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W. R. Strong Company, Sacramento, Cal. 
JACOB.®A (Senicio.) 
Bemarkably pretty, free growing profuse flower- 
ing plants, almost unsurpassed for brilliancy and 
beauty. Growing freely from seed, and are easily 
propagated from cuttings, not one in fifty failing. 
The double are the only ones worth cultivating. 
Hardy annuals in open border, biennial in green- 
house. Sow in loam mixed with leaf mold. Pur- 
ple, pink and white flowers. 
Seneclo Blegans, fl. pi. (Tall double Jacobaea) 
Finest varieties 5e 
Nana, fl. pi. (Double Dwarf sorts.) Finest 
mixed, 8 inches 5o 
TEN WEEKS STOCKS. 
The Ten Weeks Stock, 
Stock Gilly or Gilly- flower, 
as they are sometimes cal- 
led, stands prominent 
among annuals for either 
flower beds, pot culture, 
cut flowers, and delicious 
spicy perfume; they have 
been greatly improved in 
the past few years, and a 
large flowering strain has 
been originated which for 
size, doubleness and variety 
of exquisite shades of color 
is remarkable. 
Large Flowering Dwarf 
Ten Week. The following 
are the best double varieties 
and most desirable colors 
for cultivation; mixed, all 
choice double large-flower- 
ing, 10c. 
Very Dwarf Snowflake. A beautiful small- 
growing variety, with vigorous main 
spike and numerous side shoots of very 
large double snow-white flowers; very 
early 15c 
Large-flowering Pyramindal. This variety 
has compact flower spikes, and throws 
out many side shoots; excellent for pots. 10c 
New Giant Perfection This sort produces 
plants 2% feet high, with long flower- 
spikes of extra double handsome flowers, 
and is extremely effective in beds and bor- 
ders 10c 
White (Dresden perpetual.) Very beautiful, 
large spikes, splendid for cutting 15o 
Biennial Stock. 
Brompton (Winter or Biennial.) Large flow- 
ering double; finest mixed 10c 
Brompton. Snow-white shining, large flow- 
ering 15c 
Emperor, or Perpetual. Large flowering. 
These make bushy and branching plants, 
with an abundance of choice double flow- 
ers. Sow in July or August. Will last 
several years when protected; many 
colors; finest mixed, pkt 10c 
Emperor. Pure white; large flowering 15c 
Wallflower-Leaved. Large flowering, choice 
mixed lOo 
The Wallflower-Leaved Stocks have quite dis- 
tinct dark glossy foliage. 
Intermediate, or Autumnal. These are 
prized on account of their flowering late 
in Autumn or early in Spring. The seed 
should be sown in July and August for 
early spring flowering; finest mixed lOo 
SWEET PEAS (Lathyrus Odoratus.) 
Beautiful fragrant free flowering plants, thriving 
in any open situation; excellent for screening un- 
sightly objects, will bloom all summer and autumn 
if the flowers are cut freely and the pods picked off 
as they appear. They may be sown in autumn in 
this section; early sowing is necessary, hardy an- 
nuals; 6 feet. No garden is complete without them. 
Butterfly. White tinted lilac 5o 
Queen of the Isles. Scarlet mottled with 
white and purple 10c 
Princess B atrice. New Eose 10c 
Princess of Wales. White, blue striped. . . . 10c 
Apple Blossom. Bright rose; Wing’s apple 
blossom 10c 
Violet Queen. The flowers range in colors 
from deep mauve to light violet 10c 
Queen of England. Extra large; pure white; 
very fine 15c 
Black Purple. Very dark; almost black 5o 
Cardinal. New lOo 
Blue Bird. Bright Blue 5c 
Captain Clarke. (Tricolor.) White, rose 
and purple 5c 
Crown Princess, of Prussia. Bright blush, 
shading to rose 5c 
Invincible, scarlet. Bright scarlet flowers. . 5c 
Fairy Queen. White and rose 5c 
Dark Rod 5o 
Indigo King. Purple prince 5c 
Snowflake. Pure white 5e 
Invincible Red-striped 5c 
Light Blue and Purple 5o 
Painted Lady. Eed and white 5c 
Purple Striped 5c 
Mixed. Many colors 5o 
LATHYRUS (Everlasting Pea.) 
Showy, free flowering plants, growing in any 
common soil. A good climber for covering fences 
or walls. Hardy perennials. 
Latifolious. (Everlasting Pea.) Eed 10c 
Albus. White splendid climber 10c 
Botundifolius. Copper Eed fine lOe 
Lathyrus. Mixed colors lOo 
SWEET WILLIAM (Dianthus Barbatus.) H. P. 
THUNBERGIA (Climber). 
H. H. A., 4 feet. 
Very ornamental and rapid growth; the flowers 
are very much admired; colors red, white, 
buff and bright orange, with various col- 
ored throats; choicest mixed 5o 
A well known attrac- 
tive free- flowering plant, 
which has been greatly 
improved of late years, 
producing a splendid 
effect in beds and shrub- 
bery with their rich and 
varied flowers; hardy 
lierennial, 1J4 feet. 
Double. From choice 
collections, lOo. 
Single. Choicest mix- 
ed, 5c. 
