OUR SEEDS PROVE TO BE THE 
KIND THAT GROW 
I am glad to say that your seeds have given splendid 
results. They prove to be the kinds that grow. It will 
make it easy to sell your seeds another year. 
Yours truly, W. C. WILSON, Monroe Co., Ia. 
I bought one packet of your mixed Phlox last spring 
with other seeds. I sowed the Phlox and was surprised 
at the result. There were from ten to twelve different 
colors, all beautiful to see. I can recommend your seeds 
to others. Mrs. WM. CARROL,' Ulster Co., N.Y. 
BABY’S BREATH 
See 
Gypsophila 
BALSAM 
The garden Balsam is a native of India, 
and likes a bright sun and warm weather. 
The seed should be sown in the house, the 
hot-bed, coldframe, or in a warm, sheltered spot in light soil in the 
garden after the ground has become warm. The seeds germinate 
quickly, and young plants make a rapid growth. When they are an inch 
or two high, transplant the seedlings four or five inches apart, so that 
they may have light and air on all sides, and by the time they are about 
four inches high, transplant to their permanent place. Set the plants 
at least a foot apart in soil that has been well enriched. Tender annuals. 
Two feet high. The flowers are very large, extra double. A superb 
strain. 
Mixed Colors. 
Batchelor’s Button See Centaurea 
BELLIS See Daisy 
I purchased seed for gardening of your agent and I 
think them the best garden seed I ever used. Would 
you please send me descriptive catalogue, and I will try 
and get spring orders for you. 
EUGENE ORMSBEE, Schoharie Co., N. Y. 
I purchased of your agent over $2.00 worth of seed at 
Kingston. All of the seeds gave good results. I am more 
than pleased and would highly recommend the seed to 
others. Mrs. WM. FINLEY, Ulster Co., N. Y. 
Butterfly Flower See Schizanthus 
BEGONIA 
B1GN0NIA RADICANS 
( Trumpet Vine). One of the most 
showy, certainly one of the best hardy, 
deciduous flowering climbers for cover- 
verandas, arbors, trunks of 
trees, old walls, etc. Vines 
should be moderately 
pruned and well trained 
so as to afford a good 
circulation of air, thus 
insuring more and 
better bloom. 
Flowers a brilliant 
scarlet, trumpet 
shaped. 
Hardy perennial. 
BIGNONIA RADICANS 
Some of the 
newer forms 
of Begonias 
are among the most brilliantly beautiful of 
flowering plants. Begonia seed is extremely 
small and great care should be taken in opening 
the packet and in planting. Sow seed in February 
or March in shallow boxes 
or small pots plunged in 
moss. Open the packet 
directly over the surface 
to prevent any seed being 
lost. The surface of the 
soil should be very smooth 
and the seed carefully 
scattered on the surface 
and lightly pressed in. The 
moss should be kept quite 
damp, but the surface of the 
soil should not be watered. Moisture 
can be retained in the soil by placing a 
glass over the box or pots. When the 
the plants are large enough to handle, 
transplant into small pots, and to larger 
sized pots as required. 
( Semper florens atropurpurea) 
’ ernon Flowers brilliant, rich red, set 
off perfectly by the abundant, glossy green leaves, 
which are broadly margined with bronze and purple. 
Extremely hardy and floriferous; the best of the semperflorens 
class. 
83 
