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W. R. GRAY, OAKTON, FAIRFAX CO., VIRGINIA. 
CHOICE FLOWER SEEDS 
ALL OUR SEEDS ARE PURCHASED£DIRECT FROM 
W. A. BURPEE &. CO., OF PHILADELPHIA, IN ORIGINAL PACKETS 
SWEET PEAS 
Blanche Burpee (ECKFORD’S). 
A grand large flower of beautiful form; firm, lasting 
substance and snowy whiteness, having three of the 
extra large flowers on each long, stiff stem, and all 
facing one way. Vines are of strong growth, bloom- 
ing profusely throughout the season. Packet, 5 cents. 
COQUETTE 
Flowers of a deep primrose, shaded with lavender In 
the standard. Large size with erect standard, beau- 
tifully hooded. Packet, 5 cents. 
BURPEE’S BRILLIANT 
A very bright crimson-scarlet. Standard broad and 
slightly hooded; wings widely spreading. Packet, 5c. 
ECKFORD’S “UP-TO-DATE” 
This is Eckford’s finest “gilt-edgC mixture, con- 
taining his most recent developments, and is equal to 
that supplied to his choicest home trade. The Amer- 
ican grown seed is hardier and gives better results 
than the Imported stock. Per packet, 5 cents. 
BURPEE’S "BEST MIXED” NEW GIANT 
This is the finest mixture on this page, containing 
not only the most highly improved varieties from Eck- 
ford, but also many of the choicest varieties of other 
strains. Packet, 5 cents. 
FITY CUPIDS IN MIXTURE 
This new mixture alone contains most of the shades 
in the tall Sweet Peas. The flowers range in color 
from pure white and light pink to dark red and from 
light lavender to deep purple, while there are several 
attractive and unnamed striped varieties. Per packet, 
10 cents. 
TAEL NASTURTIUMS 
FAVORITE MIXTURE 
This mixture is comprised of the most brilliant color- 
ings, both of the Lobbianum Nasturtiums and tall- 
named varieties, including our New Giant-flowered 
Sunlight, Moonlight, French Chameleon and Hybrids 
of Madame Gunther. Per packet, 5 cents; per ounce, 
15 cents. 
MIXED TOM THUMB NASTURTIUMS 
This Includes many distinct and showy colors, hav- 
ing both light and dark types of foliage in mixture. 
It will give a wide range of flowers in beautiful color- 
ings and is very effective when planted in mixture. 
Per packet, 5 cents; per ounce, 15 cents. 
SUNFLOWERS 
MANY FLOWERED DOUBLE 
The handsome flowers are produced at the base of 
each leaf, which makes the whole plant most pictur- 
esque and highly ornamental. It grows erect about 
four feet In height, with only a single stalk, but at 
each leaf joint is a very short stem terminating in a 
fine double flower. Per packet, 5 cents. 
MIGNONETTE 
A quick-growing annual, highly esteemed for its 
delicate fragrance. Price, per packet, 5 cents. 
ASTERS 
NEW JAPANESE ASTERS 
The beautiful flowers are of immense size, measur- 
ing from live to six inches across, with long petals 
curiously waved and curled, so as to give them a strik- 
ing resemblance with the most disheveled Japanese 
Chrysanthemums. 'They grow fourteen Inches high, 
are well branched, and produce a number of enormous 
flowers. We offer two beautiful colors — flesh-colored 
and rose, mixed. Per packet, 10 cents. 
SEMPLE’S NEW BRANCHING ASTERS 
All colors mixed of this favorite long-stemmed strain. 
Per packet, 10 cents. 
NEW GIANT COMET ASTERS, MIXED 
This new strain equals in feathery form and fine 
coloring the original Comet Asters, but the plants are 
of stronger growth, producing flowers of larger size 
and on longer stems. With good cultivation, flowers 
of this type frequently measure four inches across, and 
in their fine form, large size, and long stem approach 
in beauty the tine Chrysanthemums grown in the 
greenhouse during the late fall months. Per packet, 
10 cents; three packets for 25 cents. 
