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Rockford Seed Farms—H. W. BUCKBEE, ROCKFORD, ILL.—Forest City Greenhouses 
Carnations 
BUCKBEE’S EVERBLOOMING MIXTURE 
You can grow the same beautiful flowers that you 
see in the florists’ windows if you plant our seed. Our 
seed is saved from the wonderful collection of carna¬ 
tion plants grown in our celebrated Forest City Green¬ 
houses. Beautiful colors, fine large flowers, delightful 
spicy perfume and long, strong stems art what you 
get when you plant Buckbee’s Everblooming Mixture. 
Pkt. 15c; Ys oz. 45c. 
Buckbee’s New Giant Flowered 
Mastodon 
The Earliest of All; Blooms in 6 Months and Con¬ 
tinues in Flower All Summer. 
A new acquisition in the line of Carnations; coming 
into bloom six months after seed is planted, and will 
continue to. blossom all summer. The plants are of 
robust, upright habit, growing about 18 inches tall. 
Each plant usually has 15 to 20 flowers of large size 
and fine form, all of the time. Highly clove-scented 
and come about 90% double flowers. Plant out of 
doors for a wonderfully attractive and continuous dis¬ 
play. Pkt. 12c. 
GIANT FLOWERING MARGUERITE—These lovely 
fragrant Carnations produce fine double flowers 
which often measure 3 inches across. Most of them 
have handsomely fringed petals, and are delightfully 
fragrant. One great merit of these Carnations is 
that they commence to flower in about three months 
from time seed is planted. Seed planted in the spring 
will bloom in August until frost. All Colors Mixed. 
Pkt. 10c; Ys oz. 50c. 
Centaurea 
CANDIDISSIMA—Broadly cut, silvery leaves. Pkt. 
10c; Ys oz. 35c. 
GYMNOCARPA—Fine-cut, silvery leaves. Pkt., 10c; 
Ye oz. 15c. 
SUAVEOLENS or Grecian Cornflower. Attracted much 
attention at the Chicago Flower Show. Bright yel¬ 
low flowers. Sweet scented. Pkt. 10c; Ye oz. 18c. 
NEW MARGUERITE—The flowers are the size of a 
medium Carnation, freely produced on 18-inch stems; 
pure white and sweet scented. Pkt. 8c; Ys oz. 15c. 
Chelone—Barbata 
Showy, bushy plants 2 feet in height, with long, 
showy spikes of brilliant color, trumpet shaped flow¬ 
ers. This is a perennial variety of the popular Penste- 
mon. Pkt. 8c; Vs oz. 25c. 
Chinese Lantern Plant 
Wonderfully Fascinating and Beautiful 
A very showy, hardy, perennial plant about 2 
feet high; with balloon-like husks, 2 or 3 inches 
across. These husks are green first, then grad¬ 
ually change to orange-scarlet. Dried branches 
covered with these lanterns are used with splen¬ 
did effect as parlor ornaments for Fall and Win¬ 
ter decorations. Pkt. 10c; Ye oz. 25c. 
Chinese Wool Flower 
A unique form of the Feathered Cockscomb. The 
plants grow 2 to 3 feet high, branching freely. Each 
branch terminates in a large ball-shaped flowerhead 
of rich color, looking as if made of some silky-wool 
material. The flowers may also be cut and dried, re¬ 
taining their bright coloring for a long period. 
Rose. Pkt. 12c; Ye oz. 40c. 
Pink. Pkt. 12c; Ye oz. 40c. 
Yellow. Pkt. 12c; Ye oz. 40c. 
COLLECTION 
One Packet each 
of the three for 
30c 
Chrysanthemums 
Garden Carnation 
Cigar Plant 
New Celosia—Parrot’s Feather 
Wonderfully Beautiful Varieties. Easily Grown from Seed Flowers of Every Color. 
Unequalled for Bouquets and Flower Beds 
FRENCH MARGUERITES—Annual. The plants grow 18 inches high and produce 
beautiful large flowers of many bright colors. Single and Double Mixed. Pkt. 
10c; Ys oz. 20c. 
