FAMOUS ROCK RIVER VALLEY SEED FARM 
105 
Bloom from Seed 
VERBENA 
In 8 Weeks' Time 
CONDON'S GIANX MIXED VERBENA 
WALL FLOWER 
Half Hardy Perennial 
Sow indoors tn March : trans- 
plant in April or May. Will be in 
full bloom in September. Make 
the choicest bouquets. 
Choicest Mixed 
Spikes of deliciously fragrant 
flowers, combining many shades 
and colors, chocolate and orange- 
purple predominating. Packet. 5 
cents. 
Condon's Giant Mixed 
Half Hardy Perennial 
This selection and mixture embrace all the choice and 
most desirable colors in the Giant Flowering Verbenas, the 
shades are mostly very delicate and dainty, in fact, perfectly 
exquisite, there being very little of the common blue and 
purple colors among them, but instead they have beautiful 
pinks, lavenders, whites, da-zzling scarlet, mottled, striped, 
blushes, variegated, and all the auricula-flowered varieties 
with white eyes. It is truly the best Giant, or Mammoth 
Strain yet introduced for mammoth size of flowers, perfect 
form of trusses, rich and most velvety colors. Some of the 
individual florets are nearly as large as a silver half dollar. 
Packet, 8 cents. 
Condon's New Century 
Mammoth Pink 
The most magnificent pink strain offered, producing uni- 
formly magnificent trusses with flowers of unusual size. 
The individual blossoms are frequently as large as a silver 
half dollar. Take a silver coin and try to cover any of 
the single flowers of the corymb illustrated herewith 
and you will realize how magnificent in size are the single 
florets, as the Hlustration has been accurately reproduced 
from photograph, natural size. Famous as the finest strains 
of Verbenas known. The plants are vigorous and short- 
jointed, and perfect sheets of bloom. The trusses are very 
large, the flowers of mammoth size, perfect form, and em- 
brace the richest and most velvety pink colors. They are also 
delicately sweet scented. In color they are in fact perfectly 
exquisite. Packet, 7 cents. 
New Lemon Scented Verbena 
Flowers Pure White 
This elegant, fragrant plant is easily grown from seed and 
succeeds anywhere. Have a good bed of it in the garden 
every summer, that you can cut its fragrant foliage and 
flowers to make up with bouquets. Paekct, 5 cents. 
ZINNIA 
CONDON'S NEW CENTURY MAMMOTH 
PINK VERBENA 
NOTICE. OUR FLOWER 
SEED will GROW and BLOOM 
CLASSIFICATION OF FLOWER SEEDS 
Annuals, riardy Annuals and Tender An- 
nuals attain full growth from seed, flower 
and die in one year. Biennials, Hardy Bien- 
nials and Tender Biennials grow from seed 
one year, bloom and die the next, though 
some varieties bloom the first season when 
sown early. Tender Perennials last for sev- 
eral years, blooming annually; must be taken 
Indoors during the winter. Hardy Perenni- 
als and Half Hardy Perennials last for sev- 
eral years, blooming annually after the first 
season, though some varieties bloom the first 
WALLFLOWER, CHOICEST S( . ason if 80wn early. 
MIXED 
CONDON'S WILD FLOWER GARDEN MIXTURE 
Easily Grown, Quick Bloomers, Affording a Beauty Spot in Season. 
A mixture of the choicest (lower seeds, mostly annuals, but included 
are perennials, everlastings and ornamental grasses, to be sown haphazard, 
in a promiscuous way. The results are both surprising and charming and 
on account of the various seasons of bloom, flowers can be had from early 
Bummer till frost, many of which will be fine for cutting. We have received 
many testimonials of the pleasing results obtained. Packet, 4 cents. 
Hardy Annual 
No flowers are more easily 
grown from seeds sown in the 
open ground, and few bloom so 
continuously throughout the en- 
tire summer. 
Condon's Mammoth 
Flowering Zinnias, 
Choicest Mixed 
These splendid large-flowering 
Zinnias (see illustration) repre- 
sent the very highest perfection 
yet attained in this flower, and 
for perfect doubleness, mammoth 
size, as well as the wonderful va- 
riety of colors and shades are un- 
surpassed in any strain in cul- 
tivation. Packet, 5 cents. 
CONDON'S MAMMOTH ZINNIAS 
