SMILAX. A climbing perennial, witli beautiful, bright-green, 
glossy leaves, much esteemed for its long, delicate sprays of 
foliage. Largely used for decorating. Start seed under glass 
and transplant six inches apart. It requires strings or wires to 
climb on when very young. Pkt. 5c; oz. 50c. 
SNAPDRAGON (Antirrhinum). A half hardy perennial, 
growing from six inches to two feet tall. Flowers 
are oddly shaped and apparently closed, but by 
pressing the sides together can be made to open like a 
dog's mouth. The newer strains are large flowered 
and contained in a great number of shades and colors. 
Fine Mixed. Pkt. 5c. 
Giant Varieties. Mixed. Pkt. 10c. 
SNAPDRAGON.— Continued. 
Tom Thumb, or Dwarf Varieties. Six inches tall. 
Mixed. Pkt. 5c. 
Queen of the North. Pure white. Pkt. 10c. 
Firefly. Scarlet, white throat. Pkt. 10c. 
Niobe. Maroon, white throat. Pkt. 10c. 
Picturatum. Blotched varieties. Mixed. Pkt. 10c. 
Queen Victoria. New white. Pkt. 10c. 
SOLANTJM (Jerusalem Cherry). Very ornamental plant for house 
or garden culture; the flowers being followed by small brightly 
colored fruit or berries, which almost completely coyer the plants. 
Flowering and fruiting the first season from seed. Pkt. 10c. 
STATICE (Sea Lavender). A class of everlastings, of various 
colors, beautiful for winter bouquets. Pkt. 5c. 
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Spider Plant. See Cleome Pungens. 
STEVIA. A tender perennial, one and one-half feet high and bearing 
clusters of small white, fragrant blossoms. Suitable for summer 
or winter blooming, and for pot culture or open air. Serrata. 
Pkt. 10c. 
STOCKS (Ten Weeks' Stocks, or Gilliflowers). Hardy 
annuals, two feet high, with spikes densely covered 
with beautiful, double flowerets. The flowers come 
in many colors and tints and are fragrant and very 
valuable for bedding and cut flowers. The flower- 
seed growers have devoted a great deal of attenticm 
and care to this flower, and have developed a large 
number of varieties, and have so improved the double 
varieties that they will come fully eighty per cent 
double, where they formerly would not come fifty 
per cent so. Of easy culture. Sow seed in hotbeds 
or boxes and transplant. 
STOCKS. Cut and Come Again. White. Princess 
Alice or White Perpetual. Best for cutting. Pkt. 
15c. 
Emperor, or Perpetual. A biennial double variety, 
the plants sometimes lasting many years if pro- 
tected. 
White, for florists. Pkt. 10c. 
Mixed. Pkt. 10c. 
German Double. A very good double strain. White, 
pkt. 10c. Mixed, pkt. 10c. 
Early Large Flowering Winter. Almond Blossom, 
pkt. 25c. 
Beauty of Nice. A beautiful flesh pink with very 
large spikes. It is of the cut and come again type, 
bearing continuously throughout the season. Very 
large handsome spikes. Pkt. 15c; J£ oz. $1.00. 
Stocks— Beauty of Nice 
-Dwarf Ten Weeks Mixed 
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Snapdragon— Queen Victoria 
