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The Illustrated Guide for Amateur Gardeners. 
DANIELS’ GENERAL LIST OF FLOWER SEEDS. 
For Cultural Instructions see page 93. 
ABBREVIATIONS. 
hA Hardy annual. 
hhA Half-hardy annual. 
tA Tender annual. 
hB Hardy biennial. 
hhB Half-hardy biennial. 
tB Tender biennial, 
hp Hardy perennial. 
hhP Half-hardy perennial. 
From Mr. F. J. ABBOTT. Gardener to 
Sir W. Hart Dyke. JBnrt , M.P. 
Sept. 2Utli. 
“I am pleased to say I have found your New 
Dwarf Perfection Aster perfection itself, 
and one of the best I have ever seen ; it is so 
compact, and the colours remarkably good." 
ABBREVIATIONS. 
tP Tender perennial. 
Spreading or trailing. 
Climbing. 
Greenhouse shrub. 
Plants of a shrubby 
habit of growth. 
Stove plants. 
Having bulbous or 
spr 
cl 
gs 
s 
st 
Bb 
tuberous roots. 
DAN I ELSZlM PROVED VICTORIA ASTER. 
From Mr. W. LOW. Gardener to His 
Grace the Duke of Grafton, K G. 
Sept. 27th. 
‘Your New Perfection Aster proved 
to be a dwarf, robust, compact variety, growing 
from eight to niue Inches in height, and producing 
large flowers of beautiful colours, In every way 
equal to tho taller growing varieties." 
Those Perennials and Biennials marked with an asterisk (*) will bloom the first year from seed. 
N B.—In ordering, the numbers only will suffice, hit as the numbers are altered every year, the date of Catalogue should also be given. 
No. 
Name. 
518 
519 
520 
521 
522 
523 
524 
525 
52G 
527 
Abronia umbellata 
„ arenaria 
Abutilon, choice mixed hybrids 
Acacia lophantha 
Acanthus mollis ... 
Acroclinium, see page 90. 
-ffithionema grandiflora 
Ageratum, Imperial dwarf blue 
» a j. white 
Ada Bowman 
Agrostemma coronaria 
sanguinea ... 
# Alonsoa linifolia 
,, gracilis 
* „ myrtifolia 
* „ Mutisi ... 
Alstrcemeria, choice mixed 
Alyssum maritimum ... 
„ saxatile compactum 
Amaranthus melancholicus ruber 
„ saheifolius 
„ tricolor giganteus 
Anagallis grandiflora coecinea 
» Indica ... 
„ fine varieties, mixed ... 
Anchusa angustifolia ... 
542 ‘Anemone coronaria, finest mixed 
543 * „ fulgens ... 
Antirrhinum, see page 66. 
Aquilegia alpina superba 
„ Californiea hybrida 
„ chrysantha 
., „ grandiflora alba 
„ cserulea .. 
» „ hybrida 
„ glandulosa vera 
„ Skinneri 
„ Stuarti ... 
„ earyophylloides fl. pi. 
„ mixed, single and double 
„ double, white ... 
Arabis alpina ... 
Asperula azurea setosa 
Asters, French and German, seepages 57, 59. 
atro- 
528 
529 
530 
531 
532 
533 
534 
535 
536 
537 
538 
539 
540 
541 
544 
545 
546 
547 
548 
549 
550 
551 
552 
553 
554 
555 
556 
557 
Hard 
Dur 
Htii 
feet. 
Colour. 
Months of 
Flowering 
Per 
Pkt. 
s. d. 
... hha 
spr. 
pink 
Ju to Sp 
3 
• • • » 
»} 
yellow 
4 
... gs 
6-8 
various 
My to Au 
1 6 
Imp 
3-5 
yellow 
4 
hP 
3 
pink & white 
Ju to Sp 
6 
» 
1 
rose 
My & Ju 
6 
hhA 
i 
blue 
Ju to Oc 
4 
ii 
white 
4 
a 
ii 
delicate blue 
)) 
6 
hp 
2 
dark crimson 
Jy to Sp 
3 
him 
13 
orange scarlet 
Jy to Oc 
6 
ii 
ii 
ii 
6 
scarlet 
6 
1 
blushA scarlet 
6 
.. hub 
2 
various 
Ju to Au 
4 
.. hA 
3 
white 
Ju to Oc 
3 
.. hr 
yellow 
Ap & My 
4 
.. hhA 
1-13 
blood red fol. 
Ju to Sp 
4 
ii 
scarlet 
4 
13 
var. col. leaf 
6 
3 
scarlet 
Ju to Oc 
6 
• • » 
ii 
blue 
a 
3 
ii 
ii 
various 
it 
4 
llP 
2 
azure blue 
a 
6 
1 
various 
Fe to Au 
3 
ii 
a 
brill, scarlet 
Ap to Ju 
6 
, , 
ii 
li 
blue & white 
Mv to Jv 
6 
ii 
2 
orange yollow 
6 
ii 
23 
pale yellow 
6 
white 
1 0 
sky blue 
6 
)> 
blue & j’ellow 
6 
13 
dk. blue & wh. 
1 0 
» 
a 
scarlet&yell. 
6 
2 
blue* white 
1 0 
ii 
„ 
striped 
ii 
6 
various 
3 
. 
a 
" 
white 
3 
. 
a 
3 
Mr to My 
3 
llA 
l 
blue 
My to Au 
3 
Observations. 
1 Pretty Verhena-likeannuals, excellent 
j for roekwork, &c. 
Handsome greenhouse plants. 
Beautiful plant for pot culture 
Fine herbaceous plant. 
Beautiful hardy border plant. 
1 Valuable bedding plants of dwarf habit, 
> exceedingly floriferous, and very 
) useful for edgings. 
Fine showy perennial, 
b Excellent for mixed borders or as pot- 
( plants, showy and pretty. A. myrti- 
( folia is a fine new species, having 
j large handsome flowers. 
Fine new varieties. 
Useful for edgings, borders, &e. 
Fine for roekwork or borders, 
b A brilliant class of plants for decora- 
> tive purposes. A. salicifolius is very 
' useful for conservatory decoration. 
J Very pretty free-flowering annuals for 
t beds, rock-work, &o. A. grandiflora 
j coccinea is very fine. 
} Beautiful Forget-me-not-like flowers, 
3 fine for bedding out or bouquets. 
Beautiful early flowering vars. 
Very showy. 
Columbines. This class of hardy peren- 
nials will thrive in almost any soil or 
position, and are admirably suited for 
shrubbery borders, large rookeries, 
or permanent beds where not often 
disturbed, and where they form 
beautiful objects. They vary in 
height from two to three feet. A, 
glandulosa vera, cacrulea hybrida. 
and Stuarti aro especially worthy of 
notice. 
Early flowering rock or border plant. 
Pretty sweet-scented annual. 