STOCK— TEN WEEKS 
GIANT PERFECTION 
A splendid rjice, growing two and a half feet high, 
with large spikes of perfectly double flowers. All col- 
ors mixed. Per packet, 10 cents. 
ROYAL PRIZE PANSIES 
'rhls mixture contains all the choicest varieties, pro- 
ducing gj’and large flowers of the richest colorings and 
the most distinct markings. It includes the fancy 
striped spotted varieties, the large Trlmardeau and 
boldly-spotted Cassier’s Odier. Per packet, 10 cents. 
PORTULACA 
T)ie Double Rose-flowered produces the finest double 
flowers in varied colors and markings. Price, double 
rose-flowered, mixed, per packet, 10 cents; finest sin- 
gle mixed, per packet, 5 cents. 
HOLLYHOCK 
One of the most majestic of hardy plants, and a 
clump or line in any garden gives an effect not at- 
tainable with any other plant. For planting among 
shrubbery or forming a background for other flowers 
it is without equal. The seeds offered have been saved 
from the finest double flowers. Per packet, 10 cents. 
MARIGOLDS 
The African varieties .arc stronger in habit and pro- 
duce much larger flowers. Per packet, African dou- 
ble, mixed, all varieties, 5 cents. 
COSMOS 
(New Early Blooming.) This beautiful new strain 
produces lovely flowers of large size; pure white, pink 
and crimson in color. It can be had In bloom from 
July to November and grows freely everywhere. Price, 
per packet, 10 cents. 
ALL SEEDS|ARE FRESHJAND TESTED FOR GERMINATION 
25-CENT MAIL COLLECTIONS 
In ordering simply name numbers of collections desired. We will send ANY NINE COLLECTIONS BY EX- 
PRESS. AT PURCHASER’S EXPENSE, FOR $2.00 Every plant In them is guaranteed first-class In every 
particular, labeled, except where noted, true to name, and every plant different, except where noted. 
1 — Six ever-blooming Hoses, six 
colors. 
2 — Six red Roses. 
3 — Three Tea Roses, three Climb- 
ing Roses. 
6 — Six hardy Roses for bed. 
6 — Six white Roses for cemetery. 
7 — Five cold frame ever-blooming 
Roses, three-inch pots. 
8 — Six Roses for winter blooming. 
9 — Four Hybrid Perpetual Roses. 
10 — Three Pelargoniums. 
11 — Six Tuberous Begonias, mixed. 
14 — Six Double Geraniums. 
16 — Three Palms. 
16 — Six Dahlia plants, six sorts. 
20 — Six Single and Double Gera- 
niums; labeled. 
21 — Six scarlet Geraniums for bed; 
not labeled. 
22 — Six white Geraniums for bed; 
not labeled. 
23 — Six pink Geraniums for bed; 
not labeled. 
24 — Six scented Geraniums; not 
labeled. 
25 — Seven Chrysanthemums; not 
labeled. 
36 — Eight Coleus; not labeled; all 
alike; any color. 
37 — Six . flowering Begonias. 
38 — One Asparagus Plumosus 
Nanus, one Asparagus Spren- 
geri and 1 large Caladium bulb. 
40 — Six Cactus Dahlias. 
42 — Six red Dahlias. 
43 — Six Pompon Dahlias. 
44 — Three Ferns. 
46 — Eight Coleus; not labeled; all 
di^erent. 
46 — Six Chrysanthemums; labeled. 
47 — One Asparagus Plumosus, one 
Palm, one Asparagus Sprengeri. 
We grow only the best sorts In large quantities, but make one invariable condition, that the selection of varle- 
ties must be left entirely to us. These collections are made up of FINE, STRONG PLANTS of the Best Varieties. 
THE SPRINGFIELD <OHIO) PUB. CO. 
