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Bachelor Buttons 
BACHELOR’S BUTTON 
GLOBE AMARANTH Popularly known as “Bachelor’s Button,” a first-rate bedding 
plant; the flowers resemble clover heads and can be dried and 
used in winter bouquets. Corn-flowers and a number of other flowers are also known as 
Bachelor’s Buttons, and in ordering it is well to order by number to prevent mistakes. 
Packet, 10 cents, 3 for 25 cents. 
PYRETHRUM 
HYBRIDUM, PAINTED DAISIES Hardy perennial, bearing large daisy-like flowers, 
ranging in color from white to deep red, with bright 
yellow centers ; blooms in May and June, and again in the fall; and is one of the most 
graceful and long-lasting cut flowers. 15 cents per packet. 
GOLDEN FEATHER (Pyrethrum Aureum). The golden-yellow foliage makes it a very 
attractive border or bedding plant. Dwarf and compact with pretty 
white flowers. It is half hardy, but treat like an annual. Packet, 10 cents. 
CARNATION 
DOUBLE MARGUERITE These lovely, fragrant Carnations produce fine double flowers 
from seed sown in the garden early in the spring. The plants 
begin to bloom in about four months. When well started, the young plants should be 
transplanted to stand twelve inches apart. They are quite hardy, flowering the first 
season until late in the fall, and can be potted for winter blooming. Mixed colors. Pkt., 10c. 
Carnation Enfant De Nice 
Painted Daisies (Pyrethrum) 
SWEET WILLIAM (Dianthus Barbatus) 
NEWPORT PINK In color it is what florists call watermelon pink or salmony rose. 
Strikingly brilliant and beautiful; the flowers are borne in massive 
heads on stems 18 inches high. For mid-season mass bedding it has no equal. Packet, 15c. 
SCARLET BEAUTY A very effective, rich deep scarlet variety, a rare color in hardy 
plants. Price, per packet, 15 celnts. 
DARK CRIMSON A beautiful shade. Per packet, 15 cents. 
DOUBLE MIXED All colors. Per packet, 10 cents. 
CHINA and JAPAN PINKS 
DIANTHUS Very popular, and satisfactory annual. Of easy culture, comprising a large 
variety of types and brilliant colors. Japanese or Heddewigii class remark¬ 
able for size and gorgeous colors. Many deeply fringed. Quite hardy and with protection 
will winter over and bloom freely in early spring. Our mixture contains many varieties 
of Chinese and Japanese double and single types and colors. Packet, 10 cents. 
NOBILIS or ROYAL PINK The very largest flowers measure 2 to 3 inches in diameter 
and are remarkable for their extremely bright colors, in 
richest shades of red, carmine, deep rose, etc. Finest double and single varieties mixed. 
Packet, 10 cants. 
MIRABILIS or MARVELOUS PINKS Flowers large, 2 to 3 inches across ; petals deeply 
cut into fine strips of thread-like fringe. Bril¬ 
liant shades and colors of both double and single mixed. Packet, 10 cents. 
SWEET PEAS 
GIANT ROSE This is one of the richest and most fascinating colors ever introduced in 
Sweet Peas. A gorgeous shade of rose pink resembling the color of the 
well known Rose Briarcliff. Packet, 25 cents; ounce, 75 cents. 
HARMONY Large, clear lavender. 15 cents per packet; 50 cents per ounce. 
JENNIE MAMITSCH Rose pink. 15 cents per packet; 50 cents per ounce. 
SNOWFLAKE Improved white. 15 cents per packet; 50 cents per ounce. 
VULCAN Vivid scarlet, does not burn. 15 cents per packet; 50 cents per ounce. 
GIANT SPENCER MIXTURE Unusual size; wavy, fluted form; dainty and harmonious 
coloring ; vigorous, strong growth; long stems ; fragrant, 
and of lasting substance. It embraces the finest American and Eckford varieties as well as 
the latest novelties, and will produce abundance of giant flowers of beautiful colors. Some 
are edged, mottled, blended, flaked and striped. Without exception, this is the very finest 
mixture it is possible to make. Price, 15 cents per packet, 35 cents per ounce, $3 per pound, 
postpaid. 
VESTAL’S PRIZE MIXTURE This mixture contains the very cream of the newest and 
standard sorts, including all the best new Sweet Peas in 
existence. It is made up entirely of separate named sorts, carefully proportioned as to its 
composition. Price, per packet, 10 cents; ounce, 20 cents; pound, $2.00, postpaid. 
LATIFOLIUS (Hardy Sweet Pea). These are useful for covering walls, stumps or trellises. 
The large clusters of flowers are not fragrant like ordinary Sweet Peas. 
The plants will live for years. Per packet, 10 cents; ounce, 50 cents. 
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