PANSIES 



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Holmes Seed Company, Harrisburg, Pa. 



SPECIMEN 

 PANSY OF 

 HOLMES' 

 FAMOUS GIANT PEK- 

 FECTION MIXTURE. 



Holmes' Mimulus, 

 or Monkey Flower 



Flowers Resemble the 

 Face of a Monkey 



The flowers are curiously 

 shaped, resembling, to some ex- 

 tent, the face of a monkey, be- 

 cause of which, it has been named 

 Monkey Flower. Brilliantly color- 

 ed, blotched and spotted; excel- 

 lent for pots and baskets, also for 

 open ground; adapted to moist, 

 shady situations. One foot high; 

 blooms first year. Pkt. 5 cts., 

 7 pkts. 25 cts. 



JOB^S TEARS 



(Coix Lachryma) 



Annual ornamental grass and a 



PANSIES 



HOLMES' UNEXCELLED 



GIANT EXHIBITION MIXTURE 



No Pansies in the world can surpass this mammoth selection of 

 specimen flowers. Our ambition in this mixture is, ' 'perfection, ' ' and 

 our customers tell us we must surely have reached the mark of our 

 ambition, for we have never seen any Pansies to equal these either in 

 size, form or markings. It is a selection of tlie most gorgeous named 

 exhibition of flowers of rapturous beauty unsurpassed, and we make 

 it up of seed saved from only the largest, most perfect in form and 

 markings, and brightest, showiest flowers, selected personally from 

 the beds of Giant varieties. There is no mixture to be compared 

 with it. A bed of these makes an effect too gorgeous to describe. The 

 price may seem a little high to some, but we are sure that after you 

 have grown them you will say the seed was worth ten times what you 

 paid. (See illustration below.) Pkt. 20 cts., 3 pkts, 50 cts., 

 ^ oz. $2.00, 3^ oz. $3.50. 



Holmes' Giant Perfection PaLHisies 



A remarkable strain of Giant Pansies, the flowers of which are so 

 large and full that the broad petals seem to be ''gathered" to the ' 

 stem, causing them to be undtilated and fluted from centre to circum- 

 ference, not unlike "frilled" velvet. The xmu sua! substance of the | 

 flowers, aided by these con-ugations, thus enables them to present 

 bold, open and handsome faces, even during windy or dry summer j 

 weather, when other pansy flowers flop or wilti The flowers are ex- 

 traordinarily large and are borne on strong stems well above the foli- 

 age; they are nearly all five-blotched on the "Odier" pattern, and 

 contain rich combinations of coloring, inchiding some new tints 

 and blendings not met with in other pansies. The plants are 

 vigorous and large, and flower abundantly. Splendid selection 

 for garden and florists. Mixed Colors Pkt. 10 cts. 



MONKEY FLOWER 



favorite of all flower lovers. The leaves are broad and corn-like; 1h« • 

 seeds produced are hard, with a shining pearly appearance. Interestinir ^ 

 to children who ofttimes string the seeds as beads. Pkt. 5 cts. \ 



PORTULACA Easily Grown 



Any dry, bare spot in the garden exposed to the sun will be the place 

 for Portidaca. It covers the ground completely with a green carpet, 

 strewn with masses of flowers in glowing colors. Annual. Finest Sin- 

 gle Mixed and Double Kose-flowered Mixed. Either Pkt. 5c. 



GIANT PANSY. MASTERPIECE 



Enormous flowers, 4 inches across, daintily ruffled edges, clearly dis- 

 tinct markings and, in fact, a flower of recent introduction that has won 

 volumes of praise from lovers of this particular flower. It is a master 

 indeed of its class. Pkt. 15 cts., 2 pkts. 25 cts. 



NOTE — Our crop of Seed Pansies from which 'this seed was selected 

 was the nearest perfection we have ever seen. Mammoth flowers of gor- 

 geous markings. 



GIANT EXHIBITION PANSY. 



HOLMES' SEEDS ARE SEEDS OF KNOWN VITALITY AND PURITY. 



