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GENERAL LIST OF 
Select Flower Seeds 
For Discounts on seeds in packets see page 3. 
ANNCAIiS grow, bloom and die the first year from seed. BIENNIAIiS bloom the second year from 
seed, and then die; though many, If sown early in the Spring, will flower the first year. FEBENNIAIiS 
usually bloom the second year from seed, and continue to grow and bloom for many years. Some will 
also bloom the first year if sown early. 
Abnfilon. Easily raised from seed and flower 
beautifully the first season, bearing a rich 
profusion of elegant bell-shaped flowers. 
Plct., 10 cts. 
Adlamla cirrliosa. An attractive climber with 
beautiful feathery foliage and rose-colored 
flowers. Pkt., 10 cts. 
Ageratnm. Suitable and effective plants for bed- 
ding and cut flowers; mixed colors. Vkt, 5 cts. 
AgTOStenima, mixed. Pretty, free blooming 
hardy plants growing about a foot higli. 
Pkt., 5 cts. 
Alyssnm, sweet. Free-flowering and very fra- 
grant; useful for edgings and rock work. 
Pkt., 5 cts. 
Aniaranthns. Very ornamental plants, some 
producing large panicles of showy flowers, 
others brilliant colored foliage. 
— Candatus. {Love-IAes-BUeding.) Long red 
panicles. Pkt., 5 cts. 
— SalicifoUus. {Fountain Plant.) Willow-like 
foliage. Pkt., 5 cts. 
— Tricolor. (Joseph's Coat.) Yellow, red and 
green foliage. Pkt., 5 cts. 
Antirrhinnm. {Snapdragon.) Showy and use- 
ful perennials, bearing beautiful spikes of 
gay-colored flowers ; all colors mixed. Pkt., 
5 cts. 
Aqnilegia. {Columbine.) Highly ornamental 
plants with curiously formed flowers of strik- 
ing and beautiful colors; mixed colors. Pkt., 5 els. 
Asters 
Not only the most popular, but the most effective 
in the entire list While most easy of culture, 
there is no flower which combines so much beauty 
and variety of color and shape and habit as the 
modern Aster. For a late Summer or Fall display 
they have no successful rival. Give them a rich soil, 
and in hot, dry weather they should be mulched and 
well watered. 
Clirysanthemum— flowered, mixed. From ten to 
twelve inches high; producing flowers of the 
largest size and choicest colors. Pkt., 10 cts. 
Comet. A beautiful and distinct variety, with long, 
wavy and twisted petals, resembling the Japanese 
Chrysanthemums; well-grown plants produced 
from twenty-five to thirty perfectly double flowers 
measuring from three to four inches in diameter. 
Mixed, pkt., 1 0 cts. 
—Giant Emperor. Flowers of great size, fine form 
and brilliant color ; mixed colors. Pkt., 10 cts. 
ASTER— TRUFFAUT'S P^ONY-FLOWERJED PERFECTION. 
— Mignon. Similar in habit to Victoria, but the 
flowers are smaller, beautifully imbricated; pure 
white, and a very perfect form ; one of the finest 
white asters for cutting. Pkt., 15 cts. 
—Quilled German. Perfectly double, tube or quill- 
shaped flowers ; useful for bouquets ; mixed colors. 
Pkt., 5 cts. 
—Rose Flowered. Pyramidal, robust habit regularly 
imbricated ; variously colored, large, very double, 
brilliant flowers. Pkt., 10 cts. 
—Snowball or White Princess. This is the first 
variety of an entirely new class which from the 
build of its flowers is as beautiful as it is dis- 
tinct. Tliey are composed of short, very thickly 
set imbricated petals, half globular in form, and 
of the purest white. Pkt., 15 cts. 
— TnifTant's Pajony-flowered Perfection. One ot 
the most perfect ; large flowers ; petals beautifully 
incurved — mixed colors. Pkt., 10 cts. Crim- 
son, white and pink, each, per pkt., 15 cts. 
—Victoria. The finest class of Asters; for size, range 
of color and profusion of bloom it is unsurpassed ; 
mixed colors. Pkt., 10 cts. 
— Wasllington. This splendid variety is the largest 
Aster grown ; bearing flowers four to five inches in 
diameter ; very double, mixed colors. Pkt., 10 cts. 
— Clioice Mixed. Pkt., 5 cts. 
