
peculiar phenomenon more or less in evidence, 
the remainder producing large blossoms of the 
ordinary type. It is of great value for cutting. 
and also produces a striking effect in the gar- 
den with the long spikes of beautiful white or 
yellow blossoms. White or Yellow, each, per 
pkt., 15c. 
Double White Snapdragon 
Long Spurred Hybrid Aquilegias 
A magnificent strain of hybrid Columbines 
producing an abundance of very large flowers, 
with long spurs and borne on tall, graceful 
stems. The colors range in all shades of blue, 
lavender, mauve, yellow, orange, scarlet, rose- 
pink and white. Pkt. 15c. 
Giant Branching Comet, or California 
Ostrich Plume Aster 
This magnificent strain is of California ori- 
gin, and is without doubt the best of the late 
flowering asters for our climate. They grow 
from 2 to 2j4 feet high, and form strong, much- 
branched bushy plants. The flowers are pro- 
duced in large quantities, on long wiry stems, 
and are of immense size, often four or five 
inches across ; they are of the most perfect 
form, with long, broad and curled petals. For 
cutting purposes this strain has no equal. I 
offer them in 7 different colors: White, rose, 
light pink, shrimp pink, crimson, lavender and 
dark blue. ...Each, per pkt., 10c. ; %. oz., 75c. 
Collection of 7 colors in separate pkts. for 50c. 
Finest mixed, pkt. 10c; oz., 75c. 
Aster, Violet King 
By many this is considered the grandest of 
all Asters. It fon-os a large branching plant 
with long, stiff stems and luxuriant darlc green 
foliage. The flowers are of large size, many 
of them measuring 5 inches in diameter, of 
rounded form with the petals more or less 
quilled. The color is a soft shade of violet. 
Pkt. 15c. 
