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WILLIAM EWING & CO.'S SEED CATALOGUE 
Summer Flowering Bulbs 
When cash accompanies order. Bulbs are sent by Mail, post-paid, except where otherwise stated. 
AMARYLLIS, FORMOSISSIMA— 10c. each; $1 per doz. Rich blood crimson flowers. Adapted for pot culture, but will do well 
in a sunny border outside. 
AMARYLLIS, JOHNSONII — Large crimson flowers, striped with white; 75c. each. 
AMARYLLIS, BELLADONNA MAJOR — Silv«ry white turning to rose; 50c. 
TUBEROUS-ROOTED BEGONIA 
The Tiiberous-Rooted Begonia, though vahiable for pot. culture and greenhouse decoration, is even more so for bedding out. The bulbs 
should be started either in the house or in a hot-bed, in pots, so as to be near the flowenng stage about the end of May. This is time enough to 
plantfout in the open ground, and in an ordinary season they wiU flower steadily from then till frost comes, and no plant makes a gayer or 
more attractive be^. The single flowers are large and numerous and of the most varied colors and dehoate tints, and the same is true of the 
di)ublf™rietieR, which form perfect double rosettes. Soil should be rich^but not damp or too heavy, and they succeed^ best in a .position that 
is^shaded from the mid-day sun. Watering must be closely attended to 
in poti to be ready to plant out in spring again. 
Lift the bulbs before the frost' sets in, and store in a cool cellar, and start 
SINGLE VARIE- 
Begonia Single Tuberous-Rooted 
GLADIOLUS 
TIES, in separate 
colors, Scarlet, 
White, Yellow 
and Rose, 10c. 
each ; 80c. per 
doz. Mixed Var- 
ieties, 10c. each; 
70c. per doz.; 85 
per 100. 
DOUBLE VARIE- 
TIES, in separate 
1^ colors, Scarlet, 
Rose, Red, Yel- 
low and White, 
20c. each; $1.60 
per doz. Mixed 
Varieties, 15c. 
each; $1.50 per 
dozen. 
Prices of Gladioli arc post-paid when cash accompanies order, excepting 
the hundred. The' 100 rates do not Include carriage or postage. 
by 
Special prices to large buyers. 
The Gladiolus is one of the most desirable of Summer Flowers. The blooms are of the greatest 
brilliancy and diversity of color, and costs less money for the display made from July to October (by 
making successive plantings), than any other Flowering Bulb. Plant 6 inches deep in rich soil, any 
time in May. Take the bulbs up in October and store over winter in a cool, dry cellar. A bed of a 
hundred or more is a grand sight. Our Mixed Gladioli are all first size bulbs, and will flower well 
the first season. 
Per doz. 
STRIPED and VARIEGAT- 
ED — Mixed 45c. 
WHITE and LIGHT— Mixed . 45c. 
RED and SCARLET— Mixed . 25c. 
Per 100 
$3.00 
3.00 
1.50 
Flower spikes are some - 
Per doz. Per 100 
CHOICE MIXED— All colors . 2oc. -SI . 25 
PINK and^OSE— Mixed 35c. 2 . 00 
YELLOW and ORANGE— 
Mixed 50c. 3.50 
SNOW WHITE— Each 15c.; per doz. 81.75. 
BUTTERFLY, LEMOINE'S HYBRIDS— Per 100 82.25; per doz. 40c.; each, 5c. Large 
I f! blotches on lower petals. Colors are striking, ranging from rich yellow to dark crimson. 
CHILDSI— Finest mixed. Each, 10c. ; 81.00 per dozen. 
Of branching habit and grows from tnree to four feet, 
times 2 feet in length with extraordinary large flowers. 
GROFF'S NEW HYBRIDS 
Mr. Groff, after years of hybridizing the best varieties of the best classes of Gladioli and care- 
fully discarding all flowers not reaching the highest standard of excellence, has succeeded in raising 
a new race of this gorgeous flower, altogether^ in advance of what has been, both in size of apikes 
and blooms and brilliancy and diversity of colorings. We are safe in saying these new hybrids are far 
superior to any GladioU ever offered in Europe or America, and many of the colors have never 
before been thought possible to be produced in Gladioh. Groff's exhibit of Gladioli was a leading 
floral feature of the great St. Louis Exhibition, as nothing had been previously seen at all compar- 
ing with it. 
GROFF'S WORLD'S FAIR COLLECTION— This new collection is prepared by Mr. H. H. 
Groff, from high-class novelties of recent introduction and undoubted merit. 
It contains only a few hundred varieties, specially selected from the cream of the 
best sorts, to meet the demand for a limited number of Extra Choice Types, rather than a collection of great range of 
variety, so every bloom will be the very best. 
Shades are of the most brilliant red, scarlet, crimson, cerise, yellow, blue and light colors, and the flowers are of excep- 
tional size and beauty. Each, 15c.; doz., $1.25. 
GROFF'S EXTRA SELECTED PAN AMERICAN EXPOSITION COLLECTION— Is made up from the choice new varieties ex- 
hibited at Buffalo, in 1901. The combinations of colors are endless, embracing the best productions of the most brilliant 
and at the same time delicate tints and striking contrasts of intense and vivid colors, practically unknown commercially. 
Flowers are of the largest size, splices correct in form and plants of exceptional vigor. Per 100, 87.00; doz-. $1.25; ea, 15c. 
GROFF'S SELECTED NEW DARK HYBRIDS— Dozen, 75c. GROFF'S SELECTED NEW BLUE HYBRIDS,— Dozen, $1.00. 
GROFF'S SELECTED NEW LIGHT AND YELLOW HYBRIDS— Dozen, $1.00. 
GROFF'S FLORISTS, WHITE AND LIGHT— The best value in light mixture ever offered. Per 100, $3.00 ; per dozen, 50c. 
Gladiolus 
