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. GENERAL LIST OF . . . 
SELECT m FLOWER m SEEDS. 
Embracing all the Host Popular Varieties. 
4 NKUALSgroiv, bloom and die the first year from seed. BIENNIALS bloom the second year 
from seed, and then die; though many, if sozan early in the spring, 7vill flo7ver the first year. PEREN- 
NIALS usually bloom the second year from seed, and continue to grozu and bloom for many years; so,ne 
zvill also bloom the first year if soivn early. 
Abutilon. Easily raised from seed and flower 
beautifully the first season, bearing a rich 
profusion of elegant bell-shaped flowers. 
Pkt., IOC. 
Adlumta cirrhosa. An attractive climber with 
beautiful feathery foliage and rose-colored 
flowers. Pkt., loc. 
Ageratum. Suitable and effective plants for bed- 
dinjj and cut flowers, mixed colors. Pkt., 5c. 
Agrostemma, mixed. Pretty, free-blooming 
hardy plants growing about a foot high. Plct. , 
5C- 
Alyssuin, sweet. Free-flowering and very fra- 
grant; useful for edgings and rock work. 
Pkt., 5C. 
Amaranthus. Very ornamental plants, some 
producing large panicles of showy flowers, 
others brilliant-colored foliage. 
— Caudatus {Love-Lies-Bleeding). Long red 
panicles. Pkt., 5c. 
— Salicifolius {Fountain Plant]. Willow-like foli- 
age. Pkt., 5C- 
—1r\Q.o\or {Joseph' s Coat). Yellow, red and green 
foliage. Pkt., 5c. 
—Choice Mixed. Pkt., 5c. 
Antirrhinum {Snapdragon). Showy perennials, 
bearing beautiful spikes of gay-colored flow- 
ers; all colors mixed. Pkt., 5c. 
Aquilegia {Columbine). Highly ornamental 
plants with curiously formed flowers of strik- 
ing and beautiful colors; mixed colors. Pkt., 
Asters. 
No garden is complete without a few of these popular and efl-ective flowers. While most easy of 
cult.Ke Ihere is no flower which combines so much beauty and variety of color and shape as the irn- 
^^IvedlJrains of aster. For a late summer or fall display they have no successful nval. Gwe them 
!, rich soil and in hot dry weather they sliould be mulched and well watered. 
1^..^ rhrv«anthemum-flowered. This new strain of American-grown asters has 
Aster- bemple's "f X.rH^,?brouo-ln?^^^^^ of excellence, and is to-day the best variety or 
been by careful f^leclio bought to branching habit, from two to three feet in height, 
the ;>"\ateurand flor s to gro^^^^^ ^.^ j,^^^^^ j„ diameter on 
producmg irom tw'^nty /vventy-hvc lat^ge , perfect, with broad, long petals 
ft a time S other flowers are scarce, and is just the flower to hU m with. Pkt., 25c. 
—Comet. A beautiful and distinct variety, with 
long wavy and twisted petals, resembling the 
lapanese chrysanthemums; well-grown plants 
producing from twenty-five to thirty perfectly 
double flowers measuring from three to lour 
inches in diameter. Mixed, pkt., loc. 
—Giant Emperor. Flowers of great size, fine 
form and brilliant color; mi.xed colors. Pkt., 
loc. 
— niznon. Similar in habit to Victoria, but the 
flowers are smaller, lieautifuUy imbricated; 
pure white, and a very perfect forni; one ol 
the finest white asters for cutting. Pkt., 15c. 
-Quilled German. Perfecdy double, tube or 
quill-shaped flowers; useful for bouquets; 
mixed colors. Pkt., 5c. <. , ■ u 
.-Rose Flowered. Pyramidal, robust habit 
reo-ularly imbricated; variously colored, large, 
very double, brilliant flowers. Pkt., loc. 
Aster— Snowball or White Princess. This is 
the first varietv of an entirely new class, which 
from the build'of its flowers is as beautiful as it 
is distinct. They are composed of short, very 
thickly set imbricated petals, half globular in 
form, "and of the purest white. Pkt., 15c. 
— Truffaut's Pseony-fJowered Perfection. One 
of the most perfect; large flowers; petals beau- 
tifully incurved — mixed colors. Pkt., loc. 
Crimson, white and pink, each, per pkt., 15c. 
—Victoria. The finest class of Asters; for size, 
range of color and profusion of bloom it is un- 
surpassed; mi.xed colors. Pkt., loc. 
—Washington. This splendid variety is the 
largest Aster grown, bearing flowers four to 
five inches in diameter, very double, mixed 
colors. Pkt., IOC. 
—Choice Mixed. Pkt. , 5c. 
