SEED CATALOGUE of L. L. A^' A'VT ^ CO., ST. PAUL, MINR 57 
— Are Hardiest For All Climes Seedsmen, Florists, Nurserymen 
May's Unrivalled Varieties of Garden Blossoms 
Cypress Vine. A most beautiful vine with delicate fern-iike foliage and beautiful star-shaped 
rose, scarlet and white flowers. Packet Sc. 
Cobea Scandens or Cup and Saucer Vine. A rapid ciinibcr, growing 30 to 50 feet during the 
season. Flowers are bell shaped and purpie. Packet 10c. 
Cineraria Hybrida. A very free growing variety- The flower is single, with 
highly colored petals and comes in all shades from light blue and purple to 
crimson and maroon. Packet 10c. 
Dahlia. This is one of the best late flowering plants and is en- 
joying a deserved popularity. Double sorts bloom from seed 
the first year , if sown before April, while single ones may be 
sown later. 
Double Cactus Mixed. Exceedingly beautiful; the petals are 
curiously rolled lo needle like points, are very long and are of 
the richest colors and white. Packet l5c. 
Double Fine Mixed. Packet 10c. 
Single Mixed. Packet 5c. 
Daisy or BelUs Perennis. 
Giant Double. Daisies are easily grown from spring sown seed and 
come into flower in a very short time. The flowers are white, pink, 
red, variegated. Not all will come double from seed. 
Finest Mixed. Packet 10c. 
Blue. A fine winter bloomer. Packet 5c. 
Longfellow. Rose color. Packet 10c. 
Snowball. Double white. Packet 10c. 
Shasta. Hardy perennial, white. Packet 10c. 
May's Dianthus Pinks. These may be treated as annuals or 
biennials, but as the former may be sown when all danger 
of frost is past. They bloom in a few weeks after 
sowing and continue until after a hard frost, after 
which, if given a slight protection, they will survive 
the winter and flower even more abundantly the 
following season. 
Ma^'s Imperial Mixed. This mixture comprises 
various varieties of the finest strains in the 
newest and brightest colors. The double sorts 
are quite as large and handsome as the carna- 
tion, while the single are much larger than the 
ordinary ty^es and ^ very fragrant. The 
fringed varieties come in both single and dou- 
ble with petals cut finely into a lace-like friii.L'f. 
which, combined with their wonderful colorin 
makes them very attractive. Packet 10c. 
Little Gem. Dark red, snfTused and veined with carmine and broadly 
margined with white. Packet 10. 
Chinensis. (Indian Pink.) The flowers arc all double and showy, crim- 
son and while predominating. Packet 10c. 
Heddewigii. (Japan Pink.) Flowers are very large, brilliantly colored, 
from white to crimson and rose, striped and laced, double and single 
mixed. Packet 10c. 
Diadematus. (Diadem Pink.) Large double flowers, in lilac, crimson, 
purple and white, fringed outer edges. Packet 10c. 
Laciniatus. Large showy flowers, with fringed edges, a variety of colors 
and striped. Packet 10c. 
Dwarf Fireball. Scarlet and double flowers. Packet 10c. 
Dwarf Snowball. Double white flowers. Packet 10c. 
Good Mixed. All colors and varieties. Packet 10c. 
Datura or Trumpet Flower. 
Cornucopia. (Horn of plenty). White and purple. Packet Sc. 
Mixed. Seed of many varieties. Packet Sc. 
Digitalis or Foxglove. The improved strains of this plant produce well 
filled spikes from 4 to 5 feet high, whose blossoms are very large, be!! shaped, 
and of the most beautiful shades of yellow, crimson, rose and white, with 
exquisite throat markings. 
Fine Mixed. Packet 5c. 
Dolichos or Hyacinth Bean. A rapid growing, annual climber, with h 
shaped foliage and erect racemes of delicate pea-shaped blossoms. 
Daylight. Large spikes of white flowers. Packet Sc. 
Darkness. Violet to purple flowers. Packet Sc. 
Giant Crimson. Reddish purple flowers. Packet Sc. 
Mixed. Purple and white flowers. Packet 5c. 
Eschscholtzia or California Poppy. A hardy annual for bedding, edging or 
massing. Low growing, finely cut foliage. It bears a profusion of strong 
yellow poppies from June until frost. The state flower of California. 
The plants average about a foot in height," with silvery foliage. They are 
most effective when grown in beds of considerable size, over which the 
seed may be sown broadcast thinly, and lightly raked in- These sowings 
may be made early in the spring or late in autumn for earlier germination, 
blooming the next spring. Useful as a pot-plant and for cut flowers. 
Packet 5c. 
Forget-Me-Not or Myosotis. These dainty, elegant little flowers are hardy 
perennials that love cool, moist soils, and, like pansies, bloom most freely 
m fall and early spring. They make beautiful, close borders, or edginjfs, 
thickly sprinkled with pretty flower-sprays, and will bloom nicely -n win- 
ter in a cool room or cold frame. Once at home in a garden they establish 
themselves by self-seeding. Average height 6 inches. Packet 10c. 
Fuchsia or Lady's Eardrop. Easily grown {rem seed. The plant grows 
from 12 to 18 inches. The fiowers have a crimson calyx and pendant 
purple center. One of the best l<nown of the greenhouse plants. They 
require a firm, rich soil, and a shady location. Packet 10c. 
Feverfew. An old-fashioned bedding plant about l8 inches high, with num- 
erous branching flower stems bearing small double white flowers. Pkt. Sc. 
GaiUardi^a or Blanket Flower. A showy annual, remarkable for the size and 
profusion of blossoms which range in color from sulphur and orange yellow 
lo the amaranth and claret shades. Should be sown where it is to bloom. 
Single. Packet 5c. 
Double. Packet 5c. 
Lobelia. Low growing bedding plant, with tiny blossoms. 
Blue King. Dark blue, with white eyes. Packet 10c. 
Crystal Palace. Deep blue. Packet 10c. 
Emperor William. Light blue. Packet Sc. 
Gracilis. Light blue, trailing Packet Sc. 
Snowball. New. Pure white. Packet lOc. 
Mixed Varieties. Packet Sc. 
