62 CONDON BROS., SEEDSMEN, ROCKFORD, ILLINOI S 
Complete List of Choice Flower Seeds 
ASTERS 
ASTERS 
CONDON'S SNOWBALL 
AMPELOPSIS 
Hardy Perennial Climber 
VEITCHll. Japanese Ivy. Boston Ivy. 
An introduction from Japan which is per- 
fectly hardy: 30 to 60 feet. It clings firm- 
ly and permanently to walls, trees, etc. 
Tn great favor in the cities for covering 
bare brick walls. Leaves deciduous. 
Packet, 4 cents. 
QUINQUEFOLA. True Virginia Creeper. 
Packet, 4 cents. 
ABUTILON 
Tender Perennial 
California Bell Flower. Flowering 
Maple, 1 to 3 feet; easily grown and al- 
ways in bloom. Pretty, drooping, bell- 
ehaped flowers, on slender, thread-like 
stems. Choicest Hybrids. Packet, 6 cents. 
BIRD OF PARADISE FLOWER 
SEMPLE'S BRANCHING 
ASTERS 
A fine, American strain, produc- 
ing handsome double flowers on 
long stems, all colors mixed. 
Packet, 4 cents. 
SNOWBALL 
Globe-shaped pure white flowers, 
valuable for massing in beds. 
Large Packet, 5 cents. 
FIRE KING 
The fiowers are of enormous 
size, rich crimson in color. Packet, 
3 cents, 
QUEEN OF THE 
MARKET 
Early, mixed colors. Packet, 3 cents. 
ROYAL PURPLE 
Medium bloomer producing large 
flowers of purple color. Packet, 4 
cents. 
LAVENDER GEM 
Flowers always full and double, 
of exquisite lavender shade deep- 
ening with age. Packet, 3 cents. 
TRUFFANT'S PAEONY 
FLOWERED ASTERS 
One of the handsomest Asters. 
Flowers large, very double, and in 
shape like a Paeony; grows 18 to 
2! inches high; colors mi.\ed. 
Packet, 4 cents, 
ANCHUSA 
THE HEAVENLY BLUE FLOW- 
ER. A hardy annual. It grows 
about 2 feet high, branching freely 
and bearing a profusion of the most 
lovely fiowers similar in all respects 
to the Forget-Me-Not, though the 
blossoms are much larger and of 
finer color. It is always taken for a 
beautiful large-flowering Forget- 
Me-Not, and for bouquets and cut 
flowers It is indeed superior to it. 
Its color is a deep, clear brilliant 
blue with a pure white eye. It 
blossoms early and continues all 
Summer. Packet, 4 cents. 
AGERATUM 
Hardy Annual 
Suitable for pot culture or bed- 
ding, bearing in profusion clusters 
of feathery flowers. This mi,\ture 
of colors contains the beautiful 
amethyst blue. Packet, 3 cents. 
BIRD OF PARADISE 
Tender Perennial 
This striliing and attractive 
flowc-r has lately become widely 
popular. Tlie blossoms are of a rich 
golden yellow, about 2^1 inches in 
diameter, produced in large trusses, 
the most strililng feature being the 
long , incurving stamens and pistils 
of a beautiful, bright crimson color. 
Seed should be soaked in warm 
water and started Indoors or under 
glass, in a light, sandy soil. A 
.sunny situation is required, In dry 
and warm soil, and no water other 
than the rains will be needed after 
the plants are established. Packet, 
5 cents. 
GIANT COMET 
iVlixed. 
These desirable large flowered 
Asters attain a heiglit of 12 to 15 
inches. They are early blooming, 
and quite distinct from all others. 
Long wavy and twisted petals re- 
sembling Japanese chrysanthe- 
mums. Pure white, crimson, rose, 
dark blue, lavender, striped blush, 
mixed. Packet, 4 cents- 
CONDON'S GIANT 
SUPERB MIXTURE 
Largest flowering, finest mixture. 
This is a mixture of all varieties 
listed on this page and many others. 
These Asters are very fine, having 
been grown from the best select 
flowers. Packet, 5 cents. 
IMPROVED HOHEN- 
ZOLLERN 
The largest flowered of Comet 
type; nearly G Inches in diameter; 
quite similar in form to a Japanese 
chrysanthemum, and a truly mag- 
nificent Aster in all respects. It 
has long stems and Is admirable 
for cutting. Mixed. Packet, 5 cents. 
CONDON'S 
BRILLIANT ASTER 
COLLECTION 
One packet each of the ten 
varieties for only 30 cents, post- 
paid. 
ALYSSUM 
Hardy Annual 
LITTLE GEiVI, Grows six inches 
high; commences to blossom early, 
producing immense heads, and 
when sown early in the open border 
soon forms a perfect mat of purest 
white. Packet, 4 cents. 
SWEET ALYSSUM 
Pure white. Packet, 3 cents. 
ANTIRRHINUM 
Tender Biennial 
GIANT. Flowers double the size 
of older sorts, more closely set on 
the stems, and colors more clear 
and brilliant. All colors mixed. 
Packet, 4 cents. 
TOM THUMB. Finest mixed. 
Packet, 3 cents. 
QUEEN OF THE NORTH. The 
finest and best. Packet, 6 cents. 
AQUILEGIA 
Hardy Perennial 
COLUMBINE. Bea uti f u 1. gro- 
tesque and varied-coV)j'o<l fluivers. 
blooming freely in the spring: hardy 
perennials; all colors mixed. 
Packet, 3 cents. 
BALSAM APPLE 
A beautiful climbing plant with 
queer shaped fruits, which, if pre- 
served in .alcohol, make a rriost use- 
ful liniment. Foliage gracefully cut 
and although tender annuals, the 
vines run ten feet or more during 
the season. Packet. 5 cents. 
