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A Charming Garden Annual 
This double-flowered Gaillardia is one of the most 
free-blooming, showy, and beautiful of our Summer 
annuals. The plants start readily from seeds, begin 
to bloom early, and continue blooming until the 
ground freezes, rivaling the Calendula and Pansy. 
The flowers are produced on long strong stems, are 
double to the center, as large as a Chrysanthemum 
Aster, and come in rich colors, white, cream, yellow, 
red, variegated red and white, and red with yellow. 
If started in midsummer the plants will bloom dur¬ 
ing autumn, endure the winter, and make a fine 
display the next season. The flowers are showy in 
the garden, and last well when cut for bouquets or 
floral designs. This is one of the good things that 
every gardener should have. Once planted, it will 
take care of itself by volunteer plants. It is not 
only valuable as a garden flower, but excellent for 
cutting, as it has long, strong stems and lasts a 
long time in water when cut. I offer new-crop seeds 
of Benary’s Special Mixture, all colors, 50 seeds 5c., 
See page 23. Be sure to add it to your list. 
v. A Grand Novelty 
The New Tom Thumb Antir¬ 
rhinum, Little Pinkie, growsseven inches 
high, branches freely, and is smothered 
with spikes of charming bright rosy- 
pink flowers, larger than most Tom 
Thumb Snapdragons. Itis just the thing 
for rockeries, beds and edgings, and as a 
pot-plantfor the window, itis hardly 
excelled. It’s alittle beauty You’ll like 
it. Direct from the originator. 100 seeds 
5c. For other beautiful Snapdragons see pages 18 and 52. 
A Splendid Novelty 
Here is a new race of Giant Streptocarpus 
Hybrids that will be eye-openers to many who grow 
fine window plants. For thirty years the European 
plant-breeders have been hybridizing and selecting, 
using the finest known species and varieties; and 
these earnest efforts have resulted in a magnificent 
strain of Hybrids, the flowers of which are surpass- 
ingly beautiful in size, form, rich and varied colors, 
and free and continuous-blooming. The foliage, too, 
has been more or less improved. 
These new and beautiful Hybrid Streptocarpus are 
as easily raised from seeds as Gloxinias, and the seeds 
are of Gloxinia size, so of course, must be carefully 
sown. Started early in Spring the plants will begin to 
bloom in August and will continue freely in bloom 
till Winter. The flowers are trumpet-shaped, about 
2 in. long, very graceful, and wonderfully varied in 
color .ranging from white to rich blue and crimson, 
the throat and lower segments often splashed with 
white or purple. You will be more than pleased with 
these glorious new flowers, and when in bloom in your 
window they will be the wonder and enthusiastic ad¬ 
miration of all who pass. If you grow Gloxinias and 
Calceolarias, don’t fail to get this. 150 seeds Sets. 
A Fine Golden Annual 
A very beautiful golden-flowered annual is 
Cosmea Klondyke. It’s massive laciniated foli¬ 
age is dark green, and richly clothes the plant 
from the ground to the top. The big rich orange 
flowers come in masses at the summit late in au¬ 
tumn, at which time the plants have attained a 
height from six to ten feet, the top freely branch¬ 
ed and very showy. This plant will retain it’s 
foliage firm and unaffected during a drouth, 
while many other plants wilt and suffer. In a bed 
or border in the background this Cosmea can 
hardly be excelled for showiness and beauty. It 
should be a “must have” in every garden. 40s 5c. 
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