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WILLIAM EWING & CO.'S 
POPPY h. a. 
Probably the most popular with amateurs of all annual 
flowers, and deservedly so, as no other plant in our 
gardens produces a more imposing display of briljiant 
coloring during the blooming period. They arc most effect- 
ive in masses or bonlnrs. and are of the easiest culture. 
No. 
427. 
428. 
439. 
SEED CATALOGUE 
Pkl. cts 
CHOICE MIXED— Splendid mixture of single 
varieties oz. 2Sc 5 
NEW JAPANESE POMPONE— 1 ft. Flowers are 
small and double ■ are produced in great pro- 
fusion and in beautiful colors 10 
THE SHIRLEY— A single variety of exquisitely 
shaded colors, ranging from blush white, 
pink, and carmine to brilliant crimson. 
A beautiful strain of free growth and 
exceedingly floriferous. Most graceful of 
all poppies. Ewing's Superb Mixture.. . . 10 
430. DWARF SHIRLEY— Rose 10 
431. " " Salmon Shades 10 
432. " " White 10 
433. " " Carmine 10 
New charming varieties 18 inches high. 
434. CARNATION FLOWERED-A hardy upright 
variety, 2 ft. high. Large doable flowers 
with fringed petals, mixed 5 
435. WHITE SWAN— 2 ft. Immense double 
blooms of pure white 10 
436. MIKADO— lift. Pure double white, edged 
and fringed with purple 5 
437. DANEBROG— 3 ft. Brilliant scarlet, 
blotched with silvery white 5 
438. MURSELLI, DOUBLE (American Flag)— 
White and orange-scarlet. Fine 5 
439. TULIP— H. a., ft. Vivid scarlet, with 
black spots at base of each petal, resembling 
a Tuhp 10 
440. LAEVIOATU.M C0MPACTUM^16 inches. 
Forms compact bush. The glowing dark 
scarlet blooms, with central black spots, 
are carried on sleniler stems, well above 
the foliage IS 
441. PAEONY FLOWERED— Produces a profu- 
sion of imn>ense double flowers 3 to 4 
inches across. A strong grower. 2 ft. high S 
PORTULACCA h. h. a. 
Beautiful little annuals of extremely 
brilliant colors; make a pretty bed in any 
sunny .situation. 
442. QRANDIFLORA, SPLENDID DOUBLE 
MIXED— i ft 10 
443. SINGLE FINE MIXED— I ft 5 
Ewing's Superb Shirley Poppy. 
424. NEW POPPY "DAINTY LADY"— This charming 
Poppy comes from Australia and can be recommend- 
ed for the particularly beautiful colcr of its smgle 
flowers, a most charming shade of rosy mauve, 
not yet represented among Poppits, and one 
of those modern hues now so 
much sought for. The effect 
is further heightened by the 
shining dark metallic blotch 
which occupies the base to the 
middle of each petal. The Dain- 
ty Lady Poppy grows about two 
feet high, is clothed with broad 
laciniated glaucous foliage and 
bears flowers from 4 to 5 inches 
across ^0 
425. SINGLE PAEONY FLOWERED 
—"MISS SHERWOOD"— Large 
single blooms of shining satiny 
white with upper part of cor- 
olla chamois rose. Beautiful 
foliage 5 
426. ADMIRAL— A single Paeony- 
flowered variety of surpassing 
beauty, having large smooth- 
edged flowers of glistening white 
with a broad band of brilliant 
scarlet around the top 10 
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Primula, K wing's Superb Prize Strain. 
