FLOWER SEEDS 
To grow Flowers well, the soil must be as carefully prepared as for vegetables. Spade the beds to a depth of at 
least eighteen inches and make them rich with well-rotted manure, thoroughly mixed in. A small quantity of sand will 
greatly improve stiff, heavy clay. Don’t bury your seeds. Plant the largest, like Nasturtiums, not more than an inch 
deep, Balsams, half an inch. Asters, a quarter of an Inch, Petunias, Poppies, etc., on the suiface. rirm *J}® ? oi ! n 0 '?L 
seeds with a board and keep It constantly moist. Don’t allow seedlings to crowd each other. transplant in ' c |°“5*y 
weather or In the evening and shade from the sun a day or two. Give each plant plenty of room. Keep the surface loose, 
breaking it up after every hard, dashing rain, or heavy watering. Cover the beds during summ er with a mulch two inches 
deep, of grass clippings or rotted manure. Stake neatly all weak-stemmed or straggling plants. Never 1^ seeds for , 
and remember that the more flowers you cut the more you will have. If these simple rules are learned by heart, and 
and remember that the more flowers you cut the more you 
strictly followed, entire success is certain. 
ALYSSUM 
Popular little plants for edging or massing, blooming 
profusely all summer. Will also do well in the house in 
winter. 
Sweet (Maritimum). This very hardy annual comes 
Into bloom very early In the spring, covering itself with 
Innumerable clusters of small, pure white flowers. They 
have a peculiar delicate fragrance, and are useful in all 
kinds of small bouquets. Not over eight inches high, but 
spreads over considerable ground. Pkt., 5 cents. 
Alyssum, Little Gem. A beautiful white variety of 
Sweet Alyssum, especially adapted to edgings, borders and 
rock work. The plants grow about six inches high and pro- 
duce hundreds of flowers, which form a compact mass of 
bloom about fifteen to eighten inches in diameter. Hardy 
annual. Pkt., 5 cents. 
AMARANTHUS 
These plants afford brilliant contrasts of color, being 
Useful for tall borders and groups; also, where foliage effects 
are desired. The leaves and stems are of different shades 
of red blended with green; two to three feet high. 
Mixed Varieties. Rose, blood-red and yellow. Pkt., 
6 cents. 
ANTIRRHINUM 
(Snap-Dragon.) Half-hardy perennials of great beauty, 
flowering freely the first year from seed. Grow from two 
to three feet high and flourish in any soil. 
Large Flowering Mixed. Many gay colors. 
■ cents. 
Pkt., 
ASTERS 
Sow seed indoors or under glass during February and 
early March, and they will bloom in July, before the season 
of blight and blister beetles. For fall blooming, plant the 
seed in a specially prepared bed the last week in May. 
Transplant Asters twice; it makes them healthy and vigor- 
ous Keep the soil as cool as possible in mid-summer, by 
mulching, and give plenty of water. Set the plants from 
ten to fifteen inches apart. The soil should be very rich. 
Do not grow Asters two years in succession In the same 
locality. A change of soil tends to prevent blight. If at- 
tacked by root-lice, indicated by an apparently causeless 
wilting of the plants, draw the earth away from the stem 
and soak the roots well with Tobacco tea. made by steeping 
Tobacco stems a few hours and diluting until the color of 
ordinary tea. 
Truffaut’s Paeony-Flowered. The plants are about 
two feet high and produce large, perfectly formed and bril- 
liantly colored flowers, with Petals curving upward and in- 
ward. forming blooms of great beauty. Mixed. Pkt., 5 cents. 
Globe=FIowered. All the best colors mixed. Pkt., 
5 cents. 
CALENDULA 
PAEONY- 
FLOWERED 
ASTERS. 
V 
BALSAM 
Known as Lady Slipper and Touch-Me-Not. Balsams 
have been so much improved by cultivation that, with good 
seed and proper care, a single flower is the exception, each 
blossom being fully as double as a rose The P° lol i® 
from white to dark purple, and are either self-colored or 
spotted and striped. Balsams are tender and should be 
started in boxes indoors or in the open ground when danger 
of frost is past. The seeds are large and germinate quickly. 
The plants prefer a rich, moist or even wet sandy loam, and 
must not suffer for moisture. Better results are obtained 
when only a few main branches are allowed to grow, all 
the secondary and weak ones being pinched out. Well grown 
plants should stand two feet apart each way. Hardy an- 
nual, one to two feet high. 
Double Mixed. White, rose, pink, scarlet, etc. Pkt., 
5 cents. 
CALLIOPSIS, OR COREOPSIS 
Very showy border plants, producing, in great Profu- 
sion and for a long time, flowers which are bright yellow and 
rich brown, either self-colored or with these colois ana 
red contrasted. , . 
Golden, yellow and crimson mixed. Pkt., 5 cents. 
CANDYTUFT 
Showy, branching plants six to eighteen inches high. 
Indispensable for cutting and I very effective in beds or 
masses. If sown in spring will bloom from July to Sep 
tember, or if in the fall will blossom from May to July. 
Hardy annual. 
Empress. A complete mass of snowy -white flowers. 
Pkt., 5 cents. 
Mixed Colors. White, carmine, crimson, etc. Pkt., 
5 cents. 
(Pot Marigold.) One of the showiest and most free 
flowering annuals, growing in any good soil and blooming 
continually. 
Best Double Mixed. Orange, yellow and sulphur. 
Pkt., 5 cents. 
Special Prices for Flower Seed in Bulk. _ 24 _ 
