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The Illustrated Guide for Amateur Gardeners. 
DANIELS' GENERAL LIST OF FLOWER SEEDS. 
For Cultural Instructions see page 86. 
ABBREVIATIONS. 
tiA Hardy annual. 
hb.A Half-hardy annual. 
tA Tender annual. 
hB Hardy biennial. 
bhB Half-hardy biennial. 
tB Tender biennial, 
hp Hardy perennial. 
hhP Half-hardy perennial. 
Those Perennials and Biennials 
■marked with an asterisk (*) will 
bloom the first year from seed. 
NEW DWARF SWEET PEA, 
“CUPID.” 
See List of Novelties. 
ABBREVIATIONS. 
tP Tender perennial, 
spr Spreading or trailing, 
el Climbing, 
gs Greenhouse shrub. 
p Plants of a shrubby 
habit of growth. 
st. Stove plants. 
Bb Having bulbous or 
tuberous roots. 
.V. 11. — In ordering, the numbers 
only will suffice, but as the numbers 
are altered every year, the date of 
Catalogue should also be given . 
No. 
Name. 
667 Abronia umbellata 
658 „ arenaria 
659 Abutilon, choice mixed hybrids 
660 Acacia lophantha 
661 Acanthus mollis 
Aeroolinium, see page 85. 
662 JEthionoma grandiflora 
663 Ageratum, Imperial dwarf blue 
664 „ „ „ white 
665 „ Ada Bowman 
666 Agrostemma coronaria atro- 
sanguinea ... 
667 Agrostis pulchella 
668 „ minutiflora ... .., 
669 *Alonsoa linifolia 
670 „ „ gracilis 
671 * „ myrtifolia 
672 Alstroemeria, choice mixed 
673 Alyssum maritimum 
674 „ saxatile compactum 
675 Amaranthus, Hender’s Hybrids 
676 „ melancholicus ruber ... 
677 „ tricolor splendens 
678 Anagallis grandiflora coecinea 
679 „ Indica ... 
680 „ fine varieties, mixed . . . 
681 Anchusa angustifolia ... 
682 ‘Anemone coronaria, finest mixed 
683 * ,, fulgens ... 
Antirrhinum, see page 59. 
684 Aquilegia alpina superba 
Californica hybrida 
chrysantha 
„ grandiflora alba 
caerulea ... 
„ hybrida 
glandulosa vera 
Skinneri 
Stuarti ... 
caryophylloide8fl.pl. ... 
mixed, single and double 
double, white ... 
685 
686 
687 
688 
689 
690 
691 
692 
693 
694 
•695 
Hard 
Dur. 
Htin 
feet. 
Colour. 
Months of 
Flowering 
Per 
Pkt. 
hlu 
spr. 
pink 
Ju to Sp 
s. d. 
3 
II 
n 
yellow 
4 
gs 
6-8 
various 
My to A u 
1 0 
blip 
3-5 
yellow 
4 
hp 
3 
pink & white 
Ju to Sp 
6 
1 
rose 
My & Ju 
6 
hhx 
i 
blue 
Ju to Oc 
4 
white 
4 
it 
if 
delicate blue 
if 
6 
hr 
2 
dark crimson 
Jy to Sp 
3 
llA 
i 
— 
3 
>* 
i 
— 
if 
6 
hhB 
orange scarlet 
Jy to Oc 
6 
ft 
a 
6 
it 
» 
scarlet 
a 
6 
hub 
2 
various 
Ju to Au 
4 
h A 
i 
■white 
Ju to Oc 
3 
lip 
yellow 
Ap & My 
4 
hhA 
H 
various 
Ju to Sp 
1 6 
l-H 
blood red fol. 
4 
l 
var. col. leaf 
6 
i 
scarlet 
Ju to Oc 
6 
it 
it 
blue 
if 
3 
various 
4 
lip 
2 
azure blue 
6 
1 
various 
Po to Au 
3 
a 
ft 
brill, scarlet 
Ap to Ju 
6 
a 
n 
blue & white 
My to Jy 
it 
6 
)> 
2 
orange yellow 
6 
a 
2i 
pale yellow 
ft 
6 
white 
1 0 
a 
it 
sky blue 
if 
6 
a 
ft 
blue & yellow 
ft 
6 
1* 
dk. blue & wli. 
1 0 
jj 
ft 
scarlet&ycll. 
it 
6 
2 
blue & white 
1 0 
a 
it 
striped 
ft 
6 
various 
3 
a 
if 
white 
If 
3 
Observations. 
Pretty Verbena-like annuals, excellent 
for rockwork, &c. 
Handsome greenhouse plants. 
Beautiful plant for pot oulture 
Pine herbaceous plant. 
Beautiful hardy border plant. 
Valuable bedding plants of dwarf habit, 
exceedingly floriferous, and very 
useful for edgings. 
Pine showy perennial. 
Elegant ornamental grasses. 
Excellent for mixed borders or as pot- 
plants, showy and pretty. A. myrti- 
folia is a fine new species, having 
large handsome flowers. 
Fine new varieties. 
Useful for edgings, borders, &o. 
Pine for rockwork or borders. 
A brilliant class of plants for docora- 
tive purposes; very useful for con- 
servatory 
Very pretty free-flowering annuals for 
beds, rock-work, &c. A. grandiflora 
eoccinea is very fine. 
Beautiful Forget-me-not-liko flowers. 
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 rockeries, 
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, cscrulea hybrida, 
and Stuarti are especially worthy of 
notice. 