BUCKBEE S LARGE FLOWERING CHOICEST MIXED—Best suited for pot culture 
and cut flowers. These are the famous Chrysanthemums that are grown so ex¬ 
tensively by florists for cut flowers. Our seed is saved from our own collection 
of plants; of the best and most varied colored flowers. Buckbee’s Choicest Mix- 
ture. Pkt. 12c. 
Buckbee’s Dwarf Cockscomb 
Chinese Woolflower 
Buckbee’s Chrysanthemums 
Cigar Plant 
One of the prettiest little plants ever grown, 
its coloring is its greatest charm. The bushy 
plant grows about 12 inches high, and bears 
many narrow tubular flowers of brightest scarlet 
tipped with white. Pkt. 12c. 
New Cinerarias 
The Richest Colors Ever Seen in Any Plant. 
Hardly Any Two Flowers Are Ever Alike. 
For spring decoration in the conservatory or 
winter garden. The rich and vivid colors range 
through all shades of light and bright blue to 
royal plum-purple and from shining crimson to 
deep maroon. Most of the varieties have a well 
developed white eye, while the flowers are sharp¬ 
ly magnified with some high contrasting color. 
Easily, raised from seed; the seed is sown in 
July. The secret of growing well is to grow 
fast, never allowing them to receive a check. 
Flowers 2 inches across. Large Flowering, Fin¬ 
est Mixed. Pkt. 12c. 
Clarkia—New Double 
This pretty and easily grown annual does well 
either in sun or shade, growing 2 to 2 % feet 
high, with leafy racemes of double flowers, which 
all open in water when cut. Beautiful, hardy 
annuals with rose, white and purple Jowers in 
delicate shades. Double Mixed. Pkt. 10c; Ye oz. 
20c. 
Cleome or Giant Spider Plant 
The plants attain a height of 3 Yz feet, well 
branched, each branch terminated by a large head 
of bright rosy crimson flowers. Seeds should be 
sown in the open ground as soon as the weather 
is warm and settled and the plants given suffi¬ 
cient room to develop their full beauty. Flowers 
are of peculiar and interesting shape, suggesting 
spiders. The long, curving stamens give the flow¬ 
er its name. It is a plant that is in bloom every 
day of the season. Pkt. 8c; Y\ oz. 20c. 
Cobaea Scandens—Climber 
Although it does grandly outside, it is also a 
splendid house climber, and will do well running 
over windows in the house and will reward the 
grower with abundance of beautiful, large bell¬ 
shaped flowers, green at first, but rapidly chang¬ 
ing to a beautiful deep violet blue. Plant seed 
edgewise. Pkt., 8c; Ye oz. 15c. 
Cockscombs or Celosias 
OSTRICH PLUME—Feathery plumes of bloom, more like 
ostrich feathers or pampas grass than anything else. 
Plumes are 1 to 2 feet in length, and of all colors from 
sulphur yellow to deep rich crimson. All Colors Mixed. 
Pkt. 8c; Ye oz. 15c. 
DWARF OSTRICH FLUME (New)—First time ever of¬ 
fered. Dwarf Plants suitable for growing in pots as 
well as out of doors. Only 8 inches high, yet bears 
plumes of bright colored flowers as gorgeous as the 
tall variety. Pkt. 15c. 
DWARF MIXED—Plants about 8 inches high, heads 10 
to 12 inches across. Many fine colors mixed. Pkt. 10c; 
Ye oz. 25c. 
New Celosia—Parrot’s Feather 
Magnificent Blooms of Silky Velvet, in Fantastic Shapes 
and Indescribably Beautiful Colors 
This new Celosia is incomparable, as it is far ahead of 
anything ever before seen. The plants develop into a 
wonderful range of form and color, scarcely any two 
plants being alike. Some have great drooping, graceful 
plumes elegantly frilled and curled; others will carry 
fluffy round balls; and still others will have plumes tip¬ 
ped with miniature combs. Colors are the most lovely 
shades of silvery salmon, red, purple and yellows. A 
plant in bloom is a truly wonderful sight. Pkt. 15c. 
