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Flower Seeds. 



To simplify as much as possible, and to assist our patrons in their selections, 

 we have divided the flower-seeds into classes ; viz., Annuals, Biennials, and Pe- 

 rennials, Climbers, Greenhouse, Ornamental Grasses, and Foliage Plants. 



We have also given the botanical, and the popular name when there is such, 

 together with the natural order to which they belong. These, with full remarks 

 added, will be of great assistance to the amateur. 



MAKE HOME BEAUTIFUL. 



Make your home beautiful ; bring to it flowers ; 



Plant them around you to bud and to bloom ; 

 Let them give life to your loneliest hours, 



Let them bring light to enliven your gloom. 

 Then shall it be, when afar on life's billows, 



Wherever your tempest-tossed children are flung, 

 They will long for the shades of the home weeping-willow, 



And sing the sweet song which their mother had sung. 



ANNUALS. 



ABRONIA. Nat. Ord., Nydaginiacece. 



A charming plant, with verbena-like heads of sweet-scented flowers. 

 Very effective in beds, rock-work, or in baskets suspended in a conserva- 

 tory ; growing freely in any light, rich soil, and flowering from August to 

 October. 



PRICE. 



Abronia umbellata. Rosy lilac, half-hardy annual. Half foot high . .10 



ADONIS, Nat. Ord., Ranunculacece. 



The flowers are very brilliant, but small, and not numerous compared 

 with amount of foliage and size of plant ; bloom for a long time. Set 

 twelve inches apart. The following are hardy annuals : — 



Adonis aestivalis. Summer; scarlet. I foot ic 



" autumnalis. Autumn ; blood-red. 1 foot . . . . . 10 



AGERATTTM. Nat. Ord., Composite. 



Valuable hardy annuals for beds or borders, and exceedingly useful for 

 cut flowers ; continue in flower the whole summer, and do well in almost 

 any soil ; flowers small, in clusters. Good for winter flowers in the house. 



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