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ISBELL SEED COMPANY, JACKSON, MICHIGAN 
Hollyhocks 
These old-fashioned garden favorites again 
are in demand. They like deep, rich soil and a 
sunny location for best results but will thrive 
most anywhere. Plant them interspersed with 
shrubbery, as clumps in the lawn or in the 
mixed border, where their big, handsome 
spikes of bloom produce bold and showy ef¬ 
fects. They grow 5 to 6 feet tall and bloom 
in July. Double-flowered sorts in separate 
colors: Crimson, Maroon, Pink, Salmon-Rose, 
White, Yellow. 3 of any one color for 50c; 
$1.75 per doz., prepaid. 
Allegheny Hollyhocks 
Flowers come single, semi-double and dou¬ 
ble. They are very large and beautifully 
fringed. In bloom all summer. Mixed colors, 
3 for 60c; $2.00 per doz., prepaid. 
Laihyrus - Everlasting or Hardy Sweet Peas 
The plants bloom a long season, are hardy and will live for years. These come in shades 
of red, pink and white only. An excellent plant for covering fences and trellises. Fine cut 
flowers. 3 for 60c; $2.00 per doz., prepaid. 
Mertensia - Virginia Blue Bells 
It is the earliest spring flowering perennial with 
blue flowers. Grows 12 to 18 inches high, with droop¬ 
ing panicles of handsome, bell-shaped, light blue 
flowers, fading to clear pink. Succeeds well in shady 
places. Splendidly adapted for naturalizing 
and group plantings. 3 for 65c; $2.25 per doz. 
Hardy Lupines. 
HOLLYHOCK - New Imperalor 
strikingly beautiful, very large, double 
flowers that are elegantly frilled and fringed. 
New color combinations in the lighter pastel 
shades. 4 to 6 feet tall. 3 for 75c. 
Double Hollyhocks. 
Hardy CarnaLion 
BED GBEBADIN. The large, 
double flowers are of rich dark 
red color and spicy odor, and are 
produced in succession from 
June until fall; blooming most 
freeiy during June and July. Of 
dwarf growth. These plants are 
quite hardy, requiring protection 
only in exposed locations. 3 for 
60c; $2.00 per doz. 
Hardy Garden Pinks 
(ARASS PINKS or CI.OVE 
PINKS. These low growing, 
early blooming, free flowering 
and very sweet scented Pinks 
are much prized for the old- 
fashioned garden, for rock gar¬ 
dens, and for borders. Easily 
grown, very hardy, preferring a 
sunny location. Mixed colors. _ 3 
for 50c; $1.75 per doz., prepaid. 
Oriental Poppy 
Blazing Star. 
Lupines - Lupinus 
For gorgeous coloring the Oriental 
Poppies have few rivals among flowering 
plants. They are perfectly hardy and 
produce magnificent effects among shrubs 
and in the hardy border, blooming in May 
and June. 
OBIENTAE BED. Large flowering sorts 
in shades of bright red. 3 for 50c; 
.$1.75 per doz. 
MBS. FEBBY. Magn ificent flowers of 
deep soft rose, with black blotches. 3 
for 90c; $3.25 per doz. 
Oriental Poppy. 
Beautiful hardy border plants producing in succession lovely spikes of pea-shaped 
flowers a foot long on stems 3 feet high; blooming from June to September. Very 
showy in the garden and fine for cutting. In shades of blue, white, pink and yellow. 
MIXED COI.OBS. 3 for 45c; doz., $1.50, prepaid. 
SWEET SCENTED GIANTS. A new strain 
that may be ciassed among the most beautiful 
of all hardy flowers. Long flower spikes in 
shades of blue, mauve, pink, etc. Delightfully 
sweet scented. 3 for 65c; doz., $2.25, prepaid. 
NEW HYBBIDS .These are the new varieties 
from foreign countries. Besides the blue and 
white there are some fine shades of pink and 
yellow. Extra large flower spikes. 3 for 60c; 
.$2.00 per doz., prepaid. 
New Double Oriental Popples 
MAY QUEEN. A real good double sort. Flow¬ 
ers of deep pink color. While opening, it looks like a 
big rose, but expands to a large, flat bloom with sev¬ 
eral rows of petals. 3 for $1.00; $3.75 per doz. 
OIiYMFIA. Gorgeous, brilliant flame-scarlet. A fine 
double variety that produces more flowers than any 
other. 3 for 75c; $2.50 per doz. 
Llatris - Blazing Star 
Beautiful as well as odd. Nothing else will at¬ 
tract more attention on account of its unusual 
appearance. Produces strong plants that throw 
up long, narrow spikes of rich light rosy purple 
flowers, which last a long time. Blooms in July 
and August. A 
peculiarity of this 
plant is its great 
attraction to but¬ 
terflies. Use it as 
a background. 4 
to 5 feet. 3 for 
50c; $1.75 per 
doz., prepaid. 
Mertensia—Virginia 
Blue Bells. 
